SACP Congress

["Johannes Schneider" <Johannes.Schneider@xxxxxxx>]

>From the British Guardian:

Communists' row with ANC tests alliance

Chris McGreal in Johannesburg, Thursday July 25, 2002

President Thabo Mbeki cancelled an opening speech to the South African
Communist party congress yesterday as hostile delegates tried to purge the
party's central committee of members who serve in his cabinet.
He backed out less than 24 hours before the conference opened, delivering a
snub to the African National Congress's long-standing ally after weeks of
confrontation between them about his rightwing economic policies and his
authoritarian style of leadership.
His office offered a thinly veiled excuse, saying he was too busy with
cabinet meetings. But the president was apparently worried about being met
by a display of outright hostility from the party on whose central committee
he served in the 1980's.
Full:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,762582,00.html

>From South African Mail and Guardian:

Friction at SACP congress

Hannes de Wet | Rustenburg , 25 July 2002 08:03

Cosatu came to the SA Communist Party's 11th Congress in a fighting mood on
Wednesday, while the African National Congress sought to subdue tensions in
the tripartite alliance.
Reiterating plans by the Congress of SA Trade Unions to stage an
anti-privatisation strike in October, general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi
said: "The future does not belong to cowards who are afraid to speak out."
ANC national chairman Mosiuoa Lekota chose to make little of public tension
between his party and the SACP and Cosatu.
"The alliance has always acknowledged that we can never eliminate
contradictions," said Lekota, who is also Minister of Defence.
"The art of managing contradictions is what has carried this alliance to
where it is today."
Full:
http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.jsp?a=11&o=6428

>From South African Business Day:

Cosatu, SACP to vet members in government
Political Correspondent

RUSTENBURG, The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) wants to keep tabs on
unionists and communists in government to ensure that they do not stray too
far from their organisations' principles.
Addressing the SA Communist Party (SACP) congress yesterday, amid soaring
tension between the African National Congress (ANC) and its alliance
partners, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi proposed a performance
measurement system for Cosatu and SACP members.
The proposal is seen as an attempt to tighten control over Cosatu and SACP
"cadres" in government, who Vavi accused of pushing "neo-liberal policies".

Full:
http://www.bday.co.za/bday/content/direct/1,3523,1137418-6079-0,00.html

see also:
http://news.google.com/news?q=SACP&num=15&scoring=d



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