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=SACP and NGO's prepare for national land summit=

June 01, 2005, 18:30

 * The South African Communist Party (SACP) and several Non Governmental Organisations (NGO's) held a consultative meeting in Johannesburg today to prepare for the national land summit.**

Blade Nzimande, the SACP secretary general, says they were looking at defining the most important issues the summit must resolve and at mobilising people to participate in the summit.

He says after the summit, it is hoped that the landless people and the workers will be involved in the process of speeding up the land reform.

Nzimande recently said that the SACP is opposed to the impending sale of non-core functions of some of the state owned enterprises in a government bid to save costs. Speaking at the end of the Party's Central Committee meeting in Johannesburg at the weekend. He says the party is calling on workers to protect public property from what he calls the predatory ambitions of certain well placed BEE groupings.

On the housing backlog in the country, Nzimande says one way of accelerating financing of low cost housing, is to move away from the current 20 year mortgage bonds. He says his Party will put this proposal as a demand to Nedlac and in the Financial Sector Charter Council.


 * From SABC at http://www.sabcnews.co.za/economy/labour/0,2172,105682,00.html **