2005-02-21,+Zico+in+Australia

To: Vicpeace@topica.com From: David Spratt  Subject: Victorian Peace Network Diary @ 21 February 2005 [VPN-Announce] Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:53:31 +0000 [Please circulate to friends and contacts. To add your name to this announce-only email list of coming peace events, simply send a blank email to: Vicpeace-subscribe@topica.com Thank you.] Victorian Peace Network Diary @ 21 February 2005

Organised in conjunction by the Maritime Union and the Victorian Peace Network.
 * THIS WEEK: ZICO TAMELA IN VICTORIA**

What future for South Africa? Public meeting with Zico Tamela from SACP & COSATU. Trades Hall Bar, Trades Hall, 54 Victoria Street. Carlton South. Info: MUA 03 9329 5477
 * TUESDAY 22 February, 7.30pm MELBOURNE**

What future for South Africa? Public meeting with Zico Tamela in the foyer area of the Warrnambool Uniting Church, Koroit Street (just down from the junction with Liebig Street)
 * WEDNESDAY 23 February, 7.45pm WARRNAMBOOL**

Public discussion: Truth Justice and reconciliation- two black perspectives. Zico and Indigenous speakers @ Trades Hall bar, Carlton South. With Richard Frankland and others.
 * THURSDAY 24 February 7pm MELBOURNE**

Zico Tamela is a leading member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) in Johannesburg, a longstanding member of the ANC and International Secretary of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU). A part of the COSATU union federation, SATAWU organises aviation, maritime, road and rail workers as well as cleaners and security workers in South Africa. During the early 1980s, Zico was a student activist at the Johannesberg University, where he was involved in a successful boycott campaign. This campaign flowed over into continuous struggles against the State of Emergency and for the release of political prisoners ultimately leading to the release of Nelson Mandela and the collapse of apartheid. In 1989, Zico was forced into exile and continued his studies at Bristol University. Later he worked for the white collar trade union, NALGO, as an organiser for the Bloomsbury Branch, returning to South Africa in 1995. With the ANC and COSATU, the South African Communist Party is part of the 3-sided alliance which liberated South Africa from apartheid. While other CPs took the “peaceful road”, the SACP lead an armed struggle, and was crucial in maintaining the unity of all sections of the working class despite apartheid. Now, while other Communist parties around the world have dissolved or become marginalised, the SACP remains a vital and leading force in South Africa, organising and educating those who are still waiting to see the benefits of the sacrifices made over a century of fighting for democratic rights. As a leader in the large metropolis of Johannesburg, where urban poverty remains as before, Zico is playing a key role in mobilising workers and the poor for a new stage in their historic struggle.

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 * Nancy Fraser Australian Tour 26 July-7 August 2005**,