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 * Tuesday, 31 January 2006**

=**SACP STATEMENT ON THE PASSING AWAY OF COMRADE JUDA TSOTETSI**=

The South African Communist Party (SACP) is shocked and saddened by the untimely passing away of Comrade Juda Tsotetsi, the provincial Secretary of the SACP in Mpumalanga province. Comrade Juda was born in March 1972, he was 33 years when he passed away.

Comrade Juda passed away this morning at about 04h00 am after a short illness, after collapsing in a meeting in Embalenhle in the middle of last week. He passed away at the Witbank General Hospital.

The SACP lowers its banner in honour of this hero of the working class and the poor. Comrade Juda will be remembered by his complete and selfless dedication and commitment to the struggle for national liberation and Socialism. Under his provincial leadership Cde Juda mobilized the poor and the workers in Mpumalanga behind the SACP and its campaigns. The SACP in Mpumalanga province, under his leadership, was leading in the establishment of People’s Land Committees as part of our land and agrarian transformation campaign. In him we lost a communist cadre who was always to the front, and the best of the younger cadres who have been in the forefront of building a strong SACP after the 1994 democratic breakthrough.

The land campaign of the SACP in 2004 found its profound expression in the rural areas of Mpumalanga more than anywhere else due to and under the leadership of Cde Juda Tsotetsi. The campaign for credit amnesty from the credit bureaus was officially launched in his province, and also played a leading role in the establishment of the provincial structures of the SACP-led Financial Sector Campaign Coalition. It is for this dedication and activism that Cde Juda Tsotetsi will be sorely missed by the broader SACP family.

Cde Juda is survived by his wife Thandeka Tsotetsi and four (4) Children.

A comprehensive obituary and other details will be released and posted on our web portal in the next few days.


 * Issued by: SACP**

Kaizer Mohau Media Liaison Officer South African Communist Party (SACP) Tel: 011 339 3621/2 Fax: 011 339 4244/6880 Fax2email: 086 613 5646 Mobile: 076 573 7764 Email: kaizer@sacp.org.za  Web portal: [|www.sacp.org.za] **
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