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Friday, 12 August 2005
 * Press Alert**


 * SACP GENERAL SECRETARY TO ADDRESS COSATU CENTRAL COMMITTEE**

The South African Communist Party (SACP) General Secretary Comrade Blade Nzimande is to address the COSATU Central Committee.

The Central Committee of COSATU takes place just after the SACP Central Committee Meeting which took place on the weekend of 5–6 August, 2005 in which very significant decisions were taken in relation to issues facing the working class and the poor in our country.

Comrade Blade Nzimande is expected to besides conveying the SACP message of support to this important workers assembly, to as well raise very important issues facing the workers today. Amongst those he will speak on will be the following:

· The current wave of working class struggles · Making of the second decade of our democracy the decade of the workers and the poor and the tasks therefore · Deepening of the working class struggles along key immediate demands of the working class, Jobs, Basic services for all, Access to affordable credit and financial services and the acceleration of land and agrarian transformation to benefit farm workers and the landless · Challenges facing COSATU and the working class in general and · Some contemporary Southern African challenges

Details of the address by the SACP General Secretary will be as follows:


 * Venue: Esselenpark, Kempton Park**
 * Date: Monday, 15 August 2005**
 * Time: 11h50**


 * CONTACT:**
 * Kaizer Mohau**
 * Media Liaison Officer**
 * South African Communist Party (SACP)**
 * Tel: 011 339 3621/2**
 * Fax: 011 339 4244/6880**
 * Cell: 082 805 1085**
 * Email: Kaizer@sacp.org.za**
 * Website: [|www.sacp.org.za]**