Work Cut Out

Buses roll from 07h00 to Jabulani Amphitheatre in Soweto and eleven other locations today for the launch of the ANC local government election campaign. In Jabulani Stadium there will be separate sections for the SACP, COSATU, SANCO, and plain ANC. Let the red sections be the fullest! Also today, the SACP Yusuf Dadoo District is holding a mass rally in Khutsong Stadium as previously announced. Next Saturday, January 21st, from 09h00, the Johannesburg District of the SACP is holding a Joe Slovo Commemoration in the Chiawelo Community Centre (“Triple C”) in Old Potch Road, Soweto. The following Wednesday, January 25th, from 09h00 in COSATU House, Braamfontein, the Chris Hani Institute will host an all-day seminar, also in commenoration of the late Comrade Slovo. These two separate events are in honour of the Slovo Month of 2006. The year 2006 is getting into shape. Election work will continue from now through February. SACP comrades will be the most energetic, as usual. But all-round SACP work will not slow down. Johannesburg Central Branch’s BEC will meet on January 25th (with Communist University to follow on the 27th and BGM on the 29th). The BEC will consider the draft programme for the year. Linked below are the branch 2006 programme, plus in another document the full year’s schedule combined with District, Province and National calendar. The SACP Johannesburg District’s Political Education Programme starts on Sunday, January 22nd, at 10h00, at 9th floor, Renaissance Building, Gandhi Square. Branch political education officers in particular should be there but all are welcome. The meeting will discuss the programme for the year. The paper “50,000 Leading Cadres in 5 years” will be available for discussion if required. Thanks to Chris “Che” Matlhako for the link to the Appeal for Father Jean-Juste of Fanmi Lavalas of Haiti. Please click the link to the petition and fill it in if you can, then click the button to send a fax to the US Embassy in Haiti. Rekonsilyasyon San Jistis, NON! Links: Draft Johannesburg Central Branch 2006 BGMs and BECs (Tables) Draft Johannesburg Central Branch 2006 Full Combined Schedule (Table) Draft SACP Johannesburg District Political Education Sub-Committee 2006 Programme Target: 50,000 Leading Cadres in 5 years: How to get there, Tweedie, 2005 Global Exchange Appeal on behalf of Father Jean-Juste (243 words)