5 August 2003
Later this morning, the General Secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP), Blade Nzimande, will open the COSATU National Education Conference as detailed below:
DATE : 05 August 2003
TIME : 10h30 – 11h30
VENUE : Kopanong Conference Centre, Glen Gory Road, Benoni
(East Rand – take R24 towards Johannesburg International Airport, take the
Witbank-Benoni off-ramp, take the Atlas Road off-ramp, follow directions to Kopanong)
The speech is entitled “Building working class power for a people's education: Towards a strategic and co-ordinated approach to education and educational transformation by South Africa's working class”. The speech is available on www.sacp.org.za.
The speech locates union education and educational transformation within what it terms an emerging working class medium term visions developed independently by the SACP and COSATU over the last two months in the context of preparations for the 8th COSATU Congress. The SACP has placed for debate within our structures a Medium Term Vision for the next 10-12 years, which addresses what kind of society we want to see in South Africa by the end of the second decade of our freedom in 2014. At its last CEC, COSATU received and extensively debated "Vision 2015". “Why this seeming coincidence that our prime working class and worker formations are suddenly pre-occupied with a medium term vision? Objectively, this is not a coincidence. Rather, it is a direct outcome of intense reflections by our formations on class and other struggles during the first decade of our freedom”, argues Nzimande in his speech.
The speech also covers the following aspects:
CONTACT
Mazibuko K. Jara (surname Jara)
Department of Media, Information & Publicity
South African Communist Party
Tel: 27 11 339-3621/2, Fax: 27 11 339-4244 Cell: 072 275 4723
Email - mazibuko@sacp.org.za