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[MortarBoardCULong] CU Postings to Whatsapp, 30 October 2017 Click the links to connect to full text Ramaphosa is losing ground in hotly contested succession race - insider "You need at least 2 500 delegates to vote for you. Comrades must get off their horses and start working, otherwise this Cyril thing is a pipe dream," said an ANC member. The ANC member said Gauteng was never a strong province in the ANC and all its previous positions of a "third way" always failed, while the Eastern Cape was presently divided. "It's a very tight race, but for me I am afraid unless Ramaphosa jacks up his campaign, anything could happen in December. - https://tinyurl.com/ybch8ha4 Update on the Heher Commission on higher education fees On 14 January 2016 President Jacob Zuma established a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the feasibility of making higher education and training fee-free in South Africa. The President received the final report from the Commission on 30 August 2017. The Presidency consults with relevant Ministers to ensure that government is ready to implement the President's decision as soon he releases the report. These consultations are at an advanced stage. Finalization is expected next week. The President will release the report immediately thereafter. - https://tinyurl.com/y9e89j9b Presidency Rejects Allegations The Presidency rejects the allegations contained in media reports today, 29 October 2017, claiming wrongdoing by President Jacob Zuma in relation to some undeclared funds. President Zuma has declared to the relevant authorities all income received and allegations contained in the reports are misleading and are clearly part of the ongoing smear campaigns. The tax matters of the President are in order. The President has also not received any information related to taxes linked to the Nkandla upgrades as alleged by the media. - https://tinyurl.com/y8dhthn4 COSATU accepts 'inevitable' COSATU has given up its fight on making President Jacob Zuma step down before the year is out, says spokesperson Sizwe Pamla. "It was linked to our support for Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa," Pamla said. The ANC's alliance partner had now resigned itself to the possibility of Zuma completing his ANC term of office until the end of the year, according to Pamla. "We have reflected on this. Ramaphosa should not find himself winning a contested conference," Pamla said. - https://tinyurl.com/yakqwos3 Spain Rallies Against Independence Vote Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets yesterday to demand that Catalonia remain a part of Spain, rejecting Friday's independence declaration. On Saturday Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's government in Madrid dismissed the Catalan government and called a snap regional election for December 21. On Saturday Spanish United Left (IU) federal co-ordinator Alberto Garzon called for a "constitutional process to formulate a federal constitution". He said: "In the IU we don't defend independence, but a republican and federal model of the state." - https://tinyurl.com/y77e29pf A Revolutionary Voice for Women's Freedom Available in English for the First Time The Woman Worker by Nadezhda Krupskaya. is a treasure that has never before appeared in English. It addresses the reality of women workers' lives, as members of the working class, and the nature of the struggle of workers against the bourgeoisie in which women and men must be involved together. Krupskaya asserts that the condition in which women labour under capitalism is rooted not in gender but in class. Krupskaya argues that the freedom of women can never be achieved under the capitalist order. - https://tinyurl.com/yb35gyvc Guyana's Socialists to Mount Campaign Against 'Vote-Rigging' The socialist People's Progressive Party (PPP) is mounting an international campaign against Guyana President David Granger's choice of new electoral commission chairman. The PPP said Mr Granger had "abandoned" the 1992 Carter-Price formula for appointment of the electoral commission chair. The claim that the PPP was a party for Indians was used in a CIA-backed destabilisation campaign ahead of independence from Britain in 1966 that saw PPP founder Cheddi Jagan lose out to the People's National Congress under Forbes Burnham in the 1964 election. - https://tinyurl.com/y7jtr6qt US coalition occupied, not liberated Raqqa from ISIS - Damascus The US-led coalition has cruelly destroyed civilian infrastructure and has occupied the city of Raqqa it captured from ISIS, Syria's Foreign Ministry has said, accusing the "illegitimate alliance" of misleading the international community about its true intentions. "Syria considers the claims of the United States and its so-called alliance about the liberation of Raqqa city from ISIS to be lies aiming to divert international public opinion from the crimes committed by this alliance in Raqqa province," an official source in Syrian Foreign Ministry said. - https://tinyurl.com/ybt7u28o Uganda, South Africa Call for Economic Liberation of Africa South Africa and Uganda have called for economic liberation of the continent following official tributes honouring African freedom fighters. "Someone is stealing from the African countries because the dominant forces, economic forces, in South Africa that kept Black people enslaved are still there," said Kahinda Otaffire, Uganda's Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs. In related news, Tanzania announced plans to nationalize diamonds valued at US$29.5 million belonging to a mine majority-owned by London-listed Petra Diamonds. The corporation is accused of under-declaring its mineral exports. - https://tinyurl.com/ybvfr5wm Most CU topical postings are now made to Whatsapp via the Whatsapp-style link with a caption. The above is a collection of the latest postings. Items that have already been sent by e-mail through this channel are not included. Please ask for Whatsapp if you want it. [cid:[email protected]] Nadezhda Krupskaya, 1869-1939<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadezhda_Krupskaya> ________________________________ [http://imageshack.com/a/img32/381/6b28.png] E-mail Disclaimer: The information contained in this communication is confidential and may be legal privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and others authorised to received it. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in reliance of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. 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