Fidel castro
BUSANI NGCAWENI: Cuba upholding ‘solidarity forever’ during COVID-19
Cuban medical workers arriving to help SA speaks to the pact Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro made years ago, writes Busani Ncaweni.
The Communist Party-proposed overhaul will be discussed in 35,000 workplaces and community meetings across the Caribbean island scheduled to stretch into November.
All except one of the former vice presidents on the council of ministers - Marino Murillo, the head of the Communist Party’s reform commission - will remain in place.
Seeking to make socialism sustainable, Castro introduced some market reforms to the state-run economy and secured a historic detente with the United States.
Castro Diaz-Balart, also known as “Fidelito” because of how much he looked like his father, had initially been hospitalized for depression and then continued treatment as an outpatient.
Castro, 86, was originally set to step down in February after two consecutive terms, ending nearly 60 years of Castro brothers’ rule.
The vote comes the day after the first anniversary of revolutionary leader Fidel Castro’s death.
ANC and EFF councillors traded angry words over whose politics was more closely aligned with late former Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Nomvula Mokonyane says Cuban engineers working in SA are a sign of unity which former Cuban president Fidel Castro fought for.
A private ceremony was held at Santiago's Santa Ifigenia Cemetery, state media reported.
Castro, who survived five decades of US attempts to kill or overthrow him, died on 25 November age 90.
But Fidel Castro’s image will not be immortalised with statues nor will public places be named after him.
EFF leader Julius Malema says white people have damaged the lives of black people & are to blame for drug abuse amongst them.
The government declared nine days of mourning for the man who built a Communist state.
EFF leader Julius Malema says through his socialist policies, Fidel Castro brought unemployment down to 3% and hiked literacy levels to 93%.
Julius Malema says the ANC hasn’t achieved anything that comes close to what Fidel Castro believed in.
Castro was cremated after he died on Friday aged 90.
The SACP leader says his party will not defend any attempts to capture the state by the likes of the Gupta & Rupert families.
The deputy president has applauded the late Castro’s selfless contribution in bettering the lives of the oppressed in SA.