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| | CNN.com - Economics strain South African government, union, communist alliance - September 20, 2000 |
 | | The government is putting people into the streets, outsourcing some jobs, privatizing some," said Ernst Mmako, a union member who watched 100 activists holding demonstrations at this week's national meeting of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, which represents 1.8 million workers. |
 | | With the ANC and the communists banned during apartheid and many of their leaders forced into exile, fl trade unions became foot soldiers for the struggle. |
 | | That was, of course, until the ANC came to power in the country's first all-race elections in 1994 and had to begin running an economy that had neglected its impoverished fl majority and had simply too little wealth to redistribute, said Tony Twine, senior economist at the Econometrix consulting group. |
| archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/africa/09/20/safrica.alliance.ap (798 words) |
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