ANC extends olive branch to TAC

Government and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) should bury the hatchet and unite in the fight against HIV/Aids, ANC national executive committee member Zweli Mkhize said on Friday.

"I am aware that there was quite a lot of strain between the TAC and government and I said to some of the members, I hope we could bury that as a chapter of the past," he told delegates at the TAC's 4th National Congress.

"We hope that we will try to reduce all the tensions... and bring us to a point where we will move forward as one army taking on one common enemy."

Mkhize, whose daughter is a member of the TAC, said the ANC's NEC, elected in December, could also "assist" to ensure that these tensions were avoided.

While relations between the TAC and government have thawed recently, they had in the past seen the NGO calling repeatedly for the resignation of Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.

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