By Virginia Brown

PERTH -- The International Women's Day collective and West Australian-South African Solidarity have joined forces to tour Jabulile Matilda Ndlovu, a South African women's activist, trade unionist and writer.

Meetings will be held between October 18 and November 18 with trade union groups, women's refuge groups and Aboriginal fringe dwellers.

Jabulile's visit provides a valuable opportunity to build solidarity between progressive movements in a period when it seems cooler and easier to "celebrate our differences" than join together to fight the increasing attacks on the working class, women, blacks and other oppressed groups. Organising the visit has also begun to revitalise the women's movement in Perth.

Jabulile comes from the Umlazi township in Kwa-Zulu/Natal and is a regional branch secretary of the ANC Women's League. She was a member of the Natal Organisation of Women while the ANC was banned, and from 1981-89 worked as an organiser for the South African Congress of Trade Unions. Currently, Jabulile researches and writes books on women's experiences for the Natal Workers' History Project. For meeting and interview details, telephone Angie 227 1642 or Virginia 328 7549.

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