Norm Dixon

  • Zimbabwe farm workers strike

    Zimbabwe's impoverished farm workers have won a hefty wage increase as a result of their first organised national strike against the country's 4000 wealthy, predominantly white, commercial farmers. Farm workers, who walked out at the

  • Call to purge Communists from ANC

    Peter Mokaba — a former president of the African National Congress Youth League, a member of the ANC national executive and presently deputy tourism minister in the South African government — has issued a thinly veiled call for

  • South African union appeals for solidarity

    The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) has appealed for international support in its struggle against the privatisation of basic services. The union has been waging a bitter fight against the privatisation of water and

  • Truce signed in Bougainville war

    The second round of peace talks in New Zealand has resulted in a truce between the pro-independence Bougainville Interim Government (BIG), the Port Moresby-appointed Bougainville Transitional Government (BTG) and the Papua New Guinea

  • Congo denies UN 'smears' over human rights

    Leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo have angrily denied claims by the United Nations and western governments that investigations into rumours of human rights violations (during the uprising that deposed the Mobutu

  • Azapo to form left-wing party

    A section of the Azanian Peoples Organisation (Azapo), followers of murdered Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko, announced on September 14 it would form a socialist party to contest the 1999 elections. The decision followed a

  • Bougainvilleans debate peace process

    Representatives of the people of Bougainville are involved in a vigorous debate over the merits of the process that began with peace talks in New Zealand in July. Another round of talks is scheduled for early October. After two

  • Despite criticism, COSATU sticks with ANC

    Delegates attending the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) sixth national congress, on September 16-19, have sharply criticised the economic policies of the African National Congress government and its failure to

  • Howard bullies Pacific nations on greenhouse

    Howard bullies Pacific nations on greenhousePrime Minister John Howard, leading the Australian delegation to the South Pacific Forum meeting in the Cook Islands, found himself completely isolated over his government's

  • Contra attacks increase in Congo and Rwanda

    While the United Nations, the aid industry and the world press continue to accuse — without evidence — the new government of the Democratic Republic of Congo of systematic human rights abuses during the uprising that overthrew

  • Liberation war veterans shake Zimbabwe politics

    Veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation war have mounted a determined campaign to expose the Mugabe government's failure to deliver decent living standards and land for the poor, and to fight corruption. Veterans want decent pensions and

  • Stop environmental racism in Nigeria: Boycott Shell!

    Stop environmental racism in Nigeria: Boycott Shell!On November 10, 1995, the Nigerian military dictatorship hanged Ken Saro-Wiwa and nine other Ogoni leaders who had been framed on murder charges. Their true crime was