The African National Congress-led government of national unity (GNU) signalled that there will be no significant change in post-apartheid South Africa's economic direction when it announced its third budget on March 13. The budget
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The alliance between the African National Congress, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party is under pressure, National Union of Mineworkers president James Motlatsi indicated on March 15.
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Women attempting to celebrate International Women's Day in Labasa, on the smaller of Fiji's two main islands, Vanua Levu, had their permission to march revoked by the district officer. The Labasa Women's Forum (LWF), had earlier
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On March 21, the prime minister of Papua New Guinea, Sir Julius Chan, made plain his intention to escalate the war against the pro-independence Bougainville Interim Government (BIG) and the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA). In
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The giant US car maker General Motors has been forced virtually to cease production after workers at GM's parts plants in Ohio began strike action to protect jobs from "outsourcing". Twenty-four out of GM's 29 assembly plants in
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"Cubans in Klerksdorp — it sounds like a nightmare sequence from the commie bashing photo-comic, Grensvegter, circa 1979. But the doctors were greeted at the once racially exclusive hospital with no hostility, though much
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Thousands of West Papuan villagers have rebelled against the giant Freeport gold and copper mine in the Indonesian-occupied western half of New Guinea. The uprising caused extensive damage to the mine and forced its closure for
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BHP drafted law, PNG admitsAustralian multinational mining giant BHP — the "Big Australian"' — has been exposed as the "Big Fibber". Following a week of smart talking, equivocations, legal mumbo-jumbo and
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The Papua New Guinea government has foreshadowed legislation that will not only impose an inadequate settlement on tens of thousands of people demanding compensation for the massive environmental damage caused by the
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Labor leaders are falling over themselves to reassure the rulers of France that, while they may not like their nuclear tests, their right to control the territories of Tahiti, Kanaky and Wallis and Futuna is not being
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SYDNEY — David Alley is a quietly spoken church minister from a parish just outside Auckland in New Zealand. To look at him, you would never guess that he could ever pose a threat to the "national security" of any country.
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A large movement in opposition to the World Bank/International Monetary Fund-imposed structural adjustment program (SAP) is developing across Papua New Guinea. Of particular concern to the people is a plan to undermine the