JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's major union federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, has vowed to do everything it can to ensure that the ANC's Reconstruction and Development Program (RDP) is implemented. COSATU
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Poll 'free and fair'JOHANNESBURG — International observers have pronounced the elections free and fair. While acknowledging widespread complaints about the Independent Electoral Commission's "incompetence",
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JOHANNESBURG — When the election results were at last announced on May 6, the African National Congress had swept in with 62.7% of the national vote and 252 seats in the 400-seat national assembly. The ANC won landslide victories
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JOHANNESBURG — Three words sum up the attitude of millions of hitherto disenfranchised South Africans as they cast their first votes ever in a democratic election: enthusiasm, elation and determination. On April 27, vast number
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De Klerk's 'last gasp'JOHANNESBURG — President F.W. de Klerk's decision to defy the directive of the Transitional Executive Council (TEC) and the Independent Electoral Commission that all prisoners be granted the right to
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Extreme racial oppression in South Africa was a product of its brutal colonisation beginning in the mid-1600s, and this became the basis of the growth of South African capitalism. Apartheid is much more than a system of
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JOHANNESBURG — The Reverend Jesse Jackson, whose two presidential campaigns in the 1980s brought together a wide range of oppressed minorities, workers and the disadvantaged into a Rainbow Coalition, is in South Africa to observe
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JOHANNESBURG — Just days before South Africans went to the polls, abortion became a prominent issue. An emotive debate erupted, with the media giving high profile coverage to the views of local and US fundamentalist Christian
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JOHANNESBURG — The Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand (GLOW), one of the South Africa's two main gay and lesbian rights groups, endorsed the African National Congress in the elections. GLOW activist Simon
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JOHANNESBURG — At 9.50am on Sunday, April 24, central Johannesburg was rocked by a massive car bomb aimed at the African National Congress's national and regional headquarters. The blast was clearly audible from Green Left
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JOHANNESBURG — Inexperience, lack of preparation and ineptitude on the part of the Independent Electoral Commission contributed to confusion during the first two days of the election. However, the overriding cause of problems was
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JOHANNESBURG — The African National Congress' ambitious Reconstruction and Development Program (RDP) — the cornerstone of its election campaign — would be funded in part by major cuts in military spending and the nuclear