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By Norm Dixon JOHANNESBURG — Throughout the negotiations process since 1990, the African National Congress has pushed hard for the post-apartheid constitution to proclaim South Africa a non-sexist state. That this was incorporated into the
By Norm Dixon A high-spirited group of young South Africans, mostly in their teens, had spent the day campaigning in the southern Natal village of Mahehle. Keen to participate in South Africa's first democratic election, they had put up many ANC
By Children of Prisoners Support Group The number of women in NSW prisons has increased from 133 in 1982 to 362 in 1993. Even though there has been a steady increase in the number of women imprisoned, they will remain a minority group within the
By Steve Rogers CANBERRA: A debate on the proposed amalgamation between the Public Sector Union (PSU) and the State Public Service Federation provided a lively focus for the first meeting of the ACT branch conference since the PSU Challenge
Supermarket's cheaper "The idea that if you want a dentist or a doctor, you should scurry around to find the cheapest one, is quite inappropriate in a professional sense. The professional relationship is something quite different to buying goods at
By Katrina Dean [This is the edited text of a speech given to the February 26 Hobart rally against ocean dumping of Jarosite wastes by Pasminco Metals-EZ.] On hot days, I often think about going for a swim. I go down to the beach, but I
By Norm Dixon JOHANNESBURG — The terrible prospect of a blood-soaked election campaign in the Natal/KwaZulu region may have receded a little following a meeting in Durban between African National Congress president Nelson Mandela and Inkatha
By Dave Holmes MELBOURNE — Some 600 people rallied in front of the Brunswick Town Hall on March 5 to protest against racism and fascism. In recent months the heavily multicultural inner-city suburb has experienced instances of neo-nazi racist
By Kath Gelber When the Australian women's cricket team travelled to New Zealand recently to compete in an international event, the only reason we got to hear about it was because a cricketer left out of the one-day team claimed that she had
The Morning After: Sex, Fear, Feminism By Kate Roiphe Hamish Hamilton, 1993. 180 pp. $18.95 (pb) Reviewed by Zanny Begg From the ivory towers of Princeton, Kate Roiphe has let loose a tirade against the women's movement. Her book The
By Norm Dixon JOHANNESBURG — Thor Chemicals is again at the centre of a major controversy, this time involving the import into South Africa of toxic wastes. Thor Chemicals is a British-owned company notorious for its callous treatment of black
Death of a Nation, the new film on East Timor narrated by Australian journalist JOHN PILGER, has had a major international impact — and has been attacked by the Australian government even before it has been shown here. Pilger, in London, was