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NTOMBENTSHA NCIZA, a member of the ANC Women's League and a leader of the National Education Coordinating Committee, and DIKELEDI MAGADAZI, secretary general of the Northern Transvaal ANCWL, recently visited Adelaide as part of a work experience

MOSCOW — During August, industrial output in Russia declined at an annual rate of 34%, the sharpest drop since the grim days of the Nazi blitzkrieg. In September the situation grew still worse: according to seasonally

LONDON — Winter in Britain this year looks like being a bitter and stormy one, with news that the November 30 budget is to target welfare cuts to single parent families and to entrench a harsh new tax on separated fathers.

MANAGUA — While Nicaraguans have seen more than their share of nature's foul moods, a recent disaster brought widespread realisation that human hands can sometimes tip nature toward malevolence. Beautiful and historic Lake

AUCKLAND — With postal votes now counted, the National Party has retained government with 50 seats in the 99-member parliament. This result will only increase the alienation from mainstream politics felt by many young people in

Alison Dellit On June 16, the British government made a mockery of any claim of avowing its colonial exploitation, with a decision to reject the right of return of thousands of Mauritians forced out of their homes 30 years ago. The story goes

British anti-terrorism detectives escorted a man from a plane after a taxi driver had earlier become suspicious when the passenger started singing along to a track by punk band The Clash, according to the April 6 Sydney Morning Herald. Detectives

James Balowski, Jakarta Activists from the West Papua Peoples United Struggle Front (Pepera) held a protest at the US Embassy in Jakarta on August 28 calling for the defendants in the Timika shooting case in West Papua to be released. The

Alex Miller In the June 10 election for the European Parliament, the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) polled 61,356 votes, which represented 5.2% of all votes cast in Scotland. Because of the expansion of the EU, Scotland elected seven members of

Raul Bassi On March 24, 1976, when the Argentine armed forces staged a coup, those of us who were politically active expected hard times. But what followed was a horrific sequence of events that could never have been imagined, the results of which

The Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign has launched the 4th National and International Week Against the Apartheid Wall, to be held November 9-16. Under the slogan "We shall stay!", Palestinian communities and their supporters will

Dale McKinley On June 3 in the Protea Magistrate's Court in Soweto, two Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) activists from the community of Phiri — Tshepo Mkwanazi and Thabo Madisane — were convicted of "intimidation" and given R10,000 fines each,