By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — "It's like going to war!" That was how Kgalema Motlanthe, general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, recently described the situation facing this country's 500,000 mineworkers every day.
The sweat
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Allen Jennings
The July 31 UN Security Council resolution to "use all necessary means" to oust the military regime in Haiti and reinstate leftist president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, marks a watershed in international relations history.
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — Twenty thousand striking car assembly workers took to streets in different parts of the country last week in support of demands for higher pay and the rapid elimination of race-based wage anomalies. Thousands of
25th anniversary of British troops
By Nick Fredman
SYDNEY — 200 people rallied in First Fleet Park here on August 13 as part of an international day of action organised by the "Time for peace — time to go" campaign which is demanding
International Playhouse — The Dog it was that Died — By Tom Stoppard. Rupert Purvis is a British intelligence officer undergoing "a bit of a crisis". Having become a double agent, he has doubled and redoubled the duplicity so often that he has
Women's rights and overpopulation
The third International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), will be held in Cairo in September 94.
It has been billed by the Clinton administration and feminist groups as potentially one of the
RU486: extending women's choices
By Kath Gelber
The Catholic church in Australia has called for a halt to current trials of RU486, the so-called "abortion pill". The trials, taking place under the auspices of the World Health Organisation
ADELAIDE — Major cuts to health, education and housing are set to dominate the state Liberal government's budget on August 25, its first since taking office last November. While cabinet is still in the process of discussing details around proposed
By Barry Sheppard
CHICAGO — The founding convention of the Committees of Correspondence (CoC) held here over July 23-24, reflected and registered the progress — and lack of it — the organisation has made in the two years since the Berkeley
Sisulu Jnr to head SABC
South Africa's public broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), which became notorious for its role as the mouthpiece of apartheid and its rigid political and moral censorship, is to be headed by
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Picture the situation. An important economic bill drafted by presidential aides meets with strong opposition in the parliament. Efforts to find a compromise fail, and the bill is rejected by the lawmakers.
Then
Call for Burma human rights group
By Nick Everett
BRISBANE — "Burma — Democracy Denied" is the title of an exhibition of photos, information and a video currently on display here. A video, The Burma Deception was screened at a public
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