South Africa
President Mbeki threatens South African workers
By Barbara Slaughter, February 9, 2000
In his State of the Nation address in Cape Town last Friday President Thabo Mbeki made clear that the ANC government would not tolerate workers' opposition to its plans to offer South Africa as a low-...
Cape Town promotes sex tourism
By Barbara Slaughter, October 5, 1999
Cape Town, South Africa's main holiday resort with well over 1.2 million foreign visitors a year, is making plans to increase its share of the world tourism market by promoting the city as a world-cla...
South African public sector workers hold mass one-day strike
By our reporter, August 26, 1999
One million public sector workers went on strike on Tuesday, August 24 in South Africa. The majority were black members of three unions affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU...
Biography falls short of penetrating myth surrounding ANC leader
Mandela—The Authorised Biography
By Ann Talbot, August 5, 1999
Mandela—The Authorised Biography, by Anthony Sampson, Harper Collins 1999
Strike wave in South Africa
By Chris Talbot, August 5, 1999
In the biggest strike in South Africa since 1994, over 300,000 public sector workers went on a two-day strike last week in support of a 10 percent pay claim. Teachers, health workers and civil servant...
South African asbestos miners sue British company
By Chris Talbot, July 9, 1999
Asbestosis has devastated a whole town in the Northern Cape region of South Africa. Up to one in seven of the population in Prieska suffer from the disease, and over half of the miners who used to wor...
ANC election victory signals further "market reforms"
By Chris Talbot and Barbara Slaughter, June 5, 1999
Support for the African National Congress (ANC) edged up to 65.2 percent in the South African elections held on June 2. This is marginally higher than the 62.6 percent it won in the 1994 elections tha...
South Africa: the fraud of "black empowerment"
By Barbara Slaughter, May 25, 1999
With less than two weeks before elections take place in South Africa, a share option scandal has broken out involving the country's biggest black-owned company, New African Investments Ltd (Nail), whi...
South Africa police violence caught on film
By Barbara Slaughter, May 1, 1999
Six Johannesburg policemen have been suspended from duty after a BBC film was broadcast that showed them beating suspects and attacking them with police dogs.
A letter from South Africa
March 23, 1999
South Africa
In run-up to June 2 elections
Political and social tensions mount in South Africa
By Helen Halyard, March 18, 1999
Army troops and additional police have been sent to the Nyanga township, just outside Cape Town, following a wave of violence linked to the upcoming national elections. The repressive exercise, codena...
