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WEEKLY NEWS - ISSUE of 09/05/96 -  PART 1/


* Africa/China. Jiang's African trip an important event
Chinese President Jiang Zemin's forthcoming visit to Africa is an
important event in Sino-African relations, Chinese Vice-Premier and
Foreign Minister Qian Qichen said in a recent interview. The
Chinese President will pay a state visit to six African countries:
Kenya, Ethiopia, Egypt, Mali, Namibia and Zimbabwe from 8-22 May.
Qian said that the purpose of the visit is to enhance friendship,
strengthen unity, promote cooperation between China and African
countries and to learn from African people.
(AFJN, Washington, 2 May 1996)

* Afrique Australe. Presse de plus en plus muselee
Les gouvernements democrates de l'Afrique australe sont de plus en
plus hostiles aux medias, releve un rapport publie recemment sur
l'etat des medias en 1995 en Afrique australe, par l'Institut des
medias d'Afrique australe (MISA) de Windhoek. L'observatoire y note
que "l'hostilite des gouvernements democratiquement elus a l'egard
des medias augmente". "La lune de miel entre les medias et les
gouvernements mis en place pendant les periodes de transition
democratique est definitivement terminee. Le manque d'unite, de
ressources, de qualifications et de professionnalisme ne permettent
pas a la profession de se defendre." Selon le MISA, on aurait
enregistre 114 violations de la liberte de la presse dans la region
l'an passe. Le rapport, indique la Namibie, la Zambie et le
Zimbabwe, comme les pays ou la presse est la plus libre, bien que
des lois restrictives les repriment et empechent l'acces a
l'information. Le MISA regrette enfin que "les constitutions de
nombreux pays de la SADC ne garantissent pas suffisamment la
liberte des medias. Par consequent, dans toute la region se fait
ressentir le besoin pressant d'une reforme des constitutions et de
l'amendement ou de la suppression de lois depassees sur les
medias."
(Marches Tropicaux, France, 3 mai 1996)

* Afrique du Sud. Constitution votee
Le texte de la nouvelle Constitution a ete adopte le 8 mai, avec la
majorite des deux tiers requise, par 421 voix sur 490. La
difference s'explique surtout par l'absence du parti zoulou de
l'Inkatha qui a refuse de collaborer au processus constitutionnel,
et par l'abstention des membres du Front pour la liberte du general
Viljoen. Le document avait fait l'objet d'apres discussions jusque
tard dans la soiree de mardi entre negociateurs du Congres national
africain (ANC) et le Parti national (NP). L'objet de leurs
divergences, trois principes fondamentaux, symbolisant l'essence de
leurs partis politiques. Le droit a un enseignement unique en
afrikaans, revendique par les electeurs du NP. Le droit pour les
employeurs d'engager du personnel temporaire pour contrer les
greves. Et enfin, revendique par l'ANC, le droit pour le
gouvernement d'exproprier des terres pour les redistribuer. L'ANC
a finalement cede sur les deux premiers chapitres, le Parlement
national lachant du lest sur le troisieme.
(ANB-BIA, de sources diverses, 8 mai 1996)

* Algerie. Un calendrier politique
Liamine Zeroual a tenu dimanche 5 mai, a Alger, sa premiere
conference de presse depuis son election a la presidence en
novembre dernier. Cette apparition devant les medias nationaux,
constitue en elle-meme la premiere information. Le president a
communique l'echeancier politique du pays, notamment pour les
elections legislatives que les partenaires internationaux de
l'Algerie commencaient a evoquer avec de plus en plus d'impatience.
"Avant la fin de l'ete" devrait d'abord se tenir une conference
nationale, aboutissement du "dialogue" que Liamine Zeroual a engage
depuis avril avec toutes les formations d'opposition, a l'exception
du FIS (Front islamique du salut, dissous). Ensuite, "avant la fin
de l'annee", aura lieu un referendum constitutionnel. Les fameuses
legislatives -- d'abord situees a la fin de cette annee, et ensuite
repoussees au premier trimestre de 1997 -- sont a present annoncees
"avant la mi-1997".
(D'apres Liberation, France, 6 mai 1996)

* Algerie. Les moines de l'Atlas
Dans une lettre aux ravisseurs, adressee a la presse algerienne, le
Haut conseil des musulmans de France (HCMF) demande, au nom des
musulmans de France, la liberation des sept moines. En plus, il
appelle tous les fideles a un rassemblement a la Grande Mosquee de
Paris, vendredi 10 mai, a 10 heures. De son cote, le Conseil
national des imams (CNI), l'instance theologique du HCMF, a
proclame une fatwa jugeant illegale l'enlevement des religieux.
"L'illegalite de l'agression contre les moines, que nous avons
decidee, n'est autre que le jugement edicte par tous les textes
coraniques et les propos prophetiques. Il y a consensus ("ijma") de
toute la nation musulmane dans toutes les etapes de son histoire
autour de cela", affirment les neuf imams du CNI. La valeur d'une
fatwa est plus ou moins importante selon l'importance du sujet et
l'autorite de l'imam qui la prononce; mais elle peut faire
jurisprudence.
(D'apres La Croix, France, 8 mai 1996)

* Angola. Amnistie
Le Parlement angolais a approuve mercredi 8 mai la loi d'amnistie
pardonnant les crimes militaires et les delits contre la securite
de l'Etat entre le 31 mai 1991 et le 8 mai 1996. La loi vise les
civils et les militaires qui avaient pris les armes contre le
regime de Luanda, et en particulier l'Union nationale pour
l'independance totale de l'Angola (Unita, ex-rebellion armee) de
Jonas Savimbi, qui avait fait de son approbation une condition de
l'acceleration du processus de paix en Angola.
(D'apres AFP, France, 8 mai 1996)

* Burundi. Civil war ever closer
Burundi's Tutsi-dominated army killed more than 200 Hutus, mostly
women and children, in a military operation in the centre of the
country late last month, aid agency sources in the area said on 5
May. The sources, who did not want to be identified, said troops
killed 235 people in Buhoro, a mountain village, after Hutu rebels
had killed some civilians there. Most were killed with bayonets. In
Kenya's capital Nairobi, the National Council for the Defence of
Democracy -- the political wing of Burundi's main rebel movement --
condemned the killings. On 6 May, a report from Burundi indicates
that a terrible massacre took place on 3 May in the market of
Kivyuka, Musingati Commune.
(ANB-BIA, Brussels, 6 May 1996)

* Burundi. Au fil des jours
2 mai -- Des organismes humanitaires oeuvrant dans la region
denoncent un massacre, par l'armee, de 235 Hutus dans la region de
Buhoro (Gitega) ou une operation avait debute le 26 avril, au
lendemain d'une attaque par des rebelles hutus contre des civils.
Parmi les victimes, 136 femmes, 87 enfants et 12 hommes. 3 -- *Le
Zaire referme ses frontieres avec le Burundi "pour eviter un nouvel
afflux de refugies". Quelque 2.000 Burundais auraient fui au Zaire
depuis le debut de mai. *Nouveau massacre a Kivyuka (Bubanza).
L'armee aurait tire sur la foule au marche. On parle de "plusieurs
centaines" de morts. Nous n'avons pas plus de details en ce moment.
6 -- Les escadrons de la mort des "sans-echec" tuent en pleine
ville Mme Angelique Kayibigi, directeur adjoint de la banque d'Etat
Camofi. 8 -- Le pape adresse un appel aux responsables du Burundi
et des pays concernes par le conflit "a ne pas abandonner la voie
du dialogue et de la negociation pour surmonter les tensions".
(ANB-BIA, de sources diverses, 9 mai 1996)

* Congo. Towards a productive army
An unorthodox vision of national security is about to be reborn in
Congo, which will turn the army into productive soldiers for
development, swapping their rifles for shovels. At the bequest of
President Pascal Lissouba, the 8,000-strong army has studied the
modalities of their planned integration in Congo's development
strategy, at a round table conference held last month in
Brazzaville. "We have to see how the soldiers might become economic
actors by practising agriculture, animal rearing, constructing
roads and bridges", said a senior police officer. Officially, at
least, the Congolese Armed Forces agrees. But at the end of the
round table conference, the army made their acceptance of their new
role conditional on their various social and health problems being
addressed. AIDS is probably the worst of these.
(AFJN, Washington, 7 May 1996)

* Cote d'Ivoire. Civil service pay to increase
Cote d'Ivoire will increase civil service wages by four to ten per
cent from 1 July, economy and finance ministry officials said on 2
May. But for the first time since the 1994 devaluation of the CFA
franc, the government made no stipulation on private sector pay.
The officials said that the pay increases would not affect the army
and security forces, whose pay was still under review.
(AFJN, Washington, 2 May 1996)

* Eritrea. Women fighters long for the equality of war
Like thousands of Eritrean women, Mrs Nuria Mohammed Saleh misses
the war, because that is where she was being treated as a man and
got good treatment. She fought with men in the rebel army that
freed the rocky land from Ethiopian rule in 1991. Like most women,
she has found it hard to return to the deeply traditional and
patriarchal society she left behind as a teenager. About 20,000
women have been discharged from the Eritrean army in the past two
years as part of a larger demobilisation of almost 52,000 troops.
Though about 3,000 remain in the army, most women were sent home.
Some have spent their entire adult lives in the Eritrean People's
Liberation Front. During the war, women broke traditional moulds,
when they replaced men in medical centres as dentists, or medical
technicians, administrators, factory workers, mechanics and
teachers. But if women guerrillas had hoped that fighting in the
war would change their status in Eritrean society, they have
discovered that traditions die hard. According to President Isaias
Afwerki, it is society's attitude towards women's liberty that is
the obstacle.
(The Guardian, U.K., 6 May 1996)

* Kenya. IMF and the ESAF
On 28 April, Kenya's Sunday Nation reported that the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) will give Kenya a US $ 220 million loan for the
1996-1998 structural reform programme. On 26 April, the IMF's
executive board approved the Government's request for a three-year
arrangement to draw the money from the Fund under the Enhanced
Structural Adjustment Facility (ESAF). In return, the Government
pledged to ensure successful implementation of the reform
programme. In the 1 May issue of the Daily Nation, the IMF is
reported to have defended its loan to Kenya, saying the money was
meant to assist the country in creating a better life for its
people and not to prop up a government.
(ANB-BIA, Brussels, 7 May 1996)

* Kenya/Rwanda. Moves to solve row
The Rwandan government has asked Kenya for permission to send a
special diplomatic team to Nairobi to resolve a serious quarrel
over a shooting incident in Nairobi. The Charge d'Affaires at the
Rwandan Embassy said that a letter had been sent to the Kenyan
authorities requesting an appointment for Kigali's special envoy
and his delegation at the earliest opportunity. The embassy was
awaiting a response. The Kenya government has threatened closure of
the Rwandan embassy unless Kigali waives immunity for a diplomat,
Mr. Francis Mugabo, who is being held in connection with an
apparent assassination attempt on a former Rwandese government
minister.
(The East African, Kenya, 29 April-5 May 1996)

* Liberia. Hopes for peace fail
1 May: Assistant US Secretary of State George Moose heads back to
Washington after feuding factions in Liberia refuse to talk with
him. 5 May: Ethnic Krahn fighters push out of their barracks in
Liberia's capital to hit back at Charles Taylor's forces. Fighting
rages as Krahn warlord, Roosevelt Johnson, arrives in Ghana's
capital, Accra, where emergency peace talks will begin on 8 May.
The US backs the mini-summit of the Economic Community of West
African States (ECOMOG), where Nigeria's ruler General Sani Abacha,
will be a key player. Nigeria leads the ECOMOG force. The same day,
a rusting freighter crammed with 2,000 Liberians fleeing the
fighting, sails out of Monrovia for Ghana and Lagos. Passengers
have only the food and water they can carry for the trip, which
will take at least four days. 8 May: Emergency talks due to take
place today in Accra, today, are abandoned because only two Heads
of State turn up. Among the leaders of Liberia's warring factions,
only Roosevelt Johnson is in Accra. Charles Taylor and Alhaji
Kromah did not arrive. There is fresh fighting in Monrovia.
(ANB-BIA, Brussels, 8 May 1996)

* Liberia. Sommet CEDEAO annule
Les combats se sont intensifies mercredi a Monrovia, theatre de
nouvelles scenes d'horreur et de barbarie, alors que le sommet
regional, organise a Accra pour "redynamiser la paix" au Liberia,
etait annule. Le camp Barclay, l'ancienne caserne des forces
liberiennes, a ete une nouvelle fois au coeur des affrontements
entre les Krahns et les forces coalisees de Charles Taylor et
Alhaji Kromah, deux chefs de guerre, membres de la presidence
collegiale, persuades de representer "les troupes
gouvernementales". Pour le chef de l'Etat ghaneen, president en
exercice de la Communaute economique des Etats de l'Afrique de
l'Ouest (CEDEAO), "la sous-region est fatiguee" du Liberia, en
proie depuis six ans a une guerre civile qui a fait environ 150.000
morts, malgre une douzaine d'accords de paix, restes lettre morte.
(Le Soir, Belgique, 9 mai 1996)

* Maroc. "Un jour de honte pour la France
En parlant de la viste du roi Hassan II du Maroc a l'Assemblee
nationale, ce mardi 7 mai, l'ecrivain Gilles Perrault estime que la
France ne meritait pas "ce jour de honte". "Nul doute: -- ecrit-il
dans Le Monde de ce mardi -- le Congres des Etats-Unis ne songerait
pas a offrir sa tribune a un chef d'Etat de cet acabit. Fille
facile, notre Assemblee nationale n'a point de ces pudeurs".
L'ecrivain se demande si le roi du Maroc "fait un hote presentable
depuis qu'il a nettoye les taches les plus repoussantes qui
souillaient son royal burnous". En donnant tant de solennite a
cette visite, la France "indique au peuple marocain" que pour elle
il n'y a qu'une alternative: "le pouvoir tel qu'il fonctionne et
l'integrisme. C'est desesperer et desarmer les democraties
africaines."
(ANB-BIA, d'apres Le Monde, Fr., 7 mai 1996)

* Morocco/France. MP's snub Moroccan king
All 23 Communist MPs and some Socialists boycotted the French
national assembly on 7 May when King Hassan of Morocco was invited
to address both houses. Human rights organisations protested
against the red-carpet treatment given to the king, who has been
accused of maltreating political prisoners and holding up moves
towards democracy. The king told parliament during a 10-minute
address that he was attached to promoting justice and peace but
gave no indication that he was ready for a constitutional monarchy.
(The Guardian, U.K., 8 May 1996)

* Maroc. La guerre contre la drogue
En 1992, Hassan II avait proclame sa determination a engager "la
guerre contre la drogue", mais, dans un rapport confidentiel remis,
en 1994, a l'UE qui le lui avait commande, l'Observatoire
geopolitique des drogues constatait que ces declarations "semblent
se limiter a des effets d'annonce destines a maintenir l'image du
pays". A ce jour, notait le rapport, "les revenus des derives du
cannabis representent la premiere source de revenus du pays". "Le
Maroc est devenu (...) le premier exportateur de haschisch dans le
monde et le premier fournisseur du marche europeen". Le rapport
avait denonce les protections dont beneficient les trafiquants, "a
tous les niveaux, du plus humble fonctionnaire des douanes aux
proches du palais". La France contribuera, a hauteur de 1,2
milliard de francs, sur deux ans, au programme de lutte contre le
cannabis dans le Rif.
(Le Monde, France, 9 mai 1996)

* Nigeria. Shell veut aider les Ogonis!
La compagnie petroliere anglo-neerlandaise Shell a propose mercredi
au peuple Ogoni, qui vit dans une zone riche en petrole au sud du
Nigeria, un programme d'aide en echange de l'assurance que la
compagnie pourra de nouveau operer en securite dans la region. Le
pays Ogoni, dont des defenseurs avaient ete executes en novembre
1995 par le regime nigerian, est depuis trois ans le theatre d'une
lutte de ses habitants qui reclament un dedommagement plus
important contre l'exploitation petroliere et la pollution qui en
decoule.
(La Libre Belgique, 9 mai 1996)

* Nigeria. Olesegun, prix des droits de l'homme
L'ancien chef d'Etat du Nigeria, M. Olesegun Obasanjo, aujourd'hui
emprisonne par la junte militaire au pouvoir, s'est vu decerner le
prix des droits de l'homme de la Fondation allemande Friedrich
Ebert. Ce prix, remis a son epouse le 6 mai a Bonn, honore son
engagement infatigable pour la justice, les droits de l'homme et la
democratie en Afrique, indique l'organisation. Le general Obasanjo
a ete l'un des rares militaires africains a avoir renonce a son
pouvoir, en 1979, en faveur d'un gouvernement civil librement elu.
Il a ensuite joue le role de mediateur dans de nombreux conflits en
Afrique, et notamment en Afrique du Sud. Son engagement pour la
democratie et les droits de l'homme ont fait de lui un des plus
severes denonciateurs du regime nigerian.
(CIP, Belgique, 9 mai 1996)

* Ouganda. Guerilla LRA
Depuis quelques mois, les maquisards du Front de la rive ouest du
Nil, regroupant des partisans d'Idi Amin Dada, et surtout ceux de
l'Armee de resistance du Seigneur (LRA), ont intensifie leurs
operations dans le Nord. La LRA a declare une treve durant la
campagne electorale, mais le harcelement des "chretiens
integristes" pourrait reprendre rapidement. L'armee fait etat
d'atrocites commises contre les civils par les rebelles, mais ceux-
ci operent assez facilement, ce qui laisse supposer un certain
soutien populaire. Les militaires semblent d'autant moins capables
de neutraliser les rebelles que ces derniers sont armes et
entraines par le regime soudanais, irrite du soutien apporte par
Kampala aux separatistes dans le sud du Soudan. Paul Ssemogerere,
soutenu par la puissante Eglise catholique, a promis d'engager le
dialogue avec la rebellion ougandaise s'il est elu.
(J.H., Le Monde, France, 9 mai 1996)

* Sierra Leone. Peace talks resume
Sierra Leone's newly elected civilian government and rebels who
took up arms in 1991, resumed peace talks in Cote d'Ivoire on 6
May, with the first of two weeks of meetings to draft a peace plan.
"I hope that in two weeks you will reach a definitive peace
agreement", Cote d'Ivoire's Foreign Minister who helped bring the
two sides together, told the opening session of a joint working
committee. A dozen representatives from each side will spend the
next two weeks trying to end a brutal civil war during which at
least 10,000 people have been killed and many maimed.
(AFJN, Washington, 9 May 1996)

* South Africa. KwaZulu-Natal poll
6 May: South Africa's cabinet is expected to meet today for a
critical decision on whether to proceed with elections in KwaZulu-
Natal after a weekend gun battle in central Durban left eight
people injured. President Mandela is consulting security chiefs on
whether to send extra troops into the province. The ANC in Kwa-Zulu
Natal demanded the declaration of a state of emergency. The
gunfight broke out during a march staged by the National Hostel
Residents' Association -- a group linked to the Inkatha Freedom
Party -- to protest against a government ban on the carrying of
"traditional weapons". Inkatha's leader, Chief Mangosuthu
Buthelezi, who has threatened to pull out of the coalition
government if the 29 May local government polls are postponed,
claimed at the weekend that the ANC is trying to stop the election
because it is in danger of being soundly defeated. 7 May: The
elections are now postponed for one month. Buthelezi says he will
accept the cabinet decision.
(ANB-BIA, Brussels, 7 May 1996)

* South Africa. The Constitution clock
7 May: South Africa now has 24 hours to avoid a divisive referendum
on its new constitution, after the main political parties failed to
break a deadlock over the bitterly contested schools-language
issue. F.W. de Klerk, leader of the National Party has an emergency
meeting of his party's federal executive. He announces that efforts
are being made to find a fresh compromise on the education clause
as well as on property and employers' lock-out rights. Eventually,
at the last moment, an agreement is reached by the main political
parties. 8 May: The multi-racial Constitution, guaranteeing equal
rights and democracy is ratified by both Houses of Parliament
sitting as the Constitutional Assembly. Buthelezi says he will
"abide by the Constitution but not be bound by it". F.W. de Klerk
says he will support the document "with some strong reservations"
(ANB-BIA, Brussels, 8 May 1996)

* Sudan. Repeat of tragic events
A reliable information source reports from Abyei, Southern
Kordofan, that last month (April 1996), Arab marauding groups
launched a concerted series of raids on the black (Nuer and Dinka)
population of the region surrounding Abyei. The raiders killed any
one found on the way, burnt villages and food supplies (mainly
durra, the staple food of the area), and then escaped with all the
women, children and livestock they could marshal. The survivors who
managed to avoid capture and death had no alternative but to get
into Abyei for shelter and food. Since the attack, from 100 to 150
people a day have entered the town, putting a strain on the already
short supplies of food. By 26 April, the Catholic priest at Abyei,
Father Kamillo Lako, had already exhausted the parish supplies of
food which had been set aside for the poor during the rainy season.
The Sudan Council of Churches has decided to send 4,000 bags of
durra to Abyei and the Catholic Bishop of El Obeid has ordered
transferred as much durra as possible to Abyei. This is a repeat of
the tragic events of ten years ago in the same area when thousands
died of starvation.
(Comboni Press, Rome, 3 May 1996)

* Uganda. Towards the elections
6 May: President Museveni says that the security forces will give
massive cover to the people throughout the country to ensure that
they vote freely on 9 May (presidential elections). The President
says there are some undemocratic forces trying to interfere with
the people's freedom to express their innermost feelings as to who
should be in charge of their affairs. Paul Ssemogerere, the main
opposition candidate says he leads a "people's revolution" that
will sweep him to the presidency. The chairman of the Interim
Electoral Commission says that the election results will be
announced on 11 May. 7 May: Officials of the Electoral Commission
announce that a broadcast debate which was supposed to have been
the climax of the election campaign, has been cancelled. 9 May:
Presidential elections.
(ANB-BIA, Brussels, 9 May 1996)

* USA/Zaire. Pas de visa pour Mobutu
L'ancien president Jimmy Carter a demande sans succes un visa
americain pour permettre au president zairois, Mobutu Sese Seko, de
participer a une reunion de dirigeants africains a Atlanta. La
reunion devait assurer le suivi de sommets organises en novembre au
Caire et en mars en Tunisie entre Mobutu et les autres dirigeants
de la region des Grands Lacs. Selon l'ambassadeur du Zaire en
Belgique, la reunion a ete annulee a la demande des partenaires du
Zaire qui n'envisagent pas de se reunir sans M.Mobutu.
(Le Soir, Belgique, 4 mai 1996)

* Western Sahara. Referendum imminent
The UN Secretary-General is expected soon to recommend closing down
voter registration for a long-delayed referendum on the future of
Western Sahara while retaining some 240 UN military observers
monitoring a ceasefire, Security Council sources said. The
referendum had originally been set for January 1992 to decide
whether the former Spanish colony should be incorporated into
Morocco, which controls most of the territory, or become
independent.
(The Independent, U.K., 8 May 1996)

* Zaire. Etienne Tshisekedi sur la touche?
Etienne Tshisekedi, le principal animateur de l'Union sacree de
l'opposition radicale (Usor), a ete releve de son titre de "chef de
file de l'opposition" par une majorite de partis politiques et
d'associations membres de l'Usor, a-t-on appris le 6 mai de sources
politiques proches de cette formation. Ces memes partis, reunis
durant le week-end, ne reconnaissent plus non plus au leader de
l'opposition le titre de "Premier ministre legal". L'opposition
radicale affirmait jusqu'alors que M.Tshisekedi restait le seul
premier ministre legal du Zaire, elu par la Conference nationale
souveraine (CNS). Une soixantaine de personnalites de l'Usor, qui
ont participe a la destitution de M. Tshisekedi de son titre de
patron de l'opposition radicale, avaient elles-memes ete exclues du
mouvement le 28 avril par M.Tshisekedi qui les accusait de
"comportements contraires a la charte de l'opposition".
(D'apres La Libre Belgique, 7 mai 1996)

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@TIT_INF_2 = THE GREAT LAKES REGION
Title: Weekly round up of main events in the Great Lakes region. 27
April-3 May 1996
Source: IRIN Weekly Roundup, 3 May 1996
Description: This is number 7 in a series of weekly reports on
general developments in the Great Lakes region, covering Burundi,
Rwanda, Zaire, Uganda.
@TIT_INF_2 = LIBERIA
Title: "Lone Star Forever"
Author: David Guttenfelder
Source: Origin: AFJN, Washington, 7 May 1996
Description: A graphic first hand account of the flight of
thousands of Liberians from Monrovia, leaving their city as
grenades slam into the besieged barracks, the houses burn, the
horrors witnessed. "It was unbelievable...an exodus. It was
pathetic", said one witness. (Please quote 0507.qwk when ordering)
@TIT_INF_2 = SOUTH AFRICA
Title: South Africa: Labour Statement
Source: APIC, 7 May 1996 (Please quote when ordering)
Description: Among the few disputed items in ensuring approving for
South Africa's constitution, was a provision for employer lock-outs
during strikes. The document offered here (brief excerpts from a
lengthy labour statement) provides a background to discussions
leading up to the final agreement on the constitution.

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