SOUTH Africa's largest newspaper for was government last week.
The newspaper, circulation of 181,000 pression is the culmination of a fresh wave of attacks by the regime on press freedom and black journalists.
A few union for black media workers had bann. ing orders imposed on them. were Zwelakhle Sisulu, president of the Media Workers Association Africa NWANA.
Marimuthu Subramoney:
une connie three years both union leaders will be contined to the They are not allowed to attend meetings, cannol de culte. homes at night and at the weekend, and cannot do any newspaper or trade union work.
Both the banning of The Post and the virtual house arrest of the union leaders THE Northern Ireland Study Group, set up by the national executive Labour Party, has just produced a consultative Ireland, the next step?
discussion on the paper's contents in constituency Labour parties filiated unions.
Challenge is running a series of articles taking up the five questions posed in the consultative paper. with the first question, which concerns the economy of the north of Ireland.
follows an weeks ago two leaders of a The two of South MWASA deputy werkers.
means that for the next areas where thev live as saying must remain in their pression'.
journalists, separate entitled, Northern This week we deal eight-week strike by black journalists which ended at the turn of the yeaThe strike began over a pay dispute but later came to centre on the riaht of to organise among all overament ls pposed to MWASA because the union is overtly political Zwelakhle Sisulu has gone on record that the role of black journalists is nart ot 'the struaale adainst wnite op The recent strike succeeded in winning a promise from management to ar'upgrading programmes' for black as well as Ine provision conciliation procedures, media ment. particularly Post.
The South leaders has brought National Wales detained at in- to London.
(rosing Centro The British Army props up the discriminatory there, are relatively much worst une were prior to partition. The south of Ireland has also been although considerably less than It is clear that working people in the north of Ireland have been ravaged by the capitalist norms used to manage dependent of white journalists, between MWASA members and their employers.
During the strike three newspapers on which MWASA members work had their license to print revoked by the governThe newspapers have a mainiy black readership similar to that of The African •government's treatment of the journalists and union protests from the of Journalists in this country. But at the start of the year NUJ genera secretarv Ken Ashton was barred from visiting South Africa when he was Johannesburg Airport for five hours. He was put on the next plane the economy; by the ex Noo e o vaer companies, which oniv interested in makins quick profits and then getting out, and most of all by the imposition o an unnatural division of the country of Ireland Ho nus context loou forward a gas pipelin rom Britain to the nort as some sorr or soluuoi Ken Ashton, journalists' leader -not allowed into South Aftica is like prescribing an aspirin to cure cancer Socialists would argue that only a system which puts the needs of the popu. pon above those private industrialists would provide an answer to the north reano economy. But as well , it is ohvions that the link with Britain has not been of any economic benefit to working people in the north.
A national economic plan applying to all of drawn up and controlled by working people throughout the country, would not only be consistent with Irish self-determination would also economic sense.
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