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May 1980 - Issue 087

May 1980, Issue 087

South Africa

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Selling out Apartheid

Selling out Apartheid

*Wayne Ellwood* puts the case for disinvestment.

All mixed up

*Joe Sekola* talks to black and white families in Johannesburg slums.

Who's doing the fighting?

A history of the liberation movements. By *Judy Seidman*.

South Africa: What will the 1987 headline be?

South Africa: What will the 1987 headline be?

Four possible futures for South Africa.

Getting better all the time?

Getting better all the time?

*John Kane-Berman* exposes the weaknesses in Botha's 'Total Stragegy'.

The history of White Rule and Black Resistance

The art of the impossible

The art of the impossible

*Christopher Sheppard* looks at the realities behind the new reforms.

Jobs for the Boys

Jobs for the Boys

Unemployment has officially come to China, although most of the unemployed are more euphemistically labelled 'daiye

Theology of the Land

Theology of the Land

Brazil's Amazon Basin is the largest tract of virgin tropical forest in the world.

The Trade Games

The Trade Games

Many poor countries rely heavily on one or two commodities for most of their export earnings.

Native Peoples Stay

Native Peoples Stay

Along the Colombian and Venezuelan borders of Brazil, where neither agri-business nor peasant farmers have had much

Colonising the Informal Sector

Colonising the Informal Sector

The North's eagerness to develop the South has left many sections of Third World communities untouched.

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