The Institute of Race Relations is set to publish a wide-ranging report exposing racism in British government policy, institutions and popular culture. The report, entitled 'The three faces of British racism', shows how racism has worsened under a government which claims to be leading the fight against it. The report focuses on asylum policy and reform of the criminal justice system as the main areas in which the promise held out by the Macpherson Report has been squandered.

"Reshaping the Nursing Landscape" will be the second conference of its kind to be hosted by the Department of Nursing Education, University of the Witwatersrand. The organisers are calling for abstracts for oral and poster presentation. Closing date: 28 November 2001.

Pupil enrolment increased a staggering 63 percent when Malawi introduced free primary school education in 1994, but education authorities are still battling to keep young girls in class.

This brief report has been produced to underscore the difficulties in accepting that elections, be they by-elections or the Presidential election, can be free and fair in the current situation. The persistence of organised violence and torture seem to mitigate against any acceptance that the conditions for holding elections are even close to desirable. The current by-election in Chikomba constituency provides an interesting case study of the electoral process in Zimbabwe currently.