Vol 54 No 2 | ZIMBABWE ZANU-PF's loss 18th January 2013 Professor Reg Austin, one of the staunchest comrades of the Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), has resigned from the new Human Rights Commission. Austin had been nominated...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 3 | SOUTH AFRICA Cyril Ramaphosa 15th January 2013 Deputy President, African National Congress, South Africa Former trade unionist Cyril Ramaphosa was elected as the African National Congress’s new Deputy President at the Manguang conference in December 2012. Ahead of the conference, opponents of...
Vol 54 No 1 | SOUTH AFRICA The party isn’t over yet 10th January 2013 The real test of Zuma’s crushing victory over the ANC dissidents will be whether the party retains its political dominance in the 2014 elections A host of policy, factional and personal battles lie ahead for Jacob Zuma in 2013, despite his resounding re-election as President of the African National Congress at the...
Vol 54 No 1 | SOUTH AFRICA The economic fightback 10th January 2013 Downgraded by the rating agencies and facing spiralling trade and budget deficits, South Africa needs its policy makers to make some tough decisions this year. Many will...
Vol 54 No 1 | ZIMBABWE A test for the constitutions 10th January 2013 This year’s much delayed elections could well yield surprises but companies are nervous about election tactics such as ‘indigenisation’ decreees After a great deal of brinkmanship, President Robert Mugabe conceded in mid-December that elections could not be held before June 2013. During the first part of the year,...
Vol 53 No 25 | MOZAMBIQUE Rift risk over gas laws 14th December 2012 Negotiations over the planned gas plant could put Anadarko and ENI on a collision course with government Preparations are now well under way for a liquefied natural gas plant to handle Mozambique’s massive offshore gas deposits. The Instituto Nacional de Petróleo has proposed a bill...
Vol 53 No 25 | SOUTH AFRICA Zuma leaves nothing to chance 14th December 2012 President Jacob Zuma has sent 40 hand-picked intelligence operatives to the African National Congress’s 16-20 December conference in Mangaung, we hear. They will be on the look-out for...
Vol 53 No 25 | NAMIBIA Geingob reassures 14th December 2012 The governing SWAPO party surprised friend and foe alike by electing Hage Geingob, 72, as its presidential successor to President Hifikepunye Pohamba.
Vol 6 (AAC) No 2 | ZIMBABWECHINA Adapt or die 4th December 2012 A delegation of Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front Provincial Chairmen was in Beijing ahead of the historic 8 November Chinese Communist Party (CCP) conference and seamless change of...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 2 | ZIMBABWEINDIA Political diamonds 4th December 2012 Harare has lost hundreds of millions of dollars in tax from diamond smuggling: some of it will end up financing next year’s election campaign The row over Zimbabwe’s missing diamond revenues will be at the centre of political campaigning ahead of next year’s general elections. Anti-corruption activists are accusing Indian traders of...