Vol 52 No 19 | MADAGASCAR International concerns 23rd September 2011 The new settlement, unratified, uncertain and flawed though it is, will find strong support from international organisations anxious to deal with a worsening humanitarian situation and to reverse...
Vol 52 No 19 | MOZAMBIQUE By-election business 23rd September 2011 The resignation of three Frente de Libertação de Moçambique mayors is raising strong political interest, as well as the hopes of opposition parties, in the by-elections set for...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 11 | ZIMBABWECHINA Vanishing truckers 15th September 2011 Key suspects in a fraud case linked to Grace Mugabe have disappeared, as have Buddhist monks behind a charity project on one of her properties Four truck drivers charged as accomplices in a trucking fraud case failed to appear in court in Harare on 25 August and warrants for their arrest were issued.... READ FOR FREE
Vol 4 (AAC) No 11 | ZIMBABWE Zisco deal still kicking 15th September 2011 Just as NewZim Steel, formerly known as the Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Corporation (Zisco), is about to hold its first board meeting at the end of September, reports...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 11 | NAMIBIACHINAJAPAN Harbour of resentment 15th September 2011 A decision by the Namibian state-owned port operator to pre-award an estimated US$285 million contract for the Walvis Bay harbour expansion to the China Harbour Engineering Company ahead...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 11 | SOUTH AFRICA Patrice Motsepe 15th September 2011 Chairman, ARMgold, South Africa In September, South African mining entrepreneur Patrice Motsepe began talks with his co-chair on the South Africa-India Chief Executive Officers Forum, Ratan Naval Tata, the Chairman of the...
Vol 52 No 18 | SOUTH AFRICA Disrespect for the President 9th September 2011 Disciplining Julius Malema is only part of Zuma’s effort to reassert his control of the ANC and win re-election as President True to form, President Jacob Zuma acted decisively only when his personal position as leader of the African National Congress came under threat. He wants Julius Malema, President...
Vol 52 No 18 | MOZAMBIQUE Taking a stake in economic development 9th September 2011 Presidential friends edge out Frelimo’s friends Since Armando Emílio Guebuza won the presidential election in 2006, more and more members of his circle have obtained stakes in the economy and partnerships with foreign businesses....
Vol 52 No 18 | MOZAMBIQUE Celso Correia, favourite son 9th September 2011 At the age of 30, Celso Correia became the head of Mozambique’s second largest bank, the Banco Comercial e de Investimentos (BCI), and of the strategic northern transport...
Vol 52 No 18 | LIBYAMOZAMBIQUESUDANUNITED KINGDOM Lobbying on 9th September 2011 Just as Mozambique’s Resistência Nacional Moçambicana threatens to return to violence, the man who championed it at the height of its atrocities has surfaced in papers found in...