Vol 53 No 1 | SOUTH AFRICA Economic jitters as Tshwane looks East 6th January 2012 Foreign investors will find the political climate discouraging. Exports, apart from gold, are likely to slow. The fall of the rand against the US dollar will help some...
Vol 53 No 1 | ZIMBABWE A race against time 6th January 2012 The probability of President Mugabe scuppering constitutional reforms and calling a snap election is firming up Both President Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) want elections as soon as possible. Each...
Vol 53 No 1 | ZIMBABWE A pause in economic progress 6th January 2012 The early economic successes of the power-sharing government are sputtering (AC Vol 52 No 25). A decade after the land reform battles, agriculture will be the main source...
Vol 52 No 25 | ANGOLA Opposition picks its champions 16th December 2011 Isaías Samakuva looks certain to be re-elected head of UNITA while the other parties prepare for the polls The leadership contest for the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola is widely seen as an empty affair since the ambitious Abel Chivukuvuku decided not to...
Vol 52 No 25 | ZIMBABWE Pachyderms in the parlour 16th December 2011 The threat to the economy from the indigenisation policy is becoming a big issue but for Mugabe’s party it’s non-negotiable The Minister of Economic Planning and Investment Promotion laid it on the line: 'As long as the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act remains in its current form,' warned...
Vol 52 No 25 | ESWATINI Economy faces royal crisis 16th December 2011 Social unrest has been strong but not revolutionary. Could the cash shortage achieve what campaigners could not? Swaziland is resorting to desperate measures to meet its public sector payments amid fiscal problems that the International Monetary Fund warns have reached a 'critical stage'. Africa's last...
Vol 52 No 25 | MOZAMBIQUE Return of the Chissanoistas 16th December 2011 President Guebuza’s bid to stay on looks dead, which could mean a Chissano comeback After seven years of consolidating his position, Armando Emílio Guebuza now faces the failure of his bid to change the constitution to permit him a third term as...
Vol 52 No 25 | MOZAMBIQUE Comrades and compromisers 16th December 2011 Eduardo Mulémbuè: Parliament's former, long-serving Speaker, is a low-key, neutral figure with support across the Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) factions and a good compromise candidate.
Vol 52 No 25 | MALAWI Donors challenge Bingu 16th December 2011 Aid providers wring some concessions from an increasingly arbitrary president President Bingu wa Mutharika has stood up to his opponents in civil society and shows no sign of meeting their demands or of loosening his grip on power....
Vol 52 No 25 | SOUTH AFRICA High unit costs 16th December 2011 The police Special Investigations Unit, which will gather evidence for President Jacob Zuma's new board of inquiry into the 1999 multibillion-rand arms deal, may now produce results more...