Vol 48 No 17 | ZIMBABWE Neighbours undercover 24th August 2007 Zimbabwe's highly effective Central Intelligence Organisation worked to ensure the Lusaka discussions on Zimbabwe went its way. Four days before the 16-17 August Southern African Development Community summit,...
Vol 48 No 17 | SOUTH AFRICA Unhealthy (I) 24th August 2007 The government is battling to contain the fallout from the 8 August sacking of popular Deputy Health Minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge.
Vol 48 No 17 | SOUTH AFRICA Unhealthy (II) 24th August 2007 The row over the future of Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang's future is now a battle between African National Congress factions ahead of December's leadership elections.
Vol 48 No 16 | ZIMBABWE Death of a general 3rd August 2007 The military is losing out in its power struggle with the intelligence services, and President Mugabe is the beneficiary More than 15 senior officers have been purged from the Zimbabwe Defence Force following investigations into plots to oust President Robert Mugabe, a group of military officers told...
Vol 48 No 16 | ZIMBABWE More blood, more cash 3rd August 2007 The market principle of ‘'buy when there’s blood on the streets’ has drawn new investors to Zimbabwe Africa Confidential reported early this year on highly lucrative British banking operations in Harare and the Botswana-based Imara Capital's recovery fund (AC Vol 48 Nos 2 & 6)....
Vol 48 No 16 | MALAWI Back-biting 3rd August 2007 President Bingu lacks patience for the stand-off with his parliamentary opponents The shrill voices of government officials dominate the airwaves, as political paralysis gives way to feuding. 'You think I don't bite? I have teeth which bite and I...
Vol 48 No 16 | NAMIBIA Sam the lifer 3rd August 2007 Namibia’s founding President, Sam Nujoma, will almost certainly be elected to the new post of national chairman (probably for life) of the governing South West African People's Organisation...
Vol 48 No 15 | SOUTH AFRICAANALYSIS A Communist manifestation - the return of the left 20th July 2007 Leftist critics of President Thabo Mbeki have regrouped in the South African Communist Party, hoping to take control of the African National Congress It was a great revivalist meeting for South Africa's resurgent left-wing activists. Some 1,300 SACP delegates gathered in Port Elizabeth on 11-14 July to hear speaker after speaker...
Vol 48 No 15 | SOUTH AFRICA South Africa's Communists: The People 20th July 2007 Which national officials were elected or re-elected at the South African Communist Party's National Conference on 11-14 July?
Vol 48 No 15 | ANGOLA Mugging Miala 20th July 2007 The detention of sacked intelligence chief General Fernando Garcia Miala on 13 July points to deepening rivalries within Angola's security services. Miala was sacked in February 2006 but...