Vol 48 No 6 | ANGOLA Discontent in the air 16th March 2007 The facade sometimes cracks. Angola's state media habitually promote the governing Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) but, for two hours on 12 March, Rádio Nacional de...
Vol 48 No 5 | ANGOLA Authoritarian alliances 2nd March 2007 Party stalwarts want a centralised dictatorship to develop the country. The government seems to be listening Angolans are waiting for a peace dividend five years after the Forças Armadas Angolanas (FAA) tracked down and killed Jonas Savimbi, leader of the rebel União Nacional para...
Vol 48 No 5 | ANGOLA Global prisoner 2nd March 2007 The arrest and imprisonment on national security grounds of Sarah Wykes of Global Witness in Angola's Cabinda Province draws attention to the government's clampdown. Global Witness irritates the...
Vol 48 No 5 | ZAMBIA The bitter side of the boom 2nd March 2007 As the price of copper edges downwards, Zambia's trades unionists and opposition politicians are pressing to secure higher mining royalties and better working conditions. Many targeted companies are...
Vol 48 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICA A highly political budget 2nd March 2007 Higher spending and a budget surplus smack a tasty pre-election mixtur The budget was full of handouts. On 21 February Finance Minister Trevor Manuel dished out tax cuts, paid off apartheid-era debt, and boosted public spending on almost everything...
Vol 48 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICA Mining revolt 2nd March 2007 The global stock market jitters on 27 February - prompted by 9% falls on the Shanghai and Hong Kong markets - hold two lessons for South Africa. Firstly,...
Vol 48 No 5 | ZAMBIA Zambia's big new investments 2nd March 2007 India's Vedanta Resources has pumped nearly US$1 billion into Konkola Copper Mines. KCM incorporates four mining companies: Nchanga Mine in Chingola, Konkola Mine in Chilabombwe, Nampundwe Mine in...
Vol 48 No 5 | MALAWI Pipe Dreams 2nd March 2007 In 1964 when the British colonialists left, Malawians ate mostly home-grown maize and earned foreign exchange from tobacco. Despite huge efforts and the doubling of the population, little...
Vol 48 No 5 | LESOTHO Mosisili's snap victory 2nd March 2007 Calling snap parliamentary elections on 17 February has worked well for Lesotho's pragmatic Prime Minister, Pakalitha Mosisili in his battle with former Communications Minister Motsoahae Thomas Thabane, founder...
Vol 48 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA Raining on the parade 16th February 2007 Heated arguments about crime and unemployment draw attention away from the government's economic successes Cape Town was gripped by a heat wave with temperatures soaring into the high 30s, in the days leading up to the opening of parliament on 9 February...
