Vol 46 No 22 | NAMIBIA Peace for now 4th November 2005 A crisis of authority between President Hifikepunye Pohamba and his predecessor, Sam Nujoma, has been averted. The Deputy Minister of Transport, Works and Communication, Paulus Kapia, implicated in...
Vol 46 No 21 | SOUTH AFRICA South Africa: If Zuma walks free 21st October 2005 The political and economic consequences of an acquittal for Jacob Zuma would reverberate across Africa South Africans will have to wait nine months for the political trial of the century, when Jacob Zuma's trial for corruption starts in the Durban High Court in...
Vol 46 No 21 | MALAWI Disaster 21st October 2005 Famine threatens and an enfeebled government lacks the authority to act President Bingu wa Mutharika's declaration of a national disaster because of the food shortages which threaten over half of Malawi's eleven million people may boost contributions to the...
Vol 46 No 21 | ZAMBIA Totally broke 21st October 2005 The Indeni oil refinery, the only one in Zambia, is jointly owned by the government and the French company TotalFinaElf, which manages it. The owner-partners are quarrelling furiously...
Vol 46 No 21 | ZIMBABWE MDC muddle 21st October 2005 The opposition Movement for Democratic Change is split, and the future of Morgan Tsvangirai, its leader, is in doubt. Tsvangirai wants to boycott the coming elections, as voting...
Vol 46 No 20 | MADAGASCAR Ravalomanana Inc. 7th October 2005 The President's foreign friends admire him but he is less revered at home President Marc Ravalomanana runs Madagascar like one of his own successful companies. The buck stops at the top and poorly performing executives or ministers are sacked without worrying...
Vol 46 No 20 | ZAMBIA A judge on his travels 7th October 2005 Justice Peter Smith of the London High Court found himself unable to assemble the necessary witnesses for a civil action by the Zambian government, in which it is...
Vol 46 No 19 | ZIMBABWE Radical cheque 23rd September 2005 In expansive mood after his Caribbean sojourn, 81-year old President Robert Mugabe announced for the first time to journalists at the United Nations summit that he definitely intends...
Vol 46 No 19 | NAMIBIA Hamutenya returns 23rd September 2005 Ex-Foreign Affairs Minister Hidipo Hamutenya may soon return to frontline politics after the fall of his opponent Paulus Kapia, the former deputy Minister of Works involved in the...
Vol 46 No 18 | SOUTH AFRICA Politics behind the trial 9th September 2005 The accused Vice-President gives the unions a grip on economic policy The tricky relationship between President Thabo Mbeki and the country's big trades unions has become intermingled with the corruption charges against Vice-President Jacob Zuma (AC Vol 46 No...