Vol 47 No 6 | MOZAMBIQUE Remaking Guebuza 17th March 2006 The businessman President talks of free markets but not of freer politics The makeover is complete. Step forward President Armando Emilio Guebuza, the thoroughly modern reformer. In the days of Marxist revolution and civil war, when the ruling Frente de...
Vol 47 No 6 | MOZAMBIQUE The Cahora Bassa takeover 17th March 2006 The great hydroelectric barrage at Cahora Bassa, on the Zambezi River, has a rated capacity of 2,075 megawatts, is one of Africa's largest dams and has been a...
Vol 47 No 6 | ANGOLA Divided on debt 17th March 2006 Western creditors are divided over negotiating strategy on the rescheduling of Luanda's official debts to the Paris Club, which make up about half of its US$9.7 billion foreign...
Vol 47 No 5 | NAMIBIA Nujoma won't go 3rd March 2006 President Pohamba's ambition to clean up the government may be blocked by his predecessor Feuding rages on in the governing South West Africa People's Organisation. Ex-President Sam Nujoma clings to the SWAPO presidency, undermining the central policies of his successor. President Hifikepunye...
Vol 47 No 5 | NAMIBIA Swapover 3rd March 2006 Sam Nujoma no longer completely controls the party he has led for over 45 years. The 21-member Political Bureau is split between Nujomaists and backers of former Foreign...
Vol 47 No 5 | ZIMBABWE Man with a plan? 3rd March 2006 The would-be opposition leader must unite his own side before tackling Mugabe The new leader of half of the Movement for Democratic Change, Arthur Mutambara, is a man with a plan. His short-term aim is to end the pointless split...
Vol 47 No 5 | MALAWI Bingu's gamble 3rd March 2006 Malawi's constitution does not empower presidents to sack vice-presidents, even those elected on the same ticket. Yet last month, President Bingu wa Mutharika told Vice-President Cassim Chilumpha to...
Vol 47 No 5 | ANGOLA Adeus espião 3rd March 2006 The sacking of intelligence chief General Fernando Garcia Miala by President José Eduardo dos Santos late last month points to new tensions in the ruling elite over the...
Vol 47 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA Growing pains, legal pain 17th February 2006 The President has a new plan for the economy and the Vice-President faces two separate trials Cape Town's political season opens during the city's sunniest weeks, drawing journalists and commentators down from Johannesburg in droves. The government had hoped to fix their attention...
Vol 47 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA For growth, a new acronym 17th February 2006 The Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative of South Africa (ASGISA) accepts that poverty and unemployment are the country's main economic problems and promises to halve both by 2014....