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....
Vol 47 No 4 | ZAMBIA Copper friendly 17th February 2006 The world copper boom is rescuing Zambia's economy and the President's electoral hopes The high price of copper, and the resulting flow of investment into Zambia's mining sector, is a huge piece of luck for President Levy Mwanawasa, who hopes to...
Vol 47 No 4 | ANGOLA Ten per cent 17th February 2006 No formal discussion has been held with the Paris Club debtors, who demand that Angola enter into a Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility lending scheme with the Fund...
Vol 47 No 2 | ZIMBABWE Stout party splits 20th January 2006 The opposition has split, strengthening Mugabe's power but not his policies Political and economic paralysis has overtaken Zimbabwe. The government does not know what to do with its two election victories of last year, apart from aiming blows at...
Vol 47 No 2 | ANGOLA Poll postponed 20th January 2006 Lengthy preparations for national elections mean no vote this year President José Eduardo dos Santos was typically circumspect in his New Year address, when he announced that he wanted the Comissão Nacional Eleitoral (CNE) to start electoral registration...
Vol 46 No 24 | SOUTH AFRICA A good week for Mbeki 2nd December 2005 The ANC's internal battles don't worry the country's foreign economic backers Angry National Party politicians used to say, when the African National Congress won power in 1994, that the definition of a South African optimist was 'someone not in...