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...
Vol 46 No 24 | ZIMBABWE Senate subterfuge 2nd December 2005 President Robert Mugabe's plan is well on track for Senate elections to add to his political patronage and weaken the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. Although turnout for...
Vol 46 No 23 | ANGOLA Birthday blues 18th November 2005 Soaring oil prices pay for some development spending but too much cash still goes missing Luanda's political and business elite could well afford to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Angola's Independence, on 11 November. They form one of Africa's wealthiest and most extravagant...
Vol 46 No 23 | ANGOLA Vanishing votes 18th November 2005 The fate of the national elections and who's running in them is shrouded in mystery. They were meant to be held in 2006 but no date has been...
Vol 46 No 23 | ZIMBABWE Splitting the difference 18th November 2005 The opposition Movement for Democratic Change is divided over whether to fight Senate elections on 26 November amid wide-ranging political realignments. Party leader Morgan Tsvangirai insists the party...
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...