Vol 44 No 7 | ZIMBABWE Votes and gaols 4th April 2003 Barely noticed abroad because of the war on Iraq, on 31 March the Movement for Democratic Change regained some of the momentum it had lost with two by-election...
Vol 44 No 6 | NAMIBIA Hamutenya in the blocks 21st March 2003 Whether or not Nujoma is really going, the succession race has started Many Namibians, including key members of the ruling South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) are sceptical about President Sam Nujoma's latest pledge - made at the closing session...
Vol 44 No 6 | ZIMBABWE Landing in trouble 21st March 2003 Claims in a government audit that President Robert Mugabe's sister Sabina, several high ranking government officials and company executives have grabbed farms and have been forcibly evicting landless...
Vol 44 No 5 | ZAMBIA Poison and bankruptcy 7th March 2003 Arresting the former President sets a precedent and splits the ruling party The arrest of former President Frederick Chiluba on 24 February, to face 66 charges of corruption, will make a lot of African leaders even keener to hold on...
Vol 44 No 4 | ZIMBABWE This land is our land 21st February 2003 A secret government report shows how officials are grabbing farms and violently evicting landless farmers A confidential government audit of Zimbabwe's land reform has found widespread evidence of corrupt allocations and the use of violence by senior politicians and military officers to evict...
Vol 44 No 4 | ZIMBABWE Succession for sale 21st February 2003 Business interests are trading favours, and newspapers, to buy political advantage Zimbabwe's power-brokers take the struggle to succeed President Robert Mugabe seriously and ingratiate themselves with whomever they think likely to win. Some stand by Mugabe, believing he can...
Vol 44 No 4 | ANGOLA Beg, borrow and steal 21st February 2003 At this critical time for peace, nearly a billion dollars is missing from the foreign reserves Angola, a hoped-for oil ally of the United States and with a seat on the United Nations Security Council this year, should be doing well (AC Vol 44...
Vol 44 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA The blame game 21st February 2003 AIDS policy is still disastrous, though the President now leaves it to his Health Minister The blame for South Africa's peculiar policies on HIV/AIDS is shifting from President Thabo Mbeki to his Health Minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, caricatured by local AIDS activists as 'Dr....
Vol 44 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA Said and unsaid 21st February 2003 President Thabo Mbeki's State of the Nation speech at the opening of parliament on 14 February has left many feeling he slighted the nation in favor of a...
Vol 44 No 3 | NAMIBIA Reluctant Herero 7th February 2003 The campaign for a fourth, so far unconstitutional, five-year term for President Sam Nujoma is increasingly orchestrated. It ranges from support from an influential group of Herero traditional...