Vol 43 No 5 | ZIMBABWE Election arithmetic 8th March 2002 Robert Mugabe's last stand is a key test of Africa's political resolve The presidential vote on 10-11 March has become an election about Africa's future. For most Zimbabweans it is a key test of their political freedoms, won first in...
Vol 43 No 4 | MOZAMBIQUE Graça gets ready 22nd February 2002 Graça Machel's discreet campaign for the presidency gathers pace. We hear she failed to attend a meeting at the United Nations University for Peace of which she is...
Vol 43 No 3 | SOUTH AFRICA Watch on the spooks 8th February 2002 The intelligence services look like becoming the President's personal agencies The resignation of the Inspector General of Intelligence, Dr. Fazel Randera, has dealt a blow to the civil oversight of South Africa's intelligence agencies. His departure, hastened by...
Vol 43 No 3 | SOUTH AFRICA Airport turf wars 8th February 2002 Mashudu Ramano, chief executive of the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA), claims he is under heavy pressure after terminating the contract of a well-connected private security firm....
Vol 43 No 3 | ZAMBIA Levy limps in 8th February 2002 Even if the courts confirm his election win, parliament can block the President As President Levy Mwanawasa limped into State House, his month-old government waded into a political quagmire. In the National Assembly, which has not met since his election, opposition...
Vol 43 No 3 | ZAMBIA Down the mine, down the drain 8th February 2002 Political troubles were overshadowed on 25 January, when Anglo American announced that it was pulling out of the Copperbelt less than two years after reinvesting there. Copper had...
Vol 43 No 2 | SOUTH AFRICA Crossing the Limpopo 25th January 2002 Zimbabwe threatens the grand African plans of Presidents Mbeki and Obasanjo From the splendour of Pretoria's Union Buildings, President Thabo Mbeki's vision of a resurgent Africa is obscured by the sprawling crisis in Zimbabwe. Almost everything Mbeki wants to...
Vol 43 No 2 | SOUTH AFRICA Managing foreign affairs 25th January 2002 In 2000 South Africa's ministries were grouped in 'clusters', to rationalise policy-making and eliminate contradictions. The Department of Foreign Affairs is grouped with the Departments of Defence, Tourism,...
Vol 43 No 2 | ANGOLA Russian roulette 25th January 2002 Unexplained debts and secret accounts alarm the IMF and deter investors Before the International Monetary Fund lends money, it needs to know about the recipient's other debts. Angola's government has borrowed huge sums which are not audited or included...
Vol 43 No 2 | MADAGASCAR Stirring 25th January 2002 Even the Interior Ministry's provisional results give President Didier Ratsiraka just over 40 per cent of the vote, to 46 per cent for his rival, Marc Ravalomanana (AC...