The feeble opposition should be strengthened by the imminent retirement of Kenneth Koma, veteran leader of the Botswana National Front. His BNF critics walked out in 1998 to...

Levy Mwanawasa's emergence last month as the ruling Movement for Multi-party Democracy's candidate for president is the least bad option for incumbent Frederick Chiluba, who has no intention...

Those who want to be President are emerging from the shadows. He who leads the South West African People's Organisation leads the nation and the party's leadership contest...

President José Eduardo dos Santos announced on 23 August that he would not be the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola's candidate at the next election. Few...

The strategy to win President Robert Mugabe six more years in power claimed victory at Bindura, a mining town 60 kilometres north of the capital, in a by-election...

The first few days of August dealt a double blow to South Africa's privatisation programme, a central part of the government's economic strategy. The plan to sell the...

For three years, trades union leader Zwelinzima Vavi has marched his troops to the top of the hill, then marched them down again. This month Vavi, the General...

President Frederick Chiluba must be disappointed that the relatively successful Organisation of African Unity summit in Lusaka has not immediately helped his subterranean campaign to win an unconstitutional...

Zambian activists accuse the mining giant Anglo American of breaching the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's code of conduct when the copper mines were privatised. In a...

The global diamond market is under pressure - from recession in North America, from 'blood diamonds' fuelling wars in Africa and from synthetic imitations. For Botswana, the threat...