Vol 42 No 9 | ANGOLA Talking to Jonas 4th May 2001 The government may be getting ready to talk to its arch-enemy, Jonas Savimbi of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola. The new parliamentary commission of...
Vol 42 No 8 | ZIMBABWE More of Mugabe 20th April 2001 The President's insistence that he will fight the next election surprises few and worries almost everyone The President's indecision is final. President Robert Mugabe's announcement on 17 April that he will contest the next presidential election as his party's flagbearer has resolved nothing (AC...
Vol 42 No 8 | SOUTH AFRICA Sniping at the President 20th April 2001 With elections far off, the gossips have fun with Thabo Mbeki Could President Thabo Mbeki risk being ousted by his own party? Will he be challenged for the leadership of the African National Congress at the end of 2002...
Vol 42 No 8 | MOZAMBIQUE Talks break down 20th April 2001 Hardliners on both sides have opted for confrontation Afonso Dhlakama, President of the opposition Renamo party, walked out after five hours of talks with President Joaquim Alberto Chissano on 29 March, handing over a letter prepared...
Vol 42 No 8 | ZAMBIA The cock crows 20th April 2001 Opposition to President Chiluba's term is growing by the day Born-again Christian President Frederick Chiluba arrived back in Lusaka for Easter to denounce the 'ministerial treachery' against him in biblical terms. He compared those ministers who had been...
Vol 42 No 8 | ZAMBIA The two-is-enough group 20th April 2001 Fifteen senior members of the governing MMD's National Executive Committee publicly oppose Chiluba's bid for a third term...
Vol 42 No 7 | SOUTH AFRICA Rules of law 6th April 2001 Lawyers claim the government wants to bring them under state control South African lawyers fear that the government's draft Legal Practice Bill could bring the legal profession, including the Bar, under state control. The Bar is up in arms....
Vol 42 No 7 | MALAWI Brown bounces back 6th April 2001 Corruption, a coup plot, a third term and a new opposition There's nothing like a coup plot to distract attention from political troubles. It is widely believed in Blantyre that last week's alleged putsch was not a coup plot...
Vol 42 No 6 | ZAMBIA Third time unlucky 23rd March 2001 The President's plan to stand again divides the nation and his party President Frederick Chiluba's bid for a third term is in trouble, with three quarrelling factions in the ruling Movement for Multi-party Democracy (AC Vol 41 No 24). The...
Vol 42 No 6 | SOUTH AFRICA Spooky 23rd March 2001 A discreet row has blown up about a newly launched intelligence agency - Ukukhula Security Services - which draws much of its expertise from a group of apartheid-era...