Vol 63 No 13 | SOUTH AFRICARUSSIA How manganese pipeline helps the ANC 23rd June 2022 The ruling party's ambivalence on Ukraine reflects its parlous finances as well as its internal feuding and ideological posturing A transparency law on political party funding has embarrassed the ruling African National Congress by revealing its links to Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian oligarch under global sanctions. This...
Vol 63 No 13 | MALAWI Chakwera sacks and attacks 23rd June 2022 President Lazarus Chakwera has reacted to the Anti-Corruption Bureau report that he demanded to be produced within three weeks by sacking key officials, but also by attacking the...
Vol 63 No 13 | SOUTH AFRICA The man behind the sofa story 20th June 2022 Former securocrat Arthur Fraser, who revealed the 2020 burglary at the President's farm, may have ulterior motives Once a key associate of President Jacob Zuma in the state security and intelligence apparatus, Arthur Fraser has leapt onto the front pages with his claims about the...
Vol 63 No 13 | SOUTH AFRICA 'Farmgate' rocks Ramaphosa 20th June 2022 The 'cash-in-the-couch' scandal has damaged the President. It is being exploited to the full by his enemies, but it doesn't look enough to unseat him On a wintry day on 13 June in Johannesburg Carl Niehaus, the chief spokesperson of the African National Congress's so-called Radical Economic Transformation (RET) faction, led a delegation...
Vol 63 No 12 | SOUTH AFRICA Net closes around the Guptas 9th June 2022 The symbols of the corruption of Jacob Zuma's regime, two of the Gupta brothers face extradition to South Africa Authorities in the United Arab Emirates and South Africa have been negotiating the extradition of Atul and Rajesh Gupta since their arrest on 6 June by Dubai police...
Vol 63 No 12 | SOUTH AFRICA Zuma's securocrats rattle Ramaphosa 9th June 2022 A wounded Ramaphosa is consolidating support for a second five-year term but prospects are bleak for the ANC winning outright victory in 2024 Arthur Fraser, the former head of the country's State Security Agency, has called for a criminal investigation against Cyril Ramaphosa, which will badly damage the ruling African National...
Vol 63 No 12 | ANGOLA Why UNITA could cause an upset in August 9th June 2022 The party's new leader Adalberto Costa Júnior has overhauled the opposition and is capitalising on discontent with the ruling MPLA With general elections now set for 24 August, President João Lourenço will face an uphill battle to fend off an opposition candidate widely popular among a younger generation...
Vol 63 No 12 | MOZAMBIQUE I spy a third term 9th June 2022 President Filipe Nyusi has been handing out rewards, ahead of the ruling Frente de Libertaçao de Moçambique (Frelimo) party congress in September, to proven loyalists from his home...
Vol 63 No 12 | MALAWI Name or blame 9th June 2022 President Lazarus Chakwera has responded to the crisis caused by the British government's naming of officials in his administration as suspected of corruption by demanding action within 21...
Vol 63 No 12 | SOUTH AFRICARUSSIA Moscow's missing tankers 9th June 2022 As Russia seeks to evade western sanctions on oil and gas exports, mystery surrounds the fate of two super-tankers loaded with 4.2 million barrels of Russian crude oil...