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...
Vol 42 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICA Market failure 9th March 2001 Liberal economies aren't producing jobs or growth Market economics is failing in South Africa. It's not producing jobs, investment or the high growth needed to finance more spending on education and health. Moreover, South Africa...
Vol 42 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICA Even more intelligent 9th March 2001 The National Intelligence Agency (NIA, for domestic intelligence) is training a special investigations unit which, its critics say, could become the political police of the African National Congress....
Vol 42 No 5 | ANGOLAFRANCE Free Falcone 9th March 2001 Luanda and Paris have fallen out over Angolagate (AC Vol 42 No 3). President José Eduardo dos Santos has lamented that the French justice system targeted arms dealer...