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...
Vol 42 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA Not so slick 23rd February 2001 A probe into a secret trading oil trading deal costing the country millions of dollars is threatening some powerful interests In what is becoming a test-case for President Thabo Mbeki's government's ability to investigate corruption allegations, a major international oil trading company faces claims that it connived with...
Vol 42 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA Wrong number, again 23rd February 2001 South Africa's hopes of reviving the sale of nearly 10 billion Rand (US$1.4 bn.) of G6 artillery pieces to Saudi Arabia seem to have been scuppered by the...
Vol 42 No 3 | SOUTH AFRICA Arms for oblivion 9th February 2001 Who should investigate the multi-billion arms deal with Western companies? The row over alleged corruption in the government's 43 billion rand (US$5.4 bn.) arms deal is damaging the governing African National Congress and raising questions about the constitution's...
Vol 42 No 3 | MOZAMBIQUE Not so nutty 9th February 2001 Cashew nuts are the biggest export after prawns and sugar is another rare money-spinner. The government wants to protect these industries; the World Bank and International Monetary Fund...