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...
Vol 42 No 2 | ANGOLA Ciao João 26th January 2001 Speculation about the departure of General João de Matos, Chief of General Staff of the Forças Armadas Angolanas, suggests he may be Luanda's first casualty from the 'Angolagate'...
Vol 42 No 1 | MALAWI Third term lucky 12th January 2001 Malawi's constitution limits a president to two five-year terms. President Bakili Muluzi wants a third (AC Vol 41 No 22). His main opponent, Brown Mpinganjira, ex-Minister of Education...
Vol 41 No 25 | BOTSWANA Diamonds and danger 22nd December 2000 Neither jewels nor stability pay a cure for HIV-AIDS Botswana's famously democratic politics are as stable as usual but they cannot solve all the problems. First, the politics. A year into President Festus Mogae's first five-year term,...
Vol 41 No 25 | SOUTH AFRICA Local heroes 22nd December 2000 The new opposition alliance hits the ANC where it hurts The African National Congress swept to victory in the local government elections on 5 December, winning 59 per cent of the total vote (AC Vol 41 No 23)....
Vol 41 No 25 | SOUTH AFRICA Not Florida 22nd December 2000 Procedures for voting in the local government elections of 5 December were complicated but voters seemed to take that in their stride and the poll was accepted as...
Vol 41 No 25 | ZIMBABWE Still the boss 22nd December 2000 President Robert Mugabe held onto the party presidency at the special congress of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front on 13-15 December.