Vol 41 No 20 | ZAMBIAVATICAN Laying off hands 13th October 2000 Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, healer and exorcist in Rome for 18 years, has been silently sacked as Vatican Special Delegate to the Pontifical Commission for Migration and Tourism.
Vol 41 No 19 | SOUTH AFRICA Blame for the bombs 29th September 2000 The government blames Islamists for a wave of terrorism in Cape Town In the Cape Town area in the past 27 months, 21 bombings have caused three deaths and injured at least 130 people. In Cape Town itself, a major...
Vol 41 No 19 | ZIMBABWE Union is strength 29th September 2000 A dilemma for the trades union's new party: to represent the electors or the workers? The Movement for Democratic Change, offspring of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, amazed everybody by winning 57 of the 120 seats contested at the parliamentary elections in...
Vol 41 No 19 | ZIMBABWE Changing floors 29th September 2000 Union officials now MPs for the Movement for Democratic Change...
Vol 41 No 19 | MALAWI Naming names 29th September 2000 President Bakili Muluzi pleads for cancellation of Malawi's US$2.5 billion international debt. Meanwhile Parliament's Public Accounts Committee has described the embezzlement of millions of government money, naming and...
Vol 41 No 18 | MAURITIUS Disproportional 15th September 2000 A quirky election result brings back old faces back to power again This was not what was supposed to happen. The last-minute opposition alliance of the Mouvement Socialiste Militant (MSM) and the Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM) won three-quarters of the...
Vol 41 No 18 | CONGO-KINSHASAZIMBABWE Soldiers of misfortune 15th September 2000 Mercenaries and miners will play a key role in President Kabila's latest offensive President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is increasingly relying on mercenary soldiers and bomber pilots as he prepares for a new round of fighting with the disparate rebel factions across the...
Vol 41 No 18 | NAMIBIA Murderous border 15th September 2000 The new chief of the Namibia Defence Force is Major General Solomon 'Jesus' Hawala, which worries many Namibians (AC Vol 31 Nos 19 & 20). In the undeclared...
Vol 41 No 18 | ANGOLA Social oil 15th September 2000 Government officials unofficially promise to spend at least US$16 million of new oil money on social projects. This may be a first tangible sign of the state oil...
Vol 41 No 17 | SOUTH AFRICA Calling labour's bluff 1st September 2000 Trades unionists argue about how hard to fight the government at a policy conference Black union militants are planning new clashes with the African National Congress government over jobs and labour law reform. But many union leaders would prefer a compromise that...