Vol 40 No 12 | ZIMBABWE Where's the door? 11th June 1999 Beleaguered President Mugabe is fighting pressure for him to retire President Robert Mugabe may not after all be heading for a speedy retirement, although he was 75 in February and has held power since April 1980. Speculation...
Vol 40 No 12 | SOUTH AFRICA Mbeki's triumph 11th June 1999 The ANC just misses its target, the NP collapses, the DP rises, Holomisa returns The overwhelming majority won by the African National Congress in the 2 June elections was spectacular if predictable. And it left opposition voters surprisingly unflustered, considering some...
Vol 40 No 12 | ZAMBIA Paris to Lusaka 11th June 1999 The usual bashing of non-governmental organisations followed the World Bank's Consultative Group on Zambia in Paris on 26-28 May (AC Vol 40 No 11). Zambia's Finance Minister...
Vol 40 No 11 | SOUTH AFRICA Gauteng for Mbeki 28th May 1999 The election of a provincial prime minister may give a foretaste of future politics The smallest and richest of South Africa’s nine provinces seems certain to give the ruling African National Congress a solid majority at the national and provincial elections on...
Vol 40 No 11 | SOUTH AFRICA Figuring it out 28th May 1999 Up to 2 million fewer votes may be cast in the national and provincial elections on 2 June than in the 1994 polls, which ended the apartheid era....
Vol 40 No 11 | ZAMBIA Down, not out 28th May 1999 The mines are still not privatised but the opposition is at last taking shape Zambia had little to show the World Bank's Consultative Group in Paris on 26-28 May. The future of the government may hang on this meeting. ...
Vol 40 No 11 | MALAWI Muluzi's democracy test 28th May 1999 Five years after the end of Banda's dicatorship, politics is at a crossroads Malawi's second multi-party elections are set to be a close-run thing. President Bakili Muluzi's ruling United Democratic Front is neck and neck with the opposition alliance of...
Vol 40 No 11 | NIGERIASOUTH AFRICA Fernandez letter 28th May 1999 Who was behind the crude attempt to smear President Nelson Mandela by linking him to an oil deal with Nigerian middle-man Chief Antonio Deinde Fernandez? Copies of...
Vol 40 No 10 | SOUTH AFRICA Compulsory coalition 14th May 1999 KwaZulu-Natal's political leaders insist that power-sharing will stop the violence The people of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) will cast their votes on 2 June, in national and provincial elections. However they vote, their party leaders have decided that their...
Vol 40 No 10 | SOUTH AFRICA Uneasy peace 14th May 1999 The Zulu people are proud of their reputation as fighters, which is sadly confirmed by the history of their region. Historic Zululand, incorporated wholesale into the white-ruled...