As the government's economic and military position worsens, its leading apparatchiks are finding ever more innovative ways of financing the war effort. The latest strategy, we hear,...

The news that creditor banks met to discuss the future of well connected Zimbabwean entrepreneur Billy Rautenbach's Hyundai Motor Distributors in Botswana raises questions about his continuing operations...

Washington now has closer relations with the African National Congress government than with any other in Africa, including the governments of Egypt and Morocco. The institutionalisation of...

The ousting of former African National Congress Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa as a deputy chairperson of NAIL (New Africa Investments Limited) on 22 February raises questions about his...

Luanda is sharpening up its diplomatic tactics after a string of military successes by the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola in the north-west. Key to...

Of South Africa's nine provinces, Western Cape faces the fiercest battle for control in the run-up to the 2 June provincial and national elections. Western Cape is...

The African National Congress (ANC) is bound to win the elections for the national parliament on 2 June and its leader, Thabo Mbeki, will become the next president....

The ruling African National Congress wants South Africa's tax system to do two apparently contradictory things - both to correct social and economic discriminations inherited from apartheid, and...

No one in Luanda wants to take the blame for the government's string of military defeats by Jonas Savimbi's rebels over the past five months. It has...

Its coffers full of diamond money, União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola went on an arms-buying spree to mount, first its defence of the central highland...