Vol 55 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA Zuma talks up the state 14th February 2014 The strain of the last five years seemed to show on the President's face as he gave his final State of the Nation Address before the elections Nearly 6 million rand (US$560,000) was spent on the ceremony for the State of the Nation Address as a tired-looking President Jacob Zuma put a brave face on...
Vol 55 No 3 | SOUTH AFRICA Kissing cousins no more 7th February 2014 After Public Service Minister Lindiwe Sisulu and Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande, both African National Congress loyalists, disengaged from an ostentatious clinch on 4 February, they predicted they...
Vol 55 No 2 | SOUTH AFRICA Poll shock alarms ANC 17th January 2014 Anger over broken promises is slashing the party’s once unassailable lead. With elections at most six months away, the opposition is more hopeful than ever The governing African National Congress is seeing a sharp decline in support in recent opinion polls, less than six months before legislative and local elections. South Africans...
Vol 55 No 1 | SOUTH AFRICA Zuma fights for his job 10th January 2014 April's elections will be more about the standing of President Zuma than about loyalty to the governing ANC There is no serious doubt that the governing African National Congress will easily win the general election likely to be held in the last two weeks of April....
Vol 7 (AAC) No 2 | SOUTH AFRICA Mamphela Ramphele 30th November 2013 Leader, Agang South Africa According the party’s website, ‘Agang, which means “build” in Sesotho, stands for clean government to restore the promise of freedom to all South Africans: equality, dignity and hope...
Vol 7 (AAC) No 1 | SOUTH AFRICA Solomon Kerzner 4th November 2013 Chairman, Kerzner International, South Africa South Africa’s hotel and casino billionaire Sol Kerzner is going into business with China’s Fosun International. The deal is for a huge new resort on China’s Hainan Island,...
Vol 54 No 25 | SOUTH AFRICA When the clouds cried 12th December 2013 The nation’s grief at the loss of its founding father was brusquely interrupted by the next struggle for power It was a day of the sharpest political contrasts when South Africans and the wider world celebrated the life of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela on 10 December at the... READ FOR FREE
Vol 54 No 25 | SOUTH AFRICA The time of Mandela 6th December 2013 People are together on the streets as they were in the 1994 liberation elections but this time, to celebrate the life of their globally venerated leader Nelson Mandela's face appeared magisterially on a tableau draped over the front of the Elysée Palace as African leaders and European bureaucrats walked across the courtyard for the...
Vol 54 No 23 | NIGERIASOUTH AFRICA Economic giants change places 14th November 2013 New trends in trade and finance will change political as well as economic ties on the continent In the coming weeks, some statisticians in Abuja could shake up Africa’s economic and diplomatic hierarchy. The boffins look set to chart the rise of Nigeria’s economy to... READ FOR FREE
Vol 54 No 23 | SOUTH AFRICA Self-inflicted wounds 14th November 2013 Many of South Africa’s difficulties are primarily internal, caused by policy paralysis and the governing African National Congress (ANC)’s intense disputes with its partners in organised labour. A...