Vol 54 No 20 | SOUTH AFRICA Coming to the aid of the party 3rd October 2013 In New York, President Zuma sings Happy Birthday to ANC Chairwoman Baleka Mbete, who is currently at the centre of a major political row On the evening of 24 September in New York, President Jacob Zuma was in high spirits. Earlier that day, he had addressed the United Nations General Assembly debate...
Vol 54 No 17 | SOUTH AFRICA Sexual congress 22nd August 2013 The suspension of Congress of South African Trade Unions Secretary General Zwelinzima Vavi on 14 August, after he admitted to sexual misconduct with a Cosatu employee in his...
Vol 54 No 16 | SOUTH AFRICA Tilting at the ANC 30th July 2013 The EFF seeks to appeal to leftists disappointed by the ANC. Its main impact for now will be on the ANC’s internal politics The deposed leader of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) has staked a claim to political space well to the left of the governing party. Julius Malema...
Vol 54 No 15 | SOUTH AFRICA Zuma's axe falls 18th July 2013 The pace of President Jacob Zuma’s cull of his opponents in the African National Congress is picking up as he lays the groundwork for next year’s general elections...
Vol 54 No 9 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICSOUTH AFRICA Pleas to go 26th April 2013 President Jacob Zuma puzzled his central African interlocutors and CAR politicians by claiming they had made a ‘passionate plea’ for South African troops to return to the troubled...
Vol 54 No 8 | SOUTH AFRICA ANC wields the long knives 12th April 2013 The governing party and its partners quarrel bitterly as Zuma clears out his opponents, regardless of the consequences President Jacob Zuma and his allies have begun their long-awaited purge of trades unionists, party members and government officials judged to have opposed him at the African National...
Vol 54 No 8 | SOUTH AFRICA Blade's think-tank regiment 12th April 2013 Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande may be moving to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation to replace Maite Nkoana-Mashabane. This is under serious consideration, senior African National...
Vol 54 No 7 | SOUTH AFRICA South African troops under fire 29th March 2013 A political row erupted in South Africa after 13 troops were killed and some 27 wounded on a mission to Central African Republic which is poorly understood locally...
Vol 54 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICA Guns, jobs and strikes 1st March 2013 With the police and judiciary under international scrutiny, President Zuma has told officials to crack down hard on protests that turn violent President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address to Parliament in Cape Town on 14 February was drowned out by news of the arrest of Olympic champion Oscar...
Vol 54 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICA The left-right clash on economics 1st March 2013 The National Development Plan is ‘a road map to a South Africa where all will have water, electricity, sanitation, jobs, housing, public transport, adequate nutrition, education, social protection,...