Vol 51 No 17 | SOUTH AFRICA Mounting strikes 27th August 2010 Support is building for the national strike of nurses, teachers and clerks since it was launched on 18 August, presenting two serious threats to President Jacob Zuma’s government....
Vol 51 No 16 | SOUTH AFRICA An uneasy ruling alliance 6th August 2010 The ANC needs stronger leadership to referee the intensifying internal debates ahead of the policy-making conference in September The policies and programmes of the governing African National Congress will be reviewed at the party's National General Council in Durban on 20-24 September. Few of the policies...
Vol 51 No 16 | SOUTH AFRICA Taking sides in the big debate 6th August 2010 The main opposing statements for the National General Council to be held by the governing African National Congress come, firstly, in the official policy document and, secondly, in...
Vol 51 No 15 | SOUTH AFRICA Zuma’s first-term casualties 23rd July 2010 With dissenting ministers and departing civil servants, President Jacob Zuma faces a tough return to workaday politics Someone in President Jacob Zuma’s office has read a management textbook and reproduced chunks of it as government policy. Ahead of his post-World Cup cabinet ‘lekgotla’ (big meeting)...
Vol 51 No 14 | SOUTH AFRICACONGO-KINSHASA Secret oil deal 9th July 2010 The emergence of Khulubuse Zuma, the nephew of South African President Jacob Zuma, as a leading player in Congo-Kinshasa’s oil industry has provoked curiosity and anger in almost...
Vol 51 No 13 | RWANDASOUTH AFRICA World cup shooting 25th June 2010 The would-be killers who bungled an attack on dissident Rwandan General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa seem to have thought that the World Cup would divert police attention from their...
Vol 51 No 12 | SOUTH AFRICA Football fever, faction fever 11th June 2010 As the world’s best football teams battle it out in the stadiums, the ruling party’s factions slug it out behind closed doors As South Africa opens the World Cup tournament on 11 June, the most important national event since the 1994 elections, most of the visiting football fans will be...
Vol 51 No 10 | SOUTH AFRICA Zuma’s economic tightrope 14th May 2010 The President has endorsed Trevor Manuel’s pro-market policy plans and is struggling to keep the left on side More than a quarter of all South Africans seeking work in the formal economy cannot find it. The urgency to get the new National Planning Commission up and...
Vol 51 No 10 | SOUTH AFRICA The Patel alternative 14th May 2010 The battle for control of economic development planning continues and the National Planning Commission’s mandate has not yet been agreed. President Jacob Zuma blundered when, in his address...
Vol 51 No 8 | SOUTH AFRICA In a league of his own 16th April 2010 Claiming that he made Jacob Zuma President, Julius Malema now faces a challenge to his own power base This week, President Jacob Zuma has hard choices to make about Julius Malema, the vociferous leader of the African National Congress Youth League. Malema has several times publicly...