Vol 50 No 2 | SOUTH AFRICA Zuma versus the law 23rd January 2009 Assured of nomination as the ANC's presidential candidate, Jacob Zuma plans to block the prosecutors On 25 January, Jacob Zuma will be nominated by all provincial branches of the African National Congress as the party's preferred presidential candidate and the leadership will endorse...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 10 | SOUTH AFRICAASIA South Africa's arms deals with Asia 27th August 2009 Anti-arms trade campaigners and opposition MPs are claiming that the African National Congress government covertly sought to sell weapons to repressive regimes in North Korea, Iran, Syria, Libya and Zimbabwe without...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 10 | SOUTH AFRICA Sizwe Nxasana 27th August 2009 Chief Executive Officer, FirstRand Bank, South Africa Sizwe Nxasana has just led negotiations for an alliance with China Construction Bank. The two banks have signed a deal which commits FirstRand (the second biggest bank in South Africa) to...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 9 | SOUTH AFRICAINDIATELECOMS MTN-Bharti merger 31st July 2009 Despite shareholder concerns the deal between Africa's and India's biggest mobile companies is set to go ahead this year The planned US$20 billion merger of Africa's Mobile Telephone Networks (MTN) and India's Bharti Airtel would bring together two continental giants to form the world's third largest mobile phone company. The...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 9 | GHANASOUTH AFRICAINDIA MTN, militants and share claims 31st July 2009 A tangled web of financial holdings stretching from South Africa to Ghana and Lebanon could delay plans for a US$20 billion merger of India's Bharti Airtel and South Africa's Mobile Telephone...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 7 | SOUTH AFRICAINDIA Friends in the right places 22nd May 2009 Just before President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on 9 May, India's state-owned National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) signed a commercial cooperation agreement with the Congress of South African Trade Unions' (Cosatu)...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 6 | SOUTH AFRICACHINA Ditching the Dalai Lama 16th April 2009 The barring of the Dalai Lama appalls Archbishop Desmond Tutu but gets strong backing from the finance and foreign ministers The South African authorities' refusal of a visa to the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet in late March shows how the 'One China' policy extends into relations with...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 6 | SOUTH AFRICACHINA This wheel's on fire 16th April 2009 China may be popular amongst some politicians, but support on the ground can be much thinner. In spite of increased trade and warmer relations, there has been a rise in...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 5 | SOUTH AFRICAJAPAN Yukiya Amano and Abdul Samad Minty 27th March 2009 International Atomic Energy Agency Governors, Japan and South Africa The International Atomic Energy Agency is to decide on a successor to Egypt's Mohamed ElBaradei as Director-General on 26-27 March. Two IAEA Governors, strong>Yukiya Amano and Abdul Samad...
Vol 49 No 25 | SOUTH AFRICA Zuma's Christmas 12th December 2008 Among the issues facing African National Congress President Jacob Zuma over the coming holiday season will be the High Court’s decision on whether he should be prosecuted for...