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South Africa

Population: 62.47m
GDP: $373.23bn
Debt: 75.4% of GDP (2024)

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Blame the judges

It is a testing time for the judiciary as it prepares for the trial of African National Congress President Jacob Zuma. His supporters say the trial is politically motivated and want the charges of corruption, money laundering and racketeering thrown out. Obstacles to the prosecution are being sought and threats issued to those judges pressing ahead with the trial. The outcome will determine who in the ANC will stand for election as the next President of South Africa.

Jacob Zuma, having won the election for the presidency of the ruling African National Congress, wants to win next year's election for the presidency of South Africa. He...


Judges of the Constitutional Court

Chief Justice Pius Langa: The head of the Constitutional Court and of the Judicial Commission from rural Limpopo Province worked as a labourer in a shirt factory and...


The judges, lawyers and ministers

KwaZulu-Natal Judge President Vuka Tshabalala studied at the Universities of Fort Hare and Natal. He lost many pro-African National Congress President Jacob Zuma friends by choosing retired Judge...


Zuma takes the provinces

The fierce struggle for the presidential nomination is going Jacob Zuma's way - fast

Supporters of Jacob Zuma, the President of the African National Congress, made their boldest effort yet to take over the government when they brought Kgalema Motlanthe into the...


After the politics, the money

The ANC's leadership wants to know where its money came from - and where it went

Bitterness has festered within the governing African National Congress since Jacob Zuma took over as party President from national President Thabo Mbeki. The stabbing of Mcebisi Skwatsha, a...


Getting their own back

Bulelani Ngcuka, South Africa’s former National Public Prosecutor and boss of the Scorpions anti-corruption investigators, is the man most hated by African National Congress President Jacob Zuma and...


Apartheid's awful legacy

The murders of immigrants have their roots in poverty, xenophobia and the failure of political leadership

Violent rampages in townships and informal settlements have changed South Africa and the way the world sees it. Mobs have forced tens of thousands of migrants from other...


Nuclear nexus

South African officials visiting Russia on 22-23 May were in damage-control mode. In March, Eskom let it be known that the Russian nuclear reactor builder Atomstroyexport (ASE), would...


Brand new Zuma washes whiter

A dash through Europe has helped the new ANC leader establish his pragmatic credentials with diplomats and businesses

With one bound Jacob Zuma was free. No longer was the new President of the African National Congress a dangerous populist in a threatening alliance with communists and...


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