Vol 48 No 9 | SOUTH AFRICA French hook 27th April 2007 African National Congress power-broker Tokyo Sexwale plans to combine the annual Bastille Festival on 14 July with a celebration of Nelson Mandela's release from the Victor Verster Prison...
Vol 48 No 8 | SOUTH AFRICA Chukka, not pukka 13th April 2007 Rich South Africans enjoy polo on the grounds at Plettenberg Bay. It now emerges that all the 13 fields are illegal and that two of their main sponsors...
Vol 48 No 7 | SOUTH AFRICA First murder, now money 30th March 2007 Politicians are in the frame amid the financial fallout from Brett Kebble's murder Police say they know who killed Brett Kebble, but not why. The answer may be found among his political and business friends. Kebble, a fraudster, mining magnate and...
Vol 48 No 7 | SOUTH AFRICA Claims on Kebble's gold 30th March 2007 The main claimant against Brett Kebble's assets is Randgold & Exploration Company, which is claiming R5.8 billion (US$801 million) from Johannesburg Consolidated Investments (JCI), a company into which...
Vol 48 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICA A highly political budget 2nd March 2007 Higher spending and a budget surplus smack a tasty pre-election mixtur The budget was full of handouts. On 21 February Finance Minister Trevor Manuel dished out tax cuts, paid off apartheid-era debt, and boosted public spending on almost everything...
Vol 48 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICA Mining revolt 2nd March 2007 The global stock market jitters on 27 February - prompted by 9% falls on the Shanghai and Hong Kong markets - hold two lessons for South Africa. Firstly,...
Vol 48 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA Raining on the parade 16th February 2007 Heated arguments about crime and unemployment draw attention away from the government's economic successes Cape Town was gripped by a heat wave with temperatures soaring into the high 30s, in the days leading up to the opening of parliament on 9 February...
Vol 48 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA Women in power 16th February 2007 Who are the women vying for the top jobs in the African National Congress, and what are their chances? The National Assembly has 131 female members out of 400, up from just 12 before the 1994 elections. This places South Africa twelfth in the global league of...
Vol 48 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA Cyril eyes the presidency 16th February 2007 Union leader turned tycoon Cyril Ramaphosa has discreetly informed senior members of the Congress of South African Trade Unions that he is prepared to be a candidate for...
Vol 48 No 2 | SOUTH AFRICA South Africa's spat 19th January 2007 South Africa, host to the New Partnership for African Development (NePAD) Secretariat and driving force behind the African Peer Review Mechanism, should have run a model assessment, bringing...