Vol 47 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA Growing pains, legal pain 17th February 2006 The President has a new plan for the economy and the Vice-President faces two separate trials Cape Town's political season opens during the city's sunniest weeks, drawing journalists and commentators down from Johannesburg in droves. The government had hoped to fix their attention...
Vol 47 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA For growth, a new acronym 17th February 2006 The Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative of South Africa (ASGISA) accepts that poverty and unemployment are the country's main economic problems and promises to halve both by 2014....
Vol 46 No 24 | SOUTH AFRICA A good week for Mbeki 2nd December 2005 The ANC's internal battles don't worry the country's foreign economic backers Angry National Party politicians used to say, when the African National Congress won power in 1994, that the definition of a South African optimist was 'someone not in...
Vol 46 No 21 | SOUTH AFRICA South Africa: If Zuma walks free 21st October 2005 The political and economic consequences of an acquittal for Jacob Zuma would reverberate across Africa South Africans will have to wait nine months for the political trial of the century, when Jacob Zuma's trial for corruption starts in the Durban High Court in...
Vol 46 No 18 | SOUTH AFRICA Politics behind the trial 9th September 2005 The accused Vice-President gives the unions a grip on economic policy The tricky relationship between President Thabo Mbeki and the country's big trades unions has become intermingled with the corruption charges against Vice-President Jacob Zuma (AC Vol 46 No...
Vol 46 No 17 | SOUTH AFRICA Trying the Veep 26th August 2005 Vice-President Zuma, who faces corruption charges, is the unlikely hero of the left Two groups of armed men squared up to each other outside former Deputy President Jacob Zuma's house in Johannesburg's wealthy Forest Town suburb on 18 August. One was...
Vol 46 No 17 | SOUTH AFRICA Gunning for JZ 26th August 2005 With five weeks before the start of its highest profile trial, South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is broadening its investigation of former Deputy President Jacob Zuma, who...
Vol 46 No 15 | SOUTH AFRICAHAITI Who let the dogs out? 22nd July 2005 Intelligence services in Southern Africa are trying to establish the origins of reports that the ousted Haitian President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, has hired a team of South African mercenaries...
Vol 46 No 13 | SOUTH AFRICA A trial for the ANC 24th June 2005 After his sacking, Jacob Zuma faces criminal charges; his party faces a lengthy political battle The elevation of Minerals and Energy Minister Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka to the deputy presidency on 22 June is an astute if provocative move by President Thabo Mbeki. Mlambo-Ngcuka, 49,...
Vol 46 No 13 | SOUTH AFRICA A province says no 24th June 2005 In Western Cape, the ANC didn't dance to the national leadership's tune National leaders of the governing African National Congress, including President Thabo Mbeki's ally Zola Skweyiya, the Minister for Social Development, publicly supported Ebrahim Rasool for the premiership of...