Vol 44 No 16 | BURUNDISOUTH AFRICA Zuma's other hotspot 8th August 2003 Two rebel factions hold the SA-backed peace process to ransom Hopes that the installation in late April of President Domitien Ndayizeye, a Hutu, would hasten an end to the fighting have not been realised. Instead, the conflict has...
Vol 44 No 15 | SOUTH AFRICA Peacekeepers and peers 25th July 2003 Mbeki finds peacekeeping a better bet than dictating democracy to dictators Defying the ever extending setbacks to Africa's peace and security agenda, South African President Thabo Mbeki has again shown his impatience with fellow African leaders over their sluggish...
Vol 44 No 15 | SOUTH AFRICA Sticky US relations 25th July 2003 South Africa's relations with the United States reached a low point over the invasion of Iraq, with both President Thabo Mbeki and his predecessor Nelson Mandela sharply criticising...
Vol 44 No 15 | SOUTH AFRICA NePAD doubts mount up 25th July 2003 With its emphasis on new concepts of African collective responsibility and its promise of strong moral and financial support from Western countries, the New Partnership for African Development...
Vol 44 No 9 | SOUTH AFRICA Looking down the line 2nd May 2003 Cyril 'the Suit' Ramaphosa is positioning himself to succeed Mbeki in 2009 That President Thabo Mbeki is the African National Congress presidential candidate for 2004 and its leader for now is not in question. Yet already speculation is rife about...
Vol 44 No 8 | SOUTH AFRICACONGO-KINSHASA Deeper and deeper 18th April 2003 President Mbeki is betting his diplomatic credibility on success in brokering peace in Congo and Burundi South Africa is about to raise the stakes by committing three battalions for peacekeeping duties in Burundi and eastern Congo, having hosted a succession of summits to persuade...
Vol 44 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA The blame game 21st February 2003 AIDS policy is still disastrous, though the President now leaves it to his Health Minister The blame for South Africa's peculiar policies on HIV/AIDS is shifting from President Thabo Mbeki to his Health Minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, caricatured by local AIDS activists as 'Dr....
Vol 44 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA Said and unsaid 21st February 2003 President Thabo Mbeki's State of the Nation speech at the opening of parliament on 14 February has left many feeling he slighted the nation in favor of a...
Vol 44 No 2 | SOUTH AFRICA Gatsha bites back 24th January 2003 Inkatha has stopped the ANC's efforts to change the election rules Inkatha, the only party strong enough to face up to the governing African National Congress, won a tactical victory this month in its home province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN)....
Vol 43 No 24 | SOUTH AFRICA Kraaling out of trouble 6th December 2002 ANC loyalists' worries about leftists and labour are stifling the party and government On 16 December 1838, Afrikaner trekkers were lured into Zulu King Dingaan's kraal and slaughtered. On that day 164 years later, President Thabo Mbeki will try to lure...