Vol 42 No 16 | SOUTH AFRICA Unions fight privatisation ideology 10th August 2001 For three years, trades union leader Zwelinzima Vavi has marched his troops to the top of the hill, then marched them down again. This month Vavi, the General...
Vol 42 No 9 | SOUTH AFRICA The plots thicken 4th May 2001 Allegations of conspiracies against Mbeki are widening ANC divisions The Minister of Safety and Security, Steve Tshwete, is not known for political finesse. Nevertheless, he had to be taken seriously when he announced that the police would...
Vol 42 No 8 | SOUTH AFRICA Sniping at the President 20th April 2001 With elections far off, the gossips have fun with Thabo Mbeki Could President Thabo Mbeki risk being ousted by his own party? Will he be challenged for the leadership of the African National Congress at the end of 2002...
Vol 42 No 7 | SOUTH AFRICA Rules of law 6th April 2001 Lawyers claim the government wants to bring them under state control South African lawyers fear that the government's draft Legal Practice Bill could bring the legal profession, including the Bar, under state control. The Bar is up in arms....
Vol 42 No 6 | SOUTH AFRICA Spooky 23rd March 2001 A discreet row has blown up about a newly launched intelligence agency - Ukukhula Security Services - which draws much of its expertise from a group of apartheid-era...
Vol 42 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICA Market failure 9th March 2001 Liberal economies aren't producing jobs or growth Market economics is failing in South Africa. It's not producing jobs, investment or the high growth needed to finance more spending on education and health. Moreover, South Africa...
Vol 42 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICA Even more intelligent 9th March 2001 The National Intelligence Agency (NIA, for domestic intelligence) is training a special investigations unit which, its critics say, could become the political police of the African National Congress....
Vol 42 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA Not so slick 23rd February 2001 A probe into a secret trading oil trading deal costing the country millions of dollars is threatening some powerful interests In what is becoming a test-case for President Thabo Mbeki's government's ability to investigate corruption allegations, a major international oil trading company faces claims that it connived with...
Vol 42 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA Wrong number, again 23rd February 2001 South Africa's hopes of reviving the sale of nearly 10 billion Rand (US$1.4 bn.) of G6 artillery pieces to Saudi Arabia seem to have been scuppered by the...
Vol 42 No 3 | SOUTH AFRICA Arms for oblivion 9th February 2001 Who should investigate the multi-billion arms deal with Western companies? The row over alleged corruption in the government's 43 billion rand (US$5.4 bn.) arms deal is damaging the governing African National Congress and raising questions about the constitution's...