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...
Vol 41 No 25 | SOUTH AFRICA Local heroes 22nd December 2000 The new opposition alliance hits the ANC where it hurts The African National Congress swept to victory in the local government elections on 5 December, winning 59 per cent of the total vote (AC Vol 41 No 23)....
Vol 41 No 25 | SOUTH AFRICA Not Florida 22nd December 2000 Procedures for voting in the local government elections of 5 December were complicated but voters seemed to take that in their stride and the poll was accepted as...
Vol 41 No 23 | SOUTH AFRICA Mbeki mark two 24th November 2000 Local elections next month will test the President's new stance on AIDS and Mugabe President Thabo Mbeki faces his toughest battle for voters yet in local government elections on 5 December (AC Vol 41 Nos 17 & 19). A predicted low turnout...
Vol 41 No 20 | SOUTH AFRICA Policemen plod on 13th October 2000 Some tough technocrats are running the anti-crime policy but the police force lags behind South Africans feel unsafe. Fear of criminals demoralises people and is a major cause of emigration. High expectations therefore attach to the first black Commissioner of Police, Jackie...
Vol 41 No 19 | SOUTH AFRICA Blame for the bombs 29th September 2000 The government blames Islamists for a wave of terrorism in Cape Town In the Cape Town area in the past 27 months, 21 bombings have caused three deaths and injured at least 130 people. In Cape Town itself, a major...
Vol 41 No 17 | SOUTH AFRICA Calling labour's bluff 1st September 2000 Trades unionists argue about how hard to fight the government at a policy conference Black union militants are planning new clashes with the African National Congress government over jobs and labour law reform. But many union leaders would prefer a compromise that...
Vol 41 No 15 | SOUTH AFRICA Talking left, acting right 21st July 2000 Social democracy and free market economics are eating into the ruling party's identity The African National Congress has emerged from its national general council, held in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth on 11-15 July, looking more like the Western-style social...
Vol 41 No 14 | SOUTH AFRICA The bigger the better 7th July 2000 The government prefers efficient farmers to contented peasants Zimbabwe's land rows have touched a sore nerve in South Africa, where land hunger is a lively, if partly suppressed, political issue and where white people still dominate...