Vol 40 No 10 | SOUTH AFRICA Uneasy peace 14th May 1999 The Zulu people are proud of their reputation as fighters, which is sadly confirmed by the history of their region. Historic Zululand, incorporated wholesale into the white-ruled...
Vol 40 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICAUNITED STATES Transatlantic tryst 5th May 1999 Clinton's White House and Mandela's Tuynhuys have a special relationship Washington now has closer relations with the African National Congress government than with any other in Africa, including the governments of Egypt and Morocco. The institutionalisation of...
Vol 40 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICA Cyril and the suits 5th May 1999 The ousting of former African National Congress Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa as a deputy chairperson of NAIL (New Africa Investments Limited) on 22 February raises questions about his...
Vol 40 No 9 | SOUTH AFRICA Confusions in the Cape 30th April 1999 Apartheid's bitter legacy still complicates electoral calculations in the Western Cape Of South Africa's nine provinces, Western Cape faces the fiercest battle for control in the run-up to the 2 June provincial and national elections. Western Cape is...
Vol 40 No 9 | SOUTH AFRICA Provincial power struggle 30th April 1999 The African National Congress (ANC) is bound to win the elections for the national parliament on 2 June and its leader, Thabo Mbeki, will become the next president....
Vol 40 No 8 | SOUTH AFRICA The fiscal fight 16th April 1999 The ANC is winning an unsung victory in the battle to collect the people's taxes The ruling African National Congress wants South Africa's tax system to do two apparently contradictory things - both to correct social and economic discriminations inherited from apartheid, and...
Vol 40 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICABRITAIN Spinning south 19th February 1999 Conflicting reports have emerged about British former Trade and Industry Minister Peter Mandelson’s offer to help the African National Congress 1999 election campaign. The project doesn’t look particularly...
Vol 40 No 3 | SOUTH AFRICAITALY Men of honour 5th February 1999 For seven years Italian and American police have been trying to extradite Vito Palazzolo and now they may be too late The net is finally closing around convicted money launderer and Cape Town bon viveur, Vito Roberto Palazzolo. He is wanted by the Italian police on charges (which he...
Vol 40 No 3 | LIBERIASOUTH AFRICA Frequent flyers 5th February 1999 The frequent visits of convicted fraudster Nico Shefer and Fred Rundle, former Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging spokesman, to President Charles Taylor in Monrovia have attracted the attention of officials monitoring...
Vol 39 No 20 | LESOTHOSOUTH AFRICA To a little kingdom 9th October 1998 As SADC allies go to war in Congo, Pretoria stumbles into an insurrection nearer home The military intervention in Lesotho was meant to be a show-case for the new South African National Defence Force (SANDF). It turned into a political-military fiasco. Lesotho’s opposition...