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Vol 62 No 3 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
His standing in the party – and whether he can improve on its dwindling support in the last local elections under his predecessor Jacob Zuma – will be tested in another year of the public health emergency – or what Ramaphosa calls the 'state of disaster'...
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Vol 62 No 3 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
But South Africans are expecting a clear response from Ramaphosa to unfolding revelations at the Zondo Commission about ousted President Jacob Zuma's operation of a parallel spy network within the state security system...
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Vol 62 No 2 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Its most recent meeting – attended unusually by former president Thabo Mbeki as well as former president Jacob Zuma who often shows up – declined even to talk about it...
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The struggle between President Cyril Ramaphosa and his predecessor Jacob Zuma will play out in the courts where the ex-president faces multiple charges of grand corruption but will try to widen it into a political fight if he can get his supporters on the streets in big enough numbers...
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Vol 62 No 1 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
To survive politically Ramaphosa must curtail the spread of the new variant of Covid-19 so that it does not require further lockdowns and consequent impacts on the economy which would provide heavy ammunition for his eager political opponents former President Jacob Zuma ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule and their supporters (AC Vol 61 No 14 Showdown to follow lockdown)...
Vol 61 No 25 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
While former President Jacob Zuma has been Zondo's major critic Ramaphosa has maintained a more neutral stance towards the Commission over its two years of hearings...
The Constitutional Court rules that the 2017 appointment of Jacob Zuma ally Shaun Abrahams as National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) director was illegal...
Vol 61 No 23 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) a leading anti-corruption body that has been instrumental in exposing and documenting graft said that it appeared that the country was returning to the rule of law after nearly a decade of corruption under former President Jacob Zuma (AC Vol 59 No 4 A Saint Valentine's Day massacre of sorts)...
Vol 61 No 22 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The extent of chronic corruption under former President Jacob Zuma is daily exposed in the hearings of the Zondo commission and estimates of its cost run as high as 1...
Vol 61 No 21 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The ANC faction loyal to former President Jacob Zuma has been pushing for radical business-hostile reforms such as the nationalisation of the central bank the South African Reserve Bank a national health insurance scheme proscribed assets a basic income grant and land expropriation without compensation (AC Vol 60 No 12 A tale of two ANCs & Vol 60 No 21 'Dump Cyril' move in KZN)...
Vol 61 No 20 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Electricity supply has been interrupted by the lack of maintenance chronic delays with the construction of two new coal-fired stations and a decade of looting under Jacob Zuma's government many of whose key members face investigation...