Gordhan who will join President Jacob Zuma on a state visit to China this month is working for much closer cooperation with the BRICs (Brazil Russia India China) - all are taking an increasingly tough line to protect their export competitiveness putting controls on incoming capital and stopping their currencies appreciating...
South African President Jacob Zuma who likes to be liked has been helping to improve European-African relations...
Kinshasa transferred the block first to South Africa's Divine Inspiration Group and then to Caprikat and Foxwhelp the British Virgin Islands-registered companies which South African President Jacob Zuma's nephew Khulubuse Zuma claims to own...
Vol 51 No 19 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
It was a rare victory for President Jacob Zuma...
Vol 51 No 19 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Amid the doctrinal squabbles in Durban speculation intensfied about how President Jacob Zuma might reshuffle his cabinet...
Vol 51 No 18 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
President Jacob Zuma is hitting the media hard with a charm offensive before the governing party’s critical National General Council meeting on 19 September...
Vol 51 No 18 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Not only have trades unionists pushed the government to accept most of their demands for higher wages and housing allowances but some of their leaders now believe they should provide a replacement for President Jacob Zuma...
When a recent black economic empowerment (BEE) deal gave Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane Zuma and his close ally Sandile Zungu outrageously lucrative business terms Vavi said that South Africa had become ‘a country where the first family feeds first followed by other well connected elites’...
’ Although this was probably a coded attack on his own leader Jacob Zuma Malema alienated an erstwhile friend...
Vol 51 No 17 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Support is building for the national strike of nurses teachers and clerks since it was launched on 18 August presenting two serious threats to President Jacob Zuma’s government...
Vol 51 No 16 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
At the centre of the Caprikat and Foxwhelp deal is Khulubuse Zuma a nephew of South African President Jacob Zuma...