Claims that the World Bank’s Vice-President for Integrity and former head of South Africa’s Scorpions anti-corruption unit Leonard McCarthy used his position to pursue political vendettas against African National Congress President Jacob Zuma are we hear to be discussed by Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and World Bank President Robert Zoellick in Washington next week...
Vol 50 No 7 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The much bigger political questions concern the type of policies that the pragmatic ANC President Jacob Zuma will pursue and how he will balance his strong leftist support from the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the trades unions against the need to shore up the economy against the ravages of a worsening global economic crisis...
Vol 50 No 7 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
There are two groups of ‘born-frees’: the ‘mall generation’ of the more educated and the better off who often support Mvume Dandala and the Congress of the People (COPE) and the unemployed – those in the townships and squatter camps are more likely to vote for Jacob Zuma and the ANC...
Vol 50 No 6 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Rival business figures had hoped that the patronage of the probable next president Jacob Zuma would bring them lavish rewards but now many once profitable companies have stopped paying dividends and started firing workers...
Vol 50 No 5 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Said the ANC's Jacob Zuma in an interview with journalist David Frost on Al Jazeera television: 'I'm not necessarily worried about fighting the man of God...
South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel despised by African National Congress President Jacob Zuma's bedrock supporters on the party's left and populist wings is busy making himself indispensable...
Vol 50 No 3 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Supporters of African National Congress President Jacob Zuma are disturbed by the grassroots popularity of some of their political opponents including some residual supporters of sacked President Thabo Mbeki...
Vol 50 No 2 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
On 25 January Jacob Zuma will be nominated by all provincial branches of the African National Congress as the party's preferred presidential candidate and the leadership will endorse that decision...
COPE’s future depends on whether ANC President Jacob Zuma survives to lead the campaign for the national presidency and parliamentary dominance...
If Jacob Zuma becomes President of South Africa he will threaten to close the border if Bob does not step down...