Vol 4 (AAC) No 5 | MALAWIASIA Road builders 31st March 2011 Japan and China both want to get their hands on Malawi’s transport infrastructure. The Chinese are building roads, while the Japanese announced in February their US$18 million reha...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 5 | ZAMBIACHINATAIWAN Friends and benefits 31st March 2011 Veteran oppositionist Michael ‘King Cobra’ Sata often accuses President Rupiah Banda and the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy of being too cosy with China. Now Sata stands ...
Vol 52 No 6 | ANGOLA Defying the democracy wave 18th March 2011 The ruling party dismisses attempts by oppositionists to follow their North African counterparts The opposition’s attempts to bring the spirit of North Africa’s democracy wave failed to bring the masses on to the streets of Luanda but still worried a government surrounded by s...
Vol 52 No 6 | ZAMBIAMINING Taxing problems for Zambia 18th March 2011 Some US$66 million in tax revenue owed to the Treasury are missing, according to the mid-February report on Zambia published under the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative...
Vol 52 No 6 | ZIMBABWE The Speaker's chair 18th March 2011 Members of Parliament are due to vote for a new Speaker in a contest that could determine the next president should 87-year-old President Robert Mugabe be declared medically un...
Vol 52 No 5 | ZIMBABWE ZANU-PF cries treason 4th March 2011 President Mugabe and his allies take stern action against the growing interest in North Africa’s revolutions After they chose the week of President Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s 87th birthday (21 February) to express solidarity with the democracy movement in North Africa, 45 participants ...
Vol 52 No 5 | ESWATINI The King's budget 4th March 2011 Swaziland is suffering a severe economic crisis and the monarchy looks ill-equipped to survive it While rebellion has spread only within North Africa and the Middle East so far, monarchies all over the world fear the worst and Swaziland’s has more reasons than most to fear ...
Vol 52 No 5 | MALAWI A port with no ships 4th March 2011 The presidential dream of a navigable trade route to the sea will need more than a grand opening ceremony to make it a reality Although it opened with much fanfare four months ago, the Nsanje World Inland Port is yet to attract a single ship. President Bingu wa Mutharika hosted the opening ceremony and...
Vol 52 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICA It's all about jobs 4th March 2011 Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan stakes everything on the government’s attack on unemployment Job creation and social services would be government’s top political measures, said Finance Minister Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan in his budget speech on 24 February. He warned t...
Vol 52 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICA The Gupta factor 4th March 2011 President Jacob Zuma’s critics again claim he is in thrall to the Durban-based Gupta family. If the African National Congress does badly in the coming local elections, party c...