Vol 51 No 3 | SOUTH AFRICA It's all mine 5th February 2010 When Mines Minister Susan Shabangu assured South African mining companies that nationalisation would not happen in her lifetime, the reaction at this year’s mining indaba in Cape T...
Vol 51 No 2 | ANGOLA Soccer shooting 22nd January 2010 President José Eduardo dos Santos's government is arresting human rights activists and claimed sympathisers of the Frente para a Libertação do Enclave de Cabinda-Forças Armadas de ...
Vol 51 No 1 | SOUTH AFRICA Global plaudits, local travails 8th January 2010 Despite the doubters, President Zuma’s government is set to hold a successful World Cup but will face demands for action on jobs and services In his New Year address, President Jacob Zuma likened 2010 to 1994, when South Africa became a democracy. To the outside world, the only big event happening in South Africa this ye...
Vol 51 No 1 | SOUTH AFRICA Walking right, talking left 8th January 2010 The African National Congress’s loud debate over economic policy will continue in 2010. The Left demands a more interventionist stance than that of the then Finance Minister, Trevo...
Vol 51 No 1 | ZIMBABWE Three men in a boat 8th January 2010 Somehow the unlikely triumvirate sticks together – for fear of something worse – amid signs of a slowly recovering economy The uneasy coalition government will rumble on into 2010, making painful but discernible progress on economic reform. It is in none of the three main parties’ interest to ditch the...
Vol 51 No 1 | ZIMBABWE Elusive shoots of economic recovery 8th January 2010 The key issue for the power-sharing regime is reviving the economy. According to the 2010 budget, the government is aiming for 7% gross domestic product growth, underpinned by 10% ...
Vol 51 No 1 | ANGOLA Football, contracts and then votes 8th January 2010 The President would win an election but won’t hold one, while worrying about the neighbours and the African football cup At the congress of the governing Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) in December, President José Eduardo dos Santos once more postponed the general elections until 201...
Vol 50 No 25 | SOUTH AFRICA Ready or not, here they come 18th December 2009 President Zuma’s government is confident about the 2010 World Cup preparations, despite professional fouls in the organising committee Sepp Blatter, President of football’s ruling Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) looked relieved at the 11 December draw in Cape Town for next year’s World Cup...
Vol 50 No 25 | SOUTH AFRICA Liberation economics, 20 years on 18th December 2009 In 2010, South Africans will celebrate the two decades since the release of Nelson Mandela from gaol on 11 February 1990. Polemicists of all stripes will assess the political achie...
Vol 50 No 25 | ZAMBIA Prospering yet parlous 18th December 2009 The economy is looking up but scandals and regional tensions upset the governing party’s election hopes With copper revenue rising, poverty falling and farms thriving, the fortunes of President Rupiah Banda’s Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) government should be on the up, wit...