Vol 39 No 14 | ANGOLA Mortgaged future 10th July 1998 A new deal with Swiss oil trader Glencore has mortgaged virtually the last barrel of the government’s own oil allocation in exchange for up-front payments of some US$900 mill...
Vol 39 No 13 | NAMIBIA More gems 26th June 1998 Namibian mining companies owned by Branch Energy, of which Sandline International Chairman Anthony Buckingham is Chief Executive, are seeking to evict small-scale miners from the N...
Vol 39 No 12 | ANGOLA Protection 12th June 1998 Would-be leaders are preparing the ground: they include Chief of Staff João de Matos, Premier Fernando França van Dúnem and Washington Ambassador Antóni...
Vol 39 No 12 | ZIMBABWE Mortgaged 12th June 1998 The land conference on 24-25 June could turn into a fiasco, some insiders predict. White commercial farmers, the biggest losers if the government confiscates their land without com...
Vol 39 No 11 | SOUTH AFRICA Seeking spies 29th May 1998 A year before 1999's general elections, the spectre of some senior African National Congress officials being publicly named as having spied for the National Party regime haunts the...
Vol 39 No 11 | ZIMBABWE Pain in the neck 29th May 1998 The Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Morgan Tsvangirai, has been a pain in the government's neck for the past six months.Two fresh victories should boost...
Vol 39 No 10 | ZIMBABWE Counting allies 15th May 1998 President Mugabe's toughest opponents are not politicians but they know about politics When January's riots followed December's peaceful demonstrations, Zimbabweans started to say that President Robert Mugabe was finished. He came through, not because anything had ch...
Vol 39 No 10 | ANGOLA Oil-rich, and poor 15th May 1998 Luanda's fabulous petroleum prospects are doing little to help the devastated economy Angola is Africa's hottest oil territory. International oil companies line up for exploration and exploitation rights; within a decade, production may match Nigeria's staggering tw...
Vol 39 No 10 | ANGOLA Talking drums 15th May 1998 Everyone's time and patience is running out - the government's, UNITA's - and the UN's At first glance, Angola looks on the brink of peace again. Jonas Savimbi'sUnião para a Independência Total de Angola has formally disarmed; it has handed back to state...
Vol 39 No 10 | ZAMBIA Short leash 15th May 1998 Zambia's Consultative Group meeting ended on a note of compromise in Paris on 13 May. There were aid pledges for 1998 of US$530 million but with increased demands for human rights ...