Vol 58 No 12 | SOUTH AFRICA Zuma's chaos theory 9th June 2017 Facing down his many foes in the ANC, the President could be planning to use the crisis to prolong his leadership Nothing seems to stick to South Africa's President Jacob Zuma and the more he is attacked, the more powerfully he bounces back, albeit at the expense of his rapidly waning credibil...
Vol 58 No 11 | SOUTH AFRICA Economically bankrupt 26th May 2017 The embattled African National Congress is rapidly running out of money as funders desert the party because of the increasingly erratic behaviour of its leader, President Jacob Zum...
Vol 58 No 10 | SOUTH AFRICA Everyone's fault but Zuma's 12th May 2017 The beleaguered President believes the best defence is attack as he blames white business and the West for his woes President Jacob Zuma has been trying to undermine his critics by claiming that all public attacks on his actions – whether in the media, from opposition parties or within the...
Vol 58 No 10 | SOUTH AFRICA No place to hide 12th May 2017 The once popular Jacob Zuma finds his room for manoeuvre ever more restricted as both supporters and enemies box him in Humiliatingly shunned by both the powerful business community and the forces of labour and the left, President Jacob Zuma is on the defensive as never before. He has had to abandon...
Vol 58 No 9 | SOUTH AFRICA Mr Gigabyte's baptism of fire 28th April 2017 The new Finance Minister swings through New York and Washington trying to give an impression of business as usual South Africa's fourth Finance Minister in two years, Malusi Gigaba, encountered bemusement and indifference when he visited the United States last week for the International Moneta...
Vol 58 No 9 | SOUTH AFRICA The trillion rand thank you 28th April 2017 Much of the raison d'être of the controversial 1 trillion rand (US$72 billion) nuclear deal with Russia rests on President Jacob Zuma's belief that he owes his life to Presid...
Vol 58 No 8 | SOUTH AFRICA Zuma's edifice starts to wobble 14th April 2017 After denouncing the sacking of Gordhan, oppositionists and ANC dissidents hit the streets. Then it's over to parliament Pro-democracy forces brought tens of thousands of protestors into South Africa's streets last week following President Jacob Zuma's ousting of Pravin Gordhan from the Finance Minis... READ FOR FREE
Vol 58 No 8 | SOUTH AFRICA Gigaba raises sights still higher 14th April 2017 Amid ANC rivalries for the succession, the new Finance Minister believes he could get the top job The controversial Malusi Gigaba, the former Home Affairs Minister now elevated to the Finance Ministry, has been proposed by influential sections of the African National Congress a...
Vol 58 No 8 | SOUTH AFRICA New script in KwaZulu-Natal 14th April 2017 Heavy-handed quashing of dissent and voter fraud is cutting support for President Zuma in his heartland province The powerful KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) branch of the African National Congress, the governing party's largest, lifted Jacob Zuma into the ANC presidency at its 2007 and 2012 national con...
Vol 58 No 7 | SOUTH AFRICA Omens and portents 31st March 2017 Optimists are in short supply as the significance sinks in of Gordhan's recall from overseas and the implications of a reshuffle Only the beleaguered judiciary and Pravin Gordhan's fiscal management stand between South Africa and economic doom. This is an increasingly common refrain within the political clas... READ FOR FREE