Vol 44 No 15 | SOUTH AFRICA NePAD doubts mount up 25th July 2003 With its emphasis on new concepts of African collective responsibility and its promise of strong moral and financial support from Western countries, the New Partnership for African...
Vol 44 No 9 | SOUTH AFRICA Looking down the line 2nd May 2003 Cyril 'the Suit' Ramaphosa is positioning himself to succeed Mbeki in 2009 That President Thabo Mbeki is the African National Congress presidential candidate for 2004 and its leader for now is not in question. Yet already speculation is rife about who wil...
Vol 44 No 8 | SOUTH AFRICACONGO-KINSHASA Deeper and deeper 18th April 2003 President Mbeki is betting his diplomatic credibility on success in brokering peace in Congo and Burundi South Africa is about to raise the stakes by committing three battalions for peacekeeping duties in Burundi and eastern Congo, having hosted a succession of summits to persuade war...
Vol 44 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA The blame game 21st February 2003 AIDS policy is still disastrous, though the President now leaves it to his Health Minister The blame for South Africa's peculiar policies on HIV/AIDS is shifting from President Thabo Mbeki to his Health Minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, caricatured by local AIDS activi...
Vol 44 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA Said and unsaid 21st February 2003 President Thabo Mbeki's State of the Nation speech at the opening of parliament on 14 February has left many feeling he slighted the nation in favor of a largely symbolic foreign p...
Vol 44 No 2 | SOUTH AFRICA Gatsha bites back 24th January 2003 Inkatha has stopped the ANC's efforts to change the election rules Inkatha, the only party strong enough to face up to the governing African National Congress, won a tactical victory this month in its home province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). By teami...
Vol 43 No 24 | SOUTH AFRICA Kraaling out of trouble 6th December 2002 ANC loyalists' worries about leftists and labour are stifling the party and government On 16 December 1838, Afrikaner trekkers were lured into Zulu King Dingaan's kraal and slaughtered. On that day 164 years later, President Thabo Mbeki will try to lure in his party'...
Vol 43 No 24 | SOUTH AFRICA The right wing explodes 6th December 2002 More bombings by Afrikaner extremists have attracted some surprising sympathy Afrikaner bombers are busy again. A dozen explosions in the past month damaged buildings, railway lines and a police aircraft hangar in the Johannesburg-Pretoria area, Western and ...
Vol 43 No 22 | SOUTH AFRICA A nuclear waste 8th November 2002 Eskom's nuclear programme appeals to national pride, but it may not succeed The power utility Eskom has asked the cabinet for 1 billion rand (US$100 million) to back a new nuclear research programme which it claims will launch the country into the ranks of...
Vol 43 No 20 | SOUTH AFRICA Scrambling for Africa 11th October 2002 Business hopes that President Mbeki's pan-African vision can produce some profits too As Pretoria flexes its diplomatic muscles in Africa, championing the New Partnership for Africa's Development and sending peacekeeping troops to Burundi and Congo-Kinshasa, its com...