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South Africa

Population: 62.47m
GDP: $373.23bn
Debt: 75.4% of GDP (2024)

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Zuma's surprise package

The coming presidency will face the hard times with some unexpectedly right-wing measures and boosted security services

Jacob Zuma's inevitable ascent to the presidency has been achieved at considerable cost. The governing African National Congress has been absorbed for the last year in faction-figh...


It's the political economy, stupid!

The economy contracted in the first quarter of 2009 and South Africa is entering its first recession in 17 years. The South African Reserve Bank has cut its repo rate (the rate at ...


Integrity in question

Claims that the World Bank’s Vice-President for Integrity and former head of South Africa’s Scorpions anti-corruption unit, Leonard McCarthy, used his position to pursue political ...


Inevitable victory

As the challenges to the governing ANC fizzle out, people are asking what Jacob Zuma wants to do with power

There remains one main unanswered question about the elections due on 22 April : the size of the African National Congress’s vote. Most estimates put it at 55-65% and predict the A...


The battle in the provinces

COPE focuses on just three provinces: Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Northern Cape, leaving KwaZulu-Natal to the ANC and Inkatha

Western Cape: The opposition parties – probably in a coalition of the Democratic Alliance, Independent Democrats and Congress of the People – will win. Northern Cape: This is th...


BEE hits the credit crunch

The transfer of wealth to black owners is slowing as the wealth fades, leaving a deep political hole behind it

The collapse of the world economy, and of demand for raw materials, has brought down the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, rocked South Africa's carefully regulated financial sector and...


A morality contest

Jacob Zuma's legal problems are the new opposition's strongest card

The presidential election will make or break the careers of many South African political leaders. A new one has unexpectedly appeared. The new Congress of the People (COPE), formed...


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