Vol 49 No 10 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
With one bound Jacob Zuma was free...
In South Africa a rift has opened between President Thabo Mbeki with his quiet diplomatic approach and the party's new leader Jacob Zuma whose allies in the trades unions and the South African Communist Party back MDC leader Tsvangirai and refer to Mugabe's government as an illegal regime...
South Africa whose involvement in Burundi diplomacy was led by African National Congress President Jacob Zuma a decade ago wanted to take a hard line against the FNL...
Zwelinzima Vavi a close ally of ANC President Jacob Zuma has been pushing for the South African government to take a tougher line on Mugabe and the disputed elections as well as being openly critical of President Thabo Mbeki’s policy of ‘quiet diplomacy’...
Two days later the President of the African National Congress and close ally of Vavi’s Jacob Zuma said in London that he supports the blocking of the arms shipment but added: ‘I don’t think we have reached the time for an arms embargo...
That is why African National Congress President Jacob Zuma's visit to Dos Santos this week was so important: it had the threefold effect of undermining Mbeki boosting Zuma's status as a foreign policy fixer within Southern Africa and keeping a channel open to Mugabe if trouble starts after the election...
Mbeki's rival Jacob Zuma the ANC's new leader is trying to take control of Africa policy...
Like his close ally Jacob Zuma Masetlha was also sacked by President Thabo Mbeki...
Vol 49 No 5 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Inflation targeting is deeply unpopular within the ANC and its left-wing alliance partners; ANC President Jacob Zuma has questioned whether it should be retained...
Vol 49 No 5 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Traditional beer much loved by ANC President Jacob Zuma was spared a tax increase for the second year in a row...
Vol 49 No 5 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The African National Congress’s new leadership in which the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) have aligned themselves behind Jacob Zuma rejects Trevor Manuel’s budget for 2008 in the expected terms...