Southern Africa
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Found 15 articles.
- Vol 50 No 1
- 09/01/2009
A new landscape unfolds
Changes in South African politics will reverberate across the region in a year of economic tumult
- Vol 49 No 4
- 15/02/2008
Power crisis
The lights are going out all over Southern Africa. It is the first really big mistake in post-apartheid South Africa's economic management and one of the most far-reaching. The blame may be spread around the politicians and the state officials but it i...
- Vol 49 No 1
- 11/01/2008
Political hurdles ahead
Open warfare in South Africa’s ANC and a groundbreaking party of ZANU-PF dissidents in Zimbabwe promise a year of upsets
- Vol 48 No 1
- 12/01/2007
Succession sagas
President Thabo Mbeki is trying to organise an orderly transfer of power unlike his counterparts in Angola and Zimbabwe
- Vol 48 No 1
- 12/01/2007
Waiting in line
The list of putative candidates for the presidency of South Africa’s African National Congress grows ever longer: Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka; Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma; Finance Minister Trevor Manuel; businessman Saki Macozoma; ...
- Vol 47 No 1
- 06/01/2006
Trials and tribulations
Ambitious politicians and their supporters do battle with the judiciary
- Vol 46 No 1
- 07/01/2005
Pan-Africanism meets market economics
Incessant diplomatic shuffling and economic muscle will make South Africa the continent's capital this year
- Vol 45 No 1
- 09/01/2004
Ten years after
South Africans will celebrate a decade of democracy but ask tough questions about their government's HIV-AIDS policy and diplomacy in Africa
- Vol 44 No 1
- 10/01/2003
Succession issues
As President Thabo Mbeki heads for another term, other regional leaders aim to join him
- Vol 43 No 16
- 09/08/2002
Political famine
Government corruption and greedy traders are adding to the horrors of the famine
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