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Vol 50 No 1
9th January 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
15th February 2008

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 is a...

Vol 49 No 1
11th January 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
12th January 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
12th January 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
6th January 2006

Trials and tribulations

Ambitious politicians and their supporters do battle with the judiciary

Vol 46 No 1
7th January 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
9th January 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
10th January 2003

Succession issues

As President Thabo Mbeki heads for another term, other regional leaders aim to join him

Vol 43 No 16
9th August 2002

Political famine

Government corruption and greedy traders are adding to the horrors of the famine

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