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- Vol 51 No 5
- 05/03/2010
Tightening the welfare belt
A centrist budget annoys the people who got the President elected and leaves some economic questions unanswered
- Vol 51 No 4
- 19/02/2010
The state of Jacob Zuma
Jobs and housing, not sex scandals, will determine the President’s future as party rivals struggle for influence in the government
- Vol 51 No 4
- 19/02/2010
Malema, mines and the youth league
As the African National Congress leadership tries to dampen factional rivalries, some are asking whether Julius Malema, the firebrand President of the ANC Youth League, has moved from being one of President Jacob Zuma’s staunchest supporters to one of ...
- Vol 51 No 4
- 19/02/2010
Protection in the arms bazaar
A plea bargain deal in the UK and USA has set back investigations into arms trade crookery in South Africa and Tanzania
- Vol 51 No 3
- 05/02/2010
David Coetzee
Over a hundred of us gathered at the Friends Meeting House in Washington DC on 29 January to pay tribute to David Coetzee, a pioneering spirit in African journalism, who had died ten days earlier after a year’s brave battle with the rare lung disease, mes...
- Vol 51 No 3
- 05/02/2010
It's all mine
When Mines Minister Susan Shabangu assured South African mining companies that nationalisation would not happen in her lifetime, the reaction at this year’s mining indaba in Cape Town was joyful indeed.
- Vol 51 No 1
- 08/01/2010
Global plaudits, local travails
Despite the doubters, President Zuma’s government is set to hold a successful World Cup but will face demands for action on jobs and services
- Vol 51 No 1
- 08/01/2010
Walking right, talking left
The African National Congress’s loud debate over economic policy will continue in 2010. The Left demands a more interventionist stance than that of the then Finance Minister, Trevor Manuel, under former President Thabo Mbeki. President Jacob Zuma has play...
- Vol 50 No 25
- 18/12/2009
Ready or not, here they come
President Zuma’s government is confident about the 2010 World Cup preparations, despite professional fouls in the organising committee
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