The ANC's leadership wants to know where its money came from - and where it went
Bulelani Ngcuka, South Africa’s former National Public Prosecutor and boss of the Scorpions anti-corruption investigators, is the man most hated by African National Congress President Jacob Zuma and his supporters. He is also likely to be the first Black ...
The murders of immigrants have their roots in poverty, xenophobia and the failure of political leadership
South African officials visiting Russia on 22-23 May were in
damage-control mode. In March, Eskom let it be known that the
Russian nuclear reactor builder Atomstroyexport (ASE),
would be excluded from competitive tenders for Africa's largest
ever nucl...
A dash through Europe has helped the new ANC leader establish his pragmatic credentials with diplomats and businesses
The sacked director of South Africa's National Intelligence
Agency, Billy Masetlha, is at the centre of fresh claims
about the agency's collusion with plotters against Equatorial
Guinea's government. Like his close ally Jacob Zuma, Masetlha
was also s...
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s 2008 budget was a more powerful statement on Thabo Mbeki’s presidency than the President’s own speech. In his State of the Nation address to the National Assembly on 8 February, President Mbeki had faced rejection by his o...
Trevor Manuel’s budget showed real gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 5% in 2007 and forecast growth of 4% in 2008, 4.2% in 2009, and 4.6% in 2010.
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 te...
African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma’s purge of allies of President Thabo Mbeki is gathering pace, with all the ANC’s key policy-making committees under the control of the new regime (AC Vol 49 No 3). Now the pro-Zuma ANC National Executive Committ...
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