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South Africa
Population: 50.0 mn.
GDP: 364 bn.
Debt: 42.0 bn.
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ANC faction-fighting will dominate politics- and paralyse government business- ahead of the December 2012 ANC congress in Bloemfontein, where President Jacob Zuma should narrowly secure re-election as party president. The nationalisation is scaring foreign investors. 

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  • Vol 53 No 1
  •  6th January 2012

Zuma goes for broke

Ructions in the ANC and the President’s grim fight to hold on to power will have economic as well as political consequences

  • Vol 53 No 1
  •  6th January 2012

Economic jitters as Tshwane looks East

Foreign investors will find the political climate discouraging. Exports, apart from gold, are likely to slow. The fall of the rand against the US dollar will help some manufacturers but it will also boost inflation. To make matters worse, the main export ...

  • Vol 52 No 25
  •  16th December 2011

High unit costs

The police Special Investigations Unit, which will gather evidence for President Jacob Zuma's new board of inquiry into the 1999 multibillion-rand arms deal, may now produce results more pleasing to the President after a change at the top.

  • Vol 52 No 24
  •  2nd December 2011

Selling the state

Politicians, trades unionists and business people join battle for control of the state-owned companies

  • Vol 52 No 24
  •  2nd December 2011

The Gordhan knot

A mix of principled ideological differences, intra-party rivalries and commercial interests are stalling efforts by government and the African National Congress to reform state-owned companies.

  • Vol 52 No 23
  •  18th November 2011

The gloves are off

Julius Malema will fight his five-year suspension – under which he retains the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) Presidency – with an appeal which he plans to take to the ANC’s 100th anniversary 2012 national conference, and every weapon avai...

  • Vol 52 No 22
  •  4th November 2011

Malema and Zuma mass their armies

Presidential friends and foes are keenly purging their factions and reaching for every weapon at hand

  • Vol 52 No 22
  •  4th November 2011

Storm over SA mercenaries in Libya

Ex-soldiers and police officers recruited in Cape Town helped some of Gadaffi’s family escape to Algeria but another team was less successful

  • Vol 52 No 20
  •  7th October 2011

Foreign policy aid

South Africa is nearly ready to launch an international aid agency to advance its strategic foreign policy goals. The South African Development Partnership Agency (SADPA) will be partnered by a foreign policy think tank such the United States Council on F...

  • Vol 52 No 19
  •  23rd September 2011

The fight of the century

Zuma and Malema are marshalling their forces for a showdown. Even a probe into ‘the arms deal’ is involved

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