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- Vol 51 No 17
- 27/08/2010
Mounting strikes
Support is building for the national strike of nurses, teachers and clerks since it was launched on 18 August, presenting two serious threats to President Jacob Zuma’s government. First there is the disruption of the post-World Cup euphoria, and second...
- Vol 51 No 16
- 06/08/2010
An uneasy ruling alliance
The ANC needs stronger leadership to referee the intensifying internal debates ahead of the policy-making conference in September
- Vol 51 No 16
- 06/08/2010
Taking sides in the big debate
The main opposing statements for the National General Council to be held by the governing African National Congress come, firstly, in the official policy document and, secondly, in proposals from the party's leftist allies, the Congress of South Africa...
- Vol 51 No 15
- 23/07/2010
Zuma’s first-term casualties
With dissenting ministers and departing civil servants, President Jacob Zuma faces a tough return to workaday politics
- Vol 51 No 14
- 09/07/2010
Secret oil deal
The emergence of Khulubuse Zuma, the nephew of South African President Jacob Zuma, as a leading player in Congo-Kinshasa’s oil industry has provoked curiosity and anger in almost equal measure. Caprikat and Foxwhelp – two companies which Khulubuse Zuma c...
- Vol 51 No 13
- 25/06/2010
World cup shooting
The would-be killers who bungled an attack on dissident Rwandan General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa seem to have thought that the World Cup would divert police attention from their operation in broad daylight at a Johannesburg shopping centre on 19 June. Yet...
- Vol 51 No 12
- 11/06/2010
Football fever, faction fever
As the world’s best football teams battle it out in the stadiums, the ruling party’s factions slug it out behind closed doors
- Vol 51 No 10
- 14/05/2010
Zuma’s economic tightrope
The President has endorsed Trevor Manuel’s pro-market policy plans and is struggling to keep the left on side
- Vol 51 No 10
- 14/05/2010
The Patel alternative
The battle for control of economic development planning continues and the National Planning Commission’s mandate has not yet been agreed. President Jacob Zuma blundered when, in his address to Parliament on 24 June last year, he said that macroeconomic ...
- Vol 51 No 8
- 16/04/2010
In a league of his own
Claiming that he made Jacob Zuma President, Julius Malema now faces a challenge to his own power base
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