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South Africa

Population: 47.4 million
GNI: $255300 million
Debt: $20900 million
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The ANC leadership battle continues in August when party President Jacob Zuma faces corruption charges while his supporters plot against national President Thabo Mbeki. The political mayhem will undermine the economy.

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  • Vol 49 No 13
  • 20/06/2008

After the politics, the money

The ANC's leadership wants to know where its money came from - and where it went

  • Vol 49 No 13
  • 20/06/2008

Getting their own back

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 ...

  • Vol 49 No 12
  • 06/06/2008

Apartheid's awful legacy

The murders of immigrants have their roots in poverty, xenophobia and the failure of political leadership

  • Vol 49 No 11
  • 23/05/2008

Nuclear nexus

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...

  • Vol 49 No 10
  • 09/05/2008

Brand new Zuma washes whiter

A dash through Europe has helped the new ANC leader establish his pragmatic credentials with diplomats and businesses

  • Vol 49 No 7
  • 28/03/2008

Butcher Shop

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...

  • Vol 49 No 5
  • 29/02/2008

Politics of the budget

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...

  • Vol 49 No 5
  • 29/02/2008

Putting figures on it

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.

  • Vol 49 No 5
  • 29/02/2008

Thunder on the left

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...

  • Vol 49 No 5
  • 29/02/2008

Party probe

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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