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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 11
  •  25th May 2012

The leadership race opens up

The contest for the presidential nomination is stirring up a lot of mud, and harming the governing party and the entire country

  • Vol 53 No 11
  •  25th May 2012

Police and thieves

President Jacob Zuma’s allies are trying to arrange the state security and financial apparatus to protect him from future prosecution. They also want security officials to pursue his many political opponents with vigour.

  • Vol 53 No 11
  •  25th May 2012

An imported ally

Joseph Stiglitz, a United States Nobel prize-winning economist, has become an unlikely guru of the left wing of the governing African National Congress in its battle with the centrist, nationalist and populist factions.

  • Vol 53 No 11
  •  25th May 2012

Entente absente

Efforts to negotiate a compromise between Gabon and South Africa over the contest for the presidency of the African Union Commission are faltering. This is unlikely to be resolved at July’s AU summit in Lilongwe, and instead fresh elections will be held ...

  • Vol 53 No 10
  •  11th May 2012

Charity ends at home

Recession in the industrialised world has cut into financial support for NGOs and private think-tanks in Africa

  • Vol 53 No 8
  •  13th April 2012

Zuma battles Juju

President Jacob Zuma is struggling to carry fellow leaders of the African National Congress with him in his campaign against dissident ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema. On 4 April, Zuma instructed the head of the ANC’s disciplinary committee to suspe...

  • Vol 53 No 6
  •  16th March 2012

How to buy growth – for $100 billion

Both trades unions and business question the accountability of the government’s huge public spending programme, which would invest 850 billion rand (US$112 bn.) in power generation, transport and telecommunications over the next three years, plus more tha...

  • Vol 53 No 6
  •  16th March 2012

At the top, a three-way split

The cabinet is split three ways over control over the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and infrastructure spending.

  • Vol 53 No 6
  •  16th March 2012

Business gets a seat at the table

Infrastructure investment is financed partly from the National Treasury or appropriations by Parliament. Yet a large share of the finance comes from the budgets of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), national and provincial departments, and municipalities.

  • Vol 53 No 6
  •  16th March 2012

Euro-Right backs Boers

Afrikaners complaining of a ‘Boer genocide’ are joining forces with far-right members of the European Parliament to protest the murder of white farmers in South Africa. In 2010, they had filed complaints against South African politicians over ‘genocidal h...

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