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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 22
  • 31/10/2008

Squaring the circle

Would-be president Jacob Zuma has to please his left-wing backers but lacks the money to pay for the promises

  • Vol 49 No 22
  • 31/10/2008

The Left's alternative economics

Cosatu and the SACP want to abandon inflation-targeting and spend the money 'released' on job creation, poverty and income support

  • Vol 49 No 21
  • 17/10/2008

On the verge of a nervous breakdown

A formal break in the ruling African National Congress is looming.

  • Vol 49 No 21
  • 17/10/2008

All politics is provincial

All the African National Congress’s provincial branches are internally divided between Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma supporters.

  • Vol 49 No 21
  • 17/10/2008

The breakaways

Four leading ANC figures will split from the ANC to start a new party with Mosiuoa Lekota

  • Vol 49 No 20
  • 03/10/2008

A wounded presidency

President Motlanthe has a tough mandate: to heal a broken party and hold back an economic downturn

  • Vol 49 No 20
  • 03/10/2008

'Elder brother' Motlanthe

He may have preferred to coach Bafana Bafana, but Kgalema Motlanthe is now Acting President of South Africa

  • Vol 49 No 20
  • 03/10/2008

Would be breakaway

The ousting of Thabo Mbeki has divided the ANC

  • Vol 49 No 19
  • 19/09/2008

The ANC – a luta continua

President Mbeki's supporters have accepted that it is 99% certain that Jacob Zuma will be South Africa's next President

  • Vol 49 No 19
  • 19/09/2008

Politicians versus judges

Acting Judge Chris Nicholson’s bitterest swipe was his comparison of President Thabo Mbeki’s campaign to sideline rival Jacob Zuma to that of apartheid governments using legislation and state institutions to prosecute political opponents. ‘Many activis...

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