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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 49 No 20
  •  3rd October 2008

Would be breakaway

The ousting of Thabo Mbeki has divided the ANC

  • Vol 49 No 19
  •  19th September 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
  •  19th September 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 activists,...

  • Vol 49 No 16
  •  1st August 2008

Blame the judges

It is a testing time for the judiciary as it prepares for the trial of African National Congress President Jacob Zuma. His supporters say the trial is politically motivated and want the charges of corruption, money laundering and racketeering thrown ou...

  • Vol 49 No 16
  •  1st August 2008

Judges of the Constitutional Court

Chief Justice Pius Langa: The head of the Constitutional Court and of the Judicial Commission from rural Limpopo Province worked as a labourer in a shirt factory and studied law by correspondence through the University of South Africa. He defended opponen...

  • Vol 49 No 16
  •  1st August 2008

The judges, lawyers and ministers

KwaZulu-Natal Judge President Vuka Tshabalala studied at the Universities of Fort Hare and Natal. He lost many pro-African National Congress President Jacob Zuma friends by choosing retired Judge Hillary Squires to preside over the 2005 trial that led to ...

  • Vol 49 No 15
  •  18th July 2008

Zuma takes the provinces

The fierce struggle for the presidential nomination is going Jacob Zuma's way - fast

  • Vol 49 No 15
  •  18th July 2008

Not much enlightenment

The battle for control of the African National Congress divides African intellectuals inside and outside the ANC, with Jacob Zuma supporters, Thabo Mbeki supporters and third-man advocates sparring it out in public. Malegapuru William Makgoba, South Afric...

  • Vol 49 No 13
  •  20th June 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
  •  20th June 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 ...

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