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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 44 No 23
  • 21/11/2003

BEE is for business

President Mbeki shifts responsibility for black empowerment to the business sector

  • Vol 44 No 20
  • 10/10/2003

Spies pop out of the past

Allegations that the official chief prosecutor was once a spy have split the leadership

  • Vol 44 No 20
  • 10/10/2003

An awkward embrace

The ovation given to Deputy President Jacob Zuma at last month's national conference of the Congress of South African Trade Unions points again to the very odd nature of the Tripartite Alliance between the governing African National Congress on one side a...

  • Vol 44 No 18
  • 12/09/2003

Struggling to succeed

Mbeki moves the chess pieces as the 2004 elections draw near and scandals rage

  • Vol 44 No 18
  • 12/09/2003

BAE's role in SA's big arms deal

A public inquiry into contracts awarded for South Africa's arms purchasing programme, the Strategic Defence Procurement Package, found in 2001 that most bids required closer scrutiny. Main successful bidders were Sweden's Saab, France's Thomson-CSF (now T...

  • Vol 44 No 18
  • 12/09/2003

Butter on those guns

The Strategic Defence Procurement Package was signed in November 1999, six months after Thabo Mbeki took over from Nelson Mandela as president. The largest arms procurement programme in the nation's history, it binds it contractually for twelve years. Pay...

  • Vol 44 No 17
  • 29/08/2003

Busy bees

The Oppenheimer mining dynasty clambers on to the black empowerment bandwagon

  • Vol 44 No 17
  • 29/08/2003

Background to Brenthurst

In 2002, the draft of government legislation on a mining charter was leaked to reveal that 51 per cent of the mining industry was earmarked for black ownership by 2014. This caused a crash in SA mining equities and although the charter which emerged m...

  • Vol 44 No 16
  • 08/08/2003

Zuma's other hotspot

Two rebel factions hold the SA-backed peace process to ransom

  • Vol 44 No 15
  • 25/07/2003

Peacekeepers and peers

Mbeki finds peacekeeping a better bet than dictating democracy to dictators

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