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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 42 No 16
  • 10/08/2001

Unions fight privatisation ideology

For three years, trades union leader Zwelinzima Vavi has marched his troops to the top of the hill, then marched them down again. This month Vavi, the General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), threatens to take on the gover...

  • Vol 42 No 9
  • 04/05/2001

The plots thicken

Allegations of conspiracies against Mbeki are widening ANC divisions

  • Vol 42 No 8
  • 20/04/2001

Sniping at the President

With elections far off, the gossips have fun with Thabo Mbeki

  • Vol 42 No 7
  • 06/04/2001

Rules of law

Lawyers claim the government wants to bring them under state control

  • Vol 42 No 6
  • 23/03/2001

Spooky

A discreet row has blown up about a newly launched intelligence agency - Ukukhula Security Services - which draws much of its expertise from a group of apartheid-era spies from Orion Professional Management. In turn, OPM is controlled by Strategic Resourc...

  • Vol 42 No 5
  • 09/03/2001

Market failure

Liberal economies aren't producing jobs or growth

  • Vol 42 No 5
  • 09/03/2001

Even more intelligent

The National Intelligence Agency (NIA, for domestic intelligence) is training a special investigations unit which, its critics say, could become the political police of the African National Congress. Some 40 handpicked operatives are being trained by Fren...

  • Vol 42 No 4
  • 23/02/2001

Not so slick

A probe into a secret trading oil trading deal costing the country millions of dollars is threatening some powerful interests

  • Vol 42 No 4
  • 23/02/2001

Wrong number, again

South Africa's hopes of reviving the sale of nearly 10 billion Rand (US$1.4 bn.) of G6 artillery pieces to Saudi Arabia seem to have been scuppered by the 16 February bombardment of Iraq by the United States and Britain. Saudi officials are putting the de...

  • Vol 42 No 3
  • 09/02/2001

Arms for oblivion

Who should investigate the multi-billion arms deal with Western companies?

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