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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 52 No 18
  •  9th September 2011

Disrespect for the President

Disciplining Julius Malema is only part of Zuma’s effort to reassert his control of the ANC and win re-election as President

  • Vol 52 No 17
  •  26th August 2011

Suddenly, the nationalisation talk gets serious

The President and his business friends will have to make concessions to the growing calls for more state ownership

  • Vol 52 No 17
  •  26th August 2011

The nationalisation investigators

The team investigating nationalisation was appointed in September 2010 by the African National Congress National General Council to investigate the ‘desirability and modalities’ of nationalising mines and asked to report in time for the 2012 ANC National ...

  • Vol 52 No 16
  •  5th August 2011

Foreign policy flip-flops

President Zuma’s foreign policies await definition and are under fierce attack from his former allies

  • Vol 52 No 16
  •  5th August 2011

Zuma's front-line diplomats

The President's foreign policy team

  • Vol 52 No 14
  •  8th July 2011

Zuma and the securocrats

Loyalists in crucial security positions are key to Zuma’s bid for a second term in office

  • Vol 52 No 14
  •  8th July 2011

Police powers set to expand

The security forces have gained extra powers under President Jacob Zuma and some fear that these could be used to curb political opposition. The police are certainly tough enough already. In the twelve months to March last year, the Independent Complaints...

  • Vol 52 No 14
  •  8th July 2011

Veterans with influence

Veterans of the African National Congress’s former military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), helped Jacob Zuma to get elected ANC leader in 2007 and he wants their support again for a second term. Last time, he is believed to have struck a deal: the veterans...

  • Vol 52 No 12
  •  10th June 2011

Malema and Zuma for breakfast

The African National Congress Youth League’s 24th annual conference convenes on 16 June with a new feature, the ‘Business Networking Lounge’. Under the rubric of ‘Youth Action For Economic Freedom In Our Lifetime’, business people can share a bacon and eg...

  • Vol 52 No 11
  •  27th May 2011

Election results keep Zuma in contention

Enough black voters have stayed loyal to the ANC in local elections to boost Jacob Zuma’s hopes of a second presidential term

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