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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 51 No 16
  •  6th August 2010

Taking sides in the big debate

The main opposing statements for the National General Council to be held by the governing African National Congress come, firstly, in the official policy document and, secondly, in proposals from the party's leftist allies, the Congress of South African T...

  • Vol 51 No 15
  •  23rd July 2010

Zuma’s first-term casualties

With dissenting ministers and departing civil servants, President Jacob Zuma faces a tough return to workaday politics

  • Vol 51 No 14
  •  9th July 2010

Secret oil deal

The emergence of Khulubuse Zuma, the nephew of South African President Jacob Zuma, as a leading player in Congo-Kinshasa’s oil industry has provoked curiosity and anger in almost equal measure. Caprikat and Foxwhelp – two companies which Khulubuse Zuma cl...

  • Vol 51 No 13
  •  25th June 2010

World cup shooting

The would-be killers who bungled an attack on dissident Rwandan General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa seem to have thought that the World Cup would divert police attention from their operation in broad daylight at a Johannesburg shopping centre on 19 June. Yet...

  • Vol 51 No 12
  •  11th June 2010

Football fever, faction fever

As the world’s best football teams battle it out in the stadiums, the ruling party’s factions slug it out behind closed doors

  • Vol 51 No 10
  •  14th May 2010

Zuma’s economic tightrope

The President has endorsed Trevor Manuel’s pro-market policy plans and is struggling to keep the left on side

  • Vol 51 No 10
  •  14th May 2010

The Patel alternative

The battle for control of economic development planning continues and the National Planning Commission’s mandate has not yet been agreed. President Jacob Zuma blundered when, in his address to Parliament on 24 June last year, he said that macroeconomic de...

  • Vol 51 No 8
  •  16th April 2010

In a league of his own

Claiming that he made Jacob Zuma President, Julius Malema now faces a challenge to his own power base

  • Vol 51 No 8
  •  16th April 2010

Live by the sword

The murder of racist politician Eugene Terre’Blanche could revive old hatreds and spark new fears

  • Vol 51 No 8
  •  16th April 2010

The Malema effect

The royal reception accorded to South Africa’s firebrand youth leader Julius Malema in Zimbabwe over the Easter weekend has proved counterproductive (AC Vol 51 No 7). As President of the African National Congress Youth League, Malema told President Robert...

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