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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 7
  •  2nd April 2010

Easter parade

After South African President Jacob Zuma's 16-18 March trip to Harare, the abrasive Chairman of the African National Congress Youth League, Julius Malema, is due to arrive in Zimbabwe on 2 April for a four-day tour at the invitation of the dominant Zimbab...

  • Vol 51 No 5
  •  5th March 2010

Tightening the welfare belt

A centrist budget annoys the people who got the President elected and leaves some economic questions unanswered

  • Vol 51 No 5
  •  5th March 2010

Small print, big figures

Monetary and exchange-rate policy

  • Vol 51 No 4
  •  19th February 2010

The state of Jacob Zuma

Jobs and housing, not sex scandals, will determine the President’s future as party rivals struggle for influence in the government

  • Vol 51 No 4
  •  19th February 2010

Malema, mines and the youth league

As the African National Congress leadership tries to dampen factional rivalries, some are asking whether Julius Malema, the firebrand President of the ANC Youth League, has moved from being one of President Jacob Zuma’s staunchest supporters to one of his...

  • Vol 51 No 4
  •  19th February 2010

Protection in the arms bazaar

A plea bargain deal in the UK and USA has set back investigations into arms trade crookery in South Africa and Tanzania

  • Vol 51 No 3
  •  5th February 2010

David Coetzee

Over a hundred of us gathered at the Friends Meeting House in Washington DC on 29 January to pay tribute to David Coetzee, a pioneering spirit in African journalism, who had died ten days earlier after a year’s brave battle with the rare lung disease, mes...

  • Vol 51 No 3
  •  5th February 2010

It's all mine

When Mines Minister Susan Shabangu assured South African mining companies that nationalisation would not happen in her lifetime, the reaction at this year’s mining indaba in Cape Town was joyful indeed.

  • Vol 51 No 1
  •  8th January 2010

Global plaudits, local travails

Despite the doubters, President Zuma’s government is set to hold a successful World Cup but will face demands for action on jobs and services

  • Vol 51 No 1
  •  8th January 2010

Walking right, talking left

The African National Congress’s loud debate over economic policy will continue in 2010. The Left demands a more interventionist stance than that of the then Finance Minister, Trevor Manuel, under former President Thabo Mbeki. President Jacob Zuma has play...

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