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South Africa

Population: 47.4 million
GNI: $255300 million
Debt: $20900 million
Overview:

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 48 No 8
  • 13/04/2007

CHUKKA, NOT PUKKA

Rich South Africans enjoy polo on the grounds at Plettenberg Bay. It now emerges that all the 13 fields are illegal and that two of their main sponsors are under investigation for connections to murdered fraudster Brett Kebble.

  • Vol 48 No 7
  • 30/03/2007

First murder, now money

Politicians are in the frame amid the financial fallout from Brett Kebble's murder

  • Vol 48 No 7
  • 30/03/2007

Claims on Kebble's gold

The main claimant against Brett Kebble's assets is Randgold & Exploration Company, which is claiming R5.8 billion (US$801 million) from Johannesburg Consolidated Investments (JCI), a company into which Kebble deposited most of the shares he stole. ...

  • Vol 48 No 5
  • 02/03/2007

A highly political budget

Higher spending and a budget surplus smack a tasty pre-election mixtur

  • Vol 48 No 5
  • 02/03/2007

Mining revolt

The global stock market jitters on 27 February - prompted by 9% falls on the Shanghai and Hong Kong markets - hold two lessons for South Africa. Firstly, that international worries about emerging markets will always trump South Africa's own economic me...

  • Vol 48 No 4
  • 16/02/2007

Raining on the parade

Heated arguments about crime and unemployment draw attention away from the government's economic successes

  • Vol 48 No 4
  • 16/02/2007

Women in power

Who are the women vying for the top jobs in the African National Congress, and what are their chances?

  • Vol 48 No 4
  • 16/02/2007

Cyril eyes the presidency

Union leader turned tycoon Cyril Ramaphosa has discreetly informed senior members of the Congress of South African Trade Unions that he is prepared to be a candidate for the presidency of the African National Congress at its national conference in Dec...

  • Vol 48 No 2
  • 19/01/2007

South Africa's spat

South Africa, host to the New Partnership for African Development (NePAD) Secretariat and driving force behind the African Peer Review Mechanism, should have run a model assessment, bringing in its impressive civil servants and well established civil s...

  • Vol 47 No 24
  • 01/12/2006

Help, murder, police!

The investigation of a fraudster's murder raises doubts about the national police chief's position

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