Vol 63 No 25 | NAMIBIA Geingob's party opponents gain 15th December 2022 Despite calls for party unity the re-election of SWAPO Vice-President and Namibian president in waiting Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah continues to widen divisions with the previously dominant faction supporting current...
Vol 63 No 25 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICSOUTH AFRICA Zuma subsidy for CAR ends 15th December 2022 South Africa has just ended a government subsidy set up by President Jacob Zuma for Central African Republic to run an embassy in Pretoria. Until November, South Africa...
Vol 63 No 24 | SOUTH AFRICA A December surprise threatens Ramaphosa's second term 1st December 2022 ANC branches favoured the president in the leadership elections but parliament's probe into the Phala Phala affair could derail him Until the afternoon of 30 November, President Cyril Ramaphosa had all but ensured a second five-year term as African National Congress leader and as presidential candidate in the... READ FOR FREE
Vol 63 No 24 | NAMIBIA Netumbo wins the prize 1st December 2022 SWAPO Vice-President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has retained her party post and is lined up to become its first-ever female presidential candidate in November 2024. She won re-election at the...
Vol 63 No 24 | NAMIBIA Geingob's successor to inherit a divided SWAPO 24th November 2022 Two female ruling party veterans are front-runners in the race to be the party's flag-bearer in the 2024 elections and halt the slide in the popular vote Seven hundred delegates attend the seventh elective congress of the SWAPO Party in Windhoek on 25-27 November to elect the party's next vice-president and successor to President Hage...
Vol 63 No 24 | MALAWI Chakwera's travels and travails 23rd November 2022 There's no let-up in popular anger with the President's trips abroad, while the government mends fences with the IMF Nobody was surprised to see President Lazarus Chakwera's motorcade loudly booed as it swooped past motorists languishing in long queues for scarce petrol on the weekend of 3-4...
Vol 63 No 24 | SOUTH AFRICA Conference countdown sharpens ANC contest 18th November 2022 President Ramaphosa's backers worry that his chances of a second term are weakened by the 'Farmgate' saga which his rivals are exploiting In front of the cameras the comrades beamed. Yet several senior African National Congress officials say that President Cyril Ramaphosa's position is weakening and don't rule out 'a...
Vol 63 No 23 | SOUTH AFRICA Cyril in Empireland 17th November 2022 King Charles III and Prime Minister Sunak see President Ramaphosa's forthcoming visit as marking a new era It is symbolically and politically important to Britain that South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa is the first leader to be hosted by King Charles III for a state...
Vol 63 No 23 | ZAMBIA Loans before haircuts 17th November 2022 Finalising a US$1.3 billion loan with the International Monetary Fund in September was the easy part of Zambia's bid to avoid insolvency, according to analysts and officials from...
Vol 63 No 23 | ZIMBABWE Mnangagwa to lead ZANU-PF onslaught against opposition 15th November 2022 The ruling party's stage-managed congress tries to unite its factions ahead of next year's elections After five years in power, 80-year-old President Emmerson Mnangagwa exerts a wrestler's grip on the ruling party, sidelining his main rival. His biggest problems are the continuing weak...