Vol 59 No 4 | ZIMBABWE The boys for the black stuff 23rd February 2018 A company founded by controversial mining duo Andrew Groves and Phil Edmonds has returned to the City of London seeking investors for coal assets in Zimbabwe. Groves and Edmonds's ...
Vol 59 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA A Saint Valentine's Day massacre, of sorts 19th February 2018 After Zuma's messy fall, new President Ramaphosa has to revive the economy, social welfare and his party When it came, the end for Jacob Zuma came quickly. A week before, he was brusquely rebuffing polite entreaties by senior African National Congress politicians to resign from the st...
Vol 59 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA Zuma goes down fighting 13th February 2018 The ANC reaches crunch point in the Zexit talks as the State President goes to the wire trying to ease the terms for his departure The African National Congress has decided to remove President Jacob Zuma from office after a tenure dogged by corruption, scandal and economic stagnation. The dramatic decision cam...
Vol 59 No 3 | SOUTH AFRICA The goodbye gets longer 9th February 2018 After weeks of messy negotiations, Jacob Zuma is due to quit this month but will be spending more time with his lawyers The latest deadline for Jacob Zuma's exit from the Presidency is 21 February. On that day the budget is due to be read in parliament, according to Baleka Mbete, Speaker of Parliame...
Vol 59 No 3 | MOZAMBIQUE Slow track for loans case 9th February 2018 Public pressure remains as high as ever on the governing Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) to see justice done over the $2 billion hidden loans scandal. However, party h...
Vol 59 No 3 | ZIMBABWE Lease to appeal 9th February 2018 President Emmerson Mnangagwa has begun to tackle the tough task of balancing his inauguration promise to compensate white farmers for expropriation of their properties with his sup...
Vol 59 No 3 | ZAMBIA Judges to rule on Lungu's future 26th January 2018 Opposition MPs accuse the President of putting an unqualified judge on the Constitutional Court The Constitutional Court was ordered to resume hearings on whether or not President Edgar Lungu may serve a third term of office on 30 January. But Court president Hilda Chibomba's...
Vol 59 No 2 | SOUTH AFRICA Big change, no fanfare 25th January 2018 The ANC's new leader is preparing the ground for his team in government and some radical policy shifts Cyril Ramaphosa, with a mixture of determination and pragmatism, has embarked on a year of sweeping changes in his party and the government that it runs. Since winning the presiden...
Vol 59 No 2 | ZAMBIA Lungu's costly power play 25th January 2018 Extending his time in office is the President's chief priority although a debt crisis looms amid volatile party realignments Whether or not President Edgar Lungu manages to convince the Constitutional Court that he is entitled to a further term in office when his current one ends in 2020, his determinati...
Vol 59 No 2 | ZIMBABWE Roll with the punches 25th January 2018 President Emmerson Mnangagwa's 18 January pledge to deliver 'free, credible, fair and indisputable elections' within five months faces several challenges. One is the legal challeng...
