Vol 56 No 21 | SOUTH AFRICA ANC looks in the mirror 22nd October 2015 Losing over a third of its members under Jacob Zuma's presidency, the ANC is getting nervous about next year's local elections It may have ended with a stirring rendition of the liberation struggle song Mhla Sibuyayo (The Day We Return) led by President Jacob Zuma but the governing African National Congres...
Vol 56 No 20 | SOUTH AFRICA Rise of the third termers 8th October 2015 There is a push within the ANC for Zuma to stay on as party President for yet another term Hand signals have always been a favourite at African National Congress gatherings. During the bruising party leadership race in 2007, Thabo Mbeki's opponents used the football hand...
Vol 56 No 18 | SOUTH AFRICA In league with Zuma 10th September 2015 The President’s supporters consolidate their grip on the party by securing the leadership of its Youth League The election of a relatively unknown North-West provincial leader of the African National Congress Youth League as National President of ANCYL has again highlighted the growing inf...
Vol 56 No 17 | SOUTH AFRICA The woman most likely… 27th August 2015 The plan that a woman should be the ANC's next leader is gaining in popularity. But it's also an ingenious tactical ploy by Zuma Cyril Ramaphosa's campaign to succeed President Jacob Zuma suffered a massive blow when the African National Congress Women's League declared that a woman should be the party's nex...
Vol 56 No 17 | SOUTH AFRICA Launch of a bandwagon 27th August 2015 The nascent campaign behind Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has the support not only of the African National Congress Women's League and other elements of President Jacob Zuma's camp but al...
Vol 56 No 16 | SOUTH AFRICA Cracks in the ANC monolith 6th August 2015 The alliance between ANC, communists and labour is weakening. Anti-Zuma factions seem to be carrying all before them Eight unions in the Congress of South African Trade Unions are raising funds abroad to start a new labour-based political party and a new union federation. They want the former to ...
Vol 56 No 16 | SOUTH AFRICA Public sectarians 6th August 2015 State-owned enterprises are in disarray as political appointees and managers clash. Much of it is to do with the ANC
Vol 56 No 16 | SOUTH AFRICA Left and right on the Rand 6th August 2015 The South African Competition Commission’s investigation of alleged bank manipulation of foreign exchange dealing is dividing government economic departments, Africa Confidential u...
Vol 56 No 15 | SOUTH AFRICA Seeing red on Zuma 23rd July 2015 The supporters of President Jacob Zuma in the South African Communist Party leadership have narrowly averted a split with the governing African National Congress.
Vol 56 No 13 | SOUTH AFRICA Petrol projects trouble 26th June 2015 PetroSA is the latest state-owned giant to suffer labour and financial problems, with managers first in the firing line The Board of the state-owned Petroleum, Oil and Gas Corporation of South Africa has suspended two senior executives three weeks after the government demanded they go on gardening l...
