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...
Vol 56 No 13 | SOUTH AFRICA Save the children 26th June 2015 New visa regulations for children travelling to South Africa have been criticised as 'economic sabotage' by the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Tourism contributes ...
Vol 56 No 13 | SOUTH AFRICASUDAN Fugitive flees as courts sidelined 18th June 2015 The main casualty of the Sudanese President's trip to the African Union summit was the rule of law President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir has again escaped the clutches of the International Criminal Court (ICC) but his disruptive appearance at the African Union summit and his hur...
Vol 56 No 12 | SOUTH AFRICA Money worries 12th June 2015 Deepening financial problems in the African National Congress could hamper its campaigning for next year’s local elections The governing African National Congress is in such dire financial straits that it could not pay staff salaries at the end of May. So it is looking to rich black economic empowermen...
Vol 56 No 11 | SOUTH AFRICA Uneasy lies Zuma’s head 29th May 2015 The President’s rivals are using the ANC’s expected poor showing in the coming local elections as a rallying call against him Next year's local government elections are widely seen as likely to be the most competitive since the end of white-minority rule in 1994 and that has got leaders of the governing A...
Vol 56 No 10 | SOUTH AFRICA Maimane wins leadership 15th May 2015 The Democratic Alliance has voted in its first black leader and hopes for big gains in the 2016 local elections The emergence of Mmusi Maimane, a 35-year old priest from Soweto, as the dapper new leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance after its party congress in Port Elizabeth on 10 Ma...
Vol 56 No 10 | SOUTH AFRICA Part of the union 15th May 2015 The biggest trades union, the 365,000-member National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, is confident of reversing its expulsion from the Confederation of South African Trade U...
Vol 56 No 9 | SOUTH AFRICA BRICS on the rocks 1st May 2015 Designed as a radical alternative to the World Bank by the BRICS group countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, the much-vaunted New Development Bank is falling ...
Vol 56 No 8 | SOUTH AFRICA Poison plots and power games 17th April 2015 President Zuma cancelled the results of ANC elections in Durban because the wrong candidates won A new conference to elect regional leaders of the African National Congress is to be held at the end of April after President Jacob Zuma declared February's vote void. He cancelled...
Vol 56 No 7 | SOUTH AFRICA Cold war at Eskom 3rd April 2015 The suspended Chief Executive Officer of state electricity utility Eskom, Tshediso Matona, has lost his bid to overturn his suspension by the Board of Directors.
