Vol 54 No 9 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICSOUTH AFRICA Pleas to go 26th April 2013 President Jacob Zuma puzzled his central African interlocutors and CAR politicians by claiming they had made a ‘passionate plea’ for South African troops to return to the troubled ...
Vol 54 No 8 | SOUTH AFRICA ANC wields the long knives 12th April 2013 The governing party and its partners quarrel bitterly as Zuma clears out his opponents, regardless of the consequences President Jacob Zuma and his allies have begun their long-awaited purge of trades unionists, party members and government officials judged to have opposed him at the African Nation...
Vol 54 No 8 | SOUTH AFRICA Blade's think-tank regiment 12th April 2013 Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande may be moving to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation to replace Maite Nkoana-Mashabane. This is under serious conside...
Vol 54 No 7 | SOUTH AFRICA South African troops under fire 29th March 2013 A political row erupted in South Africa after 13 troops were killed and some 27 wounded on a mission to Central African Republic which is poorly understood locally and little trust...
Vol 54 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICA Guns, jobs and strikes 1st March 2013 With the police and judiciary under international scrutiny, President Zuma has told officials to crack down hard on protests that turn violent President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address to Parliament in Cape Town on 14 February was drowned out by news of the arrest of Olympic champion Oscar Pistorius earlier that ...
Vol 54 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICA The left-right clash on economics 1st March 2013 The National Development Plan is ‘a road map to a South Africa where all will have water, electricity, sanitation, jobs, housing, public transport, adequate nutrition, education, s...
Vol 54 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICA Gordhan's budget balm 1st March 2013 Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan managed to calm business and assuage the public with an assured budget speech. The programme is slick and Gordhan is winning praise for his attempt...
Vol 54 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICA BRICS tug-of-war 1st March 2013 At its Mangaung conference in December, the African National Congress resolved to put economic diplomacy at the heart of the South Africa’s foreign policy. Now a bitter battle is r...
Vol 54 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA Swearing deputies 15th February 2013 Cyril Ramaphosa, the African National Congress’s new Deputy President, is finding that the smooth path to power that was promised him may be strewn with boulders. He agreed to beco...
Vol 54 No 2 | SOUTH AFRICA Ramaphosa’s price 18th January 2013 For years to come, Jacob Zuma will be paying for the deals he made with both allies and enemies to secure the ANC presidency President Jacob Zuma is to be the face of the African National Congress in the 2014 elections and after winning them will gradually transfer power to Cyril Ramaphosa. Before Decemb...
