Vol 53 No 23 | SOUTH AFRICA Undiplomatic corps 16th November 2012 A furious row has erupted in cabinet between the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, and her counterpart at National Planning, Trevor Manue...
Vol 53 No 21 | SOUTH AFRICA Zuma’s campaign pays off 19th October 2012 On the brink of the ANC conference in Mangaung in December, incumbent Jacob Zuma has outmanoevered his rivals for the party presidency African National Congress leaders are trying to stitch together a deal that would avoid a contest for the party Presidency between incumbent Jacob Zuma and Vice-President Kgalema M...
Vol 53 No 21 | SOUTH AFRICA Winning them over one by one 19th October 2012 The plan to secure President Jacob Zuma certain victory at the African National Congress’s leadership election focuses on one-to-one meetings with his main opponents. Zuma’s enforc...
Vol 53 No 19 | SOUTH AFRICA Zuma hits back as mining unrest spreads 21st September 2012 The Marikana massacre shocked South Africans and unnerved the markets but President Zuma tells the trades unions that he needs another term A rousing welcome at a national trades union conference and a belated wage deal at the Marikana platinum mines are the first signs that President Jacob Zuma is fighting back. He ha...
Vol 53 No 19 | SOUTH AFRICA Disunited unions 21st September 2012 Despite some stage-managed glad-handing, quarrels over tactics and ideology haunt Cosatu’s conference A political fix negotiated on 16 September allowed the leaders of the Congress of South African Trade Unions to paper over their differences as Secretary General Zwelinzima Vavi ag...
Vol 53 No 17 | SOUTH AFRICA The Marikana massacre 24th August 2012 The ANC’s anti-Zuma faction tries to use the shootings to help depose the President Senior politicians, not least of all President Jacob Zuma, are failing to deflect public anger about the massacre of 34 miners by police on 16 August at Lonmin’s Marikana mine in R...
Vol 53 No 17 | SOUTH AFRICA Battle of the unions 24th August 2012 The dispute at the Lonmin mine is as much about rivalry between the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union and the National Union of Mineworkers as about wages. The AMCU...
Vol 53 No 17 | SOUTH AFRICA Rail to the chief 24th August 2012 Ex-President Thabo Mbeki has taken issue with South Africa’s push to get Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma elected Chairwoman of the African Union. She defeated the incumbent, Gabon’s Jean ...
Vol 53 No 15 | SOUTH AFRICAAFRICAN UNION Dlamini-Zuma takes charge 19th July 2012 South Africa finally won the battle for the AU Commission chair, amid high hopes for reform and more effective interventions Security crises in five countries and pressing economic problems confront the new Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. Although she has three months...
Vol 53 No 15 | SOUTH AFRICAAFRICAN UNION A diplomatic coup in Addis 19th July 2012 Just hours before voting began for the new chairperson of the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa on 15 July, veteran diplomats were predicting a repeat of the deadlock that ha...
