Vol 53 No 11 | GABONSOUTH AFRICAAFRICAN UNION Entente absente 25th May 2012 Efforts to negotiate a compromise between Gabon and South Africa over the contest for the presidency of the African Union Commission are faltering. This is unlikely to be resolved...
Vol 53 No 10 | SOUTH AFRICA Charity ends at home 11th May 2012 Recession in the industrialised world has cut into financial support for NGOs and private think-tanks in Africa Civic activists and concerned citizens are threatened by a steep drop in charitable donations. The funding model of voluntary donations for good works is a victim of the Western ec...
Vol 53 No 8 | SOUTH AFRICA Zuma battles Juju 13th April 2012 President Jacob Zuma is struggling to carry fellow leaders of the African National Congress with him in his campaign against dissident ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema. On 4 A...
Vol 53 No 6 | SOUTH AFRICAANALYSIS How to buy growth – for $100 billion 16th March 2012 Both trades unions and business question the accountability of the government’s huge public spending programme, which would invest 850 billion rand (US$112 bn.) in power generation, transport and telecommunications over the next three years, plus more than R400 bn. for six new nuclear power stations by 2030 The announcement of these grandiose schemes in Parliament last month coincides with leadership contests within the governing African National Congress, which will choose its presi...
Vol 53 No 6 | SOUTH AFRICA At the top, a three-way split 16th March 2012 The cabinet is split three ways over control over the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and infrastructure spending.
Vol 53 No 6 | SOUTH AFRICA Business gets a seat at the table 16th March 2012 Infrastructure investment is financed partly from the National Treasury or appropriations by Parliament. Yet a large share of the finance comes from the budgets of state-owned ente...
Vol 53 No 6 | SOUTH AFRICAEUROPEAN UNION Euro-Right backs Boers 16th March 2012 Afrikaners complaining of a ‘Boer genocide’ are joining forces with far-right members of the European Parliament to protest the murder of white farmers in South Africa. In 2010, th...
Vol 53 No 5 | MADAGASCARSOUTH AFRICA Who's the democrat now? 2nd March 2012 South Africa seeks a global role and is standing up for democracy – in Madagascar, anyway.
Vol 53 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA The state of Zuma’s nation 17th February 2012 The promises sound good but money may be short as the President stakes his claim to another term at the helm President Jacob Zuma gave his third, and best, State of the Nation Address to a joint session of Parliament on 9 February. To show their growing power, the intelligence services to...
Vol 53 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA Big projects, money pressures 17th February 2012 Central to President Jacob Zuma’s plans for 2012 is a massive infrastructure development programme. It is to be driven and overseen by the Presidential Infrastructure Coordinating ...
