Vol 52 No 24 | SOUTH AFRICA The Gordhan knot 2nd December 2011 A mix of principled ideological differences, intra-party rivalries and commercial interests are stalling efforts by government and the African National Congress to reform state-own...
Vol 52 No 23 | SOUTH AFRICA The gloves are off 18th November 2011 Julius Malema will fight his five-year suspension – under which he retains the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) Presidency – with an appeal which he plans to take to ...
Vol 52 No 22 | SOUTH AFRICA Malema and Zuma mass their armies 4th November 2011 Presidential friends and foes are keenly purging their factions and reaching for every weapon at hand Fierce purges are under way in the governing African National Congress and its affiliates, paralysing the government and the organisations themselves. The clean-outs are reciprocal...
Vol 52 No 22 | LIBYASOUTH AFRICA Storm over SA mercenaries in Libya 4th November 2011 Ex-soldiers and police officers recruited in Cape Town helped some of Gadaffi’s family escape to Algeria but another team was less successful Two teams of South African mercenaries are believed to have helped members of the Gadaffi family to escape from Libya and may have tried to save the late Libyan leader, Moammar el ...
Vol 52 No 20 | SOUTH AFRICA Foreign policy aid 7th October 2011 South Africa is nearly ready to launch an international aid agency to advance its strategic foreign policy goals. The South African Development Partnership Agency (SADPA) will be p...
Vol 52 No 19 | SOUTH AFRICA The fight of the century 23rd September 2011 Zuma and Malema are marshalling their forces for a showdown. Even a probe into ‘the arms deal’ is involved President Jacob Zuma’s mid-September decision to form a commission of inquiry into the controversial arms deal of the late 1990s is being widely seen as an attempt to forestall the...
Vol 52 No 18 | SOUTH AFRICA Disrespect for the President 9th September 2011 Disciplining Julius Malema is only part of Zuma’s effort to reassert his control of the ANC and win re-election as President True to form, President Jacob Zuma acted decisively only when his personal position as leader of the African National Congress came under threat. He wants Julius Malema, President ...
Vol 52 No 17 | SOUTH AFRICA Suddenly, the nationalisation talk gets serious 26th August 2011 The President and his business friends will have to make concessions to the growing calls for more state ownership Nationalisation of the country’s mines, banks and land is under serious consideration by the governing African National Congress and not only because of the populist calls for it f...
Vol 52 No 17 | SOUTH AFRICA The nationalisation investigators 26th August 2011 The team investigating nationalisation was appointed in September 2010 by the African National Congress National General Council to investigate the ‘desirability and modalities’ of...
Vol 52 No 16 | SOUTH AFRICA Foreign policy flip-flops 5th August 2011 President Zuma’s foreign policies await definition and are under fierce attack from his former allies President Jacob Zuma’s foreign policy, his critics at home say, is just like his domestic policy: he sits on the fence hoping to please everyone and in the end, paralysis follows. ...
