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. ...
Vol 52 No 16 | SOUTH AFRICA Zuma's front-line diplomats 5th August 2011 The President's foreign policy team Kgalema Motlanthe, Deputy President: focuses on the United States, Canada, Britain and the European Union. Privately critical of South Africa’s embrace of China, Motlanthe wants to...
Vol 52 No 14 | SOUTH AFRICA Zuma and the securocrats 8th July 2011 Loyalists in crucial security positions are key to Zuma’s bid for a second term in office President Jacob Zuma’s intention to stand for a second presidential term next year has divided the ramshackle coalition which controls the governing African National Congress. Sinc...
Vol 52 No 14 | SOUTH AFRICA Police powers set to expand 8th July 2011 The security forces have gained extra powers under President Jacob Zuma and some fear that these could be used to curb political opposition. The police are certainly tough enough a...
Vol 52 No 14 | SOUTH AFRICA Veterans with influence 8th July 2011 Veterans of the African National Congress’s former military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), helped Jacob Zuma to get elected ANC leader in 2007 and he wants their support again for a...
Vol 52 No 12 | SOUTH AFRICA Malema and Zuma for breakfast 10th June 2011 The African National Congress Youth League’s 24th annual conference convenes on 16 June with a new feature, the ‘Business Networking Lounge’. Under the rubric of ‘Youth Action For ...
Vol 52 No 11 | SOUTH AFRICA Election results keep Zuma in contention 27th May 2011 Enough black voters have stayed loyal to the ANC in local elections to boost Jacob Zuma’s hopes of a second presidential term In spite of many failures in governance and widespread anger among its supporters, the ruling African National Congress decisively won the municipal elections on 18 May. Popular di...
Vol 52 No 9 | SOUTH AFRICAANALYSIS Local elections threaten the ANC's national grip 29th April 2011 Municipal elections do not always stir passions but those on 18 May hold great significance for an African National Congress beset by infighting and disunity. They promise to be the most competitive polls since majority rule began in 1994 and will affect the ANC’s National Congress next year, signpost 2014’s presidential and parliamentary elections and test the Tripartite Alliance of ANC, Confederation of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and SA Communist Party (SACP), which is split several ways on economic policy. President Jacob Zuma’s political position has become precarious and a poor show at the municipal polls will hurt him as much as his governing party (AC Vol 52 No 8). He is suff...
Vol 52 No 9 | SOUTH AFRICAANALYSIS Towns at risk for the ANC 29th April 2011 The ANC faces tough electoral competition in several constituencies.
Vol 52 No 8 | LIBYASOUTH AFRICA Zuma to the shores of Tripoli 15th April 2011 The AU mission to Libya was an abject failure but the South African leader got a chance to catch up with an old pal South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma led an African Union peace mission to Libya on 11 April. The mission quickly fell apart, which did nothing for the AU’s poor reputation for conf...
