Vol 4 (AAC) No 9 | SOUTH AFRICAZIMBABWETAIWAN Trucking trials 13th July 2011 The trial of Jack Hsieh (Hsieh Ping-sung) and his four truckers, accused of defrauding powerful Zimbabwean interests, rumbles on. Hsieh, who is from Taiwan and has South African na...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 8 | SOUTH AFRICACHINABRIEFING Aurora’s gold mine collapses 9th June 2011 On 2 June, Congress of South African Trade Unions General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi called on the government to launch an investigation into Aurora Empowerment Systems and the Pamo...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 7 | SOUTH AFRICA Maite Nkoana-Mashabane 13th May 2011 Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, South Africa South Africa is now a junior member of BRICS, the group of emerging economies that in some heady assessments will tilt the balance of global power. President Jacob Zuma and his tea...
Vol 51 No 24 | SOUTH AFRICA Why Nyanda had to go 3rd December 2010 When President Jacob Zuma reshuffled his cabinet last month, he fired the powerful Communications Minister, General Siphiwe Nyanda. We can reveal that Nyanda fell out of favour f...
Vol 51 No 22 | SOUTH AFRICA Party unity trumps national reforms 5th November 2010 To placate the one-time friends who have fallen out with him, the President reshuffles his hand of party cards A second term in office is President Jacob Zuma’s main aim. To see that he gets it, his cabinet reshuffle on 31 October seemed designed to win allies within the governing African N...
Vol 51 No 21 | SOUTH AFRICA Battle of the plans 22nd October 2010 Rival ideas and personalities obstruct a promised plan for growth and the President will not pick a winner between the ideological factions Jacob Zuma notched up a success when the Hawks, the special crime investigation unit, abandoned its inquiries into the arms deal in which it had been alleged that he was corruptly ...
Vol 51 No 20 | SOUTH AFRICAEUROPEAN UNION Buttering up Zuma 8th October 2010 In trying to sort out its relations with Africa, Brussels takes care to befriend its main trading partner on the continent South Africa is the European Union's leading trade partner in Africa and the 27 EU countries form its most important trading bloc. Both parties are well aware of the changing balan...
Vol 51 No 19 | SOUTH AFRICA Postponing the policies 24th September 2010 After fighting back against his detractors at the party summit, Zuma has won himself a few more months to remake his shaky presidency It was a rare victory for President Jacob Zuma. By persuading the governing party’s National General Council (NGC) in Durban on 20-24 September to delay all substantive decisions o...
Vol 51 No 19 | SOUTH AFRICA After the council, a reshuffle 24th September 2010 Amid the doctrinal squabbles in Durban, speculation intensfied about how President Jacob Zuma might reshuffle his cabinet. Hard-line presidential allies such as the Communications ...
