Vol 58 No 17 | SOUTH AFRICA Can the usurpers unite? 25th August 2017 After failing in a no-confidence vote, Jacob Zuma's opponents are lobbying for his impeachment Twenty minutes after Speaker Baleka Mbete had announced on 8 August that the President had survived yet another confidence vote, a beaming Jacob Zuma, surrounded by bodyguards, swe...
Vol 58 No 16 | SOUTH AFRICA ANC dilemma deepens 4th August 2017 The ruling party is under growing pressure to decide between its leader and its future As South Africa's political crisis deepens ahead of the no-confidence motion vote aimed at ousting President Jacob Zuma on 8 August, a broad front of civil society organisations is...
Vol 58 No 16 | RWANDASOUTH AFRICA Seek asylum elsewhere 4th August 2017 A Rwandan former general exiled in South Africa, Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, has lost his official status as a refugee. Pretoria is using a May court ruling to improve its poor relat...
Vol 58 No 14 | SOUTH AFRICA Cyril's musical chairs 7th July 2017 The presidential hopeful depends on a delicate mix of favours, talent and self-interest to produce his leadership slate The Deputy President of the governing African National Congress, Cyril Ramaphosa, and his followers are performing an intricate balancing act. They are busy finalising nominations ...
Vol 58 No 13 | SOUTH AFRICA Factional fireworks threaten party 23rd June 2017 Next week's policy conference promises to bring all the party's problems together in an explosive combination Senior African National Congress leaders are deeply worried that the stresses within the governing party could tear the ANC apart as they look forward to next week's policy confere...
Vol 58 No 13 | SOUTH AFRICA EFF-ANC alliance floated 23rd June 2017 A coalition with Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters gave the Democratic Alliance control of key cities, including Johannesburg and Tshwane (Pretoria) after August's local el...
Vol 58 No 12 | SOUTH AFRICA Zuma's chaos theory 9th June 2017 Facing down his many foes in the ANC, the President could be planning to use the crisis to prolong his leadership Nothing seems to stick to South Africa's President Jacob Zuma and the more he is attacked, the more powerfully he bounces back, albeit at the expense of his rapidly waning credibil...
Vol 58 No 11 | SOUTH AFRICA Economically bankrupt 26th May 2017 The embattled African National Congress is rapidly running out of money as funders desert the party because of the increasingly erratic behaviour of its leader, President Jacob Zum...
Vol 58 No 10 | SOUTH AFRICA Everyone's fault but Zuma's 12th May 2017 The beleaguered President believes the best defence is attack as he blames white business and the West for his woes President Jacob Zuma has been trying to undermine his critics by claiming that all public attacks on his actions – whether in the media, from opposition parties or within the...
Vol 58 No 10 | SOUTH AFRICA No place to hide 12th May 2017 The once popular Jacob Zuma finds his room for manoeuvre ever more restricted as both supporters and enemies box him in Humiliatingly shunned by both the powerful business community and the forces of labour and the left, President Jacob Zuma is on the defensive as never before. He has had to abandon...
