Vol 40 No 13 | SOUTH AFRICA Mbeki the mystery 25th June 1999 The new cabinet reveals little about the new President's political style Now centre-stage as President, Thabo Mbeki still keeps South Africans guessing. His patchwork cabinet is dominated by ministers who served Nelson Mandela, and expanded to 29 from 26...
Vol 40 No 13 | SOUTH AFRICA Powers behind the throne 25th June 1999 Much more striking than the cabinet reshuffle are the big structural changes in government under President Thabo Mbeki. His office denies that he is creating an 'imperial presidency'...
Vol 40 No 12 | SOUTH AFRICA Mbeki's triumph 11th June 1999 The ANC just misses its target, the NP collapses, the DP rises, Holomisa returns The overwhelming majority won by the African National Congress in the 2 June elections was spectacular if predictable. And it left opposition voters surprisingly unflustered, considering some...
Vol 40 No 11 | SOUTH AFRICA Gauteng for Mbeki 28th May 1999 The election of a provincial prime minister may give a foretaste of future politics The smallest and richest of South Africa’s nine provinces seems certain to give the ruling African National Congress a solid majority at the national and provincial elections on...
Vol 40 No 11 | SOUTH AFRICA Figuring it out 28th May 1999 Up to 2 million fewer votes may be cast in the national and provincial elections on 2 June than in the 1994 polls, which ended the apartheid era....
Vol 40 No 11 | NIGERIASOUTH AFRICA Fernandez letter 28th May 1999 Who was behind the crude attempt to smear President Nelson Mandela by linking him to an oil deal with Nigerian middle-man Chief Antonio Deinde Fernandez? Copies of...
Vol 40 No 10 | SOUTH AFRICA Compulsory coalition 14th May 1999 KwaZulu-Natal's political leaders insist that power-sharing will stop the violence The people of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) will cast their votes on 2 June, in national and provincial elections. However they vote, their party leaders have decided that their...
Vol 40 No 10 | SOUTH AFRICA Uneasy peace 14th May 1999 The Zulu people are proud of their reputation as fighters, which is sadly confirmed by the history of their region. Historic Zululand, incorporated wholesale into the white-ruled...
Vol 40 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICAUNITED STATES Transatlantic tryst 5th May 1999 Clinton's White House and Mandela's Tuynhuys have a special relationship Washington now has closer relations with the African National Congress government than with any other in Africa, including the governments of Egypt and Morocco. The institutionalisation of...
Vol 40 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICA Cyril and the suits 5th May 1999 The ousting of former African National Congress Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa as a deputy chairperson of NAIL (New Africa Investments Limited) on 22 February raises questions about his...