Vol 41 No 8 | SOUTH AFRICA Military manoeuvres 14th April 2000 Pretoria's once powerful armed forces need fast reform and a new strategy if they are to help regional security One of the country's sharpest and most popular politicians Defence Minister Mosiuoa (Patrick) Lekota has a daunting task ahead of him if he is to reform the military...
Vol 41 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICA Betting on the market 3rd March 2000 Finance Minister Manuel wins praise for his business budget but joblessness is growing Income taxes and the budget deficit are down, defence spending is up. That conservative combination in Finance Minister Trevor Manuel's budget on 23 February won plaudits from business,...
Vol 41 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA Ten years after, another revolution 18th February 2000 Thabo Mbeki's new economics mean confronting his political allies A decade after Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and South Africa's political revolution started, his successor Thabo Mbeki is launching another revolution,It aims to overthrow the apartheid...
Vol 41 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA Sparkling lobbyists 18th February 2000 The failed attempt by Nicky Oppenheimer, Chairman of De Beers, to meet the United States Justice Department's Joel Klein at the business people's festival in Davos, Switzerland last...
Vol 41 No 3 | SOUTH AFRICA Down to work 4th February 2000 President Mbeki's new team is better equipped and coordinated - they'll need to be The first real post-apartheid government will start work after President Thabo Mbeki opens parliament on 4 February, focusing at last on economic and administrative reform, rather than on...
Vol 41 No 2 | SOUTH AFRICA Bonding with the Broederbond 21st January 2000 The ANC government believes that Afrikaner businesses are more open to change than their English-speaking counterparts In courting the country's three million Afrikaners, President Thabo Mbeki wants to harness their still formidable financial power to boost a flagging economy. Ministers concede that despite the...
Vol 41 No 2 | SOUTH AFRICA Heading north 21st January 2000 Africa Confidential has learned that more than 100 companies are considering applying to the South Africa Reserve Bank for listing on foreign stock exchanges. This follows the giant...
Vol 40 No 25 | SOUTH AFRICA Dealing with dissenters 17th December 1999 President Mbeki is hugging some of his enemies - and shunning others A ruling party with a huge majority may not really need to crush its political opponents. Yet President Thabo Mbeki is squeezing as hard as he can the...
Vol 40 No 25 | SOUTH AFRICAZIMBABWE Busting Billy 17th December 1999 The South African police investigation into Zimbabwean entrepreneur Billy Rautenbach risks escalating into a diplomatic clash between Pretoria and Harare. Rautenbach is a close associate of Zimbabwe's Justice...
Vol 40 No 17 | SOUTH AFRICA Not for turning 27th August 1999 Trades unionists and Communists try to roll back the free market bandwagon South Africa's trades unions chose to confront the country's new President, Thabo Mbeki, just after his inauguration and before he'd had time to find his feet (AC Vol...