Vol 44 No 23 | SOUTH AFRICA BEE is for business 21st November 2003 President Mbeki shifts responsibility for black empowerment to the business sector Can government plans for black empowerment and the transfer of equity to black-owned businesses work in tandem with its market economic strategy? That is the question that foreign...
Vol 44 No 20 | SOUTH AFRICA Spies pop out of the past 10th October 2003 Allegations that the official chief prosecutor was once a spy have split the leadership South Africa's ruling African National Congress risks sinking deeper into a quagmire of spy-naming and mutual suspicion amidst suspected corruption in a multimillion pound arms deal (AC Vol...
Vol 44 No 20 | SOUTH AFRICA An awkward embrace 10th October 2003 The ovation given to Deputy President Jacob Zuma at last month's national conference of the Congress of South African Trade Unions points again to the very odd nature...
Vol 44 No 18 | SOUTH AFRICA Struggling to succeed 12th September 2003 Mbeki moves the chess pieces as the 2004 elections draw near and scandals rage The African National Congress had studiously avoided an open succession struggle since going into exile four decades ago. Now no holds are barred as it prepares for April's...
Vol 44 No 18 | SOUTH AFRICA BAE's role in SA's big arms deal 12th September 2003 A public inquiry into contracts awarded for South Africa's arms purchasing programme, the Strategic Defence Procurement Package, found in 2001 that most bids required closer scrutiny. Main successful...
Vol 44 No 18 | SOUTH AFRICA Butter on those guns 12th September 2003 The Strategic Defence Procurement Package was signed in November 1999, six months after Thabo Mbeki took over from Nelson Mandela as president. The largest arms procurement programme in...
Vol 44 No 17 | SOUTH AFRICA Busy bees 29th August 2003 The Oppenheimer mining dynasty clambers on to the black empowerment bandwagon Steam is building in the empowerment debate. Now the Oppenheimer family, which for 100 years has dominated South African gold and diamond production, has made another...
Vol 44 No 17 | SOUTH AFRICA Background to Brenthurst 29th August 2003 In 2002, the draft of government legislation on a mining charter was leaked to reveal that 51 per cent of the mining industry was earmarked for ...
Vol 44 No 16 | BURUNDISOUTH AFRICA Zuma's other hotspot 8th August 2003 Two rebel factions hold the SA-backed peace process to ransom Hopes that the installation in late April of President Domitien Ndayizeye, a Hutu, would hasten an end to the fighting have not been realised. Instead, the conflict has...
Vol 44 No 15 | SOUTH AFRICA Peacekeepers and peers 25th July 2003 Mbeki finds peacekeeping a better bet than dictating democracy to dictators Defying the ever extending setbacks to Africa's peace and security agenda, South African President Thabo Mbeki has again shown his impatience with fellow African leaders over their sluggish...
Vol 44 No 15 | SOUTH AFRICA Sticky US relations 25th July 2003 South Africa's relations with the United States reached a low point over the invasion of Iraq, with both President Thabo Mbeki and his predecessor Nelson Mandela sharply criticising...
Vol 44 No 15 | SOUTH AFRICA NePAD doubts mount up 25th July 2003 With its emphasis on new concepts of African collective responsibility and its promise of strong moral and financial support from Western countries, the New Partnership for African Development...
Vol 44 No 9 | SOUTH AFRICA Looking down the line 2nd May 2003 Cyril 'the Suit' Ramaphosa is positioning himself to succeed Mbeki in 2009 That President Thabo Mbeki is the African National Congress presidential candidate for 2004 and its leader for now is not in question. Yet already speculation is rife about...
Vol 44 No 8 | SOUTH AFRICACONGO-KINSHASA Deeper and deeper 18th April 2003 President Mbeki is betting his diplomatic credibility on success in brokering peace in Congo and Burundi South Africa is about to raise the stakes by committing three battalions for peacekeeping duties in Burundi and eastern Congo, having hosted a succession of summits to persuade...
Vol 44 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA The blame game 21st February 2003 AIDS policy is still disastrous, though the President now leaves it to his Health Minister The blame for South Africa's peculiar policies on HIV/AIDS is shifting from President Thabo Mbeki to his Health Minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, caricatured by local AIDS activists as 'Dr....
Vol 44 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICA Said and unsaid 21st February 2003 President Thabo Mbeki's State of the Nation speech at the opening of parliament on 14 February has left many feeling he slighted the nation in favor of a...
Vol 44 No 2 | SOUTH AFRICA Gatsha bites back 24th January 2003 Inkatha has stopped the ANC's efforts to change the election rules Inkatha, the only party strong enough to face up to the governing African National Congress, won a tactical victory this month in its home province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN)....