South Africa

Overhaul for Eskom

South Africa's public enterprises minister Jeff Radebe outlined the main guidelines of a coming shakeout at Eskom when the state-owned [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.04.2000

With the market for good old security services (surveillance, protection) in strong growth (+30 percent a year in South Africa, 250 companies in Kenya) but dominated by South African enterprises, American firms have used their undeniable technological advance to impose [...]

Subscribers only 08.04.2000

Xolile Guma

The very new (See 'Mboweni takes things in hand' in this issue) adviser to the governor of South African Reserve [...]

Subscribers only 08.04.2000

Mboweni takes things in hand

Named in August 1999, the first Black governor of South African Reserve Bank (central bank) has just reinforced his control [...]

Subscribers only 08.04.2000

The corridors of the Cairo summit

Like all reunions of its kind, the Africa-Europe summit meeting in Cairo this week was the occasion for many bilateral [...]

Subscribers only 08.04.2000

NKOSAZANA DLAMINI-ZUMA

South Africa's foreign minister and her director general Sipho Pityana [...]

Subscribers only 01.04.2000

New secret service inspector general

The South African parliamentary committee responsible for secret services is [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.04.2000

Inquiry into Black Empowerment

Acting in his capacity as chairman of the national committee [...]

Subscribers only 01.04.2000

De Beers Says Africa Produces over Half of World Diamonds

De Beers reckons that Africa accounted for at least $3.6 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.03.2000

Radebe was not favoured

Ian Phillips, special adviser to South African minister of public [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.03.2000

Foreign Affairs are in the red

With that of communications, the South African foreign affairs ministry is among the worst served by the budget for 2000-2001. [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.03.2000

TREVOR MANUEL

During a dinner sponsored by major private-sector enterprises in Johannesburg [...]

Subscribers only 18.03.2000

ICFTU congress for Durban

The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), which includes [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.03.2000

Mvelaphanda Bids for Stake

The South African mining and oil trading firm Mvelaphanda Holdings, which is run by former politician Tokyo Sewale, is in [...]