South Africa, Brazil, India and China are emerging as the leaders of the new developing world bloc set to take on the developed world.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the South African Communist Party appear to have been sidelined in the African National Congress’s election list process, according to leftists within the ruling alliance.
The Inkatha Freedom Party is plotting to use taxpayers’ money to enhance the profiles of its leaders and ”knock” the image of African National Congress leaders in KwaZulu-Natal ahead of the 2004 election.
The first round
Inkathagate was the story of how the apartheid-era South African Police provided funds to the Inkatha Freedom Party to help it oppose the African National Congress.
An article in an African National Congress publication implies that the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the South African Communist Party should have walked out of the alliance, as Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) leader Trevor Ngwane did, over their differences with the government’s economic policy.
The country’s largest pension payout company is involved in micro-lending on the side, targeting poor pensioners and charging them exorbitant interest rates on small loans.
The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal moved to defuse tension between itself and the Inkatha Freedom Party this week by getting senior leader Dumisani Makhaye to withdraw his description in November last year of Premier Lionel
Mtshali as a ”devil”.
The Inkatha Freedom Party’s powerful national council will next week sit to discuss the party’s possible exit from the national government — a move that senior party members say is the most serious debate yet on this option.
The apartheid-era South African Military Intelligence service had links with the United States’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). This has been confirmed by Military Intelligence files obtained by the Mail & Guardian through the South African History Archive (Saha).
Ntuthuko Maphumulo, a Mail & Guardian sports writer, won a merit award at the Castle Premiership end-of-season ceremony in Johannesburg this week for the role that he has played in promoting football in South Africa as a journalist.