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South Africa: Zuma Dodges Questions On Ratings Downgrade, While Riding New Train
News24Wire, 4 April 2017
Journalists have been blocked from asking President Jacob Zuma any questions about ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgrade of the country's economy on Monday night. Read more »
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South Africa: Will Zuma's Attempts to Zanufy South Africa Backfire?
ISS, 30 March 2017
'The ANC is using the Zanu-PF tactics of remaining in power,' South Africa's Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) declared this week. 'When Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF realised that it was likely… Read more »
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South Africa: Pravin Gordhan and Mcebisi Jonas - the Faces of the Resistance
Daily Maverick, 1 April 2017
Who would have thought that South Africa would have to fight for its liberation for a second time - and so soon after the anti-Apartheid struggle ended? President Jacob Zuma's… Read more »
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South Africa: Stakes for Nation's Democracy Are High As Zuma Plunges the Knife
The Conversation Africa, 31 March 2017
South Africa has reached a crisis point in its political history that's been looming on the horizon for more than a year. In the dark of night - literally - President Jacob Zuma… Read more »
South Africa: Zuma's Decisions - The Moves of a Desperate Man?
South Africans woke up to the news of a cabinet reshuffle with the expected yet shocking news that Pravin Gordhan the finance minister and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas has been fired. Here's some analyses on the reshuffle and its impact on the country.
InFocus
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President Jacob Zuma has fired his finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, in a Cabinet reshuffle, precipitating an immediate drop in the value of the South African currency, the rand. Read more »
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Opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters has slammed President Jacb Zuma's Cabinet reshuffle, saying it was a means to place the Treasury in the hands of the Gupta business ... Read more »
