Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

Chaired by a grim President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir the gathering was boycotted not only by the Sudanese opposition but also by the chief African Union mediator South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki and other AU grandees...

During the bruising party leadership race in 2007 Thabo Mbeki's opponents used the football hand gesture that signals that a player is being substituted...

Nor has Mbete held a ministerial portfolio while her rival was Health Minister under the late President Nelson Mandela and then Foreign Minister under ex-President Thabo Mbeki...

Former business allies of ex-President Thabo Mbeki one of Zuma's bitterest foes are also on the unionists' list...

Illicit finance and lost tax revenue cost Africa around US$50 billion per year according to research published in January by an African Union expert group chaired by South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki...

A measure of the bitterness in the anti-Zuma camp was its attempt to table a motion apologising for supporting Zuma at the ANC's 2007 Polokwane Conference where Zuma triumphed over Thabo Mbeki (AC Vol 51 No 17 Mounting strikes)...

That was during the leadership contest between Zuma and former ANC and state President Thabo Mbeki...

As Africa Confidential went to press The AU High-Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) head South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki was consulting with various opposition leaders as were Troika representatives...

Since 456 the opposition finds South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki's AU High-Level Implementation Panel more useful...

Former Presidents Thabo Mbeki and FW De Klerk and other visiting dignitaries in the gallery were visibly shocked as they looked on the mayhem below...