Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

Backing the idea is Thabo Mbeki South Africa's former President who attempted the same with the Pan-African Infrastructure Development Fund in 2007 but was then thwarted by the financial crisis...

Yet he earned a rebuke from ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe when he suggested that the province rope in former President Thabo Mbeki to canvass votes in middle class areas of the province during the election campaign...

That share was down from 65% in 2009 and a peak of 69% under President Thabo Mbeki in 2004...

The latest protests show dissatisfaction is not confined to Soweto Johannesburg where Zuma was booed at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela in December last year (AC Vol 54 No 25 When the clouds cried) or to the Eastern Cape where the ANC has steadily lost support since the recall of President Thabo Mbeki in 2008 (AC Vol 49 No 21 All politics is provincial)...

Backed by Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge a former deputy defence and health minister in Thabo Mbeki's 1998-2008 governments and a handful of other ANC veterans Kasrils declared 'We want to shake up the ANC and cause some soul searching...

Nobody can claim that there is any warmth between Rwanda and South Africa regardless of the presence of ex-President Thabo Mbeki...

Upgrades at the late Nelson Mandela's and Thabo Mbeki's dwellings cost respectively R32 mn...

A few loyalists of former President Thabo Mbeki made the list: this includes former Public Works Minister Angela Thoko Didiza who is at number 15...

Voter turnout was well over 90% in the first non-racial elections in 1994 then dipped in 2004 and rose again in 2009 after the dramatic forced exit of President Thabo Mbeki...

Some anti-Zuma tacticians in the ANC would prefer to wait then use a critical Nkandla report after the elections as a means to edge out Zuma in the same way that Thabo Mbeki was voted out of the presidency...

His former peers – Meles Zenawi Moammar el Gadaffi Olusegun Obasanjo and Thabo Mbeki – are long gone from power so Uganda's leadership in his view is filling a dangerous political vacuum...