Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

Unionists such as James Kruger the Western Cape provincial Chairman of the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union warned that Zuma could suffer the same fate as Thabo Mbeki who was ousted with the support of the unions...

Even South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki mentioned this danger...

Last month South African former President Thabo Mbeki proposed a 'confederation' or at least separation with 'soft borders' and 'free movement'...

He was a close ally of former President Thabo Mbeki and Zuma’s allies do not trust him...

Under ex-President Thabo Mbeki South Africa invested much diplomatic effort in brokering accords and backing peacekeeping missions but saw little economic gain...

This includes the African Union which in a team led by the ever optimistic South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki is chairing the negotiations...

A decade ago under President Thabo Mbeki there was no such debate because the ANC government was preoccupied with paying off the massive debts inherited from the apartheid era and showing its capacity for fiscal responsibility...

Chikane a former employee of South Africa’s State Diamond Trader and brother of the ex-Director General of ex-President Thabo Mbeki’s Office Frank Chikane reached his conclusion although police arrested a civil society activist Farai Muguwu he had interviewed and Chikane’s briefcase was rifled by Zimbabwean security agents...

Hailed as a brilliant Finance Minister under then President Thabo Mbeki Trevor Manuel has spent nearly a year coming up with the 24 commissioners for the NPC the body he heads that will coordinate long-term development planning...

* The (Southern) Political Parties’ Council an initiative of SA ex-President Thabo Mbeki issued a scathing report on the SPLM which even its representative on the PPC signed...