Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

The last ditch efforts by the United Nations’ Haile Menkerios and South Africa’s Thabo Mbeki to broker a meeting between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai have failed this week...

Yet SADC member states remain divided on the issue with South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki and Angola’s José Eduardo dos Santos still blocking resolutions against Mugabe...

In attendance were South African President Thabo Mbeki Namibia’s Hifikepunye Pohamba Malawi’s Bingu wa Mutharika Tanzania’s Jakaya Kikwete Swaziland’s King Mswati and Lesotho’s Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili...

Bitterness has festered within the governing African National Congress since Jacob Zuma took over as party President from national President Thabo Mbeki...

Supporters of Jacob Zuma are determined to push out the remnants of Thabo Mbeki’s followers...

They are close allies of President Thabo Mbeki who regarded Phumzile as a potential successor for the ANC leadership...

It will not be President Thabo Mbeki who achieves this or much else as his presidential term limps towards a feeble end...

Tsvangirai believes the mediator appointed by the Southern African Development Community South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki has lost any claim to neutrality because of his public partiality towards the Mugabe regime...

The Zambian President does not rate the diplomatic efforts of South Africa's Thabo Mbeki SADC's mediator on Zimbabwe...

Instead he was a considered diplomat given to statesmanlike utterances a pragmatist whose willingness to listen to other viewpoints marks him apart from his political rival and President of the Republic Thabo Mbeki...

In South Africa a rift has opened between President Thabo Mbeki with his quiet diplomatic approach and the party's new leader Jacob Zuma whose allies in the trades unions and the South African Communist Party back MDC leader Tsvangirai and refer to Mugabe's government as an illegal regime...

Tanzania whose President Jakaya Kikwete has already differed with South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki on Comoros and Zimbabwe favoured a more conciliatory approach...