Zwelinzima Vavi a close ally of ANC President Jacob Zuma has been pushing for the South African government to take a tougher line on Mugabe and the disputed elections as well as being openly critical of President Thabo Mbeki’s policy of ‘quiet diplomacy’...
Mugabe and Dos Santos share a common distrust of South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki who is by their standards a dangerous liberal harbouring uncomfortable ideas about political peer review and tackling grand corruption...
Like his close ally Jacob Zuma Masetlha was also sacked by President Thabo Mbeki...
South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki denounced the AU intervention as taking the country back to its history of forcible changes of government...
Some say this scenario is favoured by the South African government whose President Thabo Mbeki has faced growing criticism for its failure to insist along with other governments in the region that all the agreed electoral reforms be enacted before the election...
Vol 49 No 5 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s 2008 budget was a more powerful statement on Thabo Mbeki’s presidency than the President’s own speech...
Vol 49 No 5 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
They said it pleases the rich and fails to match President Thabo Mbeki’s promise to focus squarely on fighting poverty with targeted programmes...
Vol 49 No 5 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma’s purge of allies of President Thabo Mbeki is gathering pace with all the ANC’s key policy-making committees under the control of the new regime (AC Vol 49 No 3)...
Vol 49 No 4 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Pomp ceremony fashion parades and backslapping are the usual accompaniments to the state-of-the-nation address with which President Thabo Mbeki opens a session of South Africa's parliament...
The power industry still sees Mlambo-Ngcuka now Thabo Mbeki's Vice-President as a better promoter of its interest than her successor Buyelwa Sonjica...
