Out of respect rather than political sympathy former presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe joined Ramaphosa at the requiem mass for Tutu in Cape Town...

Ramaphosa and the law-and-order lobby received support from the Reverend Frank Chikane who once headed the office of former President Thabo Mbeki and co-founded Defend Our Democracy (DoD) in March to demand the arrest and prosecution of party and government officials guilty of corruption during the Zuma administration...

The opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) which has an affiliate in Eswatini has called for former president Thabo Mbeki to be appointed as envoy demanding 'immediate intervention and mediation'...

The blueprint was Zuma's victory against President at the ANC's conference at Polokwane in December 2007 when his supporters toppled President Thabo Mbeki...

Stories emerged throughout the meeting including an audio clip of former President Thabo Mbeki expressing concerns about the collapse of the party and asking 'Do we still have any organisation called the ANC...

The Rev Frank Chikane a former Director-General in the office of former President Thabo Mbeki and leading cleric and human rights campaigner has been instrumental in the recent Defend Our Democracy campaign which has held public protests insisting on the arrest of corrupt leaders...

The cabinet had 72 members under Zuma and 50 during Thabo Mbeki's term of office...

Two former Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe are calling for Magashule to step aside...

Former President Thabo Mbeki who usually keeps a low profile at executive meetings made an impassioned plea for the ANC to throw down the gauntlet to Magashule after his former head of government policy Joel Netshitenzhe had delivered a scathing attack on Magashule branding him a counter-revolutionary in an opinion article...

This was the tactic Zuma used when he succeeded in ousting Thabo Mbeki as party leader in 2007 and then as President (AC Vol 49 No 2 The party is not yet split)...