Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

President Thabo Mbeki's attempts to reform the system of traditional leaders to bring it into line with democracy are not universally popular...

Relations between Libya and South Africa (which is nearly halfway through its two-year term on the UNSC) also reached a new low after a personal confrontation between President Thabo Mbeki and Gadaffi at the African Union summit in Accra in July (AC Vol 48 No 14)...

The suspension by President Thabo Mbeki of the National Director of Public Prosecutions Vusi Pikoli may foreshadow a constitutional crisis...

Insiders say that President Thabo Mbeki is frustrated by the National Prosecuting Authority's inability to make headway in its case against Jacob Zuma...

This was heatedly disputed last week in New York with presidents such as Cote d'Ivoire's Laurent Gbagbo and South Africa's Thabo Mbeki together with the African Union Chairman Alpha Oumar Konaré arguing forcefully for the end of foreign troop deployments in Africa...

The agreement follows talks between South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki and the leaders of the two rival factions of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara on 15 September...

President Thabo Mbeki showed up in the giant Zion Christian Church (ZCC) which attracts congregations of more a million at Easter...

The biggest casualty so far has been the former Director of the National Intelligence Agency Billy Masetlha who claims he was fired by President Thabo Mbeki and Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils because he was seen as too close to sacked Vice-President and leadership contender Jacob Zuma...

With only one South African company mining in Congo surrounded by Australian British and Canadian outfits Pretoria/Tshwane has had little to show for President Thabo Mbeki’s ‘special relationship’ with Kabila...

Last year President Thabo Mbeki and the cabinet asked Trade and Industry Minister Mandisi Mpahlwa to elaborate further on his NIPF...