Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

HEAVYWEIGHT ENTRANTS The race to succeed President Thabo Mbeki as leader of the African National Congress and presumably of the nation is wide open...

Other shares have gone to spouses of key individuals on the ANC's NEC including Nompumelelo Maduna wife of the former Justice Minister Penuell Maduna; Thuthukile Skweyiya wife of Welfare Minister and party elder Zola Skweyiya; and Thami Didiza husband of Thoko Didiza Minister of Public Works as well as to Thabo Mbeki's wife Zanele Mbeki...

After some blips over Zimbabwe British-South African relations have been strongly buoyed by President Thabo Mbeki's government's effective macroeconomic management even if the politics comes under pressure as the succession race grows more heated this year...

This raises questions about involvement by Mozambican President Armando Guebuza an ally of SA President Thabo Mbeki and about a possible attempt to smear both Zuma and Sexwale...

The DA has a strong issue in HIV/AIDS where many ANC activists agree that President Thabo Mbeki and his government have done badly...

The ANC president is also the country's but although Thabo Mbeki wields enormous influence in the ANC he is not all-powerful there and even less so within the party's partners the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party which hammered him over his handling of the very different Deputy President Jacob Zuma...

South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki who knew the Yar'Adua family when he lived in Nigeria in the 1970s sent a formal note of congratulation to Umaru Yar'Adua on 25 April...

Guebuza has hitched his wagon to the South African locomotive: Mozambique is benefiting from a rush of South African investors and from bilateral projects endorsed by President Thabo Mbeki's government...

Selebi says he has done nothing wrong and has garnered support from sources including President Thabo Mbeki Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula Interpol and all eleven of South Africa's Provincial Police Commissioners...

French officials insist that relations with South Africa are good but President Thabo Mbeki skipped Cannes because it was said of preoccupations with domestic politics...

A subsidiary cause of the market instability was a report that a task-team under President Thabo Mbeki has proposed a windfall tax on 'excessive profits' made by the big mining houses and a stabilisation fund to cushion the economy against dramatic price swings...