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)...

They squabbled over who should pay for the Covax vaccine causing delays that saw South Africa's procurement efforts fail inviting unwelcome comparisons with the HIV/AIDS policy debacle when Thabo Mbeki was president (AC Vol 62 No 3 Shot in the dark)...

Its most recent meeting – attended unusually by former president Thabo Mbeki as well as former president Jacob Zuma who often shows up – declined even to talk about it...

It was the victory of Zuma's supporters at the 2005 NGC against then President Thabo Mbeki that marked the beginning of the end for Mbeki who was then ousted as party leader in December 2007 and obliged to step down as state president in September 2008...