Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

One cartoon last week portrayed President Thabo Mbeki astride an enormous African National Congress horse firing the starting pistol for himself with a huddle of smaller beasts lined up many yards behind...

Significantly Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is to be invited to join but not South African President Thabo Mbeki whose rift with Blair at the Commonwealth Summit in Nigeria over Zimbabwe policy looks terminal...

President Thabo Mbeki timed elections to coincide with the anniversary and the African National Congress will use 'Ten Years of Freedom' as its campaign slogan...

Expect too a resumption of the close working relationship with South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki after their spat over Zimbabwe at the Commonwealth summit...

SA President Thabo Mbeki left Abuja frustrated with both Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and the 'old' (i...

Concern for his international standing has led Mugabe to pressure Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Thabo Mbeki to lift the ban on him attending the Commonwealth summit in Abuja Nigeria on 5-8 December (see Pointer)...

President Thabo Mbeki's government is preparing laws to regulate empowerment create a BEE Advisory Council and invent sectoral 'charters' to promote black participation...

However President Thabo Mbeki and the government which had more or less hung Zuma out to dry politically took it so seriously that Mbeki announced last month the appointment of a judicial commission headed by apartheid-era judge Joos Hefer to probe the allegations...

Cosatu rolled out the red carpet for Zuma; it sees him as President Thabo Mbeki's rival and a candidate for the national presidency in 2009...

Now no holds are barred as it prepares for April's elections which should give President Thabo Mbeki (AC Vol 44 No 17) his second five-year term...