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Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

Date of Birth: 18 June 1942
Place of Birth: Idutywa, Eastern Cape


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Part of the union

The reformers are led by South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo and Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade (even though their own reform records are less than stellar); the dissidents led by Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi are a motley collection of autocrats such as Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe Kenya's President Daniel arap Moi and Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh who style themselves as African nationalists opposed to foreign interference...


End of an Alliance

The party embarrassed President Thabo Mbeki by leaking his private correspondence with Leon (penned by DP researchers) on the government's flawed HIV/AIDS policy...


Climbing to the summit

NePAD's presidential architects - South Africa's Thabo Mbeki Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade and Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika - want African states to agree first on indices of good and representative governance and second on the structure and membership of an institution to monitor good governance...


Mbeki's front line

President Thabo Mbeki's rapid rise in the African National Congress after it was legalised in 1990 surprised many outsiders...


Wade's wide world

It was relieved by the late arrival of Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo head of NePAD's implementing committee with a tub-thumping show-stealing cameo but Senegal was embarrassed by the non-appearance of NePAD's co-architects Presidents Thabo Mbeki of South Africa Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria and Mohamed Hosni Mubarak of Egypt...


Sundown

President Thabo Mbeki gave them an extra week to wind things up...


Stalemate

After long discussions with Zimbabwe's parliamentary Speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa South African President Thabo Mbeki has assured close associates that Mugabe is indeed ready to go but 'with dignity'...


On the knife-edge

Brokered by South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki and Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo the deal proposes: a coalition government with ministers from all parties and some non-partisan figures; a review of recent oppressive laws on public assembly and the media; full implementation of the Abuja agreement stipulating orderly land redistribution to be financed by Britain and international financial institutions...


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