Vol 42 No 5 | 
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	     President Thabo Mbeki is wedded to the market-driven economic strategy...
 But mistrust again arose when Steve Tshwete  the Safety and Security Minister  hammered the Portuguese community for a protest march against crime and a highly critical letter to President Thabo Mbeki...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 42 No 5 | 
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	     (The Agency is in theory accountable to parliament; it is uncertain how far the Thabo Mbeki presidency is involved...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 42 No 4 | 
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	    In what is becoming a test-case for President Thabo Mbeki's government's ability to investigate corruption allegations  a major international oil trading company faces claims that it connived with its business partners in South Africa to bribe local civil servants in a secret deal that lost the country more than US$3 million...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 42 No 4 | 
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	      News of the scuppered deal came just before President Thabo Mbeki's 17-19 February state visit to Saudi Arabia...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Prime Minister Tony Blair takes a personal interest: he speaks regularly to South Africa's Thabo Mbeki  he asks officials for briefings on Congo-Kinshasa and his father  Leo Blair  has ties to Sierra Leone...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 42 No 3 | 
            - FRANCE
 - AFRICA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     Absentees included Presidents John Kufuor  Thabo Mbeki  Benjamin Mkapa  Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and Olusegun Obasanjo...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 42 No 3 | 
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	    ' President Thabo Mbeki insists current arrangements to investigate allegations of commission payments to individuals and party coffers are adequate...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 42 No 1 | 
            - WEST AFRICA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     Africa could see some positive results if the Organisation of African Unity's leadership triumvirate - Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika  Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo and South Africa's Thabo Mbeki - can tap into such connections on issues such as tariffs  debt and drug prices...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    President Thabo Mbeki himself is  and will remain  the central issue of South African politics: 2000 was a bad year for him  with perceived failures over unemployment  crime  Zimbabwe and most of all  HIV-AIDS...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 41 No 25 | 
            - SOUTH AFRICA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     President Thabo Mbeki looked unhappy when  two days after the poll  he visited the Independent Electoral Commission in Pretoria which  everybody agreed  had done a good job...