Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

The deal between Thabo Mbeki President of the African National Congress and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi of the Inkatha Freedom Party means that the electorate can choose only which party dominates the coalition in the most populous and the most violence-prone of South Africa's nine provinces...

Yet when open elections were at last held and a Government of National Unity was formed Buthelezi accepted cabinet representation for Inkatha and served as acting president on more than a dozen occasions when both Mandela and Deputy President Thabo Mbeki were out of the country...

After last month’s commission meeting Deputy President Thabo Mbeki said the discussions ‘showed the rapid growth in the detailed relationship between the two countries’...

The turning point was Nelson Mandela’s decision to appoint Thabo Mbeki not Ramaphosa Deputy President in 1994 after the latter had made unguarded though private comments about the ANC...

More discreetly we hear Blair tried to persuade President Nelson Mandela and his heir-apparent Thabo Mbeki to support or at least not stridently oppose the British-USA bombing campaign against Saddam Hussein's Iraq...

Thabo Mbeki the ANC's President was thought to favour Yengeni as party candidate for the provincial premiership but settled for Rasool as more acceptable to both factions...

The African National Congress (ANC) is bound to win the elections for the national parliament on 2 June and its leader Thabo Mbeki will become the next president...

Two such individuals - Tokyo Sexwale ex-Premier of Gauteng and Patrick 'Terror' Lekota ex-Premier of the Free State - have been speedily shunted out or sideways and the party's rules have been changed to enable the President of the ANC (and after the elections of South Africa) Thabo Mbeki to determine the choice of provincial premiers...

Marcus looks set for promotion to another ministry by President-in-waiting Thabo Mbeki after the elections in June...

Clinton had echoed South African Deputy President Thabo Mbeki’s talk of an African renaissance and the State Department had chosen six states – Ghana South Africa Botswana Rwanda Uganda and Senegal – thought to be representative of emerging Africa...

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan spoke confidently of an immediate cessation of hostilities; Rwanda's President Pasteur Bizimungu and South Africa's head of state-apparent Thabo Mbeki were pessimistic...