But Deputy President Thabo Mbeki was more cautious hoping that Southern African countries would not seek to extradite South African Defence Force officers who organised cross-border raids to murder their opponents in Botswana Zimbabwe Mozambique and Namibia...
The list of those with damaged reputations includes Mandela (on a visit to the United States and Canada at the time) Deputy President Thabo Mbeki (AC Vol 39 No 17 in Finland) Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad (at the Commonwealth Games in Malaysia) Foreign Minister Alfred Nzo (at the United Nations) the depleted Department of Foreign Affairs with one-quarter of its Africa Division jobs vacant the intelligence agencies Modise Nyanda Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi (Mbeki's factotum who took political charge) and Home Affairs Minister and for the 13th time Acting President Buthelezi...
Vol 39 No 19 |
- LESOTHO
- ESWATINI
As early as June 1994 he said Deputy President Thabo Mbeki had had to dampen plans to launch a trilateral (Botswana South Africa Zimbabwe) intervention in Lesotho...
Vol 39 No 17 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Flanked by cabinet heavyweights Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin Deputy President Thabo Mbeki has assembled an impressive team of policy makers...
Vol 39 No 15 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
National Deputy President and ANC President Thabo Mbeki has acknowledged the fight against crime as critical but argues that the ANC's police and security reforms are beginning to produce results...
A high-powered South African delegation was due to visit only two days later led by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki and including Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi...
Vol 39 No 14 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The active members included Angola Eritrea Ethiopia Rwanda and Uganda while South Africa (whose Deputy President Thabo Mbeki enthuses about an ‘African renaissance') supported from the sidelines...
Vol 39 No 11 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
With some ANC leaders (including the Deputy President Thabo Mbeki) arguing for the names of former spies to be made public some people sense a purge of party ranks...
Vol 39 No 8 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
This is a prize worth negotiating for and would be a splendid launch for Thabo Mbeki's presidency (AC Vol 38 No 5)...
He got to know South African Deputy President Thabo Mbeki extremely well while he was ANC representative in Nigeria in the late 1970s...