Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

Tactics similar to those used to remove former President Thabo Mbeki before the end of his second term and are now being deployed behind the scenes by a committed group of senior ANC officials loyal to discredited former President Jacob Zuma (AC Vol 60 No 12 A tale of two ANCs)...

The main names in contention are: Mudawi Ibrahim Adam an engineer and human rights activist formerly a political detainee in Kobar prison; Muntasir el Tayeb Ibrahim a professor of microbiology at University of Khartoum and a leading force in the political agenda of the DFCF along with his academic colleagues; and Abdalla Hamdok special advisor to the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank and a former Deputy Executive Director of the UN's Economic Commission for Africa (AC Vol 52 No 1 Freedom – North and South & AC Vol 53 No 12 The new Thabo Mbeki)...

Ramaphosa has approached former President Thabo Mbeki who has been popular in the past with the province's large black middle class to campaign in Gauteng to make up for the absence of the Zuma-ites...

Ruling party stalwarts who served under former Presidents Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki have spoken up against the inclusion of candidates facing fraud allegations and said that they will challenge any of those selected to prevent them sitting in parliament...

Thabo Mbeki's team from the AU appear to envisage a role for El Beshir in managing the transition and are keen to keep any involvement of the UN to a minimum...

Former President Thabo Mbeki's intervention on the question of race will make their task even more difficult...

Presumably because of the government's planned offensive in Darfur the AU's special envoy Thabo Mbeki has delayed a trip to Khartoum meant to follow up on earlier talks between Darfur groups in April...

Some in the office of the President in Kinshasa also worry about the stronger SADC position against Kabila that the former South African President Thabo Mbeki has openly urged...

Yet there is no legal requirement for Zuma to heed the recall demand although President Thabo Mbeki did so in 2008 seven months before the end of his own term...

Otherwise he could face immediate 'recall by the party' (the fate of Thabo Mbeki in 2008) or the longer drawn-out vote of no confidence or impeachment by Parliament...