Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

On 8 December Thabo Mbeki South Africa's ex-President who heads the AU High-Level Implementation Panel on Sudan suspended the talks until January...

Like William Shakespeare's Macbeth Zuma is consumed by the fear that he will be deposed before the end of his term of office in much the same way that he unseated Thabo Mbeki from the leadership of both party and state...

He could even suffer the fate he imposed on his predecessor and be recalled as was Thabo Mbeki in 2008...

Spies from the pastSARS also appears to be engulfed in the battles among security intelligence and police agencies which are deeply divided between factions supporting Zuma and former President Thabo Mbeki's circle (AC Vol 55 No 22 Splinter injuries)...

South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki and Nigerian ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo are working behind the scenes to try to reconcile Presidents Jacob Zuma and Goodluck Jonathan Africa Confidential understands...

The DBSA's former Chief Executive Officer experienced banker Paul Baloyi was perceived as a supporter of former President Thabo Mbeki and forced to resign in 2012 (AC Vol 53 No 24 Zuma sweeps the boards)...

The photographs show a beaming Malik Agar Eyre head of the Sudan Revolutionary Front and a grim-faced Ghazi Salah el Din el Atabani veteran Islamist former minister sitting with their colleagues and in the middle South Africa's ubiquitous ex-President Thabo Mbeki...

Malema and the League supported Zuma to defeat former President Thabo Mbeki as ANC President at the Polokwane Conference in 2009...

Much was made of the 'new generation' of African leaders such as Ethiopia's late Meles Zenawi Rwanda's Paul Kagame South Africa's Thabo Mbeki and even Eritrea's Issayas until relations soured irredeemably...