Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

Ping's proposal for an AU panel on the Sudan case has run into difficulties though: both the original choices of chair people for the panel South Africa's ex-President Thabo Mbeki and Algeria's ex-Foreign Minister Justice Mohammed Benjawi have turned down the job...

Supporters of African National Congress President Jacob Zuma are disturbed by the grassroots popularity of some of their political opponents including some residual supporters of sacked President Thabo Mbeki...

We hear that leading supporters of ex-President Thabo Mbeki such as Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni were either deleted from provincial lists or put right at the bottom...

With similar ideas ex-President Thabo Mbeki tried and failed to modernise the ANC...

THE CIVIC SOCIETY ACTIVIST The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) will reject the agreement brokered by South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki and no inclusive government will be formed (AC Vol 49 No 25)...

The African Renaissance launched by South Africa's former President Thabo Mbeki and enthusiastically backed by President Wade a decade ago was meant to promote Africa's artistic achievements commitment to human development and the resilience of its culture and values...

Dlamini-Zuma has adroitly exploited the battle in the ANC between the supporters of Zuma and those of ex-President Thabo Mbeki and has won leadership of foreign policy...

It is also an indication of the state of political reform in Africa that it was President Bouteflika who together with Nigeria’s then President Olusegun Obasanjo and South Africa’s then President Thabo Mbeki led the moves to found the African Union in 2002 with its commitment to accountable government measured by a system of peer review...

But Pietermaritzburg Judge Chris Nicholson threw out the case on a technicality adding an accusation that former President Thabo Mbeki appeared to be behind the case against Zuma for political reasons (AC Vol 49 No 19)...

Similarly Zuma was happy to leave ousted President Thabo Mbeki with the Zimbabwe mediating brief that kept him out of South Africa’s political arena...