Wolfensohn has found common cause with South African President Thabo Mbeki with whom he spent a weekend just before the annual meetings...
Vol 43 No 20 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Mthembu is a keen supporter of Thabo Mbeki's Africanist visions; Vodacom markets its investments as fulfilling the 'African Renaissance' forms alliances with local operators smooches the local political elite (President Joseph Kabila was at the ceremonial opening of operations in Congo) and exploits local culture for marketing purposes...
Vol 43 No 18 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Anglo Chairman Julian Ogilvy-Thompson asked President Thabo Mbeki for a meeting...
Vol 43 No 17 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The World Summit on Sustainable Development which overruns Johannesburg this week is riven by competing interests and chaired by President Thabo Mbeki...
Vol 43 No 17 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
President Thabo Mbeki and his African National Congress government are confronted by the Anti-Privatisation Forum the Jubilee debt cancellation campaign the Rural Development Services Network and many others...
Vol 43 No 15 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
For a while the ANC seemed to have tamed Buthelezi by giving him a senior cabinet post and occasionally allowing him to assume the role of acting president when Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki were out of the country...
Vol 43 No 14 |
- AFRICAN UNION
The reformers are led by South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo and Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade (even though their own reform records are less than stellar); the dissidents led by Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi are a motley collection of autocrats such as Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe Kenya's President Daniel arap Moi and Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh who style themselves as African nationalists opposed to foreign interference...
Vol 43 No 13 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The party embarrassed President Thabo Mbeki by leaking his private correspondence with Leon (penned by DP researchers) on the government's flawed HIV/AIDS policy...
Vol 43 No 12 |
- AFRICA
- THE WEST
NePAD's presidential architects - South Africa's Thabo Mbeki Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade and Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika - want African states to agree first on indices of good and representative governance and second on the structure and membership of an institution to monitor good governance...