Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

Now centre-stage as President Thabo Mbeki still keeps South Africans guessing...

Much more striking than the cabinet reshuffle are the big structural changes in government under President Thabo Mbeki...

And it left opposition voters surprisingly unflustered considering some earlier signs of panic that President-designate Thabo Mbeki was about to tamper with the constitution...

Yet the arm-twisting which the party has used to pick its provincial leadership has put on show some problems that will be faced again and again by Thabo Mbeki President Nelson Mandela's chosen heir as leader of the party and the nation...

Parliament will assemble on 14 June for members to be sworn in and the new President presumably Thabo Mbeki will be elected...

The deal between Thabo Mbeki President of the African National Congress and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi of the Inkatha Freedom Party means that the electorate can choose only which party dominates the coalition in the most populous and the most violence-prone of South Africa's nine provinces...

Yet when open elections were at last held and a Government of National Unity was formed Buthelezi accepted cabinet representation for Inkatha and served as acting president on more than a dozen occasions when both Mandela and Deputy President Thabo Mbeki were out of the country...

After last month’s commission meeting Deputy President Thabo Mbeki said the discussions ‘showed the rapid growth in the detailed relationship between the two countries’...

The turning point was Nelson Mandela’s decision to appoint Thabo Mbeki not Ramaphosa Deputy President in 1994 after the latter had made unguarded though private comments about the ANC...

More discreetly we hear Blair tried to persuade President Nelson Mandela and his heir-apparent Thabo Mbeki to support or at least not stridently oppose the British-USA bombing campaign against Saddam Hussein's Iraq...