Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

Kingston is friendly with many senior ANC people including the party's new President Thabo Mbeki (AC Vol 38 No 22)...

She was for many years a correspondent on Public Broadcasting Service television the non-commercial US network making friends with many black leaders including Thabo Mbeki...

Their nightmare is that Winnie Madikizela- Mandela will be elected deputy president of the ANC at its national conference on 16-20 December in Mmbatho; that this will make her South Africa's deputy president in 1999 when Nelson Mandela retires and Thabo Mbeki steps into the presidency; and that she will then take over the country if something nasty happens to Mbeki...

Broad church ANCThe idea is to apply this entryist strategy at December's ANC conference when Nelson Mandela hands over the party presidency to his deputy Thabo Mbeki and the top party jobs will be up for grabs...

The others are Cosatu General Secretary Sam Shilowa sometimes criticised for being too close to Thabo Mbeki and the SACP's General Secretary Charles Nqakula seen as ultimately moderate...

Over a third of leaders have so far accepted Bongo's invitation including the Organisation of African Unity head Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe Nigeria's General Sani Abacha Cameroon's Paul Biya Uganda's Yoweri Museveni Rwanda's Pasteur Bizimungu Senegal's Abdou Diouf and either Nelson Mandela or Thabo Mbeki from South Africa...

Thirdly the perception in the minds of foreign investors that the passing of power from President Mandela to Vice-President Thabo Mbeki (AC Vol 38 No 17) will not be completely smooth ensures volatility in the currency...

When he is cornered his colleagues say he goes by the back door to Deputy President Thabo Mbeki who authorises specific purchases...

Nothing can stop the carefully orchestrated ascendancy of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki first to the African National Congress leadership and then to the South African presidency...

Deputy President Thabo Mbeki speaks animatedly of an 'African Renaissance' – an updated version of Kwame Nkrumah's Pan-Africanism but with South Africa rather than Ghana steering the way...

Some big uncertainties have been taken out of politics and business: Deputy President Thabo Mbeki is near certain to succeed Mandela perhaps as early as the end of this year; and the government is committed to following an economic reform programme which sets out specific targets along the route...

But for AFDL leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila the negotiations – presided over by South Africa's Deputy President Thabo Mbeki and United States Assistant Secretary for Africa George Moose – offer little more than space on the international stage while his forces score more successes...