Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

Deputy President Thabo Mbeki the anointed successor to President Nelson Mandela is set to further consolidate his power-base in the ruling African National Congress prior to the party's national conference this December...

For Deputy President Thabo Mbeki' s circle Africanism is a way of redressing the wrongs of apartheid in a way that makes economic sense: this means everything from promoting black-owned companies encouraging trades unionists to become shareholders and financing massive investment in electrification and water supply...

Deputy President Thabo Mbeki told Africa Confidential that his country had a moral duty join any multilateral mission in the Great Lakes region provided that mission was strictly humanitarian...

Deputy President and anointed heir Thabo Mbeki favours Jacob Zuma as his successor we hear...

Mandela is unequivocal about his retirement and speaks openly of his successor 'that talented young man ' 54-year-old Thabo Mbeki...

Abacha's closest advisors are now taking heart that the recent confusion in Pretoria's policy on Nigeria seems to be being resolved in favour of Thabo Mbeki's earlier posture of 'quiet diplomacy' and in this context they now view Nigeria's earlier largesse towards the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela as a good investment...

Deputy President Thabo Mbeki who admits to meeting Kerzner just before the 1994 elections says such allegations are 'beneath contempt'...

He was the most plausible alternative to Thabo Mbeki as leader of the ANC after President Nelson Mandela stands down...

Deputy President Thabo Mbeki will be doing less diplomacy and more economic strategising while Mandela's statesmanship will be in demand more at home than abroad...

First Deputy President Thabo Mbeki: new role as unofficial economic policy coordinator is designed to build his stature before the succession and give more political coherence to development strategy...