Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

The emergence of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki as a super-minister coordinating economic and development policy strengthens his personal position and points to government concern about the slow pace of reform over the past two years...

President Joaquim Chissano asked the South African government to help and Vice-President Thabo Mbeki with Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad went to see Dhlakama in Nampula on 17 October...

South African Vice-President Thabo Mbeki is due in Swaziland this week to discuss Swaziland's desire to redraw the boundary and take over some South African land - which does not endear them to Pretoria...

Deputy President Thabo Mbeki has suggested that the spies are criminals wanting to know ‘what sort of information the police leadership has about drug dealing' - a theory that would let all politicians and officials off the hook...

Ranged against those are the ANC hawks led by Defence Minister Joe Modise and Foreign Affairs Minister Alfred Nzo with some support from Minister of Police Affairs Sidney Mufamadi and Vice-President Thabo Mbeki...