Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

A measure of the bitterness in the anti-Zuma camp was its attempt to table a motion apologising for supporting Zuma at the ANC's 2007 Polokwane Conference where Zuma triumphed over Thabo Mbeki (AC Vol 51 No 17 Mounting strikes)...

That was during the leadership contest between Zuma and former ANC and state President Thabo Mbeki...

As Africa Confidential went to press The AU High-Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) head South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki was consulting with various opposition leaders as were Troika representatives...

Since 456 the opposition finds South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki's AU High-Level Implementation Panel more useful...

Former Presidents Thabo Mbeki and FW De Klerk and other visiting dignitaries in the gallery were visibly shocked as they looked on the mayhem below...

Due to be launched this month an African Union-backed report by South Africa's ex-President Thabo Mbeki which shows how tax fraud trade mispricing and political corruption cost treasuries some $50 bn...

The manoeuvring eerily recalls Zuma's own ousting of Thabo Mbeki from the ANC presidency in 2007 (AC Vol 48 No 25 'Unstoppable tsunami')...

On 8 December Thabo Mbeki South Africa's ex-President who heads the AU High-Level Implementation Panel on Sudan suspended the talks until January...

Like William Shakespeare's Macbeth Zuma is consumed by the fear that he will be deposed before the end of his term of office in much the same way that he unseated Thabo Mbeki from the leadership of both party and state...

He could even suffer the fate he imposed on his predecessor and be recalled as was Thabo Mbeki in 2008...