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Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

Date of Birth: 18 June 1942
Place of Birth: Idutywa, Eastern Cape


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When the clouds cried

Compounding Zuma's embarrassment they roared with approval when his ousted predecessor Thabo Mbeki came on the screen and even managed a cheer for the last apartheid President F...

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The time of Mandela

Certainly the negotiating prowess of Cyril Ramaphosa and Slovo the strategic vision of Thabo Mbeki plus the political firepower and sacrifices of countless others were all critical to the defeat of apartheid and the rebuilding of the country...


Self-inflicted wounds

At a comparable moment in 2000 the then President Thabo Mbeki intervened against striking workers at Volkswagen South Africa accusing them of endangering industrial development...


Political mould starts to break

Black Economic Empowerment conceived by ex-President Thabo Mbeki has produced unintended consequences a partisan class of ‘tenderpreneurs' in place of productive businesses...


How the parties will go into 2014

It has shown pockets of strength in non-traditional areas including the rural Eastern Cape where it has attracted high-profile defections from the Congress of the People (Cope) the ANC splinter group founded in 2008 by backers of ousted President Thabo Mbeki...


Tilting at the ANC

Uppermost in the minds of Zuma and his party allies is the need to avoid a repeat of the debacle of 2008 when ex-President Thabo Mbeki's supporters left the ANC to establish the Congress of the People (Cope) after he lost the leadership contest with Zuma...


Dam good connections

This current era of Congolese politics began with South Africa's former President Thabo Mbeki's push for the main factions to attend peace talks in Sun City in 2002...


Losing ground at the AU

After hearing both sides the AU High Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) chaired by South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki produced recommendations last September which include holding the Abyei referendum and temporary security and administration arrangements (most of which Khartoum had already signed up to in 2004) and the disputed border areas...


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