Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

Meanwhile Ramaphosa will be ‘head of government business’ in Zuma’s cabinet a job that former President Thabo Mbeki used as a launching pad during Nelson Mandela’s presidency...

Ethiopian Premier Hailemariam Desalegn and the AU mediator South Africa’s ex-President Thabo Mbeki pushed hard for last week’s brief summit in Addis Ababa between Field Marshal Omer and South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit...

In 1997 Ramaphosa ran against Thabo Mbeki to be the ANC’s presidential candidate and lost...

He received a PhD in political studies from the University of Sussex the alma mater of former President Thabo Mbeki in 1979...

Zuma is anxious to avoid the trap that snared Thabo Mbeki at 2007’s Polokwane conference...

His advisors say the SOEs often ignore his government’s objectives behave too independently and include too many supporters of ex-President Thabo Mbeki or Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe...

Ex-President Thabo Mbeki has taken issue with South Africa’s push to get Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma elected Chairwoman of the African Union...

Replying to the AU High Implementation Panel led by South Africa's Thabo Mbeki Khartoum's negotiators in Addis declared on 28 July: 'Sudan responded to the AUHIP's invitation to implement provisions of the tripartite initiative of the AU Arab League and UN but the apparent aim of the rebellion to take advantage of the humanitarian assistances to escalate war and shed blood in the two regions precluded breakthrough at the talks on humanitarian access to the affected people...

Yet its grand projects such as the African Peer Review Mechanism and the New Partnership for African Development which South Africa championed when Dlamini-Zuma was Foreign Minister and Thabo Mbeki was President need rejuvenation and tougher management...

The two governments are now discussing a ‘security roadmap’ drawn up by South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki and fellow African Union (AU) High-Level Implementation Panel mediators in on-off talks in the Ethiopian town of Bahir Dar...