Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

Uncertain terms Most of the younger presidential hopefuls such as Deputy President Motlanthe ANC national Treasurer Mathews Phosa Tokyo Sexwale and Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu supported (or stayed neutral) during Zuma’s triumph over Thabo Mbeki...

Since the 2007 ANC National Conference when Zuma ousted Thabo Mbeki as ANC President left-wingers in the Alliance have been insisting that candidates for party posts should run on clear policy platforms...

• Pundy Pillay lecturer University of the Witwatersrand former senior member of then President Thabo Mbeki’s economic policy unit...

Initially Zuma’s easy conviviality and his view that diplomacy should help his country commercially suggested that his government would break with many of his predecessor Thabo Mbeki’s policies...

One aspect of foreign policy which particularly irritates Zuma is the Thabo Mbeki Foundation set up by its namesake and headed by the former Ambassador to the UN Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo...

Maite Nkoana-Mashabane International Relations and Cooperation Minister: a former High Commissioner to India and Malaysia she was a leading activist in Limpopo Province backing Jacob Zuma against Thabo Mbeki for the presidency; her profile is rising in the African National Congress (ANC) party and internationally...

Since the coalition no longer shares what previously united it – dislike of former President Thabo Mbeki – it threatens to splinter in all directions...

Last time he is believed to have struck a deal: the veterans would support him against Thabo Mbeki and he would give them a military grant...

African Union officials led by South African former President Thabo Mbeki made a deal on 20 June to send Ethiopian peacekeepers into Abyei Administrative Area...

Many South African opposition politicians take it as an article of faith that Gadaffi contributed financially to Zuma’s battle to oust Thabo Mbeki from the leadership of the African National Congress as well as to the 2009 election campaign which won him the national presidency...

Yet if – as many suspect – the ANC is trounced in some constituencies and loses control of a couple more provinces (it currently controls eight of the nine) then the moves to push Zuma out of the presidency will gain ground and he might suffer the fate of his predecessor Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki...