Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

What international mediators including the African Union High Implementation Panel under South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki never mention publicly is that only the NCP is trying to block the Abyei referendum and has done since it rejected the Abyei Boundaries Commission (ABC) findings and referred Abyei to the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) – whose 2009 findings Presidential Security Advisor Salah Abdullah Mohamed ‘Gosh’ this October also rejected...

Their centrist opponents led by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and National Planning Minister Trevor Manuel insist that many popular short-term measures would only make the long-term outlook worse; they insist as they persuaded ex-President Thabo Mbeki to insist on keeping South Africa’s policies compatible with those of the countries that buy its goods and invest in its industries...

In the absence of a coherent strategy the country continues on the economic trajectory of former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and former President Thabo Mbeki whose ‘business-friendly’ economic policies Zuma’s backers regularly attack...

Like South Africa's former President Thabo Mbeki Beijing officials argue that in present circumstances an immediate secession of the South could spark a political and security crisis - if not outright war - that would damage everyone's interests (including China's oil imports)...

Despite the views of plotters on all sides of the party Motlanthe remains an improbable political assassin: last week in London he insisted that he had no interest in returning to the presidency after his brief stint as interim President following the ousting of Thabo Mbeki in 2008...

The precedent that the ANC delegates established at Polokwane – of ousting Thabo Mbeki – a sitting president – might now be used against Zuma...

Unionists such as James Kruger the Western Cape provincial Chairman of the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union warned that Zuma could suffer the same fate as Thabo Mbeki who was ousted with the support of the unions...

Even South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki mentioned this danger...

Last month South African former President Thabo Mbeki proposed a 'confederation' or at least separation with 'soft borders' and 'free movement'...

He was a close ally of former President Thabo Mbeki and Zuma’s allies do not trust him...