Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

Union leaders and their members prefer Zuma to his rival and predecessor Thabo Mbeki but expect some fierce battles ahead over policy and public sector pay...

Zuma hoping to narrow divisions within the ANC has appointed as his economic advisor an ally of ex-President Thabo Mbeki the former Trade and Industry Minister Mandisi Mpahlwa - an ineffective minister who is close to black business...

At the heart of the controversy was Cosatu's concern that the Elephant Consortium - a Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) group linked to ex-President Thabo Mbeki - would benefit handsomely...

This is intended to force coordination across government to break the 'silo' mentality that led to criticisms of sluggish delivery under former President Thabo Mbeki...

He is too valuable an asset to be dumped as Zuma's leftist allies have demanded; they see Manuel as the high priest of neoliberal economics joined ideologically to the sacked President Thabo Mbeki...

Strident interventionist comments from the party's hardliners have revealed a hurried casting aside of the cautious approach to governance practised under former Presidents Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki...

Lawyers acting for Zuma have sent papers to the NPA alleging that ex-President Thabo Mbeki colluded with senior NPA officials over Zuma’s corruption charges and that therefore the case should be dropped...

They have little interest in the policy and personality battles between Zuma and Thabo Mbeki and will be sceptical about COPE’s ability to improve economic conditions...

Combined with the Employment Equity policy which moved many black people rapidly up the management hierarchy it has fostered a booming black middle class commonly referred to as the Black Diamonds and was seen by its beneficiaries as a great success for the otherwise conventional economic policies of ex-President Thabo Mbeki...

Yet the departure from office of South African President Thabo Mbeki and Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo who pushed for the formation of the African Union the New Partnership for African Development and the peer review of African governance standards has meant that the project for a more coordinated and continental approach to economic and political strategy has been largely abandoned...