Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

It is also an indication of the state of political reform in Africa that it was President Bouteflika who together with Nigeria’s then President Olusegun Obasanjo and South Africa’s then President Thabo Mbeki led the moves to found the African Union in 2002 with its commitment to accountable government measured by a system of peer review...

But Pietermaritzburg Judge Chris Nicholson threw out the case on a technicality adding an accusation that former President Thabo Mbeki appeared to be behind the case against Zuma for political reasons (AC Vol 49 No 19)...

Similarly Zuma was happy to leave ousted President Thabo Mbeki with the Zimbabwe mediating brief that kept him out of South Africa’s political arena...

The presence of Ramos and Marcus at the NEC meeting follows sharp criticism by its dominant faction which supports party President Jacob Zuma of companies which back either the pro-Thabo Mbeki faction or the new breakaway party led by Mosiuoa Lekota and Mbhazima Shilowa...

In October 2008 at a fundraiser for Jacob Zuma several Black Economic Empowerment oligarchs once closely allied to Thabo Mbeki turned up...

Some of those close to former President Thabo Mbeki including former Justice Minister Penuell Maduna and Andile Nkuhlu spokesman for Mbeki's failed campaign for the ANC presidency last year have platinum interests in Limpopo...

When Nigerians were among those killed in the xenophobic attacks in South Africa this year it was Yar'Adua not Madueke who flew to Tshwane (Pretoria) to confer with President Thabo Mbeki...

Former President Thabo Mbeki had already done that; he turned the Office of the Presidency into just such a central department which the left vehemently opposed as centralisation...

SouthAfrica’s ex-President Thabo Mbeki returned to Harare on 14 October his mediating influence much reduced...

Three factions are now vying for power in the African National Congress: the dominant group led by ANC President Jacob Zuma which controls the National Executive Committee (NEC) the trades unions the Youth League and the intelligence groups; their immediate rivals who remain loyal to ousted national President Thabo Mbeki; and a third group led by Mosiuoa ‘Terror’ Lekota...