Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

They are close allies of President Thabo Mbeki who regarded Phumzile as a potential successor for the ANC leadership...

It will not be President Thabo Mbeki who achieves this or much else as his presidential term limps towards a feeble end...

Tsvangirai believes the mediator appointed by the Southern African Development Community South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki has lost any claim to neutrality because of his public partiality towards the Mugabe regime...

The Zambian President does not rate the diplomatic efforts of South Africa's Thabo Mbeki SADC's mediator on Zimbabwe...

Instead he was a considered diplomat given to statesmanlike utterances a pragmatist whose willingness to listen to other viewpoints marks him apart from his political rival and President of the Republic Thabo Mbeki...

In South Africa a rift has opened between President Thabo Mbeki with his quiet diplomatic approach and the party's new leader Jacob Zuma whose allies in the trades unions and the South African Communist Party back MDC leader Tsvangirai and refer to Mugabe's government as an illegal regime...

Tanzania whose President Jakaya Kikwete has already differed with South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki on Comoros and Zimbabwe favoured a more conciliatory approach...

Zwelinzima Vavi a close ally of ANC President Jacob Zuma has been pushing for the South African government to take a tougher line on Mugabe and the disputed elections as well as being openly critical of President Thabo Mbeki’s policy of ‘quiet diplomacy’...

Mugabe and Dos Santos share a common distrust of South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki who is by their standards a dangerous liberal harbouring uncomfortable ideas about political peer review and tackling grand corruption...

Like his close ally Jacob Zuma Masetlha was also sacked by President Thabo Mbeki...