South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki denounced the AU intervention as taking the country back to its history of forcible changes of government...
Some say this scenario is favoured by the South African government whose President Thabo Mbeki has faced growing criticism for its failure to insist along with other governments in the region that all the agreed electoral reforms be enacted before the election...
Vol 49 No 5 |
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Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s 2008 budget was a more powerful statement on Thabo Mbeki’s presidency than the President’s own speech...
Vol 49 No 5 |
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They said it pleases the rich and fails to match President Thabo Mbeki’s promise to focus squarely on fighting poverty with targeted programmes...
Vol 49 No 5 |
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African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma’s purge of allies of President Thabo Mbeki is gathering pace with all the ANC’s key policy-making committees under the control of the new regime (AC Vol 49 No 3)...
Vol 49 No 4 |
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Pomp ceremony fashion parades and backslapping are the usual accompaniments to the state-of-the-nation address with which President Thabo Mbeki opens a session of South Africa's parliament...
The power industry still sees Mlambo-Ngcuka now Thabo Mbeki's Vice-President as a better promoter of its interest than her successor Buyelwa Sonjica...
Vol 49 No 4 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Just before Thabo Mbeki's speech to parliament the Treasury indicated that it may lower its forecast for gross domestic product growth to 4...
Africa Confidential has established that these Elands had been stocked by Land Systems of South Africa a joint venture between Britain's BAE Systems and a black empowerment enterprise DGD Technologies one of whose directors is President Thabo Mbeki's brother Moletsi...
Vol 49 No 2 |
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The governing African National Congress is preparing for all-out war between President Thabo Mbeki – and his allies in government – and Jacob Zuma the ANC's newly elected President (AC Vol 49 No 1)...