Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

However the report praised South Africa for setting a 'best practice' standard in 18 areas: effective macroeconomic management; efficient tax collection; low-cost mzansi bank accounts; antipoverty measures; Thabo Mbeki's izimbizo - public consultations; and the new HIV/AIDS policy and rollout of anti-retroviral drugs...

Guests at the celebrations will include South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki Nigeria’s President Obasanjo President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan as well as sundry black artists musicians politicians and athletes from North America and Europe...

The ruling African National Congress’s choice of a successor to President Thabo Mbeki will dominate South African politics this year...

President Thabo Mbeki and Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula are so far standing by the National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi who is at the centre of a bizarre political-criminal scandal...

Even the most conservative African National Congress activists admit that a schism has developed in the party between supporters of President Thabo Mbeki and those of sacked Deputy President Jacob Zuma...

The African National Congress Provincial Conferences will be fiercely lobbied by Jacob Zuma's and Thabo Mbeki's camps...

Foreign dignitaries flooded in with similar advice: Belgian Defence Minister André Flahaut four German members of parliament Britain's International Development Secretary Hilary Benn South African President Thabo Mbeki Italy's deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Patrizia Sentinelli...

But there was little political cooperation until President Thabo Mbeki had had a long discussion with Putin and his officials at the G8 meeting in Russia in July (AC Vol 47 No 15)...

In the tradition of African Presidents Thabo Mbeki is his own diplomat-in-chief...

However at Britain's and France's insistence and on the final day of the summit the G8 leaders sat down with the 'strategic outreach partners' including South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki and African Union Chairman Dénis Sassou N'Guesso as well as the leaders of Brazil India China and Mexico...