Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

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...

Manoeuvring over the succession to President Thabo Mbeki in 2009 is becoming increasingly fraught - so much so that a high-level negotiating group was set up last week to dampen tensions and lay down ground rules...

First he persuaded his fellow leaders to reject an extremely critical report on Zimbabwe by the African Union's Human Rights Commission; then he pre-empted Annan's efforts to mediate in Zimbabwe's internal crisis (as part of a plan agreed between SA President Thabo Mbeki and British Premier Tony Blair) by appointing his own mediator (and close friend) Tanzanian former President Benjamin Mkapa...

Wen knows personally the Deputy President of SA's governing African National Congress Jacob Zuma while President Hu Jintao and SA President Thabo Mbeki have known each other since they were their countries' deputy leaders...

On his side are the populists while President Thabo Mbeki leads the pragmatists...

President Thabo Mbeki had previously deployed the then Deputy President Jacob Zuma since sacked...