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Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

Date of Birth: 18 June 1942
Place of Birth: Idutywa, Eastern Cape


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Spies pop out of the past

However President Thabo Mbeki and the government which had more or less hung Zuma out to dry politically took it so seriously that Mbeki announced last month the appointment of a judicial commission headed by apartheid-era judge Joos Hefer to probe the allegations...


An awkward embrace

Cosatu rolled out the red carpet for Zuma; it sees him as President Thabo Mbeki's rival and a candidate for the national presidency in 2009...


Struggling to succeed

Now no holds are barred as it prepares for April's elections which should give President Thabo Mbeki (AC Vol 44 No 17) his second five-year term...


Butter on those guns

The Strategic Defence Procurement Package was signed in November 1999 six months after Thabo Mbeki took over from Nelson Mandela as president...


Busy bees

As debate unfolds President Thabo Mbeki could be caught between the black elite and the black masses who account for most of the ANC's political constituency and who are becoming restive over the government's failure to deliver on its election promises...


Background to Brenthurst

After the crash President Thabo Mbeki asked mining industry captains to help prevent a recurrence and executives such as Anglo American's Tony Trahar and Anglo Platinum's Barry Davison appeared with ministers in a government-business road show that visited London Britain to calm investor fears...


Boundary boobytraps

When he attended the 'Progressive Governance Summit' near London in mid-July (one of only two African leaders present the other being South African President Thabo Mbeki) Meles repeated Ethiopia's border case to his British counterpart Tony Blair as he had done in February during his highly successful visit to the UK...


Peacekeepers and peers

Defying the ever extending setbacks to Africa's peace and security agenda South African President Thabo Mbeki has again shown his impatience with fellow African leaders over their sluggish support for a permanent peacekeeping force...


Sticky US relations

South Africa's relations with the United States reached a low point over the invasion of Iraq with both President Thabo Mbeki and his predecessor Nelson Mandela sharply criticising the government of President George W...


NePAD doubts mount up

' With most of the preparatory work now subsidised by South African President Thabo Mbeki's office with the involvement of academics and experts on loan from other SA institutions the agenda looks unlikely to get beyond its current speculative stage of development...


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