Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

In what is becoming a test-case for President Thabo Mbeki's government's ability to investigate corruption allegations a major international oil trading company faces claims that it connived with its business partners in South Africa to bribe local civil servants in a secret deal that lost the country more than US$3 million...

News of the scuppered deal came just before President Thabo Mbeki's 17-19 February state visit to Saudi Arabia...

Prime Minister Tony Blair takes a personal interest: he speaks regularly to South Africa's Thabo Mbeki he asks officials for briefings on Congo-Kinshasa and his father Leo Blair has ties to Sierra Leone...

Absentees included Presidents John Kufuor Thabo Mbeki Benjamin Mkapa Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and Olusegun Obasanjo...

' President Thabo Mbeki insists current arrangements to investigate allegations of commission payments to individuals and party coffers are adequate...

Africa could see some positive results if the Organisation of African Unity's leadership triumvirate - Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo and South Africa's Thabo Mbeki - can tap into such connections on issues such as tariffs debt and drug prices...

President Thabo Mbeki himself is and will remain the central issue of South African politics: 2000 was a bad year for him with perceived failures over unemployment crime Zimbabwe and most of all HIV-AIDS...

President Thabo Mbeki looked unhappy when two days after the poll he visited the Independent Electoral Commission in Pretoria which everybody agreed had done a good job...

President Thabo Mbeki faces his toughest battle for voters yet in local government elections on 5 December (AC Vol 41 Nos 17 & 19)...

Nor is Ouattara a slouch at African diplomacy: he has strong ties with both Presidents Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria...