Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

Over a third of leaders have so far accepted Bongo's invitation including the Organisation of African Unity head Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe Nigeria's General Sani Abacha Cameroon's Paul Biya Uganda's Yoweri Museveni Rwanda's Pasteur Bizimungu Senegal's Abdou Diouf and either Nelson Mandela or Thabo Mbeki from South Africa...

Thirdly the perception in the minds of foreign investors that the passing of power from President Mandela to Vice-President Thabo Mbeki (AC Vol 38 No 17) will not be completely smooth ensures volatility in the currency...

When he is cornered his colleagues say he goes by the back door to Deputy President Thabo Mbeki who authorises specific purchases...

Nothing can stop the carefully orchestrated ascendancy of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki first to the African National Congress leadership and then to the South African presidency...

Deputy President Thabo Mbeki speaks animatedly of an 'African Renaissance' – an updated version of Kwame Nkrumah's Pan-Africanism but with South Africa rather than Ghana steering the way...

Some big uncertainties have been taken out of politics and business: Deputy President Thabo Mbeki is near certain to succeed Mandela perhaps as early as the end of this year; and the government is committed to following an economic reform programme which sets out specific targets along the route...

But for AFDL leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila the negotiations – presided over by South Africa's Deputy President Thabo Mbeki and United States Assistant Secretary for Africa George Moose – offer little more than space on the international stage while his forces score more successes...

President Nelson Mandela and Deputy President Thabo Mbeki are said to have backed him so far but neither will be keen to feed the perception of a sell-out among party supporters in the run-up to the 1999 general elections...

Some ANC people (notably Moeletsi Mbeki Deputy President Thabo Mbeki's brother who has large property interests) would have preferred to set up an ANC newspaper and now say that the Independent group has not implemented ANC conditions including black equity and black directors...

The main critic of the media naturally enough is Thabo Mbeki...

A government Task Group on Communications (Comtask) when it was set up by Thabo Mbeki in 1995 seemed designed to blame themedia for the governments failure to get its message across...

Some compromise on South Africa's mooted arms sales to Syria may emerge from United States' Vice-President Al Gore's meeting with Deputy President Thabo Mbeki next month in Pretoria...