Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki and Nigerian ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo are working behind the scenes to try to reconcile Presidents Jacob Zuma and Goodluck Jonathan Africa Confidential understands...

The DBSA's former Chief Executive Officer experienced banker Paul Baloyi was perceived as a supporter of former President Thabo Mbeki and forced to resign in 2012 (AC Vol 53 No 24 Zuma sweeps the boards)...

The photographs show a beaming Malik Agar Eyre head of the Sudan Revolutionary Front and a grim-faced Ghazi Salah el Din el Atabani veteran Islamist former minister sitting with their colleagues and in the middle South Africa's ubiquitous ex-President Thabo Mbeki...

Malema and the League supported Zuma to defeat former President Thabo Mbeki as ANC President at the Polokwane Conference in 2009...

Much was made of the 'new generation' of African leaders such as Ethiopia's late Meles Zenawi Rwanda's Paul Kagame South Africa's Thabo Mbeki and even Eritrea's Issayas until relations soured irredeemably...

Backing the idea is Thabo Mbeki South Africa's former President who attempted the same with the Pan-African Infrastructure Development Fund in 2007 but was then thwarted by the financial crisis...

Yet he earned a rebuke from ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe when he suggested that the province rope in former President Thabo Mbeki to canvass votes in middle class areas of the province during the election campaign...

That share was down from 65% in 2009 and a peak of 69% under President Thabo Mbeki in 2004...

The latest protests show dissatisfaction is not confined to Soweto Johannesburg where Zuma was booed at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela in December last year (AC Vol 54 No 25 When the clouds cried) or to the Eastern Cape where the ANC has steadily lost support since the recall of President Thabo Mbeki in 2008 (AC Vol 49 No 21 All politics is provincial)...

Backed by Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge a former deputy defence and health minister in Thabo Mbeki's 1998-2008 governments and a handful of other ANC veterans Kasrils declared 'We want to shake up the ANC and cause some soul searching...