Vol 48 No 23 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
President Thabo Mbeki and his sacked deputy Jacob Zuma dominate the contest to elect the President of the African National Congress at next month's party congress...
Vol 48 No 22 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
After the toughest weeks of his presidency Thabo Mbeki basked in the national euphoria generated by the Springboks’ Rugby World Cup victory over England in Paris...
’ On the following day Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown and South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki met at the rugby match in Paris but there were no substantive talks...
' On the following day Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown and South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki met at the rugby match in Paris but there were no substantive talks...
President Thabo Mbeki with the help of his then ally ex-Vice-President Jacob Zuma tried to bring the IFP into coalition with the ANC at provincial and national levels with an eye to an eventual merger...
Vol 48 No 21 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Central government has cut his budget and he has appealed to President Thabo Mbeki for an increase in his state salary; a review committee of the Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers chaired by Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke has recommended a rise of 16...
Vol 48 No 21 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
President Thabo Mbeki's attempts to reform the system of traditional leaders to bring it into line with democracy are not universally popular...
Relations between Libya and South Africa (which is nearly halfway through its two-year term on the UNSC) also reached a new low after a personal confrontation between President Thabo Mbeki and Gadaffi at the African Union summit in Accra in July (AC Vol 48 No 14)...
Vol 48 No 20 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The suspension by President Thabo Mbeki of the National Director of Public Prosecutions Vusi Pikoli may foreshadow a constitutional crisis...
Vol 48 No 20 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Insiders say that President Thabo Mbeki is frustrated by the National Prosecuting Authority's inability to make headway in its case against Jacob Zuma...
Vol 48 No 20 |
- UNITED NATIONS
This was heatedly disputed last week in New York with presidents such as Cote d'Ivoire's Laurent Gbagbo and South Africa's Thabo Mbeki together with the African Union Chairman Alpha Oumar Konaré arguing forcefully for the end of foreign troop deployments in Africa...