Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

The ruling African National Congress’s choice of a successor to President Thabo Mbeki will dominate South African politics this year...

President Thabo Mbeki and Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula are so far standing by the National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi who is at the centre of a bizarre political-criminal scandal...

Even the most conservative African National Congress activists admit that a schism has developed in the party between supporters of President Thabo Mbeki and those of sacked Deputy President Jacob Zuma...

The African National Congress Provincial Conferences will be fiercely lobbied by Jacob Zuma's and Thabo Mbeki's camps...

Foreign dignitaries flooded in with similar advice: Belgian Defence Minister André Flahaut four German members of parliament Britain's International Development Secretary Hilary Benn South African President Thabo Mbeki Italy's deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Patrizia Sentinelli...

But there was little political cooperation until President Thabo Mbeki had had a long discussion with Putin and his officials at the G8 meeting in Russia in July (AC Vol 47 No 15)...

In the tradition of African Presidents Thabo Mbeki is his own diplomat-in-chief...

However at Britain's and France's insistence and on the final day of the summit the G8 leaders sat down with the 'strategic outreach partners' including South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki and African Union Chairman Dénis Sassou N'Guesso as well as the leaders of Brazil India China and Mexico...

Manoeuvring over the succession to President Thabo Mbeki in 2009 is becoming increasingly fraught - so much so that a high-level negotiating group was set up last week to dampen tensions and lay down ground rules...

First he persuaded his fellow leaders to reject an extremely critical report on Zimbabwe by the African Union's Human Rights Commission; then he pre-empted Annan's efforts to mediate in Zimbabwe's internal crisis (as part of a plan agreed between SA President Thabo Mbeki and British Premier Tony Blair) by appointing his own mediator (and close friend) Tanzanian former President Benjamin Mkapa...