Significantly Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is to be invited to join but not South African President Thabo Mbeki whose rift with Blair at the Commonwealth Summit in Nigeria over Zimbabwe policy looks terminal...
President Thabo Mbeki timed elections to coincide with the anniversary and the African National Congress will use 'Ten Years of Freedom' as its campaign slogan...
Vol 45 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Expect too a resumption of the close working relationship with South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki after their spat over Zimbabwe at the Commonwealth summit...
SA President Thabo Mbeki left Abuja frustrated with both Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and the 'old' (i...
Concern for his international standing has led Mugabe to pressure Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Thabo Mbeki to lift the ban on him attending the Commonwealth summit in Abuja Nigeria on 5-8 December (see Pointer)...
Vol 44 No 23 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
President Thabo Mbeki's government is preparing laws to regulate empowerment create a BEE Advisory Council and invent sectoral 'charters' to promote black participation...
Vol 44 No 20 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
However President Thabo Mbeki and the government which had more or less hung Zuma out to dry politically took it so seriously that Mbeki announced last month the appointment of a judicial commission headed by apartheid-era judge Joos Hefer to probe the allegations...
Vol 44 No 20 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Cosatu rolled out the red carpet for Zuma; it sees him as President Thabo Mbeki's rival and a candidate for the national presidency in 2009...
Vol 44 No 18 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Now no holds are barred as it prepares for April's elections which should give President Thabo Mbeki (AC Vol 44 No 17) his second five-year term...
Vol 44 No 18 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The Strategic Defence Procurement Package was signed in November 1999 six months after Thabo Mbeki took over from Nelson Mandela as president...