Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

This a setback for President Thabo Mbeki and his friend the ANC leader in KZN S'bu Ndebele and could encourage the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu 'Gatsha' Buthelezi to lead a broader opposition coalition against the ANC just 15 months before the national elections...

In the run up to the 2004 elections South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki has consolidated his grip on the governing African National Congress and its policy-making bodies...

On that day 164 years later President Thabo Mbeki will try to lure in his party's left-wingers for ideological slaughter at the five-yearly national conference of the African National Congress (AC Vol 43 No 17)...

Mandela continued to woo Afrikaners though and Thabo Mbeki since his election in 1999 has done so less publicly...

Despite frantic lobbying he has been outmanoeuvred by South African President Thabo Mbeki and Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika who head the key NePAD group of Algeria Nigeria Senegal and South Africa...

The arrival of the South Africans is highly embarrassing for President Thabo Mbeki as he promotes the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NePAD)...

The Network has been linked to President Thabo Mbeki since his time as Deputy President and includes a close Mbeki-ally businessman Saki Macozoma...

President Thabo Mbeki then confirmed Pahad's interpretation and said NePAD would stick to economic monitoring while politics were handled by the AU or one of its offshoots...

Wolfensohn has found common cause with South African President Thabo Mbeki with whom he spent a weekend just before the annual meetings...

Mthembu is a keen supporter of Thabo Mbeki's Africanist visions; Vodacom markets its investments as fulfilling the 'African Renaissance' forms alliances with local operators smooches the local political elite (President Joseph Kabila was at the ceremonial opening of operations in Congo) and exploits local culture for marketing purposes...