Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

Some of those close to former President Thabo Mbeki including former Justice Minister Penuell Maduna and Andile Nkuhlu spokesman for Mbeki's failed campaign for the ANC presidency last year have platinum interests in Limpopo...

When Nigerians were among those killed in the xenophobic attacks in South Africa this year it was Yar'Adua not Madueke who flew to Tshwane (Pretoria) to confer with President Thabo Mbeki...

Former President Thabo Mbeki had already done that; he turned the Office of the Presidency into just such a central department which the left vehemently opposed as centralisation...

SouthAfrica’s ex-President Thabo Mbeki returned to Harare on 14 October his mediating influence much reduced...

Three factions are now vying for power in the African National Congress: the dominant group led by ANC President Jacob Zuma which controls the National Executive Committee (NEC) the trades unions the Youth League and the intelligence groups; their immediate rivals who remain loyal to ousted national President Thabo Mbeki; and a third group led by Mosiuoa ‘Terror’ Lekota...

All the African National Congress’s provincial branches are internally divided between Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma supporters...

A long tussle with Thabo Mbeki lasted from 1994 to 2005 after Lekota refused to obey instructions not to fire officials in his government for corruption; he was sacked as Premier in 1996...

This follows the political shocks in South Africa following the ousting of President Thabo Mbeki...

Amid bitterness Thabo Mbeki was forced to resign taking half the cabinet with him...

In 1997 the quiet unassuming but cerebral Kgalema Motlanthe was nominated by the left wing of the African National Congress tripartite alliance as ANC General Secretary as a pro-worker bulwark against the party’s pro-business Thabo Mbeki-led leadership...