Former President Thabo Mbeki has criticised Ramaphosa directly for the first time blaming his government for failing to implement plans to assist the poor and unemployed reverse inequality and renew the deeply divided ruling African National Congress...

But Dos Santos gained little kudos for that from South Africa's victorious African National Congress (ANC) many of whose leaders including Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma had long-standing disputes with the MPLA...

Gilder was an ally of President Thabo Mbeki and like Fraser came from a prominent anti-apartheid family in the Cape Flats region...

Former Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe are his main sounding boards we hear although he had a formidable circle of advisors from the private sector civil society and academia...

The other members are: Justice Minister Ronald Lamola; Joel Netshitenzhe a former policy head in the government of Thabo Mbeki; and Lindiwe Maseko an official of the Gauteng provincial government...

Out of respect rather than political sympathy former presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe joined Ramaphosa at the requiem mass for Tutu in Cape Town...

Ramaphosa and the law-and-order lobby received support from the Reverend Frank Chikane who once headed the office of former President Thabo Mbeki and co-founded Defend Our Democracy (DoD) in March to demand the arrest and prosecution of party and government officials guilty of corruption during the Zuma administration...

The opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) which has an affiliate in Eswatini has called for former president Thabo Mbeki to be appointed as envoy demanding 'immediate intervention and mediation'...