Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

Africa could see some positive results if the Organisation of African Unity's leadership triumvirate - Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo and South Africa's Thabo Mbeki - can tap into such connections on issues such as tariffs debt and drug prices...

President Thabo Mbeki himself is and will remain the central issue of South African politics: 2000 was a bad year for him with perceived failures over unemployment crime Zimbabwe and most of all HIV-AIDS...

President Thabo Mbeki looked unhappy when two days after the poll he visited the Independent Electoral Commission in Pretoria which everybody agreed had done a good job...

President Thabo Mbeki faces his toughest battle for voters yet in local government elections on 5 December (AC Vol 41 Nos 17 & 19)...

Nor is Ouattara a slouch at African diplomacy: he has strong ties with both Presidents Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria...

South African President Thabo Mbeki played up peace prospects when he visited Kigali on 19-20 October but he prudently stressed that Zambian President Frederick Chiluba is the real regional mediator...

Police statistics show that between 1994 (when the African National Congress came to power) and 1999 (when Thabo Mbeki succeeded Nelson Mandela as President) reported car-jackings increased by 20 per cent rapes by 21 per cent assaults by 22 per cent burglaries by 25 per cent and common robberies by an astonishing 121 per cent...

Seven heads of state including the heavyweights Thabo Mbeki Olusegun Obasanjo Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Abdoulaye Wade arrived in Abidjan on 24 September while the affair of the sacked generals was at its height...

Less predictably officials from President Thabo Mbeki downwards have declared that there is a strong parallel with the situation in Algeria and that Pretoria is acting on the Algerian government's advice to deal with Islamic extremism before it gets out of hand...

Conscious of the dangers of complacency President Thabo Mbeki and the ANC's leaders denounce 'graft' and 'careerism' in the party to show how different they want to be from President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front...