Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

In another negotiating gambit from Khartoum Lieutenant General Omer el Beshir asked South African President Thabo Mbeki to broker a meeting with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Durban on 12-15 November...

Yet President Thabo Mbeki is squeezing as hard as he can the only possible rivals to his African National Congress - Chief Mangosuthu (Gatsha) Buthelezi of the (mainly Zulu) Inkatha Freedom Party which has 34 seats in parliament and Tony Leon of the (mainly white) Democratic Party with 38 seats...

The most likely 'peacekeepers' will be the combatants themselves working as monitors alongside non-combatant military specialists as initially envisaged by South African President Thabo Mbeki...

Buyoya's only initiative came in Pretoria on 28 August when he asked South African President Thabo Mbeki to act as an intermediary and facilitator in Burundi's conflict...

South Africa's trades unions chose to confront the country's new President Thabo Mbeki just after his inauguration and before he'd had time to find his feet (AC Vol 40 Nos 12 & 13)...

The public servants' challenge to President Thabo Mbeki's government involves over twelve unions with 800 000 members from all races and all shades of political opinion...

A 'big three' alliance of elected Presidents - Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika Nigeria's Obasanjo and South Africa's Thabo Mbeki - set out to rebuild respect for the OAU...

On 6 June in Pretoria for the inauguration of President Thabo Mbeki Mugabe predicted that the war would be over by the end of the year - adding that Uganda wanted peace but not Rwanda...

Now centre-stage as President Thabo Mbeki still keeps South Africans guessing...

Much more striking than the cabinet reshuffle are the big structural changes in government under President Thabo Mbeki...