Vol 40 No 12 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
And it left opposition voters surprisingly unflustered considering some earlier signs of panic that President-designate Thabo Mbeki was about to tamper with the constitution...
Vol 40 No 11 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Yet the arm-twisting which the party has used to pick its provincial leadership has put on show some problems that will be faced again and again by Thabo Mbeki President Nelson Mandela's chosen heir as leader of the party and the nation...
Vol 40 No 11 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Parliament will assemble on 14 June for members to be sworn in and the new President presumably Thabo Mbeki will be elected...
Vol 40 No 10 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The deal between Thabo Mbeki President of the African National Congress and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi of the Inkatha Freedom Party means that the electorate can choose only which party dominates the coalition in the most populous and the most violence-prone of South Africa's nine provinces...
Vol 40 No 10 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Yet when open elections were at last held and a Government of National Unity was formed Buthelezi accepted cabinet representation for Inkatha and served as acting president on more than a dozen occasions when both Mandela and Deputy President Thabo Mbeki were out of the country...
After last month’s commission meeting Deputy President Thabo Mbeki said the discussions ‘showed the rapid growth in the detailed relationship between the two countries’...
Vol 40 No 5 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The turning point was Nelson Mandela’s decision to appoint Thabo Mbeki not Ramaphosa Deputy President in 1994 after the latter had made unguarded though private comments about the ANC...
Vol 40 No 9 |
- AFRICA
- BRITAIN
More discreetly we hear Blair tried to persuade President Nelson Mandela and his heir-apparent Thabo Mbeki to support or at least not stridently oppose the British-USA bombing campaign against Saddam Hussein's Iraq...
Vol 40 No 9 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Thabo Mbeki the ANC's President was thought to favour Yengeni as party candidate for the provincial premiership but settled for Rasool as more acceptable to both factions...
Vol 40 No 9 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The African National Congress (ANC) is bound to win the elections for the national parliament on 2 June and its leader Thabo Mbeki will become the next president...
Two such individuals - Tokyo Sexwale ex-Premier of Gauteng and Patrick 'Terror' Lekota ex-Premier of the Free State - have been speedily shunted out or sideways and the party's rules have been changed to enable the President of the ANC (and after the elections of South Africa) Thabo Mbeki to determine the choice of provincial premiers...