Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

The African Union's chief mediator South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki has shown growing signs of impatience with Khartoum and the AU has issued unprecedentedly critical statements...

After the mediators the AU High-Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) headed by South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki and consequently the AU itself took a tougher line on the NCP regime in August's Communiqué 539 Khartoum accelerated its focus on courting the EU Arab governments and the UN in its bid to stave off tougher sanctions...

Cosatu had campaigned for Jacob Zuma's presidency against Thabo Mbeki in 2007...

Mkhize and his provincial allies do not want a repeat of the brutal leadership race of 2007 where Thabo Mbeki was ousted as ANC President...

Chaired by a grim President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir the gathering was boycotted not only by the Sudanese opposition but also by the chief African Union mediator South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki and other AU grandees...

During the bruising party leadership race in 2007 Thabo Mbeki's opponents used the football hand gesture that signals that a player is being substituted...

Nor has Mbete held a ministerial portfolio while her rival was Health Minister under the late President Nelson Mandela and then Foreign Minister under ex-President Thabo Mbeki...

Former business allies of ex-President Thabo Mbeki one of Zuma's bitterest foes are also on the unionists' list...

Illicit finance and lost tax revenue cost Africa around US$50 billion per year according to research published in January by an African Union expert group chaired by South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki...

A measure of the bitterness in the anti-Zuma camp was its attempt to table a motion apologising for supporting Zuma at the ANC's 2007 Polokwane Conference where Zuma triumphed over Thabo Mbeki (AC Vol 51 No 17 Mounting strikes)...