PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has lost a considerable quantity of his 20-year-old KWV brandy after a 27-year-old man apparently broke into Genadendal, Mbeki’s Cape residence, and tucked into alcohol and food. Police said that it appeared that the thief, who has been taken into custody, broke into Genadendal between 1 and 4 September. Mbeki, who is in New York at the UN’s Millennium conference, does not often use Genadendal as a residence. Nothing else has been found to be missing from the President’s residence.