SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki, engaged in peacemaking efforts, has had talks with rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Bemba, who heads the Ugandan-backed Congolese Liberation Front (FLC) in the north and northeast of the war-torn DRC, was received by the South African leader for a little over an hour. A presidential representative refused to give details of the talks. Another DRC rebel leader, Adolphe Onusumba Yumba of the Rwandan-backed Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD), has been in South Africa for four days, hoping to meet Mbeki. – AFP