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/ 30 June 2006

Thabo Mbeki axes judges Bills

Controversial draft legislation aimed at overhauling the structure of the judiciary has been shelved after the intervention of President Thabo Mbeki. Senior government and parliamentary officials say formal consideration of the proposed laws has been suspended, and will not begin again until they are redrafted.

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/ 11 August 2005

What is Thabo Mbeki trying to achieve?

President Thabo Mbeki and his government are desperately trying to limit public embarrassment over the widely publicised political conditions they have reportedly attached to an emergency bail-out for President Robert Mugabe. They should have followed the diplomatic principle enunciated by classical Greek dramatist Euripides.

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/ 27 May 2005

Thabo Mbeki to ‘compare notes’ with George Bush

An African agenda for the July meeting of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialised nations is to be canvassed when President Thabo Mbeki meets United States President George Bush in Washington next week. Bush extended an invitation to Mbeki a few weeks ago for talks at the White House, partly to discuss the upcoming summit at Gleneagles in Scotland.

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/ 19 November 2004

For sale: Thabo Mbeki’s hideaway

The South African Secret Service (SASS) is selling a luxury waters-edge property it bought less than three years ago as a discreet pow-wow venue for President Thabo Mbeki and his diplomatic guests. The 14ha Hartbeespoort Dam estate is being marketed at R26-million to R30-million — an all-time high in an area that has become a playground for Gauteng’s very rich.

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/ 9 April 2004

The Guardian profile: Thabo Mbeki

For the democratically elected leader of a country it was a strange motto but Thabo Mbeki seemed to relish it: no one likes me, I don’t care. It started as a terrace chant of defiance by fans of Millwall, the London football club loathed by rivals, and at some point South Africa’s president made it his own.

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/ 31 March 2002

Thabo Mbeki’s brother and the arms deal

Johannesburg | Wednesday Reports that President Thabo Mbeki’s brother was benefiting from the arms deal had raised questions of serious conflicts of interest, the Democratic Alliance said on Tuesday. The party’s representative on South Africa’s controversial arms deal, Raenette Taljaard, said recent ”revelations” suggested that a business venture by Moeletsi Mbeki and former Independent Development […]