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/ 19 November 2004
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.
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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/ 26 September 2003
Cookies and tea with Graeme Smith, a hunt for Miss Daisy, a possible dagga-smuggling operation, a Darth Vader impression, cricket and croquet. What could it all mean? Read President Thabo Mbeki’s diary and find out.
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 […]
A question that needs to be answered, since so much is at stake for us as a nation, is: Does Thabo Mbeki exist? The evidence appears to be overwhelming that he does exist. But the dissident view is that he could not possibly exist, since how could a Thabo Mbeki stricken with an earlier democratic […]
Citing the Iraq situation, South African President Thabo Mbeki stressed on Thursday the role of the United Nations in bringing about peace in the world.
One of the reasons Aids was such a low priority at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) was possibly that it had to do with sex, and a lot of political leaders did not understand sex, said UNAids ambassador Mechai Viravaidya.
South African President Thabo Mbeki, whose government has been accused of dragging its heels on providing Aids drugs, is targetted by activists in a newly released music CD
Makhosini Nkosi and Wally Mbhele The ruling African National Congress celebrated its landslide victory in the country’s second democratic elections this week in grand style. The party forked out more than R180 000 to set up an election nerve centre and a celebration at Gallagher Estate in Midrand near Johannesburg. Even a bomb scare that […]
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/ 24 December 1998
Much like a father at the birth of his first child, most politicians who reach the top flirt, at least briefly, with an image of their own immortality. And it is one of those irritating paradoxes of which religious people are so fond, that to live on beyond our own deaths a little, a large […]