Crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli said Thabo Mbeki’s camp was trying to take over police intelligence ahead of the 2012 ANC conference.
The business jet controversially bought for the use of former president Thabo Mbeki in 2001 is not good enough for President Jacob Zuma.
Support of the United Nations resolution was an attempt to avoid further criticism, diplomats say.
If former president Thabo Mbeki’s rule was the Age of Denial, President Jacob Zuma’s term of office is likely to be known as the Age of Apology.
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/ 21 February 2011
Economic analyst Moeletsi Mbeki on Sunday rejected President Jacob Zuma’s portrayal of him as an armchair critic.
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/ 20 February 2011
The DA on Sunday called for a hearing on the chartering of aircraft for VIPs, amid reports that Thabo Mbeki’s flights to Sudan had cost R20,5-million.
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/ 20 February 2011
Former president Thabo Mbeki’s travels to Sudan has cost taxpayers R20,5-million between April 2009 and October last year, a media report said.
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/ 28 January 2011
Two years since he was booted out of the Union Buildings, Thabo Mbeki still seems to be setting the agenda on some crucial foreign policy questions.
Thabo Mbeki says only talks between Côte d’Ivoire president Laurent Gbagbo and rival Alassane Ouattara can end their political deadlock.
Party hit by defection to ANC and publicising of secret diplomatic cables.
Thabo Mbeki’s ANC credentials "speak for themselves", his spokesperson said in reaction to reports that he was involved in the formation of Cope.
High-speed communication and travel make the diplomat’s traditional role an anachronism.
A report that former president Thabo Mbeki was involved in the formation of Cope was a "misinterpretation", a Unisa professor said on Thursday.
According to a secret US diplomatic note, former president Thabo Mbeki was involved in the creation of Cope policy — a claim he has denied.
Former president Thabo Mbeki paid a glowing tribute to Sudan president Omar Hassan al-Bashir ahead of the country’s secession referendum.
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/ 17 December 2010
The <i>M&G</i> won its lengthy court battle to obtain a copy of a report commissioned by former president Thabo Mbeki on Zimbabwe’s 2002 elections.
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos started his historic first state visit to South Africa aimed at ending decades-long enmities.
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> has again won in its bid to obtain a confidential report on the 2002 Zimbabwe presidential election.
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/ 10 December 2010
The ripples from the WikiLeaks scandal made a fairly gentle landfall in South Africa last week.
The US embassy in South Africa decided in 2001 that it would deal with a "prickly, hyper-sensitive, shrill and defensive" president Thabo Mbeki.
Zuma’s intelligence and tactical acumen acknowledged
Ivorian leader told Mbeki that Côte d’Ivoire’s presidential election had been rigged and that the outcome could not be trusted.
The rise of Jacob Zuma to South Africa’s presidency was an "astonishing achievement", according to US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki was ‘thin-skinned, shrill and defensive’, with poor advisers, leaked documents by WikiLeaks say.
Former president Thabo Mbeki will on Tuesday hand a preliminary report on his emergency mission to Côte d’Ivoire to the chairman of the African Union
International mediators have urged a peaceful end to a political crisis in Côte d’Ivoire amid the threat of unrest.
Opposition parties have criticised the government for not recognising Alassane Ouattara’s victory in elections in Côte d’Ivoire last week.
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/ 6 December 2010
There is no logic behind rewarding the violence of losers, writes <b>Verashni Pillay</b>.
Côte d’Ivoire was in turmoil on Monday as rivals challenging Laurent Gbagbo’s claim to the presidency declared they had formed a government.
Both of Côte d’Ivoire’s presidential candidates said they had taken the oath of office, leading to Thabo Mbeki’s arrival as mediator.
Airport sources said Thabo Mbeki arrived on Sunday in Abidjan on an emergency mission to mediate after Côte d’Ivoire’s disputed presidential election.
Former president thabo Mbeki has been requested by the African Union to help resolve the Côte d’Ivoire presidential dispute.