Former president Thabo Mbeki’s vision of leaving a leadership legacy is stymied by lack of funding.
In a victory for the <I>M&G</I> and access to information in SA, a judge has ordered a secret report on the 2002 Zimbabwe election be released.
Flanked by a clutch of former Cabinet ministers, former president Thabo Mbeki emerged on Thursday after a long hibernation from the public eye.
Julius Malema has been ordered to apologise to President Jacob Zuma and attend anger management classes following his disciplinary hearing on Tuesday.
Sepp Blatter and Thabo Mbeki intervened to have Cape Town’s Green Point Stadium built — at R3-billion more expensive than two available alternatives.
Jackie Selebi told a court on Thursday that the NPA had planned to prosecute former president Thabo Mbeki for crimes committed during the struggle.
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/ 2 December 2009
Thabo Mbeki should be held accountable for his role in the HIV/Aids pandemic, the Young Communist League of South Africa said on Wednesday.
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/ 30 November 2009
While South Africa’s HIV-infection rate may have stabilised, experts warn that the slow response to the pandemic has triggered a time bomb.
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/ 27 November 2009
Thabo Mbeki has been formally removed as the Southern African region’s mediator in the Zimbabwe crisis, government announced this week.
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/ 24 November 2009
Pointing fingers at the administration of former president Thabo Mbeki is not helpful in dealing with SA’s Aids problems, Desmond Tutu says.
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/ 24 November 2009
Cope president Mosiuoa Lekota has described calls for former president Thabo Mbeki to be charged with genocide as irresponsible.
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/ 20 November 2009
The ANC may be belatedly castigating Thabo Mbeki for his Aids denial, but the failure of the past decade is more systemic than one man’s error.
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/ 17 November 2009
The SABC wanted ”issues of balance” addressed before agreeing to air a documentary on former president Thabo Mbeki and Aids deaths, it says.
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/ 17 November 2009
The ANC Youth League would not allow former president Thabo Mbeki to be charged with genocide, league president Julius Malema said on Monday.
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/ 10 November 2009
South Africa’s death rate doubled over the last decade due to the spread of Aids, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Tuesday.
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/ 9 November 2009
Former president Thabo Mbeki on Monday conveyed his condolences to the family of Ronnie Kasrils, whose
wife, Eleanor, died at the weekend.
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/ 6 November 2009
It was one of my first big stories for the M&G: the government was planning to buy military planes for R8-billion, writes Nic Dawes.
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/ 29 October 2009
African leaders meet in Nigeria on Thursday to discuss an AU report on ways to resolve the six-year-long conflict in Sudan’s Darfur province.
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/ 23 October 2009
This week government policy head Joel Netshitenzhe stepped down amid a restructuring of Cabinet that appeared to strengthen the hand of the left.
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/ 23 September 2009
Tito Mboweni was among several world experts who didn’t provide adequate leadership to prevent the financial crisis, Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday.
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/ 14 September 2009
Absence has not made the heart grow fonder for former president Thabo Mbeki, SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande said on Monday.
The Zuma administration has suspended more bureaucrats for corruption in its first 100 days than former president Thabo Mbeki’s did in 10 years.
The DA will ask President Jacob Zuma to reconstitute a commission on the role senior government officials played in oil deals with Iraq.
An AU panel led by former SA president Thabo Mbeki on Friday backed an international court’s indictment of Sudanese officials for war crimes.
Political neophyte Congress of the People is in the throes of a financial and leadership crisis, reports said on Friday.
A businessman intends offering President Jacob Zuma R1-billion to fight crime, a media report said on Sunday.
Thabo Mbeki lived in something of a racial hell, his skin constantly rubbed raw by the devils of colonialism and apartheid.
Nothing demonstrates the power of secret information more starkly than the withdrawal of corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma.
Court papers have revealed that ex-president Thabo Mbeki did try to delay the arrest of suspended police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi.
Former president Thabo Mbeki and former justice minister Brigitte Mabandla have filed affidavits in support of the decision to fire NPA Vusi Pikoli.
A ruling on the presidential pardons process could have far-reaching implications and, some say, affect the president’s power to grant pardons.
Jacob Zuma will inherit some old problems: intra-alliance tensions and provincial ructions — and some new ones created by his Cabinet choice.