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/ 12 October 2008
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader has threatened to pull out of a power-sharing deal if Robert Mugabe moved ahead with plans to take key ministries.
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/ 11 October 2008
President Robert Mugabe has laid claim to all key Cabinet posts and Zimbabwe’s powerful state security apparatus.
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/ 11 October 2008
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday expressed concern about the impasse in a Zimbabwe power-sharing accord.
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/ 11 October 2008
A split from the ANC? Forget it. The time is not right for a split and any new initiative will fail.
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/ 10 October 2008
Like Lekota, thousands of ANC members and millions of potential voters feel they have grounds for divorce from the party, but for different reasons.
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/ 10 October 2008
The new ‘coalition of the wounded’ will frighten but not dislodge the ANC at next year’s polls.
This whole year a new virus has been spreading to countries where elections are taking place. It is called "Doing a Kibaki".
Mbeki was quintessential ANC, an integral and very key member, an arch-propagandist who embodied and expressed its spirit of democratic centralism.
Is BEE going the same way as the RDP and a number of other post-1994 policy acronyms?
The political rupture in South Africa is being presented in the outside world as the personal tragedy and humiliation of one man, Thabo Mbeki.
By this time next year Finance Minister Trevor Manuel will most likely not be in office, writes Ferial Haffajee.
Former SA president Thabo Mbeki has agreed to resume his mediation in neighbouring Zimbabwe’s political crisis, a spokesperson said on Friday.
Thabo Mbeki had ample opportunity to join proceedings to defend himself against inferences of political meddling, say papers filed in court.
South Africa’s former president Thabo Mbeki did not have to resign his post, but could have waited to be fired by the ANC.
President Kgalema Motlanthe will not be easily influenced by the ANC’s leftist allies to make policy changes.
As the global markets have gone into meltdown, South Africa is relatively isolated — but only relatively.
What qualifies Baleka Mbete for her new job as deputy president? Her record as National Assembly speaker suggests she can get things done.
Jacob Zuma’s legal team has filed papers opposing Thabo Mbeki’s Constitutional Court appeal against parts of Judge Chris Nicholson’s recent judgement.
The presidency’s announcement last week of Cabinet resignations was made to collapse markets, said ANC general secretary Gwede Mantashe.
The aftershocks from Thabo Mbeki’s sacking continue to reverberate through South Africa.
SA’s new leader on Thursday backed former president Thabo Mbeki as the mediator in Zimbabwe, saying he would revive a stalled power-sharing deal.
Two strikingly different speeches — one saying goodbye, and the other saying hello. Two moods and two different styles.
Zimbabwe’s logjam in forming a unity government could pull recently ousted South African president Thabo Mbeki back into the spotlight.
An ageing Nelson Mandela’s voluntary departure from the presidency in 1999 was a great moment.
Lev David: I’m not panicking. We’re fine for now. And, just in case, we’re stocking up on tinned food, the way we did in ’94.
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/ 30 September 2008
Judge Chris Nicholson had no grounds to comment on Thabo Mbeki’s decision to dismiss Jacob Zuma, the National Prosecuting Authority said on Tuesday.
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/ 30 September 2008
SA’s finance minister said he expected more officials to resign in the aftermath of president Thabo Mbeki’s removal, but played down talk of a split.
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/ 30 September 2008
Humble leaders would have considered it an honour to walk in Madiba’s shoes, but not Mbeki.
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/ 30 September 2008
The axing of Thabo Mbeki has triggered a sense of disorientation and terror in the hearts of the middle classes, both white and black.
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/ 30 September 2008
There is strong evidence that the deposed president undermined the investigation into South Africa’s arms procurement.
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/ 29 September 2008
One of the things that former President Thabo Mbeki got right during his term was his relationship with and role on the African continent.
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/ 29 September 2008
The stand-in president is one of the only people who can heal the party’s wounds.