Leaders will hold an meeting in Swaziland on Wednesday to discuss the crisis in Zimbabwe but key negotiator President Thabo Mbeki will not attend.
Southern African leaders will hold an emergency meeting in Swaziland’s capital, Mbabane, on Wednesday to discuss the crisis in Zimbabwe.
The African Union (AU) on Monday joined a chorus of concern and dismay over the withdrawal of Zimbabwe’s opposition from a presidential run-off.
Zimbabwe’s crisis will now move to the UN Security Council, as the international community mulls fresh sanctions against Robert Mugabe’s government.
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew on Sunday from the June 27 presidential run-off election.
A South African mediation team was in Zimbabwe on Saturday as part of efforts to resolve the country’s political crisis.
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille has argued against a government of national unity in Zimbabwe, saying it will allow Mugabe to stay in power.
Reports that President Mbeki is off the hook regarding a German probe into alleged arms deal corruption are mischievous, says the Justice department.
South Africa’s positive credit rating outlook from Moody’s is under strain and dependent on the government maintaining its current economic policies.
SA President Thabo Mbeki has urged Zimbabwe’s leader Robert Mugabe to cancel next week’s presidential vote and negotiate a deal with the opposition.
President Thabo Mbeki on Monday called on the youth of the country to stand up against perpetrators of xenophobic violence.
A rebuke of President Robert Mugabe might not be enough to save Zimbabwe, but it could allow South Africa to salvage some national pride.
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/ 18 December 2007
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”Comrade Motlanthe, sabela uya-bizwa,”sang delegates at the conference on Sunday. ”Comrade Motlanthe, you are being called to service!” Kgalema Motlanthe has been portrayed by both camps as the indecisive, weak link in the ANC infighting.
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/ 4 November 2007
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After eight years at the helm of Africa’s economic powerhouse, Thabo Mbeki cuts an increasingly lonely figure as the battle for the reins of the African National Congress (ANC) approaches its finale. As well as taking fresh blows from his political foes, the president has also become the target of senior ANC party members.
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Bulelani Ngcuka makes a public apology for ”losing his cool” but refuses to apologise to Lawrence Mushwana personally: Ferial Haffajee, Sam Sole …
The Eastern Cape has some of the poorest districts in the country, according to Statistics South Africa
Several years ago we asked the same question:Is Thabo Mbeki fit to rule? At the time, it elicited a furious response from African National Congress representatives and a coterie of others keen to ingratiate themselves with the heir apparent to Nelson Mandela. It was deemed an unfitting question, insulting, arrogant and predictably racist. Today we […]
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/ 12 January 2001
The touch of a king was once believed to cure illness.
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/ 15 September 2000
President Thabo Mbeki either gets his act together on HIV/Aids very soon or he places his presidency at risk. We South Africans are losing the battle against this disease. This is, in no small measure, the result of the refusal by Mbeki to accept the guidance of best science. That refusal is irrational and perverse. […]
Indications that the African National Congress is intent on having the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report rewritten is one aspect of last week’s parliamentary debate on the report which the media appears to have overlooked. A clear hint of this was the repeated reference made in President Nelson Mandela’s speech to the […]
Thabo Mbeki is the mystery man who looms large in South Africa’s future. Gaye Davis spoke to people close to this intensely private personality.
A report card on the new government. By Anton Harber.
The ANC faces a tough — and hotly contested — choice of deputy president from two very strong, and very different, contenders. Anton Harber reports.
Hopes high as both sides reakise … ‘This discussion should have happened years ago’