“Finally, when Mandela got to see Mbeki privately in early 2002, he felt he was treated dismissively-said those close to him-as a ‘quarrelsome old man’”, Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred ...

Mbeki had asserted that because the applicants, in their case against the state, had accused him of interfering in their ...

Dec. 5, 2013 — -- intro: Nelson Mandela became South Africa's first democratically elected president in 1994. The following videos highlight some of the memorable moments from the last ...

The cause of death was not reported. Mr. Mbeki, who spent 24 years in jail with Nelson Mandela under apartheid, became best known to younger generations for his relationship to his more famous son.

To its immense and under-recognised credit, the government of national unity under President Nelson Mandela succeeded on the economic and political planes. And the subsequent government under the ...

Mbeki, 62, who was first elected in 1999, is known as a smart but somewhat prickly technocrat at home and an effective broker of conflicts in other African countries. He is said to lack Mandela's ...

JOHANNESBURG, April 25 -- The accusations were vague but not at all subtle. Appearing in separate televised interviews, President Thabo Mbeki and his administration's top police official said they ...

Mbeki had been Mandela’s deputy and became party and national president after Mandela’s retirement in 1998, with Zuma as his deputy in both positions. But during Mbeki’s second term, the two ...

But the early days of the Mbeki presidency have been torrid at times. While Nelson Mandela’s office was engagingly open — the man himself homespun to a fault — Mbeki lacks that popular touch.

In those days, Nelson Mandela was still breaking rocks as prisoner No. 0221141011 on Robben Island, and South Africa was firmly in the grip of apartheid.

Given his phenomenal larger-than-life stature, it was natural that Nelson Mandela’s successors to the South African presidency would be closely watched if they fit in the old man’s big shoes.

Mbeki preferred Mandela handle Abacha with velvet gloves while the latter, under intense pressure from world leaders, wanted to punch Nigerian dictator bare knuckled.