Suddenly the incorrigible former President Thabo Mbeki appears, on TV, from hibernation ... to self-determination" and to choose their leaders be respected. What is he smoking? Although the election ...

Isaac Mogotsi on the sensitivity of the subject raised by the former president At the height of his intellectual influence over the South African society, some amongst us were wont to refer to former ...

No one, certainly not Mbeki, has explicitly stated or remotely implied that the articles are about issues other than those that served on the agenda of public discourse during his Presidency. On ...

In the political underground of the 1970s and perhaps more into the mid-1980s I was an admirer of a faraway Thabo Mbeki whose voice I would hear occasionally on Radio Freedom. He was a leading exiled ...

Earlier still, in September 2008, the UK Financial Times had carried a report from its correspondent in South Africa, Alec Russell, entitled “Thabo Mbeki: Aloof leader who fell from grace”. Russell ...

To Comrade Thula Bopela: A reply. I must say that you comrade Bopela never fails to amaze me with your angry and personalised attacks on former president, comrade Thabo Mbeki. The way you stage-manage ...

A brief overview of ANC history might help indicate the significance and scope of the defeat President Thabo Mbeki suffered three weeks ago. The events are obviously too recent to present any sort of ...

I agree. Where did it begin to go wrong? One emerging but largely misdirected narrative attributes our current turmoil to the ANC’s 2007 Polokwane conference and Thabo Mbeki’s subsequent recall as ...

Today we reflect on the legacy of our 11 th President, Comrade Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki, a committed cadre, comrade and leader and son of the ANC. He succeeded President Nelson Mandela as ANC President in ...

I merely replaced Mbeki with Zuma. The 2008 Statement was made by Mr. Zuma. Let me read from it again: “The National Executive Committee of the ANC met over the weekend… “After careful debate and ...

Historically, with regard to the Zimbabwe liberation struggle, the ANC had good relations with ZAPU and none with ZANU when it broke away from ZAPU. This was a product of a continuous process in ...

Andrew Donaldson interviews Ray Hartley on his new book Ragged Glory: The Rainbow Nation in Black and White PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki was not in a happy place. He had suffered a humiliating defeat at the ...