Clarion calls by leaders, including the former President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to prioritise a politically free, ...

Thabo Mbeki himself puts it in a more nuanced way: "Later, appointed to work as Political Secretary to the Acting President of the ANC, Oliver Tambo, I had the responsibility of preparing the drafts ...

He drafted speeches for President Tambo as well as policy documents ... Between 1987 and 1990, Comrades Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and Aziz Pahad, and later joined by Joe Nhlanhla, were assigned by ...