The essay from which the posts are drawn was written in May 2008, when Thabo Mbeki was still President. Today's post looks at the politics of former President Thabo Mbeki; in particular the notion - ...

In H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine,” there were two “races” of humanoids: Eloi and Morlock. The Eloi were calm, cooperative, helpful and generally benign, whereas the Morlock lived ...

Over the past eighteen months Mbeki, using the Mbeki Foundation as his base, has been having regular meetings with all the most important Afrikaner groups including the Solidarity Movement, the ...

He clearly regards EWC as a betrayal of the history and the principles of the ANC. An internal document of the Thabo Mbeki Foundation, “not yet intended for public consumption,” was leaked a few days ...

I was out of the country when the 101 ANC Veterans issued their press release following their interaction with ANC SG, Comrade Gwede Mantashe. Since my return I have read the press release of the 101 ...

I have understood from the statements made by the various leaders of the Democratic Alliance (DA), including Mr Mmusi Maimane, that the current developments within the DA have to do with the ...

It is against this backdrop, that leaders from various organisations including the Thabo Mbeki Foundation and the Solidarity Movement also started to discuss how and in what way Afrikaners can ...

[Last year, I wrote to a comrade to engage him on an article he had written in one of the local newspapers to engage him on one of the issues he raised, i.e. as a country, “we self-imposed a ...

President Mbeki: Well, I think the first thing to note of course Miranda is that an important part of TICAD is Japan, and you are dealing here with the second biggest economy in the world and ...

Comrade Paul Mashatile, ANC Deputy President, Chief Albert Luthuli House. Johannesburg. Dear Comrade Deputy President, Re: National Assembly Votes et al. I address this specific letter to you ...

through the actions of one individual - Thabo Mbeki. I would like to believe that you and I have devoted out adult lives to the victory of the national democratic revolution, and nothing else.

Much has been written about how much the so-called international community expected the new South Africa born in 1994 to lead the campaign for respect of human rights especially in Africa. The first ...