JOHANNESBURG - South African President Thabo Mbeki agreed to resign yesterday after the ruling party ordered him to step down, a move that could spark turmoil in Africa's economic powerhouse.

TIMETIME: In a subdued television address on Sunday night, ousted South African President Thabo Mbeki announced that he had submitted his letter of resignation to the speaker of parliament and ...

South African President Thabo Mbeki has finally been ousted by hispolitical rivals in the ruling African National Congress, and for many the move comes none too soon. Mbeki was no friend to the U ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- South African President Thabo Mbeki is heading to Zimbabwe for talks with the country's president ...

If one element unites the crises, it's the invariable presence of Thabo Mbeki, the country's president, at their center. TELL US THE TRUTH, MR. PRESIDENT! screamed one headline last week.

President Thabo Mbeki bowed to heavy pressure from his own party to resign Saturday, tossed to the sidelines of the economic powerhouse he built up as punishment.

The sacking by President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa of his deputy health minister, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, has produced outrage amongst AIDS activists in South Africa and consternation among ...

Yet in South Africa -- where there are 1,800 new HIV cases every day and the AIDS death rate is projected to double in the next five years -- Mbeki projects little sense of urgency on the rare ...

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* Mbeki was re-elected in 2004 for the second term as president permitted under South Africa's constitution. But in late 2007 he lost an ANC leadership contest to rival Jacob Zuma, now tipped to ...