Thirty-one years after the fall of administrative apartheid, South Africa stands at an uneasy juncture between the promise of a rights-based democracy and the lived reality of widespread inequality, ...

and the biography of Thabo Mbeki by Mark Gevisser (Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred, Jonathan Ball, Johannesburg, 2007). Published only five months before the April elections, this fall in quality in ...

COSATU and Jacob Zuma - achieved victory by seizing control of the ANC – and ousting the GEAR policies of President Thabo Mbeki and Trevor Manuel. It was the most significant – and catastrophic – ...

As President Thabo Mbeki put it in 2003: “Certainly in any dealing of significance ... equivalent in relative economic terms to about R300b today. It was popular to gear these deals, so falling share ...

1 The situation is not dissimilar to that in 1996 when the Nelson Mandela/Thabo Mbeki administration eventually adopted the Growth, employment and redistribution policy programme (Gear), essentially a ...

Thabo Mbeki’s philosopher-king reign gave us the arms deal and ... Since 1994 SA has had about ten socio-economic development strategies including RDP, GEAR, CRDP, ISRDS, URP, ASGISA, NDP, New Growth ...

Advocate Ka-Siboto also played a video from ANC Deputy President Thabo Mbeki’s testimony to the Truth and Reconciliation ... said that as MK sought to gear up activity in white areas, and to stretch ...

Between late 1999 and early 2000 Thabo Mbeki had been converted to the doctrines of the AIDS ... At NUM he was critical of GEAR. In a 2000 interview he spoke highly of the way in which Gadaffi had ...

There’s no question that former president Thabo Mbeki was South Africa’s best-performing leader based on measures such as economic growth and sound fiscal management. He surpasses Nelson ...

It is all preventable. Two decades ago, South Africa's HIV crisis was defined by denialism and delay. Then president Thabo Mbeki and the late health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang presided over a ...