News Dissector Blog (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
WHEN YOU “KNOW” NEWSMAKERS? As it happens I have personally met a number of names in the news. They were hardly friends, but I do have some stories to share though little time to share them right now. The most disappointing is what happened to Thabo Mbeki—not his fall from power but what he did [...]
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
ZIMBABWE'S power-sharing agreement was branded dead in the water by opposition leaders today ahead of mediator Thabo Mbeki's arrival for talks soured by President Robert Mugabe's ministerial allocation.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
South Africa's former president, Thabo Mbeki, is on his way to Zimbabwe for what may be a final attempt to rescue the peace deal he brokered last month, after President Robert Mugabe sought to appoint members of his Zanu-PF party to every key post in the cabinet.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
The three principals to Zimbabwe's inter-party dialogue have agreed to call back the mediator, former South African president Thabo Mbeki, to assist in resolving outstanding issues related to the allocation of cabinet posts, local media reported on Saturday. President Robert Mugabe of the ruling ZANU-PF and opposition MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai and president of the other MDC (the Movement for Democratic...
LA Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mugabe and the opposition fail to agree on Cabinet posts despite accord South African brokered. Leaders of Zimbabwe have agreed that power-sharing talks have broken down over the allocation of Cabinet posts and called Friday for former South African President Thabo Mbeki to mediate an end to the deadlock.
Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
Zimbabwe’s official inflation rate has surged to 231million per cent as the opposition appealed to South Africa’s former President, Thabo Mbeki, to rescue the historic power-sharing deal he brokered last month with President Robert ...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki is expected in Zimbabwe early next week, according to a statement by the Mutumbara MDC. The leaders of the political parties, Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara met in Harare on Friday but failed to resolve their differences over the distribution of cabinet posts, but finally agreed to recall the facilitator to help break the impasse.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Zimbabwe's leaders have agreed that power-sharing talks have broken down over the allocation of Cabinet posts and called Friday for former South African President Thabo Mbeki to mediate an end to the deadlock.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Zimbabwe's leaders have agreed that power-sharing talks have broken down over the allocation of Cabinet posts and called Friday for former South African President Thabo Mbeki to mediate an end to the deadlock.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Zimbabwe's leaders have agreed that power-sharing talks have broken down over the allocation of Cabinet posts and called Friday for former South African President Thabo Mbeki to mediate an end to the deadlock.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Following the resignation of South African President Thabo Mbeki, William M. Gumede explores the future of the ANC and the likely consequences of a Jacob Zuma presidency. While suggesting that an elected Zuma would scarcely provoke an all-out political implosion in the short-term, Gumede concludes events to represent a genuine reconfiguration of South African politics.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
THE Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC yesterday suspended talks with Zanu PF on the allocation of cabinet posts until the facilitator of the unity government, former South African president Thabo Mbeki, intervenes.
The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
SIR – I was truly surprised at your description of Thabo Mbeki as a “rotten president” (“Queasy about the future”, September 27th). I am no great admirer of Mr Mbeki. His procrastination over Zimbabwe and his antediluvian notions about AIDS are only two of his many failed policies. However, as someone who lived in South Africa at the time of its transition to democracy I would lay the blame for Mr...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Following Thabo Mbeki’s abrupt resignation as South African president last month, there has been much speculation about the possibility and desirability of a new political party emerging from disgruntled ruling party members.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The summary dismissal of Thabo Mbeki as president of South Africa happened with speedy precision. It was, or so it seemed, a triumph for the Jacob Zuma faction within the ANC.
