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Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki (gebore 18 Junie 1942 in Idutywa, voormaile Transkei), is die voormalige President van Suid-Afrika, asook die ANC. Hy het Nelson Mandela op 16 Junie 1999 as President opgevolg. Meneer Mbeki het sy tweede termyn as President begin uitdien op 27 April 2004, nadat die ANC die algemene verkiesing van 2004 met 'n oorweldigende meerderheid gewen het. Op 20 September 2008, kondig hy aan dat hy as president sal bedank na 'n oproep in die verband deur die ANC se Uitvoerende Bestuurskomitee. Sy bedanking is met ingang van 25 September 2008 van krag.
Agtergrond
Hy is die seun van Govan en Epainette Mbeki, en het op Idutywa en Butterworth skoolgegaan. Hy was op hoërskool aan die Lovedale Institute in Alice, maar is geskors ná leerlingstakings in 1959, en ...
Southern Sudanese should focus on building stronger socio-economic relations with neighboring regions, should they opt for secession in Sunday’s self-determination referendum, Thabo Mbeki, the ex-South African leader said Friday.
Mbeki, who heads the African Union High Level Implementation Panel on Sudan (AUHIP) made these remarks while giving a 30-minute lecture on, “Southern Sudan on the eve of self-determination,” held at Juba University.
The referendum, he said, provides a unique opportunity for the population of the semi-autonomous region to not only ...
Sally - in poll Thabo Mbeki
Today it’s part of South African political lore, although back then its main effect was to offend Rainbow Nation sensibilities. Delivered in 1998, Thabo Mbeki’s “two nations” speech now has real relevance for America. A lead feature in the latest issue of The Atlantic magazine suggests why. By KEVIN BLOOM.
At the opening of the debate on “reconciliation and nation building” in the national assembly in May 1998, Thabo Mbeki, then South Africa’s deputy president, made a series of statements that were carefully designed to shatter the ...
Sally - in poll Thabo Mbeki The high-level African Union Panel on Darfur (AUPD) which arrived last week in Sudan conducts a series of public hearings across Darfur to examine the root causes of the conflict in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region.Led by the former South Africa president, Thabo Mbeki, the panel aims to determine how best to quickly end the conflict and expedite the peace process to create conditions conducive to promote justice, healing, and reconciliation. The panel kicked off the hearings on 20 June in El-Fasher, capital of North Darfur, before moving to the South Darfur capital of Nyala on Sunday, ...
