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Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki (Xhosa: [tʰaɓɔ mbɛːkʼi]; born 18 June 1942) is a South African politician who served as the 2nd democratic president of South Africa from 14 June 1999 to 24 September 2008, when he resigned at the request of his party, the African National Congress (ANC).
Jun 14, 2024 · Thabo Mbeki is a politician who served as the president of South Africa (1999–2008). Mbeki was early exposed to politics by his father, a longtime leader in the Eastern Cape African National Congress (ANC), an organization dedicated to the elimination of apartheid in South Africa, who was later.
Dec 18, 1997 · Thabo Mbeki became a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ANC in 1975. In 1976 he was again on the road, this time to Nigeria as a representative of the ANC where he played a major role in assisting students from South Africa to relocate in an unfamiliar environment.
Known as the ‘Eton of Africa’, the school was the first South African high school to admit Blacks for over a century. Founded in 1841 by the Scottish Presbyterian Church, it was built on land, granted to it by Xhosa King Ngqika, and was situated in the fertile valley along the Tyume River in Alice.
SABC News Correspondent Sherwin Bryce-Pease is in conversation with former South African President Thabo Mbeki, who participated in a high-level dialogue at the 78th United Nations General...
Jul 21, 2022 · Thabo Mbeki, who succeeded Nelson Mandela as South Africa’s second post-apartheid president, celebrated his 80th birthday on 18 June 2022.
Jun 10, 2013 · February 27, 2017 - Is inaugurated as chancellor of the University of South Africa. Read Fast Facts from CNN about former South African president, Thabo Mbeki.
Jun 24, 2020 · Thabo Mbeki’s political and historical dilemma became the dilemma of a philosopher of liberation that failed in the arena of popular politics. Like Amilcar Cabral, another African philosopher of liberation, Mbeki does not seem to have believed in telling lies and claiming easy victories.
Feb 23, 2012 · Former South African president Thabo Mbeki, in a February 16 lecture (PDF), reflects on the threat of Western re-colonization of Africa in the context of enduring racism as a way to encourage...
Jun 11, 2008 · South African President Thabo Mbeki leaves office next year. Mark Gevisser, who wrote Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred, talks about Mbeki's accomplishments and failures since coming to power...
