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A Harvard University study estimates that 365,000 people in South Africa suffered a premature death due to their government inaction for years. The South African government under former president THabo Mbeki for years denied the scientific consensus..
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With Zimbabwe’s political power-sharing deal in jeopardy, South Africa’s former president Thabo Mbeki planned crisis talks Monday with both sides in...
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AP, Johannesburg
Thabo Mbeki’s spokesman says the former president is flying to Zimbabwe to help resolve a deadlock in power-sharing talks to end that country’s crisis.
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The power-sharing being brokered in Zimbabwe is under threat after Robert Mugabe allocated control of three major arms of the government to his ruling Zanu-PF party.
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This route, the myth goes, is the descent into dictatorship, the free-fall into hunger and poverty and the collapse of institutions such as an independent and vigorous...
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AP, Cape Town
The South African Parliament has elected a new president to replace Thabo Mbeki, who was ousted in a power struggle within the African National Congress.
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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has described as “devastating” the removal from office of his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki, who is seen as...
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South African President Thabo Mbeki decided to disband an elite crime-fighting unit against an official recommendation to keep it operating, documents released Monday...
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