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Kenya’s influence: How a smart power can become a ‘rogue state’
A smouldering diplomatic tiff with Sudan over Kenya’s decision to host a rebel group fighting the government raises the worrying question of whether East Africa’s largest economy is falling from its ...
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Thabo Mbeki lashes Panyaza Lesufi over Pretoria Girls debacle – DA Gauteng
Last week former President Thabo Mbeki sent a scathing 13-page letter to Gauteng Premier ... “We hope that the GDE will draw honest conclusions from this unfortunate episode of the ’12-person learner ...
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Minister Nomakhosazana Meth: G20 Employment Working Group
I stand before you today with profound humility as we launch the G20 Employment Working Group (EWG) in the Eastern Cape, the birthplace of the first two former Presidents of Democratic South Africa, ...
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Jacob Zuma in exile: three unexplored issues
This review attempts to draw attention to three related matters of great importance ... and subsequently Minister of Intelligence under President Thabo Mbeki - is incorrectly spelled as "Nhlanha". It ...
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Eskom: The real cause of the crisis
The basic line pushed by President Thabo Mbeki (and others) was that government underestimated ... These apologies have not silenced criticism, but they have been very effective in drawing attention ...
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Third Wave BEE: What it is and why it must be stopped
As President Thabo Mbeki put it in 2003: “Certainly in any dealing of significance ... Unlike the previous waves, the third wave does not draw on a single policy or law but involves a comprehensive ...
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How the killing of Thami Zulu contradicts Zuma's claims
When the TRC considered the case they had evidence from Skweyiya and other sources to draw on. They also had a medical report ... in within a day or at most two days prior to his death.' Thabo Mbeki ...
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The tragedy of Joburg
South Africa has since 1994 been in slow but steady decline, aside from a sunny interlude of brisk economic growth under President Thabo Mbeki. It is not seriously ... representing the minuscule Al ...
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RW Johnson’s track-record as a futurologist is pretty dismal
Africa was said to be on the threshold of a renaissance, with Thabo Mbeki the shuttle diplomat between our continent ... and African states favoured an expanded issuing of Special Drawing Rights – the ...
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Thabo Mbeki questions Jacob Zuma’s Robben Island imprisonment, SA divided by ex-president's claims
Thabo Mbeki questioned the existence of the trial that led to Jacob Zuma's imprisonment on Robben Island, but his comments ...
Free State Development Commission board not off the hook as case against Thabo Lebelo weakens
Lebelo, a charted accountant, became the company’s strength in 2020 after moving the organisation from a loss make making ...