I am very glad that today we are launching the Amandla Institute for Leadership and Policy Advancement which must and will play an important role in helping our continent to accomplish the tasks ...

The essay from which the posts are drawn was written in May 2008, when Thabo Mbeki was still President ... from the most outspoken supporters of apartheid (I think, for example, of Pik Botha[6]) to ...

Suddenly the incorrigible former President Thabo Mbeki appears, on TV, from hibernation, extolling the virtues of the ‘free election' and announcing that the "people have spoken" and that their ...

Earlier still, in September 2008, the UK Financial Times had carried a report from its correspondent in South Africa, Alec Russell, entitled “Thabo Mbeki: Aloof leader who fell from grace”. Russell ...

I have no doubt that you are aware of the announcement made yesterday by the National Executive Committee of the ANC with regard to the position of the President of the Republic. Accordingly, I would ...

Historically, with regard to the Zimbabwe liberation struggle, the ANC had good relations with ZAPU and none with ZANU when it broke away from ZAPU. This was a product of a continuous process in ...

Minister for Foreign Affairs Pik Botha recalls: ‘I shall never forget the night of 31 July when Barend du Plessis [minister of finance] phoned me. I still perspire when I think of it. Barend said: ...

More than a year has passed since Pik Botha’s death and the claque of praise-singers has ... Bantu Holomisa and Moeletsi Mbeki. No African or international politicians came. Getting the West to ...

It was an eerie experience to have to walk into the study of PW Botha at this time to argue with him about ... The Government under him, run by Thabo Mbeki, and then Thabo as President, pursued growth ...

There was good reason for reformists like Heunis and Foreign Minister Pik Botha to be very satisfied with outcome of the Sterrewag meeting. Dave Steward, a senior Foreign Affairs official who would ...

AMONG those who paid tribute to Pik Botha, who died on Friday ... In fact, the political analyst Moeletsi Mbeki told Grootes that when he visited him on Tuesday, he was alarmed that the 86-year-old ...

Frans du Toit and Theuns Kruger following their arrest in 1994. INSET: Alison Botha. Pictures: Supplied and Gallo Images/ Foto24/ Yunus Mohamed Justice took a historic course this week when ...