South Africa needs a cohort of career and well-trained diplomats. Currently, the diplomatic service is disproportionately laden with ill-equipped political appointees, especially in key postings.

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The former president Thabo Mbeki criticised United States president Donald Trump's foreign policy approach and compared him ...

The local media and intellectual class have lately been perplexed by the hard-to-explain phenomenon of our society's intense interest in, and even fascination with, the legacy and personality of ...

During the Isandlwana Lecture this weekend at Joburg Theatre, former president Thabo Mbeki gave a short lecture on how lobola is perceived these days, slammed the modern practices of lobola and ...

In the discussion, Holdsworth highlighted 1999 to 2003 as the years in which the country experienced a growth rate of 3.5% under the Thabo Mbeki administration. “This was the only administration ...

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 ...

The essay from which the posts are drawn was written in May 2008, when Thabo Mbeki was still President. Today's post looks at the politics of former President Thabo Mbeki; in particular the notion - ...

President Mbeki: Well, I think the first thing to note of course Miranda is that an important part of TICAD is Japan, and you are dealing here with the second biggest economy in the world and ...

Kaizer Chiefs want Thabo Cele after his surprising FC Fakel Voronezh exit. Cele’s sudden departure from the Russian Premier League club has turned heads in the football world. With the January ...

through the actions of one individual - Thabo Mbeki. I would like to believe that you and I have devoted out adult lives to the victory of the national democratic revolution, and nothing else.

Much has been written about how much the so-called international community expected the new South Africa born in 1994 to lead the campaign for respect of human rights especially in Africa. The first ...