Article: Zuma's power grab repeats historyThe ANC's recent shoddy treatment of the DA brings to mind important lessons from the Mbeki era, writes James Myburgh.(News)(Reprint)

Article: Mbeki has fanned flames of bitter ANC succession battle; ...
Cape Argus (South Africa);  April 2, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... national cohesion. Whenever President Thabo Mbeki has been asked to engage in discussions ... in electing a new leadership structure. Mbeki himself has called on the public to join ... longer the presumptive candidate to succeed Mbeki. Zuma’s supporters have ...

Article: Let's take a leaf from Biko's book; Xolela Mangcu ...
The Star (South Africa);  February 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... come to typify our political culture. It was a classic example of the racial insider/outsider dynamic at the heart of Thabo Mbeki's strategy of rule. This cultural dynamic goes under the rise of racial nativism. This is the idea that the true custodians ...

Article: Break the black code of silence on crime; I was hijacked by my ...
Cape Argus (South Africa);  May 28, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... threaten our families and our lives? I was forced to break this code of racial solidarity a few weeks ago when President Thabo Mbeki suggested that racist whites have exaggerated the crime problem in post-apartheid South Africa as a way to discredit our revolution ...

Article: The surreal nature of our political culture; The corruption of ...
Cape Argus (South Africa);  January 2, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... praise singers of the new nationalist leaders. I plead guilty as charged because I was one of those who wrote to praise Thabo Mbeki as almost our next political messiah. In an article published by the Mail & Guardian in 1998 I urged our president to ...

Article: Mbeki's power shedding.(News)
Sunday Tribune (South Africa);  April 20, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... board that was appointed by Mbeki shortly after his defeat at ... power ebbing rapidly away from Mbeki to Luthuli House. At home ... Indeed, some analysts, such as Xolela Mangcu, have suggested it is time for Mbeki to bow out. However, few ...

Article: South Africa's Mbeki at Once President and Pundit
The Washington Post;  December 24, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... of what one newspaper dubbed Mbeki's "poisoned arrows." And ... follow politics here. But Mbeki, who began his second five ... the right reasons," said Xolela Mangcu, a political commentator who ... presidents to run countries." Mbeki, 62, who was first elected ...

Article: Mbeki's nine years of nothing? President's lack of action ...
The Independent on Saturday (South Africa);  April 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... SADC process, has come to Mbeki's defence, suggesting the ... have already suggested that Mbeki's statement confirmed a pattern of myopic denialism. Xolela Mangcu, the Executive Chairman of ... pronounced on Zimbabwe and Mbeki speaks as a lone voice, as ...