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News Source: The New Vision
| about 1 year ago
Yoweri Museveni has held talks with Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe over the formation of a government of national unity in the South African country. The two, who are currently attending the UN General Assembly in New York, also discussed issues of...
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News Source: Radio Netherlands
| about 1 year ago
I would like to take this opportunity to inform the nation that today I handed a letter to the Speaker of the National Assembly, the Honourable Baleka Mbete, to tender my resignation from the high position of President of the Republic of South Africa,...
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News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 year ago
South African President Thabo Mbeki will remain the mediator for talks on Zimbabwe's political crisis. Mr. Mbeki agreed to resign as South African president after the ruling African Congress party called on him to do so Saturday. Charles Mubita, says...
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News Source: France 24
| about 1 year ago
South Africans have "no need to panic" despite one third of the government resigning in the wake of President Thabo Mbeki standing down, ANC chief Jacob Zuma said Tuesday. "The resignations do not pose a crisis and there is no need to panic,"...
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News Source: International Herald Tribune
| about 1 year ago
Thabo Mbeki, who has resigned as president of South Africa, is leaving the door open to continuing to mediate the power-sharing deal between President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and the opposition leader and prime minister-designate,...
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News Source: Kuwait Times
| about 1 year ago
Eleven South African cabinet members abandoned ship yesterday in the wake of President Thabo Mbeki's resignation in what opposition parties termed a disaster for the country's stability. The cabinet members stepped down shortly after parliament voted...
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News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| about 1 year ago
The question of leadership in South Africa is fraying nerves there, in the continent and the rest of the world. The African National Congress, South Africa's ruling party, decided over the weekend to ask President Thabo Mbeki to step down in advance...
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News Source: Arab News
| about 1 year ago
The ruling by a high court judge 10 days ago that there has been a political witch-hunt of Jacob Zuma, the ANC’s president and the man who is almost certain to become the country’s president when elections are next held, and the decision by...
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News Source: News 24
| about 1 year ago
Zimbabwe's main opposition party warned on Monday a deadlock over the allocation of cabinet posts threatened a fragile power-sharing agreement it reached with President Robert Mugabe earlier this month. A meeting over the weekend between negotiators...
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News Source: News 24
| about 1 year ago
President Thabo Mbeki filed papers in the Constitutional Court on Monday to join an application for leave to appeal against a Pietermaritzburg High Court judgement on Jacob Zuma. Presidential spokesperson Mukoni Ratshitanga told Sapa papers had also...