Word: mbeki
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MAFIKENG, South Africa: Nelson Mandela formally handed over control of his party Wednesday to his designated heir, Thabo Mbeki, amidst media reports that the African National Congress was taking a harder line towards South Africa's privileged white minority. But Mbeki's talk of "completing the revolution" and "continuing the struggle" should be read less as signaling any intention of attacking domestic and foreign business interests - which he sees as all-important components of the country's efforts to generate economic growth - than as the opening volleys of the party's 1999 election campaign...
...more concern to many South Africans is the fact that Madikizela-Mandela has been nominated to run for deputy president of the majority African National Congress when Nelson Mandela retires as party head this month (he will remain head of the government until 1999) and his deputy, Thabo Mbeki, becomes party president...
...governing. Although the U.S. is pressing Kabila to commit to multi-party elections as soon as possible, organizing a vote will not be easy given the country's decaying infrastructure and imperfect census data. "The country is bankrupt. There's not even a constitution," South African Deputy President Thabo Mbeki said. South African negotiators have reportedly proposed holding elections in a year's time, notes TIME's Peter Hawthorne. For the moment, though, Kinshasa residents, still exuberant over the rebels' easy victory, are content to wait. Most businesses have reopened and the streets are once again clogged with traffic, Graff...
...second objective, Mbeki said, is "to encourage evolution of a common regional policy," This would create a stronger nation which could integrate with the developing world...
...Mbeki concluded his speech by stating his hope that the Olympic Games of 2004 come to South Africa where they will not be seen as the "South African Olympics" and the "African Olympics...