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...Rugby World Cup, and was beaten controversially by Germany for rights to the 2006 soccer World Cup. The South Africans are hungry to host the soccer spectacular in 2010. "Sport in South Africa has proved to be a unifying and empowering force," said South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki at the weekend opening ceremony in Cape Town, in which some 4,500 volunteer performers staged a stirring African-themed spectacular. South Africa also has visions of a stirring upset before the home crowds over heavily favored Australia. Most of the upset so far, though, centers on the eight opening-round...
...dream of a "United States of Africa" - with himself as President - was upstaged by the A.U.'s formation, Gaddafi was also dismayed at another recent bit of scene stealing: the launch of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), an economic initiative led by South Africa's Thabo Mbeki and other African leaders. Only months ago, Gaddafi was dismissing NEPAD as an exercise in neocolonialism. But a visit by Mbeki to Tripoli before the Durban summit brought the Libyan leader back on board, and last week he was even invited to join an expanded NEPAD implementation committee. Still, Gaddafi...
...recognition of past failures, its ownership by Africans themselves and, critically, its timing in the wake of Sept 11. NEPAD's proponents recognize that failure would, at this stage, be more damaging had nothing been attempted. But its success could bring unparalleled benefit. As South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki has noted, "It would be an extraordinary thing to be party to a process which turned the continent around and defined Africans in a radically different way ? to [that] which history has defined them over the past 500 years. This would be worth anything." African leaders had expected a greater...
Although he was a member of the Commonwealth troika that recommended censuring Mugabe, Mbeki and his ruling African National Congress accepted Zimbabwe's election results as legitimate. Mbeki's ambivalence amounts to a compromise that probably averted a split between African and non-African members of the Commonwealth...
During the period of Zimbabwe's suspension, Mbeki, Obasanjo and other African leaders will keep the pressure on Mugabe to reform. It will not be easy. With the treason charges against Tsvangirai and two other leading MDC officials, a government of national unity is out of the question. Mugabe and Tsvangirai are personally and politically worlds apart. At least 10 people, mostly MDC supporters, have already died in post-election violence and about 50 white farmers have been forced off their lands, their homes ransacked and looted. Among the opposition there is more despair than defiance. Where there might have...