Word: mbeki
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...immediate hope of a resolution to Zimbabwe's political crisis ended late Friday, as opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai announced that power-sharing negotiations with President Robert Mugabe's regime had failed. This week's crisis talks had been mediated by former South African President Thabo Mbeki on behalf of Zimbabwe's African neighbors, and Tsvangirai appealed to those neighbors to revive the search for a political compromise. "Regretably, after four days of intense negotiations, we have failed to agree ... [and] therefore a deadlock has been declared," said the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) outside the talks venue...
...Spoke out against former president Thabo Mbeki's denial of AIDS/HIV
...Chaired the finance committee between 1999-2004 but was removed by Mbeki, reportedly over of her public stance on HIV/AIDS
...Became health minister in September, when Kgalema Motlanthe took over from Mbeki. Motlanthe demoted former health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang to a lower governmental position and named Hogan as her successor
...abuse of power. Millions of black South Africans also remain afflicted by much the same poverty and squalor they endured under apartheid; the unemployment rate is 23.1% and rises far higher in many black townships. The ANC has long prided itself on its internal unity and discipline, but the Mbeki-Zuma power struggle has seen both factions cross traditional boundaries of acceptable conduct. Mbeki is accused of using the national prosecutor's office against his adversary (as well as of intervening to prevent the prosecution of key allies), while Zuma's supporters threatened violence against those who stand...