Word: thabo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Thabo Mbeki, who is expected to succeed Nelson Mandela as the president of the African National Congress in December, said participation is the key for democracy...
...Zulu village of KwaMakutha. TIME's Peter Hawthorne reports that conservatives in South Africa are incensed that Malan and 10 other top military figures are being charged with setting up the hit-squad responsible for killings during the apartheid struggle. At the same time, former African National Congress leaders Thabo Mbeki and Joe Modise have been granted temporary immunity while a "Truth Commission," headed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, investigates. South African right-wingers have accused Nelson Mandela of using the affair to dole out political retribution, a charge the South African President denies. Deputy President F.W. De Klerk has said...
...side of the boundary. But the numbers were high, hopelessly high -- in the first few hours, as many as lived in the town itself. By the end of the first day, it seemed as though a fugitive city had squeezed in. By the end of the second, student Thierry Thabo Asumani, 23, observed that it was larger still. "A country is emptying," he said, "to set up a town...
...credit, the A.N.C. is cautious about adding to the nation's debt burden. Thabo Mbeki, who will probably be First Deputy President and heir apparent to Mandela, said in an interview with TIME last week that the incoming government has two immediate goals. First, it intends to write a budget that will reassure the international financial community that the A.N.C. is not going to borrow heavily. Second, it hopes to round up early commitments of aid money from friendly governments. "It will be very good if we can generate a billion dollars from around the world," Mbeki said, "that...
...Communism, also wants a constitutional provision for a "market-oriented economic system." The A.N.C. opposes the provision but denies it is wedded to a plan for blanket nationalization of South Africa's biggest corporations. "There is nothing in the thinking of the A.N.C. that says we must nationalize," says Thabo Mbeki, one of the group's chief negotiators...