South Africa's Mbeki Sees Party Faithful Rally to His Rival
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POLOKWANE, South Africa, Dec. 16 -- Thousands of African National Congress activists who assembled here to elect their next party president responded to a 2 1/2 -hour speech by incumbent Thabo Mbeki with cheers, dancing and stirring songs of liberation.
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President Thabo Mbeki says the  bitter contest to lead South Africa's ruling African National  Congress (ANC) could destroy the party that helped end  apartheid.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki is to make his state of the nation address, amid recession fears.
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President Thabo Mbeki is set to respond to growing public unrest by acknowledging his government needs to do more to tackle South Africa's rampant crime rate in his state of the union address.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki still has two and half years in office, but the battle over who will succeed him is already heating up.
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South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu refused to back down Monday in a spat with President Thabo Mbeki, who has locked horns with the anti-apartheid hero for criticizing the ruling ANC party.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - South Africa's deeply divided ruling party on Monday overcame two days of wrangling to clear the way for a leadership election between President Thabo Mbeki and his bitter rival Jacob Zuma.
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ABIDJAN  - South African President Thabo Mbeki was to meet his Ivory Coast counterpart Laurent Gbagbo, hoping to ease tensions after a weekend of violence that has evoked fears of a return to the conflict that has split the west African state for two
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa  - South African President  Thabo Mbeki vowed Friday to step up the battle against  HIV/AIDS, saying his government's program was among the world's  best.
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BRUSSELS , Belgium  - South African President Thabo Mbeki said yesterday he would meet Ivory Coast rebel leader Guillaume Soro this weekend to try to revive a peace process left in tatters by recent unrest in the west African country.
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Johannesburg - President Thabo Mbeki will hold separate meetings with Prime Minister Seydou Diarra of the Ivory Coast and the head of the rebel forces in Pretoria on Saturday, a presidential spokesperson said.
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South Africa's former deputy president Jacob Zuma is a veteran anti-apartheid fighter whose bid to lead the country largely hinges on the outcome of a sensational corruption trial starting on Monday.
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Vote by party serves as repudiation of president after Jacob Zuma was better organised among poor
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South Africa's ruling party tries to soothe the tempers of President Thabo Mbeki and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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South Africa's ruling ANC is to choose between bitter rivals Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma for the party leadership.
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The Scottish Socialist Party is holding a rally where it is expected to issue a public appeal for loyalty.
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The new head of S Africa's ruling party is expected to call for unity in his first public address to the ANC.