S.Africa's Mbeki Ranges Wide as Africa's New Voice
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania  - Cajoling diamond  dealers in Antwerp, pressing for peace in strife-torn Ivory  Coast and building bridges at a central African summit, Thabo  Mbeki has a schedule that only the busiest diplomat could love.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa  - President Thabo Mbeki on Friday pledged to tackle poverty and crime and speed up land redistribution to blacks, signaling a new interventionist approach in fighting South Africa's glaring social ills.
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Once the continent's pariah because of racial oppression, South Africa has become the favored destination for educated, ambitious refugees from other parts of Africa with political and economic problems.
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Africa is now one of the fastest-growing international outposts of the farthest-reaching cable channel in the world.
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Elections in the next few weeks  will bring new faces and new hope to a clutch of African  countries, but many of the poor, war-damaged continent's  nascent democracies face major hurdles in the coming year.
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast - President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday arrived in the central Ivory Coast rebel stronghold of Bouake, where he received a rousing welcome as a potential peacemaker in the divided country.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa, Dec. 20 -- The top prosecutor in South Africa signaled Thursday that criminal charges would soon be filed against the ruling party's newly elected leader, Jacob Zuma, complicating a comeback that has taken Zuma from political outcast to presidential favorite.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki will travel to strife-torn Ivory Coast within the next two days on an African Union (AU) mandate to try to restore calm in the west African country, the foreign ministry said ...
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast -- President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa traveled yesterday to the rebel-held north of Ivory Coast, telling cheering crowds that his peacemaking efforts were designed to improve the life of all people in the former French colony and economic hub of West Africa.
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South Africa's plans to open up its domestic telecommunications market have hit shares in the region's biggest phone company.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - South Africa's ruling African National Congress party opened a leadership conference on Sunday which could determine who becomes the country's next president.
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He was once seen as a leader who brooked no argument but Thabo Mbeki's authority within the ANC is showing clear signs of waning in the twilight of his time as head of South Africa's ruling party.
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NAIROBI -- The modern, media-savvy political campaign has arrived in sub-Saharan Africa.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki is on his way to Ivory Coast to try to restore calm after two days of violence.
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JOHANNESBURG -- A decade after the end of apartheid, South Africa is a remarkable success story of a nation overcoming its past. But to confront the country's lingering threats -- AIDS, widespread poverty, crime, racism -- South Africa's government must begin encouraging public debate rather than discouraging criticism as unpatriotic.
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Some say the bare-knuckled succession struggle for the presidency could foretell how robust South AfricaÂs young democracy is.
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Visiting South African President Thabo Mbeki Saturday called on Ivorian lawmakers to pass a constitutional change so that the country could regain its stability and prosperity.