Mbeki seeks to calm economy fears
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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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It appears to be avoiding dire predictions of a sharp rise in unemployment and a loss of business confidence.
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With no major economic crises brewing, the head of the International Monetary Fund on Saturday urged world financial leaders to seize the period of calm as a time to tackle weak spots in their economies.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa  - South African President Thabo Mbeki promised to step up the fight against crime, improve AIDS programs and ease poverty in his annual state of the nation speech on Friday.
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South Africa's African National  Congress President Jacob Zuma has urged his supporters, angered  by corruption charges brought against him, to avoid the kind of  violence that has exploded in Kenya.
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WASHINGTON - The global economy is healthy and no major financial crises loom. Yet finance ministers meeting this week must confront uncertainties about the fight against terrorism, rising interest rates and volatile oil prices...
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South Africa will overcome an electricity "emergency" that has damaged the economy and cast doubts over its hosting of the 2010 soccer World Cup, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday it might be necessary to send more troops to Ivory Coast to quell tension unless there is a deal soon between the government and rebels.
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South African President Thabo  Mbeki travels to Zimbabwe on Thursday to meet officials of the  ruling ZANU-PF and main opposition parties after reports that a  deal to end a political crisis was imminent.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 22  - Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt sought to calm a row with the Democratic Republic of Congo Friday, voicing encouragement for the ex-colony&#39;s political transition in a call to President Joseph Kabila.
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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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ABIDJAN  - Visiting South African President Thabo Mbeki appeared to have made some headway in his peace mediation in the Ivory Coast, securing a government pledge to amend a contentious constitutional provision to open the way for a wider range of
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 8 -- President Thabo Mbeki on Friday apologized for his government's failure to prevent crippling power outages across South Africa over the past two months. He warned that restoring a reliable electrical supply will require urgent new generation projects combined with major cuts...
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President Thabo Mbeki called on Friday for a renewed effort to make rugby in South Africa truly multi-racial as he headed to Paris to rally the Springboks for their World Cup final showdown with England.
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THE South African government said yesterday it took &quot;strong exception&quot; to comments by Haitian interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue that President Thabo Mbeki&#39;s granting of refuge to Jean-Bertrand Aristide allowed the ousted leader to sow discontent in
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President George W. Bush sought to calm Americans' fears about the troubled economy on Monday while charting a course he hopes will keep him relevant in his final year in office.
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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.