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	Thabo Mbeki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in the Transkei region of South Africa, Mbeki is the son of Govan Mbeki (1910 - 2001), a stalwart of the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party.
		Mbeki's views on the causes and treatment of AIDS have also been subject to criticism, most notably his defence (April 2000) of a small group of dissident scientists who claim that HIV is not the cause of the disease (See AIDS reappraisal).
		Mbeki was also criticized by many members of his own party over the firing of the deputy president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma in 2005 after the latter was implicated in a corruption scandal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thabo_Mbeki (1668 words)

	Govan Mbeki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Govan Archibald Mvuyelwa Mbeki (1910 - 2001) was a South African politician, and father of Thabo Mbeki, the current President of South Africa.
		Govan Mbeki was released from custody after serving 24 years in the Robben Island prison on November 5, 1987.
		He served in South Africa's post-apartheid Senate from 1994 to 1997, and its successor, the National Council of Provinces from 1997 to 1999.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Govan_Mbeki (144 words)

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		Govan Archibald Mvunyelwa Mbeki, a stalwart of the Antiapartheid Struggle died on August 30, 2001 in the city of Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
		Mbeki can be described as many things some of which are, a teacher, a warrior, a revolutionary, an editor and publicist, an organizer and leader of the oppressed masses, an educator, mentor, comrade and a friend.
		Govan Mbeki was born on 4 July 1910 in the Transkei, one of the infamous homelands of South Africa.
	www.liberateafrica.org /Mbeki.html (2088 words)

	Govan Mbeki. The Peasants' Revolt Preface by Ruth First (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Govan Mbeki is recognized widely in South Africa as an expert on the Transkei and on rural and agrarian problems.
		Mbeki was acquitted after those court proceedings; the manuscript was smuggled out of the cell to the typist who pored over the faint pencil writing on the thin paper, by candlelight and in the privacy of her township room.
		That month Govan was arrested in the raid on the Rivonia underground hiding-place and he was taken to prison to spend the first ninety days in solitary detention, and then to await trial on a charge of conspiring to overthrow the South African government by violent means.
	www.marxists.org /subject/africa/mbeki/peasants-revolt/preface.htm (2163 words)

	Who is Thabo Mbeki?
		Born in Idutywa in the Transkei on the 18th of June 1942, Thabo Mbeki was the son of leading apartheid activist Govan Mbeki.
		Mbeki joined the ANC youth league at the age of fourteen but his schooling was interuppted due to the increasing number of strikes in the Eastern Cape region.
		Mbeki was elected ANC President in 1997, and was subsequently elected President of South Africa on the 14th of June 1999.
	ks.essortment.com /whoisthabombe_rqrc.htm (445 words)

	SABCnews.com - south_africa/general
		Govan Mbeki, a veteran of the ANC's liberation struggle and father of President Thabo Mbeki, died at his home in Port Elizabeth during the early hours of Thursday morning, the presidency confirmed.
		Govan Mbeki was born on July 9, 1910 in the Nqamakwe district of Transkei - son of a chief of the Zizi clan who was deposed by the government.
		Mbeki participated in the planning of the Congress of the People in 1955, becoming leader of the ANC in the Eastern Cape, and was elected national chairman of the movement in 1956.
	www.sabcnews.com /south_africa/general/0,2172,20077,00.html (1061 words)

	ANC Today 31 August 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mbeki was to write a number of important books, most notably 'South Africa: The Peasants' Revolt', an epic account of the peasant uprisings which took place between 1956 and 1960 in many parts of the countryside.
		Mbeki was responding to a request from Cosatu for an opportunity to clarify assertions made around Cosatu's decision to embark on a national strike.
		Mbeki noted however that the ANC had kept out of the public debate for many years, "while everybody else seemed to find it perfectly legitimate publicly to attack the ANC on many issues".
	mail.unwembi.co.za /pipermail/anctoday/2001/000012.html (2430 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| The great persuader
		Govan flew to Zambia with Walter Sisulu, the third of the legendary trio imprisoned on Robben Island.
		Govan Mbeki argues that his son does not want to be seen as more of a communist than a leader of the ANC.
		Mbeki embroiled himself in a furore over the mishandling of funds for an anti-Aids campaign, has public associations with a Mafia king-pin who was part of a massive heroin smuggling ring, and was touched by a scandal involving a former Liberian finance minister and a contract with the South African government.
	www.guardian.co.uk /SAelections/Story/0,2763,207403,00.html (3998 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mbeki was born in the Transkei region of South Africa (now part of Eastern Cape province), and went to a mission school.
		That year Mbeki helped the ANC prepare a document called African Claims, which was a response to the Atlantic Charter, the declaration of human rights issued during World War II (1939-1945) by the United States and Britain.
		Mbeki became deeply involved in ANC politics in Port Elizabeth and made it the center of ANC activity in the country.
	www.tcnj.edu /~dallava3/Mbeki.htm (536 words)

	Mercury - Mbeki: an instrument of the movement
		Govan Mbeki had a reputation as a didactic and difficult man and by his own admission he and Mandela were “both men of strong views which we express openly and unashamedly to each other”.
		Govan Mbeki’s father had been part of a small landed elite, but a Land and Trust Act in 1936 declared the area “white” and the family was dispossessed.
		Govan Mbeki, by then a leading figure in the South African Communist Party, next dispatched his son to Johannesburg to live with the then general secretary of the ANC, Duma Nokwe.
	www.themercury.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=336&fArticleId=165101 (1453 words)

	Govan Mbeki - Wikipedia
		Govan Mbeki wurde in der Transkei geboren, wo er auch seine Jugend verbrachte.
		Schon während seiner Zeit als Redakteur war Govan Mbeki aktives Mitglied des ANC und der kommunistischen Partei.
		Bei den Wahlen von 1994 wurde Govan Mbeki zum stellvertretenden Präsidenten des Senats gewählt.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Govan_Mbeki (328 words)

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		GRAHAMSTOWN -- Govan Mbeki, a veteran of the ANC's liberation struggle and father of President Thabo Mbeki, was yesterday hailed as a warrior, a revolutionary, an educator and a leader by friends, well-wishers and politicians from across the political spectrum.
		Mbeki's alma mater, the University of Fort Hare, to which he earlier this month donated his entire personal library, said he combined an uncompromising commitment to the liberation struggle, with a real passion for intellectual critique.
		Mbeki was chancellor of Fort Hare from 1994 to 1999.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2001/08/31/easterncape/MBEKI.HTM (433 words)

	Thabo Mbeki
		Govan Mbeki publishes ‘Transkei in the Making” a work of political analysis which is deeply critical of the system of local government in the Transkei.
		Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki is born in Idutywa district in the Transkei.Thabo is the second child of Govan Mbeki and Ma Mofokeng.
		Govan Mbeki and other underground South African Communist Party and African national Congress members are involved in the establishing of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the Spear of the Nation.
	home.intekom.com /southafricanhistoryonline/pages/chronology/special-chrono/mbeki-thabo.htm (2724 words)

	CNN.com - ANC mourns Mbeki father - August 30, 2001
		Govan Mbeki was born in July 1910 in the Transkei in what is now the Eastern Cape Province.
		Mbeki became national chairman of the ANC in 1956 and later served as secretary of the high command of the ANC's military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe.
		Named after the Rev. William Govan, a Glasgow missionary who ran a school that both the elder Mbeki and Mandela attended, he was a leading member of the African National Congress (ANC) and a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP).
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/africa/08/30/death.mbeki (597 words)

	Thabo Mbeki
		Mbeki's father was Govan Mbeki, a bigwig in the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party.
		Mbeki joined the African National Congress at the age of 14, but when the apartheid government arrested his father, Mandela, and others, the young Mbeki was whisked out of South Africa.
		Mbeki was Mandela's #1 deputy president (South African presidents have several deputies), and he succeeded Mandela as President of South Africa in June 1999.
	www.nndb.com /people/134/000029047 (646 words)

	Home Page
		Born on June 18, 1942 to Govan and Epainette Mbeki in the town of Transkei ("Thabo Mvuyelwa..." 2), Mbeki joined the struggle early as the son of well-known ANC activist Govan Mbeki (Barrow 2).
		Mbeki became the head of the Department of International Affairs in the ANC in 1988 ("Who is Thabo…?" 1), and he took a part in the process that resulted in drafting a temporary constitution for South Africa.
		Mbeki was the obvious choice for a president after Mandela, and with huge support from the ANC (Hamill 4), Mbeki was picked by its majority to succeed Mandela as president of South Africa ("Who is Thabo…").
	www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /History/Africa/05/hope (1211 words)

	5 November 1987 - Govan Mbeki is released (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Govan Mbeki father of Thabo Mbeki, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment along with Nelson Mandela and six others at Rivonia trial, is released from the Robben Island Prison.
		At the government-sanctioned press conference given hours after his release, Mbeki states that he remains a member of the Communist Party and of the ANC, both of which are banned in the country.
		After declaring that Mbeki’s release is unconditional, the authorities proceeded to restrict his freedom and movement in subsequent weeks.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/chronology/thisday/1987-11-05.htm (286 words)

	AllRefer.com - Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki (Southern African History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Mbeki was born into a politically active family; his father, Govan Mbeki, an official with the African National Congress (ANC), was imprisoned (1964) at Robben Island along with Nelson Mandela, released (1987), and became (1994) deputy vice president of the South African senate.
		Thabo Mbeki joined the ANC in his teens and left Africa illegally at the movement's behest in 1962, studying economics at the Univ. of Sussex (M.A., 1966).
		After South Africa's ban against the ANC was lifted (1990), Mbeki was a key ANC negotiator in the talks that led to the end of apartheid.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MbekiT.html (409 words)

	Biography of Thabo Mbeki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Govan Mbeki was a leading figure in ANC activities in the Eastern Cape.
		Mbeki was hand-picked by Nelson Mandela after the April 1994 general election to be the first Deputy President of the new Government of National Unity.
		At the 50th Conference of the ANC at Mafikeng, from 16-20 1997, Thabo Mbeki was elected as the new President of the African National Congress.
	www.polity.org.za /people/mbeki.html (1224 words)

	The Hindu : Govan Mbeki is dead
		Govan Mbeki, one of the greatest leaders of the liberation struggle in South Africa died this morning.
		Govan Mbeki was throughout his active political life an active member of the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party.
		Born on 9 July 1910, Govan Mbeki was educated at mission schools and received his bachelor's degree specialising in economics and politics from the University of Fort Hare, a premier fl institute of higher education.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/2001/08/31/stories/0331000c.htm (522 words)

	South Africa: The Peasants Revolt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Govan Mbeki, a leading member of the African National Congress, is now serving his twentieth year in prison on Robben Island.
		Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.
		Govan's colleagues in the Transkei watched the workings of the new Bantu Authorities, the chiefs' courts, and the so-called development schemes of the government, and sent their findings to him, through the information pipe-lines of the African National Congress.
	www.anc.org.za /books/peasants.html (21067 words)

	SAPA - 25 Apr 96 - GOVAN MBEKI TESTIFIES BEFORE TRUTH COMMISSION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On Monday, Ngudle's son Siyanda told the commission his father had seen Mbeki in Pretoria Central prison and had passed a note to him in the exercise yard telling him he was being tortured by the police.
		When Mbeki got to his cell he read the note, which said he was being tortured and that his "whole back was full of sores and weals".
		Mbeki, who worked with Ngudle in the Western Cape region, did not know who had spoken to him, but "I presume it was one of the common law prisoners who acted as monitors in jail".
	www.doj.gov.za /trc/media/1996/9604/s960425l.htm (528 words)

	Marxism message, Govan Mbeki
		Mbeki was a soldier in spirit, and soon abandoned schools for politics, writing and organizing his way into the vanguard of the liberation struggle and eventually into prison, where he spent 23 years, many of them alongside Nelson Mandela, Walter Sissulu and other leading enemies of the apartheid regime.
		Mbeki was something of a father figure among them, said Ahmed Kathrada, one of the other defendants, in an interview today from Cape Town.
		Govan Archibald Mvunyelwa Mbeki was born on July 9, 1910, in the Transkei, and grew up there, in what is now the country's Eastern Cape Province.
	archives.econ.utah.edu /archives/marxism/2001/msg05921.htm (646 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| conference against racism Racism march salutes Govan Mbeki
		Mbeki (91), died on Thursday after a long illness and would be buried at Zwide, Port Elizabeth on 8 September.
		Motlanthe said Mbeki would be happy to know that thousands of people had met in Durban to deplore exploitation and racism in all its forms.
		Mbeki was a renowned fighter in the military wing of the ANC and spent many years behind bars for his opposition of the apartheid government.
	iafrica.com /news/wcar/792481.htm (839 words)

	Govan Mbeki, apartheid fighter, dies at age 91: 8/31/01
		PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa -- Govan Mbeki, the father of President Thabo Mbeki and a revered leader of South Africa's struggle against apartheid, died early yesterday at the age of 91.
		Mbeki was born July 9, 1910, in the Nqamakwe district of Transkei, a fl "homeland" treated by successive white governments as a labor pool for South Africa's developing economy.
		As a young man, Mbeki worked as a teacher and journalist under the oppressive and racist government policies that preceded the creation of the apartheid state in 1948.
	www.s-t.com /daily/08-01/08-31-01/a10wn056.htm (645 words)

	RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES RE ERF 1432, SUMMERSTRAND, PORT ELIZABETH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Govan Mbeki was already in occupation of the property for a considerable period of time in terms of a formal lease agreement at a market related rental.
		Govan Mbeki occupied the house in terms of a valid lease agreement while he was employed as the Deputy Chairperson of NCOP.
		Govan Mbeki to acquire the residence, a valuation had to be conducted as elaborated above.
	www.polity.org.za /html/govdocs/pr/2002/pr0915.html?rebookmark=1 (713 words)

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