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  Encyclopedia: President of South Africa
President F.W. de Klerk Frederik Willem de Klerk (born March 18, 1936) is a former President of South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994.
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki (born June 18, 1942) is the President of the Republic of South Africa.
Flag of Governor-General, Union of South Africa, 1910 The Governor General of the Union of South Africa was the representative of the British Crown in South Africa between May 31, 1910 and May 31, 1961.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/President-of-South-Africa   (1239 words)

  
 State President of South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From 1961 to 1994, South Africa's head of state was called the State President or Staatspresident in Afrikaans.
The position of Governor-General of the Union of South Africa was accordingly abolished.
The Republic of South Africa was proclaimed on May 31st 1961.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/State_President_of_South_Africa   (324 words)

  
 South Africa (11/05)
South Africa's GDP is expected to increase gradually during the next few years, and the government recently revised upward its 2005 estimated growth to 4.3%.
South Africa was a founding member of the League of Nations and in 1927 established a Department of External Affairs with diplomatic missions in the main west European countries and in the United States.
South Africans (particularly the ANC leadership) also acknowledge support from and ties to the anti-apartheid movement in the U.S. From the 1970s through the early 1990s, U.S.-South Africa relations were severely affected by South Africa's racial policies.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2898.htm   (6004 words)

  
 [20 Sep 1999]: PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA
President Mbeki said his Government was interested in a restructuring of the whole system of international organizations to reflect some concerns it had.
President Mbeki told a correspondent that the bilateral National Commission of the United States and South Africa was a functioning body that dealt with all aspects of cooperation between the two countries.
President Mbeki said the relations between the two countries were at a governmental level, irrespective of who was in office.
www.un.org /News/briefings/docs/1999/19990920.safrica.html   (1214 words)

  
 Government in South Africa - SouthAfrica.info
President Thabo Mbeki has reshuffled South Africa's Cabinet, appointing Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka as SA's new deputy president, Lindiwe Hendricks as minister of minerals and energy, as well as two new deputy trade and industry ministers, Rob Davies and Elizabeth Thabethe.
South Africa's first democratic elections for national and provincial government were held in April 1994.
South Africa is a constitutional democracy with a three-tier system of government and an independent judiciary.
www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/government   (364 words)

  
 afrol News - Big step towards woman President in South Africa
President Mbeki is expected to stand down in 2009, when he has served the two full five-year terms allowed by the South African constitution.
South Africa's new Deputy President during the last years has become most known for her policies to economically empower the country's fl majority population.
The new Deputy President, born in KwaZulu Natal in 1955, graduated from the National University of Lesotho with a Bachelor of Arts degree in social science and education.
www.afrol.com /articles/16644   (726 words)

  
 HRW - Letter to Deputy President of South Africa (March 1999)
Human Rights Watch believes that, contrary to the argument of your speech, national unity and reconciliation in South Africa can only be based on an acknowledgment by all parties to the conflicts of the past, including those who were fighting to overthrow an unjust regime, that the end does not justify the means.
Human Rights Watch calls upon the South African government not to issue any amnesties beyond those granted by the TRC and to take steps to prosecute both those named in the TRC's report as responsible for gross human rights violations and others for whom there is sufficient evidence to support charges.
South Africa's democratic transition and the work of the TRC in investigating the past has amazed and inspired many across the world.
www.hrw.org /press/1999/mar/sfaltr.htm   (849 words)

  
 president of south africa and other south africa related information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
President Thabo Mbeki has reshuffled South Africa's Cabinet, appointing Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka as SA's new deputy president, Lindiwe Hendricks as minister of minerals and energy, as well as two new...
President Bush on Wednesday met with South African President Mbeki in Pretoria, South Africa.
President to vacation in South Africa E-mail this article Printer-friendly format Latvian President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga will head out Jan. 4 for a 10-day vacation in South Africa, her press office has...
www.nethorde.com /south_africa/president-of-south-africa.html   (348 words)

  
 Global Politician
Like so many before them, white South Africans are just being duped with political rhetoric until the South African Communist Party influences the ruling ANC government to strike in the classic savage style - a style that has become the historically established political modus operandi and the accepted norm of southern African states.
South Africans have to endure the tangible signs of yet another ethnic cleansing gathering momentum by the day.
President in order to admit the following is not to answer this letter, to acquiesce by your silence to the following allegations.
globalpolitician.com /articledes.asp?ID=1089&cid=8&sid=56   (1504 words)

  
 Thabo Mbeki - Why has South Africa's excellent president gone loco? By David Plotz
South Africa's peaceful escape from apartheid, smooth transition to democracy, and continued economic survival owe almost as much to Mbeki's cool logic as to Mandela's warm saintliness.
A longtime member of South Africa's Communist Party, he split with the party as soon as he had authority.
South Africa's whites and Asians, rather than sticking out the tough times, are emigrating by the thousands to Europe and the United States.
www.slate.com /id/86152   (1820 words)

  
 Thabo Mbeki: South Africa's President
Thabo Mbeki succeeded Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa in 1999.
On June 2, 1999, Mbeki, the pragmatic deputy president of South Africa and leader of the African National Congress, was elected president in a landslide, having already assumed many of Mandela's governing responsibilities shortly after Mandela won South Africa's first democratic election in 1994.
His parents were teachers and members of the South African Communist Party, one of the leading anti-apartheid forces in South Africa.
www.factmonster.com /spot/mbeki1.html   (408 words)

  
 President Of South Africa - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A good deal of this autobiography was written secretly while Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by South Africa's apartheid regime.
British journalist Anthony Sampson first met Nelson Mandela in 1951, when Sampson was editing a fl magazine in Johannesburg, and his biography of the leader benefits greatly from his long familiarity with South Africa and his access to the 81-year-old statesman's unpublished letters and...
The pictures convey Mandela's character as he progresses from childhood--he is the son of an African chief--through the struggle to get a good education in apartheid-ridden South Africa, to his days as an activist for the...
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /president_of_south_africa.htm   (191 words)

  
 96/10/12 Press Remarks with President Mandela, South Africa
I want to emphasize the compliments that I gave the President on their constitutional processes here in South Africa, as well as on his many other activities both here in his country, in the region, and in the world as a whole, providing such a strong force for leadership around the world.
President if I could ask on the rapid intervention force, you say that the initiative should be with the United Nations and not the United States, would you be willing to accept US finance for such a...
PRESIDENT MANDELA: No, the Secretary of State is a very diplomatic man. He didn't raise these questions, but in so far as contributing a force towards addressing crises in Africa we are part of the United Nations.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/briefing/dossec/1996/9610/961012dossec1.html   (1288 words)

  
 HIV & AIDS - AIDS & South Africa
The trigger for all this strife was a simple, historic event: After months of deliberations and internal strife, Mbeki and the government of South Africa convened a two-day panel in Pretoria, May 6-7, at which 33 scientists deliberated about the evidence for and against HIV as the single and sufficient cause of AIDS worldwide.
The statistics ubiquitously cited to demonstrate a plague of AIDS sweeping Africa are untrustworthy in the extreme, as virtually no statistics are kept on either rates of infection, numbers of deaths or causes of death on the whole continent.
After many weeks of polite rejections and assurances that the scientific community of South Africa was quite sure HIV caused AIDS but thanks anyway, Allen finally appealed to the President himself in the form of a letter and a 100-page dossier.
www.virusmyth.net /aids/data/cfmbeki.htm   (3625 words)

  
 South Africa
South Africa, on the continent's southern tip, is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west and by the Indian Ocean on the south and east.
South Africa declared itself a republic in 1961 and severed its ties with the Commonwealth, which strongly objected to the country's racist policies.
South Africa, the country with the highest number of HIV-positive people in the world (6.5 million in 2005), has been hampered in fighting the epidemic by its president's highly controversial views.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107983.html   (1577 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch World Report 2001: South Africa: Human Rights Developments
President Thabo Mbeki completed his first year as president of South Africa, leading a government dominated by the African National Congress (ANC), though the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) remained a junior partner.
In January 2000, South Africa ratified the OAU Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.
Former Ethiopian president Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam visited South Africa from Zimbabwe, where he was living, in late 1999 for medical treatment.
www.hrw.org /wr2k1/africa/southafrica.html   (1558 words)

  
 President of South Africa Visits Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The President of the Republic of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, visited Canada from November 3 to 5, 2003, at the invitation of Governor General Adrienne Clarkson.
President Mbeki will be accompanied by the ministers of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Industry, Minerals and Energy, and Public Enterprises, as well as business leaders from his country.
NEPAD aims to improve Africa's relations with the rest of the world in the areas of development aid, trade and debt, and to attract investment to the African continent.
www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /department/focus/Mbeki-visit-en.asp   (328 words)

  
 South Africa
President for assuming the mantle of the Presidency of this Session of the General Assembly and also thank the out-going President, Mr.
Mr President, we believe that everything that has happened places an obligation on the United Nations to reflect on a number of fundamental issues that are of critical importance to the evolution of human society.
Accordingly what I might say, Mr President and Your Excellencies, might not constitute what is considered normal discourse in terms of the work that the General Assembly has to do, consistent with its rights and duties as defined by the UN Charter, and the conventions that have emerged since the Charter was adopted.
www.un.org /webcast/ga/58/statements/soueng030923.htm   (2777 words)

  
 Speech at his inauguration as President of South Africa
For us, as South Africans, this day is as much a Day for the Inauguration of the new government as it is a Day of Salute for a generation that pulled our country out of the abyss and placed it on the pedestal of hope, on which it rests today.
As South Africans, whatever the difficulties, we are moving forward in the effort to combine ourselves into one nation of many colours, many cultures and divers origins.
From South Africa to Ethiopia lie strewn ancient fossils which, in their stillness, speak still of the African origins of all humanity.
www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/mbeki/1999/tm0616.html   (1526 words)

  
 South Africa's deputy president sacked - Africa - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - President Thabo Mbeki dismissed his deputy Tuesday after he was caught up in a corruption scandal, throwing wide open the question of who will become the next leader of South Africa.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma, who retains widespread support, had been groomed to succeed Mbeki at the helm of Africa’s economic and diplomatic powerhouse when he stands down in 2009.
Mbeki is required under South African law to step down at the end of his second presidential term in 2009 and Zuma had been widely expected to succeed him.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6448213/did/8215646   (605 words)

  
 Department of Foreign Affairs - South Africa
South African President Thabo Mbeki Host Ivorian Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny for discussions in Tshwane on Saturday, 28 January 2006 Media are invited for a photo opportunity on commencement of the meeting as follows: Date: 28 January 2006 Time: 15h30 for 16h15, Venue: Mahlamba Ndhlophu, Bryntirion Estate, Church Street, Tshwane (Please present press cards)
President Thabo Mbeki Congratulates Newly-elected President of Portugal, Cavaco Silva Tshwane - South African President Thabo Mbeki today, Thursday 25 January 2006 conveyed on behalf of the government and people of South Africa fraternal greetings and congratulations to the newly elected President of Portugal, Cavaco Silva.
Tshwane- South African President Thabo Mbeki today, Thursday 25 January 2006 conveyed on behalf of the government and people of South Africa fraternal greetings and congratulations to the newly elected President of Portugal, Cavaco Silva.
www.dfa.gov.za   (620 words)

  
 Meet South Africa's President - SouthAfrica.info
Thabo Mbeki, the son of veteran African National Congress (ANC) leader Govan Mbeki, was inaugurated as President of South Africa on 14 June 1999, and quickly made his mark.
Mbeki served under Mandela as one of two deputy presidents after the 1994 elections, becoming the only deputy president when FW de Klerk's Nationalist Party quit the Government of National Unity in 1996.
As deputy president, Mbeki was increasingly given more of a say in the day-to-day running of the country.
www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/government/mbeki.htm   (621 words)

  
 HIV & AIDS - Speech of Thabo Mbeki, at the Opening Session of the 13th International AIDS Conference
Once more I welcome you all, delegates at the 13th International AIDS Conference, to Durban, to South Africa and to Africa, convinced that you would not have come here, unless you were to us, messengers of hope, deployed against the spectre of the death of millions from disease.
You are therefore as much midwives of the new, democratic, non-racial and non-sexist South Africa as are the millions of our people who fought for the emancipation of all humanity from the racist yoke of the apartheid crime against humanity.
The particular twists of South African history and the will of the great majority of our people, freely expressed, have placed me in the situation in which I carry the title of President of the Republic of South Africa.
www.virusmyth.net /aids/news/durbspmbeki.htm   (2405 words)

  
 New Nation News - Darkest Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Psa 74:20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Three men, aged 17, 19 and 29, were apparently in the house at the time and have all been remanded into custody and have been charged with rape.
He was given permission to travel to South Africa for the holidays in 1993 and never returned.
www.newnation.org /NNN-news-southafrica.html   (2407 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Africa | SA's Zuma has 'clear conscience'
South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma has said his conscience is clear despite the conviction of his financial adviser for fraud and corruption.
He said in 2003 that while there was prima facie evidence against Mr Zuma, he would not press charges against him since he was not sure that there was "a winnable case".
The South African government has issued a statement in reaction to the verdict, acknowledging that "there may be a number of implications, for government, arising out of the judgement [but] this is a matter that will require considered reflection by relevant legal and political authorities".
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/4608203.stm   (399 words)

  
 SOUTH AFRICA: Indian President Offers Help to Combat AIDS in South Africa
Today in Cape Town, Indian President Abdul Kalam said his country would like to work with South Africa on pressing issues like HIV/AIDS and education.
The state visit, the first by an Indian president to South Africa, comes on the 10-year anniversary of the end of apartheid and the centenary of a communal farm established by Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi.
Indian drug giant Cipla is a major producer of antiretrovirals that the South African government needs for its program to provide free ARVs to tens of thousands of AIDS patients.
www.aegis.com /news/ads/2004/AD041879.html   (560 words)

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