Mbeki has received worldwide criticism for his AIDS stance.

He received a special presidential award from President Nelson Mandela in 1994 as well as the presidential sport achievement award from President Thabo Mbeki in 2001.

* Sewgolum received a posthumous achievement award from President Thabo Mbeki in 2003.

During her many trips to South Africa, she has received awards and recognition from former President Nelson Mandela and served on the Texas Host Committee for the visit of President, Thabo Mbeki.

Mbeki was appointed head of the ANC's information department in 1984 and then became head of the international department in 1989, reporting directly to Oliver Tambo, then President of the ANC.

A host of local and international events influenced the currency after that, most notably the 1994 democratic election which saw it weaken to over R 3, 60 to the dollar, the election of Tito Mboweni as the new governor of the South African Reserve Bank, and the inauguration of President Thabo Mbeki in 1999 which saw it quickly slide to over R 6 to the dollar.

* South Africa-President Thabo Mbeki has condemned the series of explosions on London's transport system: " As South Africa, we join the rest of the international community in condemning any acts of terrorism ".

* 1987 – Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years of a life sentence for terrorism and treason.

Thabo Mbeki has also been criticized for responding on negative comments made about governance by accusing them of racism.

Mbeki has sometimes been characterised as remote and academic, although in his second campaign for Presidency in 2004, many observers described him as finally relaxing into a more traditional campaign mode, sometimes dancing at events and even kissing babies.

Although Mbeki did not generally make a point of befriending or courting reporters, his columns and news events often yielded good results for his administration by ensuring that his message is a primary driving force of news coverage.

Indeed, in initiating his columns, Mbeki stated his view that the bulk of South African media sources did not speak for or to the South African majority, and stated his intent to use ANC Today to speak directly to his constituents rather than through the media.

Mbeki has used his position on the world stage to call for an end to global apartheid, a term he uses to describe the disparity between a small minority of rich nations and a great number of impoverished states in the world, arguing that a " global human society based on poverty for many and prosperity for a few, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable ".

Rather than publicly criticising Mugabe's government, Mbeki chose ' quiet diplomacy ' over ' megaphone diplomacy ' - his term for the West's increasingly forthright condemnation of Mugabe's rule.

In the face of laws restricting public assembly and freedom of the media, restricting campaigning by the MDC for the 2005 Zimbabwe parliamentary elections, President Mbeki was quoted as saying: I have no reason to think that anything will happen … that anybody in Zimbabwe will act in a way that will militate against the elections being free and fair.

Mbeki attempted to restore dialogue between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change in the face of denials from both parties.

In a leaked letter to Jacob Zuma in October 2008, just-resigned President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki alluded to the role the ANC created for her in the anti-apartheid activism:

NEPAD is a merger of two plans for the economic regeneration of Africa: the Millennium Partnership for the African Recovery Programme ( MAP ), led by Former President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa in conjunction with Former President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria and President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria ; and the OMEGA Plan for Africa developed by President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal.

An article Also in 2000, the Johannesburg Mail & Guardian reported that in a leaked text for a speech Mbeki was to give to an ANC caucus, Mbeki claimed that the CIA and Western drug companies were secretly promoting the view that HIV causes AIDS in order to increase sales of anti-HIV drugs.

" When he initially moved to Australia, he had cited the South African government's lax attitude to crime in that country as a reason for the move, leading to a spat with Thabo Mbeki, who, speaking of Coetzee's novel Disgrace stated that " South Africa is not only a place of rape ".

Former President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki facilitated, under the auspices of SADC, a Zimbabwean Government of Power-Sharing between ZANU-PF, the Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai and the Movement for Democratic Change – Mutambara.

She appeared in performances for Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki and starred as Maria ( the lead role ) in West Side Story for Spier Opera Company in Cape Town.

Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, acting for President Thabo Mbeki, signed it into law on 29 November, and it became law the following day, one day before the Constitutional Court's order would otherwise have come into force.

Govan Mbeki had come to the rural Eastern Cape as a political activist after earning two university degrees ; he urged his family to make the ANC their family, and of his children, Thabo Mbeki is the one who most clearly followed that instruction, joining the party at age 14 and devoting his life to it thereafter.

Mbeki has been a notably powerful figure in African politics, positioning South Africa as a regional power broker and also promoting the idea that African political conflicts should be solved by Africans.

High-ranking diplomatic visits to South Africa repeatedly attempted to persuade Mbeki to take a harder line with Robert Mugabe over violent state-sponsored attacks on political opponents and opposition movements, expropriation of white-owned farms by ZANU-PF allied " war veterans ", sanctioning against the press, and infringements on the independence of the judiciary.

Mbeki is even quoted claiming " there is no crisis " in Zimbabwe, despite increased evidence of political violence and murders, hyperinflation, and the influx of political refugees into South Africa.

On 5 February 2006 Mbeki said in an interview with SABC television that Zimbabwe had missed a chance to resolve its political crisis in 2004 when secret talks to agree on a new constitution ended in failure.

Govan Archibald Mvuyelwa Mbeki ( 9 July 1910 – 30 August 2001 ) was a South African politician, and father of the former South African president Thabo Mbeki and political economist Moeletsi Mbeki.

Despite its lack of scientific acceptance, HIV / AIDS denialism has had a significant political impact, especially in South Africa under the presidency of Thabo Mbeki.

Govan Mbeki, political activist and father of Thabo Mbeki

After he lost the race to become President of South Africa to Thabo Mbeki, he resigned from his political positions in January 1997 and moved to the private sector, where he became a director of New Africa Investments Limited.

Mbeki has mediated in difficult and complex issues on the African continent including Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC ), Côte d ' Ivoire, and some important peace agreements.

His funeral was attended by the entire high command of the ANC, and by most of the highest officials in the country, including both Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki.

The recall came after South African High Court Judge Christopher Nicholson ruled that Mbeki had improperly interfered with the operations of the National Prosecuting Authority ( NPA ), including the prosecution of Jacob Zuma for corruption.

In the second half of the twentieth century, the Society hosted and gave a platform to notable African leaders, including Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Desmond Tutu and Kwame Nkrumah

Other opportunities soon followed, including recitals given for Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki and a performance for the United Nations delegates at the Earth Summit 2002 in Johannesburg.

Other leaders have since been added that list, including Ghana's Jerry Rawlings, Mozambique's Joaquim Chissano and South Africa's Thabo Mbeki.

In June 1999, president Thabo Mbeki announced that " a special and adequately staffed and equipped investigative unit will be established urgently, to deal with all national priority crime, including police corruption ".

Mbeki attended primary school in Idutywa and Butterworth and acquired a high school education at Lovedale, Alice.

Mbeki married his wife Zanele ( née Dlamini ) at Farnham Castle, in the United Kingdom, in 1974.

Mbeki appears to have been at ease with the Internet and willing to quote from it.

The full meeting of the Commonwealth had failed in a consensus to decide on the issue, and they tasked the previous, present ( at the time ), and future leaders of Commonwealth ( respectively President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, John Howard of Australia, and Mbeki of South Africa ) to come to a consensus between them over the issue.

Thabo Mbeki, keynote speaker at the opening plenary session, wrote the book's prologue.

The Govan Mbeki Health Building was inaugurated in 2001 at a ceremony featuring his son Thabo.

* Photograph of Nauruan President René Harris ( at right ) at a meeting with South African President Thabo Mbeki, 4 March 2002.

On 7 December 2005, then South African President Thabo Mbeki opened the new Maropeng Visitors Centre at the site.

Being openly critical of the apartheid system during that era, both at home and abroad, he has recently been quoted by President Thabo Mbeki as the man who called upon the Apartheid leadership to " do something brave " and create partnership with the black majority in the ' 80s.

Zuma became the President of the ANC on 18 December 2007 after defeating incumbent Thabo Mbeki at the ANC conference in Polokwane.

However, journalists at the Mail and Guardian claim to have solid information supporting the widespread suspicion that President Mbeki suspended Pikoli as part of a bid to shield Police Commissioner Selebi.

* 11 July-Lionel Bernstein, Dennis Goldberg, Arthur Goldreich, Bob Hepple, James Kantor, Ahmed Kathrada, Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mhlaba, Andrew Mlangeni, Elias Motsoaledi, Walter Sisulu and Harold Wolpe, all senior African National Congress membersed at Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia, Johannesburg

President George W. Bush speaks with President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa on Tuesday, June 26, 2001 at the White House.

A letter signed by President Thabo Mbeki and read at Hendrickse's funeral saluted him as a " freedom fighter and architect of democracy ".

However, journalists at the Mail and Guardian claim to have solid information supporting the widespread suspicion that President Mbeki suspended Pikoli as part of a bid to shield Police Commissioner Selebi.