Awards
| Award | Granting Body | Place | Year |
| Jose Marti Medal | President Fidel Castro | 2001 | |
| Newsmaker of the Year | Pretoria Press Association | 2000 | |
| Honorary Member | Zulu Royal Family | 1998 |
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, are you listening?
".....he explained that the 'gross inequalities of wealth and opportunity between whites and blacks make possible the assaults and murders that are commonplace on the country's farms and urban areas'."
So the answer is to take even more from the wealthy whites and "redistribute" it, insuring poverty for all? That's worked out quite well in Zimbabwe, hasn't it?
"While he rails against shadowy racist caricatures, Mr Mbeki's own racial myopia undermines his ability to tackle the challenges we face as a nation. "
He's merely following the template of the Left, which is also painfully evident among the Dems here in the USA and socialists everywhere.
Who's Who of Southern Africa - MBEKI, Thabo Mvuyelwa
| Noteworthy Events |
| He led the delegation that met the SA business community led by Chairman of Anglo American, Gavin Relly, at Mfuwe, Zambia in 1985. |
| He left SA in 1962 to study in the UK. |
| He mobilised the international student community against Apartheid. |
| He was sent to Botswana in 1973 to negotiate with the Botswana government to open an ANC office there. He had contact with exiled and visiting members of the Black Consciousness Movement. |
| He was sent to Nigeria in December 1976 as representative of the ANC. He assisted students from SA to relocate in an unfamiliar environment. He returned to Lusaka in February 1978. |
| In 1970, he underwent military training in the Soviet Union. |
| In 1974 he visited Swaziland for internal mobilisation and the creation of underground structures in SA. |
| Led the ANC delegation which held secret talks with the SA Government from 1989, which led to agreements about the unbanning of the ANC and the release of political prisoners. Participated in all subsequent negotiations leading to the adoption of the interim Constitution for a democratic SA. |
| Thabo Mbeki joined the ANC Youth League in 1956 at the age of 14. |
| Worked closely with ANC President Oliver Tambo all the time while in exile. |
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Tony Leon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bio excerpt:
"Leon has built a high media profile as opposition leader, effectively criticising the ANC government under Nelson Mandela but more so under his successor, President Thabo Mbeki, for failing to deal with South Africa's huge problems of poverty, unemployment and the AIDS epidemic. He has, however, alienated some of his party's liberal supporters by supporting the death penalty, genetically modified food and Eskom's pebble-bed reactor.
On November 26, 2006, Leon announced that he would step down from the leadership of the Democratic Alliance in 2007, and would not accept nomination for the leadership of the party at the party's congress in May 2007. Leon would, nevertheless, keep his seat in Parliament until 2009, when its term expires.[2]
Leon was voted 16th in the TV channel SABC3's Top 100 Great South Africans. He became the first South African politician to record a podcast when his was launched during the 2006 local government election campaign.
Leon is married (since 2000) to Michal (formerly Even-Zahav, Israeli born). His Personal Assistant, who has been working with him since he assumed the leadership of the opposition, is Sandy Slack. His office is run by Paul Boughey, with Martin Slabbert in charge of media relations and Guy Wiloughby as speechwriter."
