South Africa’s president, Thabo Mbeki, was toppled from power yesterday by the ruling African National Congress (ANC), when its national executive committee took the decision to sack him.
Gwede Mantashe, the ANC’s secretary-general, announced that the executive had “decided to recall the president of the republic before his term of office expires”.
Mbeki, 66, instructed his office to issue a statement saying: “The president has obliged and will step down after all constitutional requirements have been met.”
South Africa ’s Deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has already said that if Mbeki is asked to resign, she will resign in solidarity.
the madness of king george!!!! tipeiwo proper news feeds please. we already know he is stepping down than kuswero netswa ne xenophobic idiots. thanks mbeks for sorting out zimbabwe before your departure. Remember you are an African . Be proud !!! I like your poem mr mbeki.
Those in mdc will now be thinking independence is here with zuma. You will learn from politics my friends. Its a game of life and death.Soon you will be asking yourselves whats wrong with zuma? He ahs changed .Its called politics. When he becomes president he has to bring the ball down just like morgan will find out sooner or later. Bhora pasi. All these thugs in ANC will **** up their country soon with their militants attitudes. Forcing mbeki to step down when all he had was a year to govern is ridiculous. White people are laughing their heads off- black on black does not need much . Look at zimbabwe- morgan could not challenge Ian smith but had the courage to do black on black.
I wish south africa well but there are a lot of issues that need attention over there. No president has been willing to confront them and in the long run it will come back to haunt them.Zimbabwe is living proof.
Thank you mbeki and welcome mr corruption.We all know he did that ****. He is corrupt and he is the next president of south africa. Rape charges dropped and all.Africa kushupika chete wakomana.
This must have unsettled those who have been promised safe houses in S.A by Mbeki so that he got the Zimbabwe unity signed.I salute the ANC Natinal Executive Committe(Politiburo) for having taken such a bold decision on the current President and Mbeki also for accepting a decision taken according to the laid down legislature.
Scarface you are an idiot par excellence! How can you suggest that Africans should accept and never oppose corrupt and arrogant leadership like Mugabe and Mbeki. What is happening in South Africa is a true manifestation of democracy. If the people nolonger want you as a leader you should go.
What we have in Zimbabwe is a demon in the name of Mugabe that needs to be exorcised. Whether we take Mbeki’s departure as a positive development for Africa is inconsequential. What matters is that South Africans have freedom to tell an incompetent leader his time is up and to his credit Mbeki has decided to respect the people’s decision. For that reason he will stand as another true African hero who listens to the people.
We will remember Thabo ‘No Crisis’ Mbeki is a leader who was sacked by the people for being incompetent. May in the second life Mbeki can catch up with Mugabe and be leaders of an exclusively war veterans republic where the likes of Chinotimba and others will willing lickers.
Well done South Africa – Good riddence to one of the non Zimbabwe citizens who was masquarading a co-president of Zimbabwe and was helping Matibili to hold the people of Zimbabwe at ransom.
It is interesting whether he can also be persuaded to release his evil iron grip from Zimbabwe as well
Welcome Zuma , Welcome Democracy to Southern Africa.His cahallenge is to now stop the Kenya Syndrome and pandemic (being presented as African Solution for African problems) that is spearding like a veld fire in Africa whereby after loosing elections presidents continue to impose themselves on the people.
Long Live Thabo Mbeki! RSA may have a corrupt, possibly HIV positive President next year.
Fellow africans, this is another sad chapter to African politics. Politics in African tend to focus o individuals rather than development.
This is the beginning of another Zimbabwe.
Watch out for Zuma & his populist ideas.
mbeki is a man of intergrity.thanx for leaving those idiots alone and their cabal of nec members.now they wont have anyone to blame or fight and reality will bite them hard in the ass.then they will start tearing each otha.vavi,yengeni,tokyo,zuma,e.t.c very dubious characters.as a member of the anc and zimbabwean for that fact i today renounce my membership and wont vote anc at the next election,only if mbeki loyalists form a part .these fools will not last .corruption in sa will now be lagalised.rape.money is to be put in plastic bags nw,credit cards will be gallow no matter who they blong 2.in power or out of it i will alwayz respect u cde mbeki.lets watch fools like malema .mbalula, famble about policy issues.the thinking of this new anc is like the mdc of zim ,no direction ,hope mdc learn nw they r rubbing shoulders with zanu technocrats,the new anc rubbed off,neva learnt anything from mbeki,a visionary,moral straight,consistant,lk gushungo.i c chaos.
An African solution with impunity for whatever; corruption, manslaughter, mismanagement, political failures, manmade disasters. So what is the problem?
This type of headline just proves kuti media has a lot of work to do in zimbabwe before thay can be accredited.irresponsible reporting of events.Mbeki out !!!!! You should respect your African heroes you bunch of fools.
Good riddance to a lot of rubbish!! Thats all I will say. One more imbecile to go!