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Former South African president Thabo Mbeki is a complex figure. He was a committed young Marxist who, while in power, embraced conservative economic policies and protected white corporate interests; a rational and dispassionate thinker who was particularly sensitive to criticism and dissent; and a champion of African self-reliance who relied excessively on foreign capital. As a key liberation leader in exile, he was instrumental in the ANC's antiapartheid struggle. Later, he helped build one of the world's most respected constitutional democracies. As president, though, he was unable to overcome inherited socioeconomic challenges, and his disastrous AIDS policies will remain a major blotch on his legacy. Mbeki is the most important African political figure of his generation. He will be remembered as a foreign policy president for his peacemaking efforts and his role in building continental institutions, not least of which was the African Union. In this concise biography, ideally suited for the classroom, Adekeye Adebajo seeks to illuminate Mbeki's contradictions and situate him in a pan-African pantheon.

Examines Mbeki's replacement of Nelson Mandela as leader of the African National Congress (ANC), and how the transition brings with it a tougher stance against the White minority, accused of impeding effective transformation of the country, and the challenges of burying apartheid; since 1990, with projections for 1999; South Africa. Summaries in English and Spanish p. 455 and 471.

In zwei Beiträgen werden persönliche und politische Hintergründe des 1999 als Nachfolger Nelson Mandelas in das Amt des südafrikanischen Präsidenten gewählten Thabo Mbeki analysiert. In dem ersten Beitrag geht es unter anderem um das von Mbeki wiederbelebte Schlagwort der "afrikanischen Renaissance", in dem zweiten um die Konturierung der Außenpolitik seiner Regierung insbesondere im Hinblick auf die Rolle Südafrikas in Afrika nach dem Ende der in der Apartheid bedingten Isolation. (DÜI-Kör)