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Thabo Mbeki

1942 - Today

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Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki (Xhosa: [tʰaɓɔ ʼmbɛːki]; born 18 June 1942) is a South African politician who served as the 2nd democratic president of South Africa from 14 June 1999 to 24 September 2008, when he resigned at the request of his party, the African National Congress (ANC). Before that, he was deputy president under Nelson Mandela from 1994 to 1999. The son of Govan Mbeki, a renowned ANC intellectual, Mbeki has been involved in ANC politics since 1956, when he joined the ANC Youth League, and has been a member of the party's National Executive Committee since 1975. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thabo Mbeki has received more than 3,413,447 page views. His biography is available in 88 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 85 in 2019). Thabo Mbeki is the 2,877th most popular politician (down from 2,652nd in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 15th in 2019) and the 5th most popular South African Politician.

Thabo Mbeki is most famous for being the president of South Africa from 1999 to 2008. He was the first president of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Thabo Mbeki ranks 2,877 out of 19,576. Before him are Vytautas Landsbergis, Juana Bormann, Ptolemy Philadelphus, Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut, Donald III of Scotland, and Haakon IV of Norway. After him are Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Ahmose-Nefertari, Cleopatra Selene of Syria, Lyudmila Putina, Jill Biden, and Emperor Ming of Han.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Thabo Mbeki ranks 68. Before him are Martin Seligman, Jacob Zuma, John Clauser, Sandro Mazzola, Felipe González, and Giacomo Agostini. After him are Tony Buzan, René Angélil, Carlos Reutemann, Gilberto Gil, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, and Emmerson Mnangagwa.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Thabo Mbeki ranks 17 out of 454. Before him are Christiaan Barnard (1922), Cyril Ramaphosa (1952), Max Theiler (1899), Charlize Theron (1975), Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark (1942), and Jacob Zuma (1942). After him are Paul Kruger (1825), P. W. Botha (1916), Jody Scheckter (1950), Allan MacLeod Cormack (1924), Sydney Brenner (1927), and Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761).

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Among POLITICIANS In South Africa

Among politicians born in South Africa, Thabo Mbeki ranks 5. Before him are F. W. de Klerk (1936), Shaka (1787), Cyril Ramaphosa (1952), and Jacob Zuma (1942). After him are Paul Kruger (1825), P. W. Botha (1916), Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936), D. F. Malan (1874), Jan Smuts (1870), Abba Eban (1915), and Kgalema Motlanthe (1949).

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