SOUTH AFRICA: That's it for Mbeki
published: Monday | February 6, 2006

MBEKI

JOHANNESBURG (REUTERS):

South African President Thabo Mbeki yesterday ruled out changing the constitution to enable him to run for a third term amid speculation over who will lead Africa's biggest economy after elections in 2009.

Mbeki led the African National Congress to a landslide victory in polls in 2004 but said the party had no plan to use its two thirds parliamentary majority to alter the constitution's current limit on two presidential terms.