Mbeki is Chairman of KMM Review Publishing Company (Pty) Ltd.
Mbeki is a private business entrepreneur. He is a director of several companies, and is Chairman of KMM Investments (Pty) Limited, Endemol South Africa (Pty) Limited, African Resources & Logistics Corporation (Arelco) (Pty) Ltd and sits on the board of Comazar (Pty) Ltd.
He is Deputy Chairman of the South African Institute for International Affairs; an independent think tank based at the University of the Witwatersrand and is a political analyst for Nedcor Bank.
After returning to South Africa in 1990, he was appointed Head of Communication for the Congress of South Africa Trade Unions, (Cosatu) and Media Consultant to the African National Congress.
During most of the 1980’s he was a Senior Journalist for Zimbabwe Newspapers. As a result of the outstanding work that he did for Zimbabwe Newspapers Features Department, he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship by Harvard University for the 1988-1989 academic year.
Mbeki began his journalism career in London in 1979 as a contributor to Africa, New African and Africa Now magazines and the BBC Africa Service.
He studied Building, Building Management and Sociology in England, obtaining an M.A degree in Sociology from the University of Warwick in 1982. He worked in the construction industry in the United Kingdom and in Tanzania during the 1970’s.
