Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

Surprisingly it was led by Graça Machel widow of President Samora Machel (and now married to South African ex-President Nelson Mandela) and by Jorge Rebelo...

The MDC has hired the high profile South African advocate Jeremy Gauntlet who has represented Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu and hopes its case will be in Zimbabwe's high court in September...

Madiba's rebuke The turning point had come in February when ex-President Nelson Mandela publicly rebuked the government for its AIDS policy and encouraged community organisations to see the government as an uncaring enemy...

Ex-President Nelson Mandela rates him highly: Zuma risked his political life to help save his government in kwaZulu-Natal...

The Arusha agreement brokered first by the late Tanzanian former President Julius Nyerere then by South African former President Nelson Mandela was signed without a ceasefire and needs one if it is to last...

Unlike his predecessor Nelson Mandela Masire does not like deadlines...

Graça's international image helps as does her marriage to Nelson Mandela...

Ministers are required to face the House less often than in Nelson Mandela's time and have sometimes been reluctant to appear before the appropriate committees...

Before Mbeki's election as President in 1999 former Foreign Minister Alfred Nzo had been presiding over an inherited diplomatic style with a democratic gloss; with Nelson Mandela as President some argued that Pretoria scarcely needed a foreign policy...

When Nelson Mandela was freed from gaol in February 1990 the exchange rate was US$1=2...