Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

‘South Africa is spiralling dangerously in the direction of a mafia state by failing to uphold the law amid unemployment and inability to grow the economy ' said Colin Coleman former chief executive of Goldman Sachs in Africa and a long-time supporter of the ANC under Presidents Nelson Mandela Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma...

The dialogue was initiated by the foundation of former President Thabo Mbeki and supported by other legacy institutions – including those of Nelson Mandela Oliver Tambo FW de Klerk and Ahmed Kathrada...

The rand has gone up against the US dollar eight times in the past nine days to hit R18 to the dollar on 18 June – as Ramaphosa was being inaugurated for a second term at the Nelson Mandela amphitheatre in the Union Buildings in Pretoria (AC Vol 65 No 13 The ANC stitches together a pro-market coalition)...

Trying hard some say desperately to recreate the spirit of Nelson Mandela's first power-sharing government in 1994 Mbalula referred to the ‘spirit of engagement' among South Africa's parties and their ‘common commitment to put the interest of the people first'...

The case has won plaudits in the global south leading some to compare the current mood with the liberation aura surrounding Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress (ANC)...

When former President Nelson Mandela was released from jail the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat was the first liberation leader he met to thank for his contribution to the ANC's struggle...

He is an associate fellow in international law at Chatham House London and adjunct professor in international law at Cape Town and Nelson Mandela universities...

Insiders say recent pointed remarks about self-interested 'infiltrators' in Frelimo by Graça Machel (the widow of founding President Samora Machel and President Nelson Mandela) refer to Nyusi's supporters including his close ally Celso Correia who led the municipal election campaign and organised Frelimo's victory in the last general election (AC Vol 60 No 21 Frelimo takes no chances)...

uMkhonto we Sizwe was founded by Nelson Mandela and a group within the ANC in 1961...

Neither will the party use its former leader Nelson Mandela as its symbol as it has done whenever it was in trouble in the past...

As the youngest Director-General in Nelson Mandela's first cabinet Jardine is seen as a trusted comrade within anti-apartheid circles...