Makhura is liked by many of the party's old guard and is a trustee of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation (Ahmed Kathrada was convicted with Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia trial)...

He is a gritty fighter who has survived marginalisation by former presidents Nelson Mandela and Mbeki...

ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte is said by those close to her to have been demoralised by the loss of her brothers – Igshaan Dangor and former Nelson Mandela Foundation CEO Achmat Dangor – within a month of each other late last year...

The meeting which was convened by the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation on what would have been the late Rivonia trial defendant's 91st birthday followed a call by the Kathrada Nelson Mandela and Desmond and Leah Tutu foundations the South African Council of Churches and the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution to mobilise opposition to the 'corrupt ANC'...

EFF leader Julius Malema has been vocal about the need for social distancing and masking up though this did not stop him posing for photos standing very close to family members of the late Zindzi Mandela Nelson Mandela's daughter none with masks at her funeral on 17 July...

Nelson Mandela weighed in support of the activists...

Most – with the honourable exception of Nelson Mandela's epic performance after the 1994 elections – have been damp squibs and settled little (AC Vol 61 No 3 Over the rainbow)...

The 30th anniversary of then-President FW de Klerk's announcement on 2 February 1990 of the release of Nelson Mandela nine days afterwards passed quietly as investors gathered to survey the gloomy prospects for the mining industry at Cape Town's Mining Indaba...