Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

Nelson Mandela's face appeared magisterially on a tableau draped over the front of the Elysée Palace as African leaders and European bureaucrats walked across the courtyard for the opening day of a summit in the French capital on the morning of 6 December...

He landed in the CAR capital Bangui en route from the Nelson Mandela memorial service in South Africa on 10 December to address his troops and meet CAR's military leader Michel Djotodia...

Her husband Nelson Mandela has just died and the governing Frente de Libertação de Moçambique is struggling for legitimacy in the wake of a major upset in the recent local polls...

His KwaZulu-Natal provincial section of the ANC is now the largest and most powerful eclipsing the Xhosa heartland of the Eastern Cape which produced leading lights Walter Sisulu Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela...

Chipande and the presidency Chipande’s status as an undisputed hero of the party makes him an attractive presidential prospect for anti-Guebuza elements such Graça Machel widow of Founding President Samora Machel wife of South African former President Nelson Mandela and a successful businesswoman in her own right...

Meanwhile Ramaphosa will be ‘head of government business’ in Zuma’s cabinet a job that former President Thabo Mbeki used as a launching pad during Nelson Mandela’s presidency...

When President Nelson Mandela was a prisoner on Robben Island Iqbal was his doctor and he worked with the African National Congress throughout the 1970s and 1980s...

Team Zuma is working in large regions in hostile provinces such as Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape Sekhukhunelkand in Limpopo and the West Rand in Gauteng...

Frelimo’s conscience is Graça Machel widow of Samora Machel Mozambique’s Founding President and wife of South African former President Nelson Mandela...

The party faithful remember that Ramaphosa was former President Nelson Mandela’s original choice as successor in 1999 but he was outmanoeuvred by Thabo Mbeki...