Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

To back its pretensions to African leadership South Africa needed all the moral authority inherited from Nelson Mandela...

The deal has dragged on and poor decisions by Aurora Empowerment – run by President Jacob Zuma’s nephew Khulubuse Zuma the President’s lawyer Michael Hully and Nelson Mandela’s grandson Zondwa Mandela – may have eroded Shandong Gold Mining’s interest...

Khulubuse Zuma is Aurora’s Chairman; Zondwa Mandela Nelson Mandela’s grandson and Michael Hulley President Zuma’s lawyer are also involved in the company...

The group owns boutiques in Nelson Mandela Square in the posh area of Sandton...

Shinawatra has business in Liberia and South Africa and claims that he met ex-President Nelson Mandela in 2010...

Cosatu’s Vavi has claimed that in the battle for succession between Zuma and Mbeki in 2007 even former President Nelson Mandela was bugged...

In the 1990s a former ANC Youth League leader (and Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism) Peter Mokaba used the Kill the Boer slogan in public to the chagrin of ANC moderates and leaders like Nelson Mandela and the late Steve Tshwete...

Yet what should have been a moment of triumph for him during the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison proved to be yet another tribulation in his worst week yet as President...

Free Nelson Mandela Zuma’s lacklustre address to Parliament was broadcast across the country following a re-enactment of Mandela’s release from Victor Verster (now Drakenstein) prison outside Cape Town and an elaborate celebration in Parliament in Mandela’s presence...

After Nelson Mandela’s release on 11 February 1990 Coetzee made lengthy forays back to South Africa then took a further degree at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies before moving to Washington DC with his Nigerian wife the journalist and broadcaster Akwe Amosu and their son Corin...

Aurora Empowerment Systems - which Zuma chairs and which has Nelson Mandela's grandson Zondwa Mandela as a director - acquired two mines in Orkey and Grootvlei from the liquidated Pamodzi Gold in April beating out a rival offer from the China-Africa Development Fund...