Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

Within days the Sudan government lobbyist David Hoile (who used to advocate hanging Nelson Mandela) had issued against Dagne one of his habitual vitriolic attacks via his 'European Sudanese Public Affairs Council'...

Privately favoured by President Nelson Mandela to be his successor Ramaphosa went into business when the party hierarchy favoured Mbeki and even refused to take up a cabinet seat...

debt to President Nelson Mandela's government in 1994) or in Congo-Kinshasa where the hyper-corrupt regime of Mobutu Sese Seko bequeathed a $15 bn...

Madiba shows the way Former President Nelson Mandela has openly and repeatedly disagreed with his successor's views and disapproved of the government's actions...

He was a member of the ANC Youth League in the 1950s and now wants recognition as a national leader alongside icons such as Albert Luthuli Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela although this is the second time he has botched a bid for the KZN premiership...

The left-centre struggle is most intense in the Xhosa Eastern Cape birthplace of Nelson Mandela Mbeki and other ANC leaders; the province sends more delegates to the national conference than others...

In 1994 Nelson Mandela's transitional Government of National Unity included six former apartheid ministers; two years later ex-President Frederik Willem de Klerk led a walkout and the breach was never repaired...

Then President Nelson Mandela after consulting Mbeki appointed Penuell Maduna an ANC lawyer as Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs...

Hitimana claimed that Buyoya was imposed as head of state in 2001 by the then mediator former South African president Nelson Mandela against the wishes of most Tutsi and Hutu politicians...

Madikizela-Mandela though not a candidate is admired by some traditional leaders and rural electors and could cause trouble; another influential loose cannon is former 'homeland' ruler Bantu Holomisa who founded the breakaway United Democratic Movement and resisted ex-President Nelson Mandela's attempt to woo him back to the ANC...