Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

Determined to achieve what he can with his resources Mbeki has sent his emissaries shuttling around Africa in a bid to help extinguish some conflicts; Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad and Deputy President Jacob Zuma with ex-President Nelson Mandela have been making a special effort on Burundi...

South Africa's relations with the United States reached a low point over the invasion of Iraq with both President Thabo Mbeki and his predecessor Nelson Mandela sharply criticising the government of President George W...

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...