Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

The ANC has fewer than half the members it had at its peak when Nelson Mandela was elected in 1994...

On one hand he was strong-armed into the 28 August signing by mediator-in-chief Nelson Mandela whose diplomatic pulling power had brought 20 heads of state including United States President Bill Clinton to Arusha to the ceremony...

His speech made him a target of ridicule by scientists commentators and cartoonists which the hypersensitive President has difficulty coping with and which earned him a barely veiled rebuke from his predecessor Nelson Mandela who closed the AIDS conference on 14 July...

A decade after Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and South Africa's political revolution started his successor Thabo Mbeki is launching another revolution It aims to overthrow the apartheid economy with its racial hierarchy replacing it with a modern African capitalist state based on a skilled work force and a growing body of black entrepreneurs (AC Vol 41 Nos 2 & 3)...

Nelson Mandela and Mbeki respected on the world stage have little influence within Africa...

But the more independent opponents of Kabila saw things differently: Jean-Pierre Bemba's Uganda-backed Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo (MLC) said it was not worth turning up; Etienne Tshisekedi chief of the most powerful unarmed opposition movement preferred to make a trip to South Africa to see Nelson Mandela...

NAIL's directors then included former ANC Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa and Nthato Motlana once Nelson Mandela's doctor...

Complicated equation Nelson Mandela the new mediator in Burundi's conflict faces his first round of negotiations next month...

He has publicly stated his intention to step down in 2001 and frequently praises those African leaders who have made way for elected successors citing the late Julius Nyerere of Tanzania Quett Masire of Botswana and of course Nelson Mandela...

While Nelson Mandela was still President officials in both the ANC and Inkatha believed that a merger was about to be negotiated...