Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

A former colleague of Amissah's on the Botswana appeal bench better known as Nelson Mandela's lawyer George Bizos described Amissah as "…a zealous guardian of judicial independence; a patient helpful and understanding colleague; he avoided prejudgment of any cause and strove to reach a just decision in every case after giving counsel on both sides and his brethren on the bench every opportunity to persuade him what was the right thing to do"...

Buyoya is under growing pressure to make peace from Nelson Mandela mediator in the Burundi war and from the United Nations...

He claims that whereas ex-President Nelson Mandela tried to reach across the racial divide Mbeki has 'a much more Africanist perspective'...

The six new big cities controlled by metro councils are mostly expected to be given African names: Greater Johannesburg (Egoli Zulu for gold) Greater Pretoria (Tshwane 'We are the same') Greater Durban (eThekwini horns of the bull) Port Elizabeth (Nelson Mandela Metropole) Cape Town and East Rand...

Governments and leaders usually experience a mid-term drop in popularity and Mbeki was bound to suffer by comparison with the beloved Nelson Mandela who was favoured by 85 per cent of people two months before he retired in June last year...

But a 15-year-old daughter called Hana was pictured with Nelson Mandela and Graca Machel in South Africa in June 1999 along with the other Gadaffi women...

Police statistics show that between 1994 (when the African National Congress came to power) and 1999 (when Thabo Mbeki succeeded Nelson Mandela as President) reported car-jackings increased by 20 per cent rapes by 21 per cent assaults by 22 per cent burglaries by 25 per cent and common robberies by an astonishing 121 per cent...

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...