Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

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...

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

There are now hints of a rebel rapprochement; both wings of the RCD and Jean-Pierre Bemba's Uganda-backed Mouvement de Libération Congolais (MLC) want Nelson Mandela as mediator in Congo's long-awaited national debate...

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...

Like his friend Nelson Mandela Mwalimu had a natural political style...

Dingake (who did time in Robben Island gaol with Nelson Mandela) lost his Gaborone Central seat to the Mineral Resources and Water Affairs Minister Margaret Nasha...