Vol 40 No 17 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
At the Cosatu and SACP congresses in mid-1998 ex-President Nelson Mandela and Mbeki told their partners to play it their way or go it alone...
Photographs in the conference centre showed some liberation stars who passed through Algiers in the 1960s and 1970s for military training: Nelson Mandela (pictured with Lieutenant now General Mohamed Lamari) Amilcar Cabral Agostinho Neto Sam Nujoma Robert Mugabe...
Lissouba says he hasn't spoken to Oba and Olivier directly but links Sassou's latest moves with his own attempts to start negotiations through contacts with figures such as Algeria's Ahmed Ben Bella South Africa's Nelson Mandela and Tanzania's Julius Nyerere...
Vol 40 No 13 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
His patchwork cabinet is dominated by ministers who served Nelson Mandela and expanded to 29 from 26 members despite the Presidential Review Commission's recommendation to reduce it (AC Vol 40 No 12)...
Vol 40 No 13 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The key features of the new centralisation are: • As President Nelson Mandela had a staff of 60...
On 29 May more than 30 heads of state ex-heads of state and international dignitaries - including President Nelson Mandela Britain's Prince Charles and Germany's former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt - journeyed to Abuja to see military leader General Abdulsalami Abubakar hand power to retired General and now civilian President Olusegun Obasanjo...
Vol 40 No 12 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The one-time military leader of the apartheid-era Transkei 'Homeland' was expelled from the ANC after alleging that Stella Sigcau a minister in President Nelson Mandela's cabinet had taken a bribe from fugitive casino boss Sol Kerzner (AC Vol 28 No 16)...
Vol 40 No 11 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Yet the arm-twisting which the party has used to pick its provincial leadership has put on show some problems that will be faced again and again by Thabo Mbeki President Nelson Mandela's chosen heir as leader of the party and the nation...
Vol 40 No 11 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
He has the sole prerogative to choose his cabinet which he could announce on 15 June or after his inauguration - and Nelson Mandela's farewell - next day at the Union Buildings in Pretoria...
Who was behind the crude attempt to smear President Nelson Mandela by linking him to an oil deal with Nigerian middle-man Chief Antonio Deinde Fernandez...
Five years ago Fernandez had offered to give the profits of a house sale to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund but the money had never materialised...