Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

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...

President Nelson Mandela on his release from prison in 1990 tried to try to bury the hatchet and failed...

He is close to several former leaders including Julius Nyerere Jim Callaghan Jimmy Carter and Helmut Schmidt and has particularly warm relations with Nelson Mandela’s government...

The institutionalisation of the new Washington-Pretoria axis started three years ago when President Bill Clinton and President Nelson Mandela launched the Bi-National Commission...

The turning point was Nelson Mandela’s decision to appoint Thabo Mbeki not Ramaphosa Deputy President in 1994 after the latter had made unguarded though private comments about the ANC...

More discreetly we hear Blair tried to persuade President Nelson Mandela and his heir-apparent Thabo Mbeki to support or at least not stridently oppose the British-USA bombing campaign against Saddam Hussein's Iraq...

Instead of seeing the tax base shrink President Nelson Mandela's government has broadened the base by building an efficient collection agency outside the regular civil service...

BNP leader Retselisitsoe Sekhonyana spoke as diplomatically as he could about the South African action but his supporters vigorously denounced Nelson Mandela as did his opposition partner Qhobela Molapo leader of the smaller Basotholand Congress Party...

Most of all he is determined to outshine President Nelson Mandela as leader of Southern Africa...