Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

President Nelson Mandela's 50-vehicle motorcade on its long journey from southern Tunisia to Tripoli (to avoid United Nations' flight sanctions) had Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi beaming...

He is well known to Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and to President Nelson Mandela (he set up a school for South African orphans in the apartheid era) and has been friendly with French President Jacques Chirac since 1983...

President Nelson Mandela of South Africa surprised them by recommending at the recent meeting in Malawi of the Southern Africa Development Community that sanctions should be imposed on countries that fail to apply democratic values; he respected traditional authority but constitutional reforms were necessary...

The African National Congress has its own homepage with details on the government's composition and policies and a facility to e-mail politicians including President Nelson Mandela himself...

At a private audience he is thought to have asked the blessing of President Nelson Mandela for South African business involvement in Liberia; we hear South African mining interests have been looking at iron-ore and diamond operations in Bong County which a German company Bong Mining abandoned in 1990 because of the civil war...

Broad church ANCThe idea is to apply this entryist strategy at December's ANC conference when Nelson Mandela hands over the party presidency to his deputy Thabo Mbeki and the top party jobs will be up for grabs...

Over a third of leaders have so far accepted Bongo's invitation including the Organisation of African Unity head Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe Nigeria's General Sani Abacha Cameroon's Paul Biya Uganda's Yoweri Museveni Rwanda's Pasteur Bizimungu Senegal's Abdou Diouf and either Nelson Mandela or Thabo Mbeki from South Africa...

Misinformation about President Nelson Mandela's health and market rumours about a relaxation of foreign exchange controls gave the African National Congress-led government's first political appointee to the Finance Ministry Trevor Manuel a tough welcome to the job...

The news broke as President Nelson Mandela was meeting Presidents Robert Mugabe Yoweri Museveni and Omer el Beshir as part of his efforts to get the NIF and SPLA to talk to each other forcing Mandela as the Mail put it 'to do some fast talking'...

Nelson Mandela the hopeful exporters suggest would be a powerful salesman of arms and technology...

It was not Angola's President José dos Santos but South Africa's President Nelson Mandela whose homage flashed round the world after her death on 31 August...