Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

President Nelson Mandela concedes that careerism opportunism maladministration and corruption are rife...

The permitted total of ex-officio members is 22 (plus Nelson Mandela) - two from the ANC Youth League two from the ANC Women' s League plus the chairperson and secretary of the nine provincial ANC executives...

Five top office-bearers (as above minus Deputy Secretary General Mtintso) 15 elected members and three ex-officio members - Winnie Mandela (Women's League) Malusi Gigaba (Youth League) and Nelson Mandela...

The government touts the project as an example of ‘African Renaissance' cooperation and the picture is brightened by the sentimental alliance between President Nelson Mandela and Mozambique's perennial First Lady Graça Machel...

In Africa President Yoweri Museveni's stock runs high some argue it's second only to Nelson Mandela's...

Enough political leaders were present to make the summit look convincing but the absentees as well as Nigeria's General Sani Abacha Congo-Kinshasa's Laurent Kabila and Sudan's Omar el Beshir included Paul Biya of Cameroon (busy forming a government) Ben Mkapa of Tanzania (at his party's congress) and regional kingpins Daniel arap Moi of Kenya Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Nelson Mandela of South Africa...

This had been floated by President Nelson Mandela; one of the Nigerian detainees Gen...

Their nightmare is that Winnie Madikizela- Mandela will be elected deputy president of the ANC at its national conference on 16-20 December in Mmbatho; that this will make her South Africa's deputy president in 1999 when Nelson Mandela retires and Thabo Mbeki steps into the presidency; and that she will then take over the country if something nasty happens to Mbeki...

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...