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...
Vol 38 No 22 |
- COMMONWEALTH
This had been floated by President Nelson Mandela; one of the Nigerian detainees Gen...
Vol 38 No 22 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
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...
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...
Vol 38 No 19 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
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...