Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

In some 27 of the 278 councils no party has an overall majority including some of the largest including Johannesburg Tshwane (Pretoria) and Nelson Mandela Bay...

Nowhere was this clearer than in one of the oldest townships Soweto former home of two Nobel Peace Prize winners Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu...

The ANC has greater confidence in winning the other battleground cities of Johannesburg also in Gauteng and the Nelson Mandela Metro in the Eastern Cape...

In the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality the ANC had 21% with the DA leading the race at 42%...

He compares himself favourably with the late Nelson Mandela...

Among them are former ANC Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe the Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu foundations as well as the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation headed by one of the last three survivors of Nelson Mandela's Rivonia Trial group Ahmed 'Kathy' Kathrada...

Two respected ANC veterans and lifelong stalwarts Ben Turok and Barbara Hogan the partner of one of the late President Nelson Mandela's closest associates on Robben Island Ahmed Kathrada called on Zuma to resign...

While the 2014 general elections showed that the ANC was losing support in key cities such as Johannesburg Pretoria and Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape the party's support in the rural areas is still solid and Zuma and his allies have been working hard to make sure that remains so...

The party has set its sights on winning the major metropolitan municipalities of Johannesburg and Tshwane (Pretoria) in Gauteng and Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape...

Solly Msimanga who campaigns around Pretoria in a van is the DA candidate for mayor of the Tshwane Metro Council and Maimane's Eastern Cape ally Athol Trollip hopes to be elected mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro...

Nor has Mbete held a ministerial portfolio while her rival was Health Minister under the late President Nelson Mandela and then Foreign Minister under ex-President Thabo Mbeki...

Here he tackled one of the world's most iconic struggles the African National Congress's anti-apartheid struggle and one of its most venerated leaders Nelson Mandela...

In 2001 the London daily Guardian printed a photograph of Hoile as Vice-President of Britain's Federation of Conservative Students sporting a sticker bearing the legend 'Hang Nelson Mandela'...

They fear that President Jacob Zuma's poor image and diminishing urban electoral appeal could cost the ANC the key major metropolitan cities of Johannesburg Pretoria (Tshwane) and Port Elizabeth (Nelson Mandela Bay)...

Fort Hare is an ANC stronghold where former presidents Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo studied...

The Democratic Alliance Youth group already leads at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (once Port Elizabeth University) another ANC former stronghold in the Eastern Cape...