Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

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...

President Nelson Mandela began dancing and even Queen Elizabeth II was seen clapping along to the music...

At this 50th Conference in Mafikeng North West Province Nelson Mandela will retire as ANC President and hand over to Mbeki and then before the 1999 general elections he will step down from the national presidency and hand that too over to Mbeki...

Nelson Mandela is said to have told Mbeki recently that Zuma would not be suitable for the job because he was too close to Mbeki and would reinforce the view that the country was run by an Mbeki cabal...

President Nelson Mandela's extraordinary peacemaking bid in Sudan which appears to have pleased only the National Islamic Front came without South African Foreign Ministry support Africa Confidential understands...