Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

No invitation official or unofficial had been made South Africa's Foreign Ministry told us though Libyan Foreign Minister Omar Muntasser was due in after the Organisation of African Unity summit and President Nelson Mandela had invited Gadaffi in the past...

Madiba's moral beaconSouth Africa's intervention in Zaïre was its most ambitious foray yet but in formal diplomatic terms it achieved little beyond providing a ship and Nelson Mandela as a moral beacon...

Labour's election manifesto depicted a smiling Tony Blair with Nelson Mandela during the leader's visit to South Africa in October 1996...

It embraces the Transvaal and Free State agricultural unions enjoys the blessing of President Nelson Mandela (who also asked the Tanzanian Government to accept Afrikaner farmers) receives assistance from Pretoria and funding from the European Union and is negotiating a deal worth up to US$50 million with International Pacific Securities (IPS) of London and Vancouver...

But in the case of the Harare bellyflop Zimbabwe security's energetic efforts to hush the affair up seem to indicate the consignment had the tacit approval of the '3Ms': Presidents Nelson Mandela Robert Mugabe and Yoweri Museveni...

Accordingly Kabila's terms for negotiations (contained in a diplomatic note to President Nelson Mandela) stipulate that he must talk directly to Mobutu Sese Seko or a figure publicly identified as mandated to negotiate on his behalf and that should the negotiations be aborted or fail the AFDL will then press its military advantage until Mobutu or his successor surrenders...

Sending his nephew to negotiate with Kabila in South Africa then denying he represented him was vintage Mobutu; but it backfired as the government delegation looked clumsy while Kabila won more international credibility – meeting President Nelson Mandela (who introduced him as General Kabila) and US policy makers such as Assistant Secretary of State George Moose and National Security Council Africa Director Susan Rice...

South Africa's overriding power was decently veiled: President Nelson Mandela had on 14 February held a prearranged meeting with President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique...

The late President François Mitterrand was the first foreign head of state to visit newly-elected President Nelson Mandela...

Its neighbours led by South Africa's President Nelson Mandela barely concealed their frustration as they tried to persuade King Mswati to move faster on constitutional reform; the African National Congress and Confederation of South African Trade Unions unambiguously supported the striking workers...