Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

President Nelson Mandela wants a 'broad-church' leadership...

Renamo Secretary General Raul Domingos (AC Vol 37 No 15) is even more scathing about Chissano's agreement with President Nelson Mandela to allow 1 000 Afrikaner farmers to settle in the sparsely populated Niassa Province...

Unveiled in the swish French resort of Cannes launched in London as part of President Nelson Mandela's quasi-regal tour the new economic policy of the African National Congress is revealed not in a traditional manifesto but in a sleek slim booklet...

President Nelson Mandela's visit to Paris may help French companies win business in South Africa where France lags well behind the USA UK and Germany...

And like the two other 'Ms' – Nelson Mandela and Robert Mugabe – Masire is thinking about the succession...

There was much speculation about Biya's failure to meet President Nelson Mandela at the airport...

The ANC appears to be regaining the initiative in Buthelezi's home province: by exploiting its power at the centre to push through development projects there (Public Works Minister Jeff Radebe was a long-time ANC activist in kwaZulu/Natal); by working more closely with minority parties (National Party and Democratic Party); and by trying to hold together (at President Nelson Mandela's insistence) a series of shaky peace deals with Inkatha...

Abacha's closest advisors are now taking heart that the recent confusion in Pretoria's policy on Nigeria seems to be being resolved in favour of Thabo Mbeki's earlier posture of 'quiet diplomacy' and in this context they now view Nigeria's earlier largesse towards the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela as a good investment...

He says he does not want to stand but he is campaigning against Jammeh's plans travelling even to South Africa to lobby President Nelson Mandela...

He was the most plausible alternative to Thabo Mbeki as leader of the ANC after President Nelson Mandela stands down...