Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

The first recipient was Nelson Mandela...

Kaunda left for South Africa on 29 October to try to persuade President Nelson Mandela to revive his offer of facilitating all- party talks...

The rapturous applause that greeted South African President Nelson Mandela and his newly confirmed companion Graça Machel widow of President Samora Machel of Mozambique distracted somewhat from the main event...

Pretoria has moved in a similar direction despite President Nelson Mandela's call on BBC radio for the removal of the Abacha regime after the hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other people...

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...