He arranged a one-party triumph by refusing (despite pleas from President Nelson Mandela and ex-President Jimmy Carter) to allow his main opponent ex-President Kenneth Kaunda to stand against him...
It was picked by President Nelson Mandela for a visit as Francophone Africa' s democratic example...
Vol 37 No 23 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
From the province emerged Nelson Mandela Walter Sisulu Oliver Tambo Govan Mbeki and his son Thabo – all Xhosas an ethnic fact which the ANC is keen to underemphasise...
To lose support next time in its own heartland would be a severe blow to a party which by then will no longer be led by its chief vote-gatherer Nelson Mandela...
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...
Vol 37 No 18 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
President Nelson Mandela wants a 'broad-church' leadership...
Vol 37 No 17 |
- MOZAMBIQUE
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...
Vol 37 No 16 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
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...