Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

Repeatedly invoking the memory of Nelson Mandela in his speech citing his 'wisdom and humility his abiding compassion and his essential integrity' Ramaphosa seemed to use the memory of Madiba as means to unify the ANC...

At a rally in Cape Town on 11 February to commemorate the 28th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's release from jail Ramaphosa said he wanted to end a period of 'difficulty discord and disunity' and make 'a new beginning'...

Saturday 10 February: Ramaphosa and senior ANC officials attend church services and address meetings to celebrate the 106th anniversary of the ANC in the build-up to celebrations of the 100thanniversary of Nelson Mandela's birth...

Pravin Gordhan the former Finance Minister sacked by Zuma would become Minister of Public Enterprises; Joel Netshitenzhe former policy advisor to Nelson Mandela Thabo Mbeki and a Ramaphosa strategist would be Minister in the Presidency for monitoring and evaluation...

HeavyweightsFuture South Africa has the backing of the foundations set up by the late President Nelson Mandela his confidant Ahmed Mohamed 'Kathy' Kathrada who died in March and former ANC leader Oliver Tambo; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu; and three former state presidents FW de Klerk Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe...

The data analytics company that is widely credited with having swung Donald Trump's shock win in last November's US presidential poll and the 'Leave' vote in the United Kingdom referendum on European Union membership through its digital targeting campaigns Cambridge Analytica carries on its website photographs of former and current clients including the late South African President Nelson Mandela and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (AC Blog Cyberwar goes to the polls)...

The heavy policing saddened South Africans nostalgic for the spirit of Nelson Mandela...

Nzimande's attack followed a speech by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa who chose the third anniversary of President Nelson Mandela's death on 5 December to condemn 'arrogant and corrupt' leaders who 'put their own interests above the interests of the people'...

They intend to confront the current ANC leadership backed by the Nelson Mandela Foundation the Thabo Mbeki Foundation the Oliver Tambo Foundation and the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation...

The Eastern Cape is another key province but with its branches imploding amid the fall-out over the loss of the Nelson Mandela Bay metropolitan municipality in the local elections nothing is certain...

In some 27 of the 278 councils no party has an overall majority including some of the largest including Johannesburg Tshwane (Pretoria) and Nelson Mandela Bay...

Nowhere was this clearer than in one of the oldest townships Soweto former home of two Nobel Peace Prize winners Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu...