Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

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...

The ANC has greater confidence in winning the other battleground cities of Johannesburg also in Gauteng and the Nelson Mandela Metro in the Eastern Cape...

In the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality the ANC had 21% with the DA leading the race at 42%...

He compares himself favourably with the late Nelson Mandela...

Among them are former ANC Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe the Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu foundations as well as the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation headed by one of the last three survivors of Nelson Mandela's Rivonia Trial group Ahmed 'Kathy' Kathrada...