Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

His KwaZulu-Natal provincial section of the ANC is now the largest and most powerful eclipsing the Xhosa heartland of the Eastern Cape which produced leading lights Walter Sisulu Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela...

Chipande and the presidency Chipande’s status as an undisputed hero of the party makes him an attractive presidential prospect for anti-Guebuza elements such Graça Machel widow of Founding President Samora Machel wife of South African former President Nelson Mandela and a successful businesswoman in her own right...

Meanwhile Ramaphosa will be ‘head of government business’ in Zuma’s cabinet a job that former President Thabo Mbeki used as a launching pad during Nelson Mandela’s presidency...

When President Nelson Mandela was a prisoner on Robben Island Iqbal was his doctor and he worked with the African National Congress throughout the 1970s and 1980s...

Team Zuma is working in large regions in hostile provinces such as Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape Sekhukhunelkand in Limpopo and the West Rand in Gauteng...

Frelimo’s conscience is Graça Machel widow of Samora Machel Mozambique’s Founding President and wife of South African former President Nelson Mandela...

The party faithful remember that Ramaphosa was former President Nelson Mandela’s original choice as successor in 1999 but he was outmanoeuvred by Thabo Mbeki...

Tutu is the current Chairman of The Elders a conclave of global luminaries founded by Nelson Mandela in 2007...

They include Khulubuse Zuma President Jacob Zuma’s nephew and Zondwa Mandela Nelson Mandela’s grandson (AAC Vol 4 No 8 Aurora's goldmine collapses)...

Njenje is close to Malema and aligned with the ANC’s ‘African nationalist’ bloc which includes Tony Yengeni former party Chief Whip Billy Masetlha former NIA boss and Madikizela-Mandela ex-wife of President Nelson Mandela...