Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

That is we hear why Zuma's office cancelled his trip to London for the memorial service for President Nelson Mandela on 3 March...

Just how important the cost of Jacob Zuma's Nkandla homestead has become for his presidency and the elections was clear from the way it dominated a private meeting at South Africa House in London on 1 March just before the former President Nelson Mandela's memorial service...

Graça Machel widow of Founding President Samora Machel and then of South African President Nelson Mandela disappointed many by refusing to put herself forward but threw her weight behind the Chissano faction making an impassioned speech that helped expand the candidate list...

Gordhan's possible successor Mboweni – known for his love of expensive whisky and fly-fishing – was Labour Minister in the late Nelson Mandela's cabinet...

She also has the backing of ex-President Joaquim Chissano and Graça Machel widow of South Africa's Nelson Mandela and of Founding President Samora Machel...

Zuma welcomed old comrades and paid special tribute to Nelson Mandela Oliver Tambo and other ANC leaders including the former Deputy President for six months Baleka Mbete...

The ANC is still the political juggernaut of Africa with the all the kudos that attaches to the party of the late Nelson Mandela and the vanquisher of apartheid...

The conference which can be seen on YouTube went largely unnoticed abroad because Nelson Mandela had died on the previous day*...

It was a day of the sharpest political contrasts when South Africans and the wider world celebrated the life of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela on 10 December at the FNB stadium in Soweto...

Nelson Mandela's face appeared magisterially on a tableau draped over the front of the Elysée Palace as African leaders and European bureaucrats walked across the courtyard for the opening day of a summit in the French capital on the morning of 6 December...