Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

On the eve of his visit Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi told a conference of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) that the ANC might lose the Nelson Mandela Bay region of the Eastern Cape which includes its biggest city Port Elizabeth...

Vavi said the party was ‘infested with corruption and greed’ and that Nelson Mandela Bay could end up under Democratic Alliance (DA) leadership...

Unless members voted for the ANC he said ex-President Nelson Mandela could get sicker...

He and Mandla Mandela grandson of former President Nelson Mandela are doing business together...

• Mandla Mandela: The controversial grandson of Nelson Mandela is close to Jacob Zuma and on the campaign trail in 2009 he controversially wheeled out his aged grandfather to show support for Zuma...

As next year’s centenary of the African National Congress approaches a row is raging over how to portray Presidents Nelson Mandela Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma in the ANC’s official history...

To back its pretensions to African leadership South Africa needed all the moral authority inherited from Nelson Mandela...

The deal has dragged on and poor decisions by Aurora Empowerment – run by President Jacob Zuma’s nephew Khulubuse Zuma the President’s lawyer Michael Hully and Nelson Mandela’s grandson Zondwa Mandela – may have eroded Shandong Gold Mining’s interest...

Khulubuse Zuma is Aurora’s Chairman; Zondwa Mandela Nelson Mandela’s grandson and Michael Hulley President Zuma’s lawyer are also involved in the company...

The group owns boutiques in Nelson Mandela Square in the posh area of Sandton...

Shinawatra has business in Liberia and South Africa and claims that he met ex-President Nelson Mandela in 2010...

Cosatu’s Vavi has claimed that in the battle for succession between Zuma and Mbeki in 2007 even former President Nelson Mandela was bugged...

In the 1990s a former ANC Youth League leader (and Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism) Peter Mokaba used the Kill the Boer slogan in public to the chagrin of ANC moderates and leaders like Nelson Mandela and the late Steve Tshwete...