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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

Date of Birth: 18 July 1918
Place of Birth: Mveso, Transkei
Died: 5 December 2013


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Winning them over one by one

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...


The Putin option

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


The leadership race opens up

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...


Desmond Tutu

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


Malema and Zuma mass their armies

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...


Taking a stake in economic development

The Whatana Group of Graça Machel widow of Founding President Samora Machel and the wife of South African former President Nelson Mandela also has 5% of Vodacom valued in 2008 at about $10 mn...


Foreign policy flip-flops

Under former President Nelson Mandela and Mbeki South Africa had a frosty relationship with Angola which Zuma has rapidly warmed up...


Malema and Zuma for breakfast

The Anton Lembede ‘Founders’ Package will set you back R50 000 per person with the Oliver Tambo ‘Homecoming’ Package admitting two for R80 000 while the Nelson Mandela ‘Volunteers’ Package gets you three tickets for R120 000 and the de luxe Walter Sisulu ‘Recruiters’ Package welcomes a delegation of five for R180 000 (US$26 700)...


Local elections threaten the ANC's national grip

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...


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