He had also courted controversy in 2005 when outlining concepts of trusteeship for ‘failed states' and again when describing the African National Congress's intimate relationship with the South African Communist Party in his most recent book Comrades in Exile in 2013 in which he documented Nelson Mandela's membership of the SACP and again incurred a storm of opprobrium...
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Here he tackled one of the world's most iconic struggles the African National Congress's anti-apartheid struggle and one of its most venerated leaders Nelson Mandela...
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In 2001 the London daily Guardian printed a photograph of Hoile as Vice-President of Britain's Federation of Conservative Students sporting a sticker bearing the legend 'Hang Nelson Mandela'...
Vol 56 No 11 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
They fear that President Jacob Zuma's poor image and diminishing urban electoral appeal could cost the ANC the key major metropolitan cities of Johannesburg Pretoria (Tshwane) and Port Elizabeth (Nelson Mandela Bay)...
Fort Hare is an ANC stronghold where former presidents Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo studied...
The Democratic Alliance Youth group already leads at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (once Port Elizabeth University) another ANC former stronghold in the Eastern Cape...
'But the truth is that most business people want to be Harry Oppenheimer not Nelson Mandela...
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He still has some influential opponents in Frelimo though including Graça Machel widow of Founding President Samora Machel and later of South African President Nelson Mandela...
Kennedy and Nelson Mandela have given the opposition a filip...
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Vol 55 No 20 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
When the late Nelson Mandela's ANC unseated the apartheid regime in 1994 it was on the winning ticket of 'political freedom' as the first stage of the 'national democratic revolution'...
Mozambique's Graça Machel a member of the Elders group and the widow of the late South African President Nelson Mandela differed stridently...
Vol 55 No 11 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The anger resentment and violent demonstrations over the failure of ANC-controlled town councils to provide basic services led to falls in the party's vote in metropolitan areas such as Nelson Mandela metro (Port Elizabeth) Johannesburg Tshwane (including Pretoria) and Ekurhuleni (East Rand)...