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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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Dissent dogs DA leadership

The party has set its sights on winning the major metropolitan municipalities of Johannesburg and Tshwane (Pretoria) in Gauteng and Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape...

Solly Msimanga who campaigns around Pretoria in a van is the DA candidate for mayor of the Tshwane Metro Council and Maimane's Eastern Cape ally Athol Trollip hopes to be elected mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro...


The woman most likely…

Nor has Mbete held a ministerial portfolio while her rival was Health Minister under the late President Nelson Mandela and then Foreign Minister under ex-President Thabo Mbeki...


Obituary: Stephen Ellis, 1953-2015

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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Stephen Ellis, 1953-2015

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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Fugitive flees as courts sidelined

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'...


Uneasy lies Zuma’s head

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...


New faces, old issues

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...


Julius Malema in the dock

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'...


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