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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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Live by the sword

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...


The state of Jacob Zuma

Yet what should have been a moment of triumph for him during the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison proved to be yet another tribulation in his worst week yet as President...

Free Nelson Mandela Zuma’s lacklustre address to Parliament was broadcast across the country following a re-enactment of Mandela’s release from Victor Verster (now Drakenstein) prison outside Cape Town and an elaborate celebration in Parliament in Mandela’s presence...


David Coetzee

After Nelson Mandela’s release on 11 February 1990 Coetzee made lengthy forays back to South Africa then took a further degree at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies before moving to Washington DC with his Nigerian wife the journalist and broadcaster Akwe Amosu and their son Corin...


A golden child in Zuma's family

Aurora Empowerment Systems - which Zuma chairs and which has Nelson Mandela's grandson Zondwa Mandela as a director - acquired two mines in Orkey and Grootvlei from the liquidated Pamodzi Gold in April beating out a rival offer from the China-Africa Development Fund...


Kofi Annan

He is Chairman of the Mo Ibrahim Prize Committee for African leadership and is also a member of Nelson Mandela’s Global Elders...


The year ahead

The monument’s inauguration has also been delayed by refusals to attend from Barack Obama Nicolas Sarkozy Moammar el Gadaffi and Nelson Mandela...


Ready or not, here they come

Twenty years after Nelson Mandela walked free South Africa has another opportunity to make its – and indeed Africa’s – mark on the international stage in 2010 by hosting a successful tournament...


So far, so Zuma

' Mcebisi Ndletyana a political analyst at the Human Sciences Research Council says Zuma has effectively addressed the gap created by the 'cold and aloof' style of his presidential predecessor Thabo Mbeki and compares him tentatively to former President Nelson Mandela...

Cape Town and Nelson Mandela Bay Metro are preparing a similar service...


Zuma's surprise package

Strident interventionist comments from the party's hardliners have revealed a hurried casting aside of the cautious approach to governance practised under former Presidents Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki...


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