Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

Passing the editorship on after 1963 he was delighted that among the paper's more recent admirers are Nelson Mandela and Kofi Annan...

Zuma's supporters organised big demonstrations during the trial in Johannesburg and Durban; no other politician save Mbeki and former President Nelson Mandela could come close to that...

In its 94-year history this has happened only twice to Mbeki and to Oliver Tambo ANC President-in-Exile while Nelson Mandela was in gaol...

One potential countervailing influence is Graça Machel former first lady of both Mozambique and South Africa as the widow of the late President Samora Machel and the wife of ex-President Nelson Mandela...

Nelson Mandela (so the story continues) tried to persuade Zuma to resign...

His diplomatic and negotiating skills won him friends on both sides; and he is one of the few men in South Africa aside from Nelson Mandela who can be said to have saved thousands of lives...

After meeting with a dozen African finance ministers in Pretoria Brown's proposals won an accolade from Nelson Mandela: 'My first impression is that it is a good scheme I wish more people would have a Marshall Plan for Africa...

Bizos who defended Nelson Mandela in an apartheid-era treason trial was an inspired choice as Tsvangirai's advocate...

When he died he was still on the boards of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund and the University of Cape Town Fund...

A son of a High Court judge a convert to Islam and an admirer of both Usama bin Laden and Nelson Mandela Alhaji Asari is a central figure in the web...