He has publicly stated his intention to step down in 2001 and frequently praises those African leaders who have made way for elected successors citing the late Julius Nyerere of Tanzania Quett Masire of Botswana and of course Nelson Mandela...
Vol 40 No 25 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
While Nelson Mandela was still President officials in both the ANC and Inkatha believed that a merger was about to be negotiated...
There are now hints of a rebel rapprochement; both wings of the RCD and Jean-Pierre Bemba's Uganda-backed Mouvement de Libération Congolais (MLC) want Nelson Mandela as mediator in Congo's long-awaited national debate...
Like his friend Nelson Mandela Mwalimu had a natural political style...
Dingake (who did time in Robben Island gaol with Nelson Mandela) lost his Gaborone Central seat to the Mineral Resources and Water Affairs Minister Margaret Nasha...
Vol 40 No 17 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
At the Cosatu and SACP congresses in mid-1998 ex-President Nelson Mandela and Mbeki told their partners to play it their way or go it alone...
Photographs in the conference centre showed some liberation stars who passed through Algiers in the 1960s and 1970s for military training: Nelson Mandela (pictured with Lieutenant now General Mohamed Lamari) Amilcar Cabral Agostinho Neto Sam Nujoma Robert Mugabe...
Lissouba says he hasn't spoken to Oba and Olivier directly but links Sassou's latest moves with his own attempts to start negotiations through contacts with figures such as Algeria's Ahmed Ben Bella South Africa's Nelson Mandela and Tanzania's Julius Nyerere...
Vol 40 No 13 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
His patchwork cabinet is dominated by ministers who served Nelson Mandela and expanded to 29 from 26 members despite the Presidential Review Commission's recommendation to reduce it (AC Vol 40 No 12)...
Vol 40 No 13 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The key features of the new centralisation are: • As President Nelson Mandela had a staff of 60...