Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

The Strategic Defence Procurement Package was signed in November 1999 six months after Thabo Mbeki took over from Nelson Mandela as president...

Among the invited guests at the launch were African BEE heavyweights now in the firing line as 'fat cats': Mvelaphanda's Tokyo Sexwale Nail's Saki Macazoma Real Africa's Don Ncube Safika's Moss Ngoasheng and even Cyril Ramaphosa (AC Vol 44 No 9) once the then President Nelson Mandela's choice for SA's presidency...

Rwasa also says he has no confidence in Zuma and has requested the urgent intervention of South African former President Nelson Mandela who facilitated Burundi's peace process during 2000-02...

Determined to achieve what he can with his resources Mbeki has sent his emissaries shuttling around Africa in a bid to help extinguish some conflicts; Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad and Deputy President Jacob Zuma with ex-President Nelson Mandela have been making a special effort on Burundi...

South Africa's relations with the United States reached a low point over the invasion of Iraq with both President Thabo Mbeki and his predecessor Nelson Mandela sharply criticising the government of President George W...

Within days the Sudan government lobbyist David Hoile (who used to advocate hanging Nelson Mandela) had issued against Dagne one of his habitual vitriolic attacks via his 'European Sudanese Public Affairs Council'...

Privately favoured by President Nelson Mandela to be his successor Ramaphosa went into business when the party hierarchy favoured Mbeki and even refused to take up a cabinet seat...

debt to President Nelson Mandela's government in 1994) or in Congo-Kinshasa where the hyper-corrupt regime of Mobutu Sese Seko bequeathed a $15 bn...

Madiba shows the way Former President Nelson Mandela has openly and repeatedly disagreed with his successor's views and disapproved of the government's actions...

He was a member of the ANC Youth League in the 1950s and now wants recognition as a national leader alongside icons such as Albert Luthuli Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela although this is the second time he has botched a bid for the KZN premiership...