Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

Instead of seeing the tax base shrink President Nelson Mandela's government has broadened the base by building an efficient collection agency outside the regular civil service...

BNP leader Retselisitsoe Sekhonyana spoke as diplomatically as he could about the South African action but his supporters vigorously denounced Nelson Mandela as did his opposition partner Qhobela Molapo leader of the smaller Basotholand Congress Party...

Most of all he is determined to outshine President Nelson Mandela as leader of Southern Africa...

It resembles proposals fowarded separately by President Nelson Mandela and Tshisekedi...

Among African leaders Annan is closest to President Nelson Mandela whom he sees as a lodestar for the UN; the two speak regularly on the telephone...

President Nelson Mandela stopped over in Tripoli in October 1997 on his way to and then from the Edinburgh Commonwealth summit showing he would not bow to US pressure...

Anyway there is no love lost between President Robert Mugabe and President Nelson Mandela despite a SADC attempt to make peace between them...

Despite pressure from trades unions and from democracies abroad (led by President Nelson Mandela) Mswati III remains an absolute monarch...

To please President Nelson Mandela they will insist on the opening up of Congolese politics...

' Mbeki backed by President Nelson Mandela has committed himself unequivocally to the ANC's macro-economic policy document GEAR (Growth Employment and Redistribution)...