Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela - World Cup 2010 winner!
No other South African would have been as happy as Nelson Mandela, when FIFA announced 2010 World Cup host country name. When Nelson Mandela urged World Football governing body FIFA that they should allow South Africa organize 2010 Soccer World Cup as a gift of 10th South African democratic anniversary...

Mandela! Mandela! Frail Hero Steals Zuma's Coronation
Mandela captivated the crowds, as the ANC embarked on its final electoral rally before Wednesday's vote

Nelson Mandela Makes Surprise Appearance at Anc Campaign Rally
ANC president Jacob Zuma thanks Mandela for being a 'president, father and statesman'

Nelson Mandela Lends Support to Jacob Zuma at Anc Rally
Former president makes rare appearance in the Eastern Cape where the party faces a significant challenge from a breakaway faction in the 22 April ballot

Mandela Denies Rumours of Split From Anc
In letter of support to African National Congress Mandela says politicians of his era have completed their work

Nelson Mandela Marks 90th Birthday With Appeal for Charity
Former president calls for South Africa's rich to share their wealth, as he celebrates 90th birthday at home

Nelson Mandela Celebrates 90th Birthday With Private Party
Former South African president to host party for 500 guests in home village while celebrations take place around the world

Mandela Moves to Block Sale of Prison Drawings
Lithographs signed by, and work of, former South African president become focus of legal action

A Tragic Failure of Leadership: Mandela's Verdict on Mugabe
Nelson Mandela condems political and humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe in remarks made at London dinner

Mandela Turns 89 and Launches 'a Robust Force for Good'
Nelson Mandela marked his 89th birthday today with the launch of a group of world-renowned leaders who plan to use several Nobel peace prizes and "almost 1,000 years of collective experience" to tackle global crises that governments are unable or unwilling to confront.

Nelson Mandela and South Africa
"Nelson Mandela and South Africa" speaks about Nelson Mandela, one of the main leaders of the twentieth century. I think that Nelson Mandela is an example of faith, determination and patriotism. Today Mandela is an Anti-AIDS leader…Unfortunately SA has one of the highest incidences of AIDS worldwide…

Mandela Warns Brown to Keep His £8.5bn Promise
Gordon Brown was joined by Nelson Mandela today in Mozambique to unveil £8.5bn worth of aid for primary education in Africa.

Mandela Misses Parliament Opening
At 87, some things are more pressing than politics. So Nelson Mandela offered his regrets yesterday, saying he could not attend the opening of South Africa's parliament because it would mean interrupting a new exercise regime.

Mandela in Hiv Plea to Youth
Nelson Mandela has urged people to fight Aids by using condoms and waiting until their late teens to have sex as figures suggest more more than 6 million South Africans are infected.

Furious Mandela Sues Ally Over Art Sales
Once Nelson Mandela and his lawyer, Ismail Ayob, stood shoulder to shoulder in their battle against apartheid. Now the legendary figures are about to clash in a bitter lawsuit.

Mandela Backs London Bid
Olympic Games: London's 2012 Olympic campaign has received a massive boost with the backing of former South African president Nelson Mandela.

Mandela Tells Britain: It is Time for Justice
Nelson Mandela looked tired and stiff as he walked down the steps in front of the National Gallery yesterday to speak to the crowd, one careful step at a time. He looked old. Perhaps he will not come to London again.

Mandela Calls for Action on 'unnatural' Poverty
Former South African president Nelson Mandela today urged thousands to join a global campaign against poverty, declaring: "Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural."

Mandela Family United By Grief and Fight Against Aids
Nelson Mandela's grandson followed the former President's example yesterday by telling thousands of mourners at his father's funeral that his mother had also died of Aids last year.

Mandela Left Isolated By Family Deaths
A spate of deaths is turning Nelson Mandela, the world's most admired statesman, into one of its loneliest. The death of his only surviving son, Makgatho, 54, to an Aids-related illness last week was the latest bereavement to devastate South Africa's former president.

Former South African President's Last Son Dies of Aids
Nelson Mandela broke one of South Africa's great taboos yesterday by admitting his oldest and only surviving son had died of Aids.

Nelson Mandela at Book Launch
Nelson Mandela was at the Dorchester Hotel yesterday helping to launch a book entitled '46664 The Concert', a photographic record of last year's event at Great Point Stadium in Cape Town to raise money for his HIV/Aids awareness foundation.

Mandela Bids Farewell to Parliament
Nelson Mandela saluted South Africa's multiracial democracy in a farewell speech to parliament yesterday, but warned that HIV/Aids threatened the country's future. The former president also lambasted the US and Britain as "so-called democracies" for launching a war in Iraq. "We...

'Bloody Tired' Mandela to Cut Back on Workload
Nelson Mandela is to begin a gradual withdrawal from public life it was reported yesterday amid fears for the former South African president's health. He turns 86 in July, is "bloody tired" and intends to reduce his public appearances in order to continue charity work and finish writing a...

Mandela magic inspires Springboks
Before flying to Australia, the South Africa squad enjoyed an audience with their former president Nelson Mandela.

For Better - or Worse
The anti-war movement failed to stop the attack on Iraq, but it has already had a decisive impact on politics. After the 1976 Soweto uprising, in which the apartheid regime murdered about 200 people and left many more injured, Nelson Mandela smuggled a message out of Robben Island prison:

Mandela Calls for Extra Funds
Nelson Mandela yesterday called on European countries to put more money into fighting HIV/Aids to turn the tide of "the greatest health crisis in human history". The former South African president made his appeal in Paris in the run-up to tomorrow's meeting of European donor nations,...

Mandela's Art Exhibition on Robben Island
A set of 20 lithographs will go on sale today. At $2,600 to $3,000 per copy, they may seem a little expensive for simple line drawings shaded with blocks of colour. But their subject is the notorious former apartheid prison Robben Island, and the artist is Nelson Mandela.

Mandela Gets Angry
Nelson Mandela has always been misunderstood in the west, says Gary Younge. And now he's got something to be really angry about.

Mandela Warns Bush on Racism
Nelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa, believes that many people think Tony Blair and George Bush are being racist in their selective condemnation of countries possessing weapons of mass destruction. In an interview with Newsweek magazine, the 84-year-old statesman said...

Put Thirst of Poor Communities First, Demands Mandela
Nelson Mandela took the earth summit by the scruff of its neck yesterday, urging politicians to make access to clean water a basic human right and to put water and sanitation much higher up the political, economic and social agendas. In his first speech to delegates he said it was "the...

Mandela Breaks Taboo on Aids
Nelson Mandela has waded deeper into the controversy over the South African government's Aids policies by becoming the first African National Congress leader to say publicly that he has lost close relatives to the disease. The former president called for an end to the stigma attached to...

Mandela Hits Again at President's Aids Policy
Nelson Mandela has made his strongest public stand yet against Thabo Mbeki's controversial HIV policies by meeting a seriously ill Aids activist who refuses to save his own life until the president makes anti-retroviral drugs widely available to the poor. He went to see Zackie Achmat,...

Mandela Leads the Fight for Aids Drugs
Nelson Mandela placed himself at the forefront of the fight to gain drug treatment for millions dying from Aids in developing countries with an impassioned speech yesterday at the close of the International Aids conference in Barcelona. The former South African president, who shared the...

Mandela Calls on World to Help Fight Aids
Former South African president Nelson Mandela and former US president Bill Clinton today called on world leaders to recognise that the Aids epidemic is a threat to international peace and economic stability. Addressing the closing session of the week-long Aids summit in Barcelona, Mr ...

Mandela backs call for truce during Olympics
Nelson Mandela came to Athens yesterday to seek support for the Greek campaign to revive the ancient tradition of an "Olympic truce" - asking warring states lay down their weapons for the duration of the 2004 games.

Burundi is rare success for Africa's great statesman
The popular view that anyone who could bring a peaceful end to apartheid must have a special touch has seen Nelson Mandela proposed as a potential saviour of regions from the Middle East and the Balkans to blighted swaths of Africa.