He was one of the Deputy Presidents of South Africa during the presidency of Nelson Mandela until 1996, the last white person to hold the position to date.

The atrocity was reportedly condemned strongly by South African president Thabo Mbeki and Winnie Mandela, among others, who openly spoke in favour of Marike de Klerk.

* While incarcerated on Robben Island prison, Nelson Mandela recited the poem to other prisoners and was empowered by its message of self-mastery.

Led by dictator Hastings Banda, Malawi was the only African country to maintain close relations with White-ruled South Africa until the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela.

However, Pretoria's political reputation was changed with the inauguration of Nelson Mandela on the 10th May 1994 as the country's first non-apartheid President at the Union Buildings close to Pretoria CBD.

It is of particular note that it was here that Nobel Laureate and former Presidents of South Africa Nelson Mandela and Kgalema Motlanthe, alongside many other political prisoners, spent 27 years imprisoned during the apartheid era.

He also acted as President of the country when President Nelson Mandela was out of the country.

In 1994, when Nelson Mandela was elected President, it was estimated that of South Africa's 44 million inhabitants, 7. 7 million lived in these settlements.

He succeeded Nelson Mandela as ANC president in December 1997 and as president of the Republic in June 1999 ( inaugurated on 16 June ); he was subsequently reelected for a second term in April 2004.

In March 2009, the Independent Electoral Commission ruled that Winnie Mandela, who was selected as an ANC candidate, could run in the April 2009 general election, despite having a fraud conviction.

Mrs. Mandela claimed that she had the youth taken to her home because she suspected the reverend was sexually abusing them.

In 1992 Mandela was accused of ordering the killing of Dr Abu-Baker Asvat, a family friend who had examined Seipei at Mandela's house, after Sepei had been abducted but before he had been killed.

In June 2007, the Canadian High Commission in South Africa declined to grant Winnie Mandela a visa to travel to Toronto, Canada, where she was scheduled to attend a gala fundraising concert organised by arts organisation MusicaNoir, which included the world premiere of The Passion of Winnie, an opera based on her life.

Among other things, she also claimed that Mandela was no longer " accessible " to her daughters.

On 14 March 2010 a statement was issued on behalf of Winnie Mandela claiming that the interview was a " fabrication ".

Mandela was first portrayed by Alfre Woodard in the TV movie Mandela.

Nelson Mandela practiced Nguni stick fighting as a child, and it was featured on the Discovery and BBC reality TV show Last Man Standing.

* Opposition against Apartheid in South Africa and worldwide grows to a mass international condemnation of racial segregation policies comes to a peak by December 1989 in the Springbok summit when SA President de Klerk grants clemency to imprisoned ANC activist Nelson Mandela who was released in February 1990.

However, due to the fact that Mandela was only the Inkosi's child by a wife of the Ixhiba lineage, a so-called " Left-Hand House ", the descendants of his cadet branch of the Thembu royal family remain ineligible to succeed to the Thembu throne, which is itself one of the several traditional seats that are still officially recognized by South Africa's government.

Like the House of Battenberg in Europe, Mandela's family has since rehabilitated its dynastic status to some extent: Mandela was still in prison when his daughter Zenani was married to Prince Thumbumuzi Dlamini in 1973, elder brother of King Mswati III of Swaziland.

" About Nelson Mandela he said, " When Mandela goes it will be a moment when all South Africans put away their political differences, will take hands, and will together honour maybe the biggest South African that has ever lived.

She said she believed the Mandela United Football Club burned down her house because she pulled some of her young relatives out of the gang.

" Mandela also said, " One power with a president who has no foresight – who cannot think properly – is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.

He played Tom Zarek, a terrorist turned politician, who spent twenty years in prison for blowing up a government building ; Hatch has said the character was presented to him as a Nelson Mandela figure, and that he views Zarek as challenging the status quo and working for the common man.

Achmat Dangor, Nelson Mandela Foundation chief executive, said Suzman was a " great patriot and a fearless fighter against apartheid ".

On Easter Sunday, Mandela phoned to thank Woods ' family for the tie and said that he would wear it at the concert the next day, which he did.

These points were put into place under the president, Nelson Mandela who in his inaugural address he said the time of turmoil and rebuilding has come which brought significant changes to the perception of society in South Africa.

Fairbairn was quoted: " These so-called stars like Annie Lennox and Jim Kerr are just out to line their own pockets .... and what Annie Lennox and Jim Kerr said at Wembley came out of no love for Nelson Mandela.

Although it is sometimes said that he claims to have drafted Mandela's famous speech spoken at the trial, he says that his main contribution was to advise the use of the words " if needs be " before Mandela said that he was prepared to die.

When Nelson Mandela announced the cause of his son's death, he said: " Let us give publicity to HIV / AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of HIV / AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

" Actions like these undo the spirit of reconciliation as promoted by former president Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu ", said Jan Bosman, spokesperson for the Afrikanerbond.

Former South African President and patron of the Association, Nelson Mandela, said the following of the Scout Movement:

Foster said he supported Dr Baba because he saw him as the " Nelson Mandela of the South Pacific.

[...] When the Prime Minister met Nelson Mandela in Namibia, Mandela knew about Vanuatu because it has always been among the countries in the region that have most clearly spoken out on the problem of apartheid ".

For an example of the form that morganatic unions tend to take amongst African royalty, we have only to look at the biography of the continent's favourite son: President Nelson Mandela, the former leader of South Africa.

Recent speakers at the LSE have included Kofi Annan, Hilary Benn, Ben Bernanke, Tony Blair, Hazel Blears, Cherie Booth, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Alistair Darling, Niall Ferguson, Joschka Fischer, Vicente Fox, Milton Friedman, Muammar al-Gaddafi, John Lewis Gaddis, Alan Greenspan, Tenzin Gyatso, Will Hutton, Paul Krugman, Richard Lambert, Jens Lehmann, Lee Hsien Loong, John Major, Nelson Mandela, Mary McAleese, Dmitri Medvedev, John Atta Mills, Mario Monti, George Osborne, Robert Peston, Sebastián Piñera, Kevin Rudd, Jeffrey Sachs, Gerhard Schroeder, Carlos D. Mesa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Costas Simitis, George Soros, Lord Stern, Jack Straw, Aung San Suu Kyi, Baroness Thatcher, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rowan Williams.

However, under this definition Jesus, Muhammad and Nelson Mandela are examples of individuals who have practised violent direct action.

EDMs tabled on serious topics have included one demanding the release of Nelson Mandela when he was incarcerated in apartheid South Africa, and one calling for a consultation on the fingerprinting of children in schools without parental permission.

Winners of the award have included: musician Peter Gabriel ( 2008 ), Nelson Mandela ( 2006 ), the Irish rock band U2 ( 2005 ), Mary Robinson and Hilda Morales Trujillo ( a Guatemalan women's rights activist ) ( 2004 ) and the author and public intellectual Václav Havel ( 2003 ).

More recently, grassroots efforts by residents have been the force behind revitalizing historic areas and creating Roxbury Heritage State Park, although an effort by some to secede from Boston and form an independent municipality named " Mandela " ( after South African activist Nelson Mandela ) failed in 1986.

Al Sharpton, and future South Africa president Nelson Mandela have cameo appearances.

Located in Nelson Mandela Square the museum presents an exhibition of Nobel laureates, men and women from all corners of the globe who have dedicated their lives to make the world a better place.

The petitions had no legal effect, but the signatures of millions of people on the petitions represented a moral force that may have helped free Mandela and end apartheid.

" In recent years British historians headed by Simon Sebag-Montefiore have included this speech in a book on speeches that changed the world, which includes others by Martin Luther King, Jr, Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy.

He continued to have a successful career, with some highlights such as singing the Crowded House track " Don't Dream It's Over " at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute in 1988, producing a popular duet, " Senza una donna ( Without a Woman )," with Italian blues singer Zucchero in 1991, and singing " Radio Ga Ga " with the surviving members of Queen in 1992, at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert soon after Freddie Mercury died.

The terminally ill Miss Foster was provided the opportunity to have a conversation with Mark Shuttleworth and Nelson Mandela by the Reach for a Dream foundation.

Nelson Mandela wrote, Fischer was one of the " bravest and staunchest friends of the freedom struggle that I have ever known.

Today, we have three global legends serving as patrons of the World ’ s Children ’ s Prize: Nelson Mandela from South Africa, Democracy Champion Aung San Suu Kyi from Burma, and Freedom Fighter Xanana Gusmão, today Prime Minister, from East Timor.

Famous people who have worn Tissot watches include the actress Sarah Bernhardt, singer Carmen Miranda, Elvis Presley, Grace Kelly, and Nelson Mandela.

Over the years Nikita Khrushchev, Soong May-ling ( Madame Chiang Kai-shek ), Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Muhammad Ali, Charles de Gaulle, Robert Redford, Boris Yeltsin, Elizabeth Taylor, Nelson Mandela, Yasser Arafat, and the Dalai Lama and Angelina Jolie have all spoken at the club.

Other notable visitors, to cite just a few, have included: Kofi Annan, Nelson Mandela, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, King Hussein of Jordan, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Lord Mountbatten of Burma of the United Kingdom.

In 1985, Pik Botha drafted a speech that would have announced the release of Nelson Mandela, but this draft was rejected by P. W. Botha.

In a conciliatory gesture, then President of South Africa Nelson Mandela, visited the town in 1995 to have tea with Betsie Verwoerd, widow of Hendrik Verwoerd.

In " Yuppy Love ", Del states that the Trotter family have been living at Nelson Mandela House since 1962, and that Rodney was born in the flat.