Letter to City Press on Thami Mazwai's article attack on NM and on the TAC implying TAC was funded by pharmaceutical companies, March 2002; NM announces the death of his son, Makgatho of AIDS, January 2005; TAC expresses condolences to NM's family; article "Mandela: I failed SA's AIDS challenge", March 2003, " Mandela calls for AIDS drugs for all, July 2002 (at AIDS conference in Barcelona); Meeting with NM and Zackie Achmat, 2002 and email from ZA re this meeting after which Mandela requests a formal meeting with Mbeki to discuss ARVS; BBC news report on Mandela, 2003?.

Born 1918

Also founder member of the ANCYL. He as the first accused in the Rivonia treason trial and sentenced to life imprisonment in Robben Island.

After his release from prison in 1990, he was elected Deputy President of the ANC and in 1991 succeeded his ailing friend and comrade as President-General of the ANC.

In 1994, after the victory of the ANC in the first democratic elections held in this country, he became President of (the new) South Africa.