PLO leader Yasser Arafat was invited to join them ... May 2002– Lazar Sidelsky, a Jewish lawyer who afforded a young Nelson Mandela a job as a clerk in the face of apartheid restrictions ...

One figure stood out among the men in dark suits eagerly waiting to greet Mandela on the airport tarmac: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat ... A SHARED STRUGGLE Nelson Mandela regularly raised ...

New Delhi: One of the most memorable moments underlining South Africa’s long-standing support for the Palestinian cause was in 1990, when Nelson Mandela ... Accords, Yasser Arafat, upon the ...

Among his supporters, he is sometimes hailed as "Palestine's Nelson Mandela ... self-determination movement as a contemporary to Yasser Arafat until he was jailed by Israel in 2002.

South Africa's former president Nelson Mandela said Friday he saw no need ... Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, on a visit to South Africa in August, urged Mandela, who was president from 1994 ...

He will also visit Bethlehem, Jerusalem and the mausoleum of Yasser Arafat in Ramallah. Close to the mausoleum is a six-meter high, bronze statue of Nelson Mandela, who is famous among ...