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 CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Anti-apartheid hero. Icon of peace and racial reconciliation. Father of the nation. Brand name on everything from gold coins to clothing?
Adored and admired the world over, Nelson Mandela has deployed a team of lawyers to make sure the commercial label doesn't stick, going after the opportunists, criminals — and now even an old friend — accused of trying to exploit his name by attaching it without permission to a range of products and causes.
The 87-year-old former South African president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate is locked in a legal battle against his former attorney and adviser, Ismael Ayob, over what happened to the profits from Mandela's brief flirtation with drawing and whether his signature was forged on a series of lithographs of his Robben Island prison.
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