<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4611.1300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>"But when Mr Bush lands in South Africa next week on his first visit to Africa, the world's most powerful leader will not meet the world's most famous statesman. Mr Bush had not asked for a meeting with Mr Mandela, the former president's spokeswoman said."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=420582"><FONT color=#000000>http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=420582</FONT></A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Why should he? Mandela's a pro-Saddam symp who doesn't care about WMD, among other things. Just ask Hitch.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>DP</DIV></BODY></HTML>