Name Makgatho Mandela | ||
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Born 26 June 1950 South Africa Spouse Hi Zondi Mandela (m. ?–2003) Siblings Makaziwe Mandela-Amuah, Zindziswa Mandela, Zenani Mandela, Madiba Thembekile Mandela, Makaziwe Mandela Similar People Nelson Mandela, Makaziwe Mandela‑Amuah, Mandla Mandela, Evelyn Mase, Zindziswa Mandela |
Makgatho Lewanika Mandela (26 June 1950 – 6 January 2005) was the son of Nelson Mandela and his first wife Evelyn Mase. He was an attorney, widowed with four sons. He died of AIDS on 6 January 2005 in Johannesburg.
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His second wife Zondi died on 13 July 2003 at age 46. At first, her cause of death was given as pneumonia; after Makgatho's death, their son Mandla later announced that her pneumonia had been a complication of AIDS.
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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 tuberculosis, 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."
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Makgatho Mandela is sometimes wrongly referred to as the older son of Nelson Mandela, but his brother Madiba Thembekile Mandela (Thembi) was born in 1945. Thembi was killed in a car crash in 1969.