Makgatho Mandela
| Makgatho Mandela | |
|---|---|
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| Born | 26 June 1950 South Africa |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Children | Mandla Mandela |
| Parent(s) | Nelson Mandela Evelyn Mase |
| Relatives | Makaziwe Mandela (sister) |
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.[1]
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.[2]
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."[3]
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 motorcycle crash in 1969.[4][5]
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