Makaziwe Mandela

Makaziwe Mandela
Makaziwe Mandela talking in a press conference during Miss World 2007 in Sanya, China
Born	1953 (age 57–58) Johannesburg, South Africa
Education	Waterford Kamhlaba
Alma mater	University of Fort Hare University of Massachusetts
Parents	Nelson Mandela Evelyn Ntoko

Makaziwe Mandela (born 1953), known as Maki, is the daughter of former South African president Nelson Mandela and his first wife Evelyn Ntoko Mase. She was named after her older sister, born in 1947, who died aged just nine months. Of the four children born to Ntoko and Mandela, Makaziwe is the only one still living.

She received her secondary education at Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Southern Africa before going to the University of Fort Hare in South Africa. In 1993 she earned a PhD in anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.^[1]

She has held senior posts at the University of the Witwatersrand and the Development Bank of Southern Africa, and now heads the Industrial Development Group (IDG), with interests in mining and petroleum.^[2]

On November 7 2010, the US embassy in Pretoria announced that the US had sent South Africa an extradition request for Isaac Kwame Amuah, husband of Makaziwe Mandela. He is wanted for rape in Hartford, Connecticut.^[3]

References

1. ^ "University of Massachusetts Honors Nelson Mandela With Honorary Degree". University of Massachusetts. February 2006. http://www.massachusetts.edu/news/news.cfm?mode=detail&news_id=30. Retrieved 2008-01-22. 
2. ^ "Media release" (PDF). Myriad. October 2006. http://www.altx.co.za/docs/altx/articles/20061010-Myriad%20Oversubscribed.pdf. Retrieved 2006-12-31. 
3. ^ "Warrant out for Mandela husband". Sunday Times. November 2010. http://www.timeslive.co.za/sundaytimes/article748753.ece/Warrant-out-for-Mandela-husband. Retrieved 2010-11-07. 

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Name	Mandela, Makaziwe
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Date of birth	1953
Place of birth	Johannesburg, South Africa
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