Makaziwe Mandela
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Makaziwe Mandela (born 1953), known as Maki, is the daughter of former South African president Nelson Mandela and his first wife Evelyn Ntoko. 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 was educated at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa, and earned a PhD in anthropology 1993 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]
[edit] References
- ^ University of Massachusetts Honors Nelson Mandela With Honorary Degree. University of Massachusetts (February 2006). Retrieved on 2008-01-22.
- ^ Media release (PDF). Myriad (October 2006). Retrieved on 2006-12-31.
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