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 at Amherst, in the 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]

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  1. ^ Maki Mandela. University of Southern California (February 1996). Retrieved on 2006-12-31.
  2. ^ Media release (PDF). Myriad (October 2006). Retrieved on 2006-12-31.
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