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Makaziwe Mandela

Makaziwe Mandela
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Makaziwe Mandela-Amuah talking in a press conference during Miss World 2007 in Sanya, China
Born 1954 (age 62–63)
Johannesburg, South Africa
Education Waterford Kamhlaba
Alma mater University of Fort Hare
University of Massachusetts
Parent(s) Nelson Mandela
Evelyn Mase
Relatives Makgatho Mandela (brother)
Zenani Mandela-Dlamini (half sister)

Pumla Makaziwe "Maki" Mandela-Amuah (born 1954) is the daughter of Nelson Mandela and his first wife Evelyn Mase. She was named after her older sister, born in 1947, who died aged just nine months. Of the four children born to Nelson and Evelyn Mandela, Makaziwe is the only one still living and the only one to outlive their father. She is married to Dr. Isaac Amuah, who is of Ghanaian origin.

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.

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.


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