South African writer and activist Zoleka Mandela was born on April 6, 1980, in South Africa. Zoleka is Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter and her mother Zindzi Mandela, is the daughter of Nelson Mandela. This report will deal with Zoleka Mandela’s parents whose names are Zindziswa Mandela And Oupa Johannes Mafanyana Seakamela.
Zoleka is renowned for scripting about her addictions, her daughter’s death, and her own battles with breast cancer. She has also been open about sexual abuse in her childhood and her addiction to drugs and alcohol for a time.
Zoleka Mandela, in 2010, lost her 13-year-old daughter Zenani in a car crash on the way home from a concert. Zoleka was also recovering from a suicide attempt at the time. In 2011, she received breast cancer treatment but it returned in 2016. Meanwhile, Zoleka published her autobiography in 2013.
Zoleka Mandela Parents: Zindziswa Mandela, Oupa Johannes Mafanyana Seakamela
Zindziswa Mandela and Oupa Johannes Mafanyana Seakamela are the parents of 42-year-old South African writer and activist Zoleka Mandela. Her father’s career is unknown.
Zoleka’s mother Zinzdiswa is the daughter of Nelson Mandela. She is late following her death on July 13, 2020. She was a poet and a diplomat in South Africa.
How did Zoleka Mandela die?
After a lengthy fight with illness, Zoleka Mandela, granddaughter of anti-apartheid heroes Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, passed away on Monday night. When she died, she was 43. Her grandmother’s birthday was the day after she passed away.
Nelson Mandela family tree
Nelson Mandela was born in 1918 and died, aged 95, in 2013. His family tree remains, growing from three wives and six children to 17 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren and on, into the next generation. Mandela’s father was Mphakanyiswa Gadla Henry Mandela, who died in 1930. His mother was Nonqaphi Fanny Nosekeni, who died in 1968. Mandela was married three times and had six children. Only two of his children survive.
Marriage and children
Mandela married Evelyn Ntoko Mase (1922-2004) aged 26 in 1944. They had four children, three of whom died tragically.
Thembi Mandela, Mandela’s first child, was born in 1945. Thembi died in a 1969 vehicle accident while his father was in jail. Mandela couldn’t attend his son’s burial.
Another daughter, Makaziwe (or Maki) Mandela, died in infancy in 1948.
In 1950, Mandela and Evelyn Mase had their third son, Makgatho Lewanika Mandela. His AIDS-related death occurred in 2005.
The Mandelas’ 1954 daughter, Pumla Makaziwe Mandela (Maki), was named after her newborn sister. Evelyn Mase and Mandela separated on March 19, 1958.
Mandela, 40, married 1936-born Winnie (Winifred) Nomzamo Zanyiwe Madikizela on June 14, 1958. They have two daughters. Zenani Dlamini-Mandela was born 1959.
Nelson Mandela’s youngest child, Zindziswa, was born in 1960. Zindzi died on July 13, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
She was buried next to her mother on 17 July, the day before her father’s birthday, Mandela Day. Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela divorced on March 19, 1996.
Mandela married 1945-born Graça Machel on July 18, 1998, his 80th birthday. Slain Mozambican President Samora Machel’s widow.
Zindzi Mandela Family
Zoleka Mandela had four children, two of whom have tragically died. Her daughter Zenani Mandela was born in 1997 and died in 2010.
Her son Zenawe Zibuyile Mandela died in infancy in 2011. Zoleka’s surviving children are a son, Zwelami Mandela (born in 2003), and a daughter, Zanyiwe Zenzile Bashala (born in 2014).
Zondwa Mandela has two children: daughter Zazi Kazimla Vitalia Mandela (born in 2010) and son Ziwelene Linge Mandela (born in 2011).
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