Former President Nelson Mandela announced that his eldest son died Thursday of AIDS-related complications, saying the only way to fight the disease's stigma was to speak openly about it.

Makgatho Mandela, the eldest and only-surviving son of former South African President Nelson Mandela has died of AIDS. Mr. Mandela made the announcement at a press conference. Surrounded by ...

JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 6 -- Former South African president Nelson Mandela announced Thursday that his son, Makgatho Mandela, 54, had died that morning of illness related to AIDS, and he urged other ...

In January 2005, Mandela announced publicly that his last surviving son, Makgatho Mandela, had died of the disease. Mandela’s only other son died in a car accident in 1969. Mandela used his ...

It's a complicated, extended family, given Mandela's three marriages and five children. Ndaba's father was Makgatho Mandela, "the Old Man's second son by his first wife, Evelyn Ntoko Mase," he ...

June 16, 1999 - Retires, hands power to Mbeki. January 6, 2005 - Announces that only surviving son Makgatho Mandela has died from AIDS at the age of 54. July 18, 2007 - Launches international ...