Meet Zindziswa Mandela And Oupa Johannes Mafanyana Seakamela

South African writer and activist Zoleka Mandela born April 6, 1980 in South Africa. Zoleka is the granddaughter of Nelson Mandela and her mother, Zindzi Mandela, is the daughter of Nelson Mandela. This report will mention Zoleka Mandela’s parents named Zindziswa Mandela and Oupa Johannes Mafanyana Seakamela.

Zoleka is best known for writing scripts about her addiction, her daughter’s death, and her own battle with breast cancer. She has also been open about her childhood sexual abuse and addiction to drugs and alcohol for some time.

Zoleka Mandela, in 2010, lost her 13-year-old daughter Zenani in a car accident on the way home from a concert. Zoleka was also recovering from a suicide attempt at the time. In 2011, she was treated for breast cancer but the disease relapsed 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 Zinzdiswa’s mother is the daughter of Nelson Mandela. She passed away late on July 13, 2020. She was a poet and a diplomat in South Africa.

How did Zoleka Mandela die?

After a long battle with illness, Zoleka Mandela, granddaughter of anti-apartheid heroes Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, passed away on Monday evening. When she died, she was 43 years old. Her grandmother’s birthday was the day after she passed away.

Nelson Mandela family tree

Nelson Mandela was born in 1918 and died at the age of 95 in 2013. His family tree is still there, from three wives and six children to 17 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren and many generations to come. Mandela’s father was Mphakanyiswa Gadla Henry Mandela, who died in 1930. His mother, Nonqaphi Fanny Nosekeni, died in 1968. Mandela was married three times and had six children. Only two of his children survived.

Marriage and children

Mandela married Evelyn Ntoko Mase (1922-2004) at the age of 26 in 1944. They had four children, three of whom tragically died.

Thembi Mandela, Mandela’s first child, was born in 1945. Thembi died in a car accident in 1969 while his father was in prison. Mandela was unable to attend his son’s burial.

Another daughter, Makaziwe (or Maki) Mandela, died as a child in 1948.

In 1950, Mandela and Evelyn Mase had a 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 19 March 1958.

Mandela, 40, married Winnie (Winifred) Nomzamo Zanyiwe Madikizela, born 1936 on 14 June 1958. They had two daughters. Zenani Dlamini-Mandela was born in 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 19 March 1996.

Mandela married Graça Machel born in 1945 on 18 July 1998, on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Slain Widow of Mozambican President Samora Machel.

Zindzi Mandela’s family

Zoleka Mandela had four children, two of whom tragically passed away. Her daughter Zenani Mandela was born in 1997 and died in 2010.

Her son Zenawe Zibuyile Mandela died as a child in 2011. Zoleka’s surviving children are son, Zwelami Mandela (born 2003) and daughter, Zanyiwe Zenzile Bashala (born 2014).

Zondwa Mandela has two children: daughter Zazi Kazimla Vitalia Mandela (born 2010) and son Ziwelene Linge Mandela (born 2011).