Miss K. Goli and a few pupils at the Drug and Alcohol abuse display.
Mandela Day is celebrated on July 18 annually, and is a worldwide effort to make the world a better place. It is hoped this initiative will encourage people to make every day a Mandela Day.
It is all about changing the world through positive change in your own life and in your community, and taking action against poverty. Nelson Mandela once said, “It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all.”
Become part of the global movement for good, become involved this Mandela Day, be the change you want to see.
Mandela’s progeny
Mandela fathered six children with three wives, and had 17 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren at the time of his death. He had four children – two sons and two daughters – with his first wife, Evelyn Ntoko Mase, who he married in October 1944.
The couple’s first child was Madiba ‘Thembi’ Thembekile, born in 1945. Then, in 1948, Makaziwe Mandela was born. Maki, as she was called, died at nine months of age.
In 1950, Makgatho Mandela, a son, and in 1954, their second daughter was born. She was named Makaziwe Mandela, in honour of their first baby girl.
Three of Mandela’s six children are still living. Makaziwe is the only surviving child from his first marriage (Madiba Thembekile died in 1969, and Makgatho died in 2005).
After his divorce from Evelyn, Mandela married Winnie Madikizela and they had two daughters: Zenani, or Zeni, in 1959 and Zindziswa (Zindizi) in 1960.
