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  1. Makaziwe “Maki” Mandela-Dlamini was born in 1948 and is the second child of Nelson Mandela and Evelyn Mase. However, she died just nine months after her birth. Makgatho Mandela. Makgatho Lewanika Mandela, the third child of Nelson and Evelyn, was born in 1950. He was married twice and had four sons: Mandla, Ndaba, Mbuso, and Andile.

    • How Did The Study Come About?
    • What Does The Study Cover—And How Has This Changed?
    • Who Is in The sample?
    • How Often Have They Been Followed Up—And What Is Attrition like?
    • What Has Been Measured?
    • What Has Been Found?
    • What Are The Main Strengths and Weaknesses of The Study?
    • Can I Get Hold of The Data? Where Can I Find Out More?
    • Acknowledgements

    The late 1980s were a period of profound sociopolitical change in South Africa. It was clear that the Apartheid state was crumbling and, amongst acts of civil disobedience which characterized ‘the struggle’, Black Africans† began to disregard restrictive legislation that constrained where they lived and worked. Very rapid unplanned urbanization beg...

    From its inception, BT20 was planned to be multidisciplinary, tracking the growth, health, well-being and educational progress of urban children across the first decade of their life. To do so, we had to innovate in a number of areas, such as establishing tracking systems under circumstances where few people had a street address or telephone, creat...

    BT20 includes all singleton children born to women resident in Soweto-Johannesburg during the 7-week enrolment period. In late 1989, we began interviewing women in public antenatal clinics in an effort to collect data from pregnant women who were predicted to deliver their babies during the enrolment period. More than 2000 women participated; howev...

    Table 2shows the year, place of data collection, numbers contacted, from whom data was collected and reasons for attrition at all data collection waves to date. We distinguish three types of attrition; absolute attrition due, for example, to the death of a child. To determine this, we have relied on reports of family and neighbours when visiting th...

    While some rounds of data collection contain questionnaires or measures of special interest, common themes run through the data collection rounds, as shown in Table 3. These include demographic, socioeconomic and household information; community, neighbourhood and school environments; health and nutrition; childcare, supervision and monitoring; gro...

    A full list of publications is available on the Birth to Twenty website (http://www.wits.ac.za/birthto20). Under the categories used on the web site, highlights from each of five areas are briefly summarized as follows.

    A critical strength has been the perseverance of a small group of people determined to maintain the study, with little funding and against some opposition. At the start, several prominent public health specialists warned that long-term follow-up was neither possible nor particularly useful. The core group, who also provide continuity, drove a colla...

    The outline of the study, history and questionnaires are available on the website and collaborators can pull down data sets from the web through password access (http://www.wits.ac.za/birthto20). Collaborations are established through formal agreements with the principal investigators (lrichter@hsrc.ac.za), and include funds needed for the collabor...

    From its inception, BT10 has been supported by the South African Medical Research Council. Other funders include the Institute for Behavioural Sciences at the University of South Africa. Since 1998, the Wellcome Trust has been BT20's major funder, with additional support from the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa, the Medical Research...

    • Linda Richter, Shane Norris, John Pettifor, Derek Yach, Noel Cameron
    • 2007
  2. Feb 11, 2013 · Mandela had four children—two sons and two daughters—with his first wife, Evelyn Ntoko Mase, who he married in October 1944. In 1945, Mase gave birth to the couple’s first child, a boy they ...

  3. Parents. Father: Nkosi Mphakanyiswa Gadla Henry (died 1930)*. Mother: Nonqaphi Fanny Nosekeni (died 1968) Mr Mandela was married three times. He had six children – four girls and two boys. Two daughters and two sons passed away: Makaziwe died as an infant in 1948; Madiba Thembekile (Thembi) died in a car accident in 1969; Makgatho Lewanika ...

  4. Nelson Mandela Family Tree. The Mandela family tree drafted by Nelson Mandela and K.D. Matanzima. From the book Higher Than Hope - 'Rolihlahla we love you' by Fatima Meer. Click here for a bigger view. Read the biography of Nelson Mandela. Parents. Marriage. 1944 Married Evelyn Ntoko Mase (born 1922, died April 30, 2004) – Divorced 19 March 1958.

  5. Recorded on 4 October 1994. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ( / mænˈdɛlə / man-DEH-lə; [1] Xhosa: [xolíɬaɬa mandɛ̂ːla]; born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, and statesman who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

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  7. Mandela's Children. South Africa is a vibrant, multiethnic democracy striving, with mixed success, to fulfill its promise. Photojournalist James Nachtwey offers a vision of contemporary life, and ...