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 ...

Nelson Mandela's only surviving son, Makgatho, 54, finally succumbed to a long illness, dying at 6.45am in the intensive care unit at Johannesburg's Linksfield Park Clinic on Thursday. Makaziwe ...

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 ...

On Jan. 6, 2005, Nelson Mandela shocked the world when he summoned reporters to his Johannesburg home and announced: "My son has died from AIDS." By disclosing just how 54-year-old Makgatho ...

Nelson Mandela sat quietly at the service to farewell his last surviving son, Makgatho Mandela, who died last Thursday. The former president has been applauded for admitting that his son died of AIDS.

Mandela married his first wife Evelyn Ntoko Mase in 1944 but they divorced 13 years later. The couple had two sons, Madiba 'Thembi' Thembekile, who died in 1969, and Makgatho Mandela who died in 2005.

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 ...

Makgatho Mandela preparing to travel to Robben Island Prison in1989 Nelson Mandela, one of Africa's most committed campaigners in the battle against AIDS, has announced that his only surviving son ...