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.

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 ...

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 ...

Makgatho Mandela, 54, an attorney, was admitted to Linksfield Park Clinic in Johannesburg last month. "Let us give publicity to the virus and not hide it because the only way of making it appear ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Mandela family saga has not abated: Makaziwe faces criminal charges; trustees, including Moseneke, are silent; and Madiba’s possessions were saved from auction only at the last minute This ...

In 2005 he announced that one of his six children, Makgatho, had died of AIDS. Mandela battled ailments in later years, including prostate cancer, lung infections and gall stones. In his last ...