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Nelson Mandela with first daughter Makaziwe and son Thembekile, photographed in 1948. Makaziwe died in infancy and Thembekile died in a car crash in 1969, while Nelson and wife Evelyn Mase’s second son Makgatho died in 2005. Their youngest sibling Pumla Makaziwe Mandela was named after her late older sister.