Monwabisi Kwanda Mbeki
Monwabisi Kwanda Mbeki is the son of former South African President Thabo Mbeki and the grandson of anti-Apartheid activist, and political prisoner Govan Mbeki. His disappearance and presumed murder by SA authorities has been a matter of international interest.[1]
Biography
Monwabisi Kwanda Mbeki known as Kwanda was born to then 16 year old Thabo Mbeki and high school sweetheart Olive Mphahlwa in 1959, in Butterworth, Eastern Cape. Thabo had pay a pebalty for making an underage girl pregnant and gave five head of a cattle.
Kwanda lived with Olives family untill the age of ten untill moving in eith Thabos mother Eppianette Mbeki (known as Ma Mofokeng)untill he passed Matric.
Dissapearence
In 1976 Kwanda went into exile with one of Thabo's old comrades Phindile Mfeti. Kwanda had heard from Phindile that his father was in exile in Swaziland and decided to join him. Kwanda voice was heard for the last time over a phone when he told Thabo's friend that he was in Durban.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
In 1998 both Thabo, and Olive spoke at the TRC and found that the last place Kwanda was seen alive was at the ANC military bace in Tanzania. It was assymed that Both Kwanda and Phindile where killed by the Apartheid governments Task Forces.
In 2009 it was announced that a new enquiry was to be launched to try and find out what happened.[1]
References
- 1 2 Fresh enquiry, The Independent, Retrieved 5 May 2016