Interview with grandson of Nelson Mandela : Ndaba Mandela.🇿🇦
"Ndaba Mandela was a child when he first met his grandfather, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and leading anti-apartheid activist in South Africa Nelson Mandela, and he grew up at his side. Born in Soweto (Johannesburg) 43 years ago, he is now a political scientist who promotes his grandfather’s legacy as president of the Mandela Institute for Humanity, and was in Spain on Monday to support the Alliance for the Future of Education, an initiative to renew the focus on learning in particularly challenging times.
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Q. Your parents died of AIDS and your grandfather decided it should be made public. That the word be acknowledged to fight the stigma.
A. Yes, we had a discussion. When my father died we asked ourselves: What are we going to tell the world? We could say pneumonia or tuberculosis because HIV destroys your immune system and you die of something else, but my grandfather said: “No. We will not do that. We will simply say that AIDS has taken my son’s life.” And that was important — it was the first time a prominent family revealed the truth. We don’t have to hide; we must talk about this disease like any other and not feel ashamed, as if we had done something dirty.""
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-06-02/ndaba-mandela-nelson-mandelas-grandson-as-a-child-i-wanted-to-live-in-a-prison-like-my-grandfather.html
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