Monwabisi Kwanda Mbeki

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Monwabisi Kwanda Mbeki is the son of former South African President Thabo Mbeki and Olive Mpahlwa. His disappearance and presumed murder^{[further explanation needed]} by SA authorities^[clarify] has been a matter of international interest.^[1]

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 to by Xhosa law pay a penalty for making an under-age girl pregnant and he gave five head of cattle.

Kwanda lived with Olive's family until the age of ten when he moved in with Thabo's mother Epainette Mbeki (known as Ma Mofokeng) until he passed matric.^{[citation needed]}

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's voice was heard for the last time over a phone when he told Thabo's friend that he was in Durban.

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 base in Tanzania. It was assumed that both Kwanda and Phindile were killed by the Apartheid government's forces.^{[citation needed]}

In 2006, it was announced that a new enquiry was to be launched to try to find out what happened.^[1] It was noted that hundreds of bodies of ANC members killed by the authorities of the time have never been located.^[2]

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