Nelson Mandela leaves millions to family, staff, schools, but not Winnie
Nelson Mandela's estate is worth roughly $4.1 million. Mandela's third
wife, Graca Machel, gets half. Ex-wife Winnie was not mentioned in the
will.
Nelson Mandela leaves his roughly $4.1-million estate to his wife
Graca Machel, family members, staff, schools and the ANC, according to
a summary of his will released February 3.
By: Christopher Torchia The Associated Press, Published on Mon Feb 03 2014
JOHANNESBURG--Nelson Mandela's estate, worth roughly $4.1 million, will
be shared between his family, members of his staff, schools that he
attended and the African National Congress, the movement that fought
white rule and now governs South Africa, the will's executors said
Monday.
Mandela's third wife, Graca Machel, is the main beneficiary of the
will because their marriage was "in community of property" and she
therefore has the right to half his estate, as long as she claims it
within 90 days, said executor Dikgang Moseneke, who is also deputy
chief justice of the constitutional Court. Graca Machel's first
husband, President Samora Machel of Mozambique, died in a plane crash
in 1986.
Mandela's ex-wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, was not mentioned in the
will. The couple divorced in 1996.
Moseneke said he is not aware of any challenges to the provisions of
the will. Mandela, a prisoner during white racist rule who became
South Africa's first black president, died Dec. 5 at age 95.
Moseneke outlined a "provisional inventory" of 46 million South
African rand, or $4.1 million, but cautioned the amount could change
as the will is studied more carefully. The document was drawn up in
2004, and was amended in 2005 and 2008. Two other executors are George
Bizos, a human rights lawyer and longtime friend of Mandela, and
Themba Sangoni, a chief judge from Eastern Cape province, Mandela's
birthplace.
Earlier Monday, the will was read in its entirety to members of
Mandela's family.
"It went well," Moseneke said at a news conference. "There were
clarifications sought from time to time."
Last year, while Mandela's health was in decline, his family was
involved in a number of high-profile disputes
.
Some members sought to dislodge Bizos and other directors of two
companies whose proceeds are supposed to benefit the Mandela family.
Separately, Mandla Mandela, a grandson of the anti-apartheid leader,
fell out with family members because he had moved the remains of the
patriarch's three deceased children to a different gravesite. A court
order forced him to return the remains to Qunu, where Nelson Mandela
grew up and where he was buried Dec. 15.
In the will, Mandela said he had already given $300,000 to his three
surviving children. He bequeathed amounts to his grandchildren ranging
from $9,000 to $300,000, and the beneficiaries include Graca Machel's
two children with Samora Machel.
Mandela gave $4,500 each to nine staff members, including Xoliswa
Ndoyiya, his personal cook.
"It shows me that he has been respecting me and he loved me for who I
am," Ndoyiya said at a press conference where the will was made
public. "I am one of these people who served him for many years."
Mandela instructed one of three trusts that carry his name to consider
paying between 10 per cent and 30 per cent of royalties to the African
National Congress to record or disseminate information on the party's
policies, including reconciliation. He left funds for scholarships and
bursaries to the secondary school in Qunu, the University of Fort
Hare, the University of the Witwatersrand, also known as Wits, and
Soweto's Orlando West high school, whose students and teachers played
a prominent role in the fight against white rule.
Prof. Adam Habib, the principal of Wits, said the university was
humbled to receive $9,000 from Mandela, who was a student there in the
1940s. He said the endowment would be used to provide scholarships.
Mandela "emphasized the need to address inequality -- one of the
greatest threats to our young democracy," Habib said.
A trust will administer Mandela's Johannesburg home, which became a
shrine during the last months of his life as well-wishers gathered
outside its walls. Mandela said in his will that he hoped several of
his grandchildren would live there, and that the house would "also
serve as a place of gathering of the Mandela and Machel family in
order to maintain its unity long after my death."
Bizos became emotional while talking about Mandela.
"He certainly worked hard throughout his life whether he was in jail
or out in order to gain the freedom of all of us in South Africa to
show to the world at large that power should not be exercised for
personal benefit but for the benefit of all," Bizos said to the press.
"Many say that they are following in his footsteps: Either they don't
know the road that he followed, or they sort of bluff themselves that
they are following it."
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