Nomaka Epainette Mbeki, commonly known as "MaMbeki", a stalwart community activist and promoter of women's development, mother of former President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki.
12 Facts About Epainette Mbeki
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Epainette Mbeki lived in Ngcingwane, a rural hamlet near Dutywa, one of South Africa's poorest municipalities.
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Epainette Mbeki was known for her auspicious relatives and, more importantly to her, her endeavours to improve the residents' quality of life.
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Epainette Mbeki's parents were African landowners and members of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society Church.
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Epainette Mbeki was educated at Lovedale School before qualifying as a teacher at Adams College, Amanzimtoti near Durban.
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Epainette Mbeki was the brains behind the Khanyisa beadwork project, which has sustained the art of traditional African beadwork and provided livelihoods for 24 Ngcingwanean women.
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Epainette Mbeki was involved with the Linda Mbeki Hospice, which operates from the former Mbeki home in Mbewuleni, and was founded to commemorate the life of her daughter, who died in 2003.
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Epainette Mbeki established the Nomaka Epainette Mbeki Technical Senior Secondary School and owned the Goodwill Trading Store, whose cash-counting and bookkeeping she did herself.
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Epainette Mbeki should forget about the ego and listen to the next man.
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Epainette Mbeki died in East London at Frere Hospital in June 2014.
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Epainette Mbeki was given a provincial state funeral and buried in Dutywa.
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Epainette Mbeki won the Community Builder of the Year award, a NAFCOC founder member award, a Transkei chamber stalwart award, the King Cetshwayo African Image Award, and the Eastern Cape arts and culture award for Khanyisa, given her by Arnold Stofile.