 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 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 until moving in with Thabo's mother Epainette Mbeki (known as Ma Mofokeng) until he passed matric.