Evelyn Mase was the first wife of Mandela. Mase was a South African nurse. She married to Madiba from 1944 to 1958.
Mase was born in Engcobo, in the former Transkei, now Eastern Cape. The pair met in the lounge of the late Walter and Albertina Sisulu, in Soweto. Mandela and Mase had three children Thembi, Makgatho and Makaziwe
Mandela’s second wife was the courageous Nomzamo Madikizela, who stayed with Mandela in Orlando, Soweto.
She arrived in Johannesburg to study to be a social worker, doing her training at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital. Winnie met Mandela in 1
957.
The two love birds married in the Transkei on 14 June 1958 and later divorced after former statesman was released from Robben Island. They had two daughters, Zenani and Zindzi.
After
his divorce with Winnie, Madiba married his third wife, Graca Machel
who was married to Mozambican president Samora Machel.Machel had always been on Madiba’s bedside during his illness at Pretoria Heart Hospital before he died on Thursday.
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