Hvem giftede sig med Nelson Mandela?

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (født 18. juli 1918, død 5. december 2013) var i årene 1994-1999 sydafrikansk præsident og var en af landets førende anti-apartheid-aktivister. Han boede som barn i kongedømmet Thembu, før han begyndte på en juridisk karriere. Sammen med Frederik Willem de Klerk modtog Nelson Mandela Nobels fredspris i 1993.

Evelyn Ntoko Mase (18 May 1922 – 30 April 2004), later named Evelyn Rakeepile, was the first wife of the South African anti-apartheid activist and the future president Nelson Mandela, to whom she was married from 1944 to 1958. Mase was a nurse by profession.

Born in Engcobo, Transkei, Mase was orphaned as a child. She moved to Johannesburg to train as a nurse, and there met and married Mandela. Living together in Soweto, they raised four children, three of whom—Thembekile, Makgatho, and Makaziwe—survived into adulthood. She trained to be a midwife while working as a nurse. In the 1950s, her relationship with Mandela became strained. He was becoming increasingly involved in the African National Congress and its campaign against apartheid; Mase eschewed politics and became a Jehovah's Witness. She also accused him of adultery with several women, an accusation corroborated by later biographies, and of being physically abusive, something he always denied. They separated in 1956. She initially filed for divorce, but did not go through with the legal proceedings. In 1958, Mandela, who was hoping to marry Winnie Madikizela, obtained an uncontested divorce from Mase.

Taking the children, Mase moved to Cofimvaba and opened a grocery store. She generally avoided publicity, but spoke to South African reporters when Mandela was released from prison after 27 years in 1990. Deepening her involvement with the Jehovah's Witnesses, in 1998 she married a businessman, Simon Rakeepile. She died in 2004 following a respiratory illness. Her funeral attracted international media attention and was attended by Mandela, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, and Mandela's third wife, Graça Machel.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (født 26. september 1936 i Bizana, død 2. april 2018) var borgerretsforkæmper i organisationen African National Congress (ANC) i Sydafrika, som kæmper for de indfødtes rettigheder. Hun var en meget fremtrædende figur under kampen mod apartheidstyret i Sydafrika. Fra 1994 til 2003 var hun medlem af parlamentet og igen fra 2009 til sin død. Fra 1994 til 1996 var hun viceminister, men måtte træde tilbage efter beskyldninger om korruption.

Hun blev gift med Nelson Mandela i 1958 og skilt igen i 1996. De fik to børn sammen. Hendes tilhængere kaldte hende "nationens moder".

Graça Machel, født Graça Simbine (født 17. oktober 1945) i Incadine, Moçambique, har været Nelson Mandelas hustru fra 18. juli 1998 til Nelson Mandelas død 5. december 2013.

Machel er enke efter Moçambiques tidligere præsident Samora Machel. Hun var Moçambiques førstedame fra 1975 til 1986 og Sydafrikas førstedame fra 1998 til 1999.

Machel og hendes mand, Nelson Mandela, modtog i 2005 Global Friend's Award.