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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.
Dec 6, 2013 · Evelyn Mase: First wife. Nelson Mandela married Evelyn Mase, a cousin of his political mentor Walter Sisulu, three years after arriving in Johannesburg to avoid an arranged marriage in the...
May 11, 2022 · Unlike his first two wives who had no worries about his passion for politics, his first wife Evelyn Mase resented it. This would lead to their breakup. The two met when they were both in their...
Apr 30, 2004 · First Name: Evelyn. Middle Name: Ntoko. Last Name: Mase. Date of Birth: Engcobo, Transkei (Eastern Cape) Date of Death: Little is available in the public to construct a thorough biography of Evelyn Ntoko Mase before and after her relationship with Nelson Mandela.
Dec 13, 2013 · Evelyn Mase. Mandela's first wife. Their first son, named Madiba Thembekile, was born in 1945 and affectionately known as Thembi. Even though Mandela hadn’t built much material wealth...
His first marriage was to Evelyn Ntoko Mase in October 1944; they divorced in March 1958 under the multiple strains of his alleged adultery and constant absences, devotion to revolutionary agitation, and the fact that she was a Jehovah's Witness, a religion requiring political neutrality.
Apr 30, 2004 · Evelyn Ntoko Mase, 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.
Aug 7, 2023 · Evelyn Ntoko Mase was born in Engcobo, Transkei, on May 18, 1922, in a devout Christian family. By the age of twelve, she had lost both her parents. She moved to Johannesburg and trained as a nurse. Through her first cousin Walter Sisulu, later an important political figure, she met Mandela, and married him in 1944.
May 6, 2004 · Evelyn Mandela, 82, the first wife of former South African President Nelson Mandela and the mother of the couple's four children, died April 30 in South Africa of respiratory illness.
May 4, 2004 · Evelyn Mandela, 82, the first wife of Nelson Mandela, the South African anti-apartheid leader who became his country's first black president, died of a respiratory ailment April 30, it was ...
