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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...
Jun 26, 2018 · 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.
Aug 7, 2023 · On Mandela Day, this choice and the problems it may create can be illustrated by telling the story of a little-known figure, Nelson Mandela’s first wife, Mama Evelyn. 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.
Mandela’s first wife was Evelyn Mase, a nurse whom he married in 1944. Evelyn was born on May 18, 1922, in Ngcobo, Transkei. Sadly, her father died when she was young and when Evelyn was 12 years old, her mother also passed away.
Feb 27, 2008 · The photographs show Mr Mandela sitting with a young woman, who had been mistakenly identified in several books as his first wife, Evelyn Ntoko Mase. The woman is in fact Batshaka Cele, a relative of Mr Mandela’s second wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
In 1944 he married Walter Sisulu’s cousin, Evelyn Mase, a nurse. They had two sons, Madiba Thembekile "Thembi" and Makgatho, and two daughters both called Makaziwe, the first of whom died in infancy. He and his wife divorced in 1958.
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.
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.
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 ...
