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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.

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 Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela; 26. september 1936 i eMbongweni ved Bizana i Maputaland-Pondoland i Sør-Afrika, død 2. april 2018 i Johannesburg) var en sørafrikansk politiker som var parlamentsmedlem, visekulturminister og leder for kvinneligaen til African National Congress (ANC). Winnie Mandela regnes som en av de ledende figurene i anti-apartheid-bevegelsen.

Graça Machel (uttales på portugisisk: [ˈɡɾasɐ mɐˈʃɛɫ]; født Graça Simbine uttales: [sĩˈbĩni]; 17. oktober 1945 i Gaza-provinsen i Mosambik) er en mosambikisk politiker.

Macels far var bonde, men han reiste ofte til Sør-Afrika, der han arbeidet i gruvene for å brødfø familien. Han ble senere metodist prest.

Machel, som blant annet har en universitetsgrad i rettsvitenskap, er enken etter den tidligere presidenten i Sør-Afrika Nelson Mandela, og den tidligere presidenten i Mosambik Samora Machel, som døde i en flystyrt over Sør-Afrika i 1986. Hun er den eneste kvinnen i verden som har vært gift med to statspresidenter. Hun har vært utdanningsminister i Mosambik og hatt flere verv internasjonalt i FN-systemet. Hun er en viktig internasjonal talskvinne for kvinner og barns rettigheter. Hun pendler mellom Mandelas hjem i Qunu i Sør-Afrika og Maputo i Mosambik.

Hun har vært med i The Elders siden oppstarten i 2007 og er nestleder.

Hun snakker portugisisk, engelsk og fransk.