How old is nelson mandelas wife

Dumani Mandela —M—Makaziwe 6. Zaziwe Manaway —F—Zenani 7. Zamaswazi Dlamini —F—Zenani 8. Zinhle Dlamini —M—Zenani 9. Zoleka Mandela —F—Zindzi Ndaba Mandela —M—Makgatho Kweku Mandela —M—Makaziwe Zondwa Mandela —M—Zindzi Bambatha Mandela —M—Zindzi He was 26 and she was They were married for 13 years. During much of that time, her nurse's salary supported the family while Mr Mandela pursued his law studies.

Together they had four children. The death of their second child aged nine months had a devastating effect on Evelyn, who became more religious, while Mr Mandela became more political. She was a Jehovah's Witness with no interest in politics. It was a bitter end to the marriage, and Mr Mandela returned home on bail after his arrest on treason charges to find she had moved out.

Five years after Mr Mandela was sentenced to life in prison in , their eldest son Thembekile died in a car crash. According to biographer Anthony Sampson, he sent Evelyn, who was then running a grocery store in a village in what is now the Eastern Cape, a message of condolence - it was their only communication while he was in prison.

When her former husband's release from jail in was compared to the second coming of Christ, she told journalist Fred Bridgland: "It's very silly when people say this kind of thing about Nelson. The world worships Nelson too much. He is only a man. But she later seemed to have grown accustomed to the adulation.

In an interview just after the general election which saw Mr Mandela elected as the country's first black president, she said she had not seen him since he had been released from prison, but she knew "the people love him very much". His strength has come from God. She died in Nelson Mandela's romance with Winnie Madikizela blossomed during his treason trial. She was a year-old social worker, 16 years younger than him and she would become a political firebrand.

How many bridesmaids would you like to have? It was not put arrogantly; it was just something that was taken for granted. I just asked: 'What time? She said in an interview with filmmaker Kevin Harris that to all intents and purposes she was marrying a prisoner. In , the Mandelas separated, and then divorced in , after a legal wrangle that revealed she had had an affair with a young bodyguard.

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