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Mandela Is Hospitalized

February 25, 2012 by · Comments Off on Mandela Is Hospitalized 

Mandela Is Hospitalized, Former South African President Nelson Mandela was hospitalized Saturday with a stomach ailment, according to a government statement issued about the 93-year-old beloved anti-apartheid icon.

Mandela “has had a long-standing abdominal complaint and doctors feel it needs proper specialist medical attention,” President Jacob Zuma said, asking that Mandela’s privacy be respected.

Nelson Mandela And Graca Machel Married 1998

February 4, 2012 by · Comments Off on Nelson Mandela And Graca Machel Married 1998 

Nelson Mandela And Graca Machel Married 1998, Graça Machel, DBE (born Graça Simbine; 17 October 1945) is a Mozambican politician and humanitarian. She is the third wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela and the widow of Mozambican president Samora Machel. She is an international advocate for women’s and children’s rights and in 1997 was made a British dame for her humanitarian work.

Graça Machel is also known for being the only woman in the world to have been first lady of two different countries.

Born in rural Incadine, Gaza Province, Mozambique (Portuguese East Africa), she attended Methodist mission schools before gaining a scholarship to attend University of Lisbon in Portugal, where she first became involved in independence issues. In that university, she earned a scholarship from Romance Languages. She is fluent in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and English, as well as her native Tsonga. She returned to Mozambique in 1973, joined the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO) and became a schoolteacher.

Following Mozambique’s independence in 1975, Machel was appointed Minister for Education and Culture. She married Samora Machel the same year. Following her retirement from the Mozambique ministry, Machel was appointed as the expert in charge of producing the groundbreaking United Nations report on the impact of armed conflict on children. Her first husband died in a plane crash over South Africa in 1986.

Graça Machel in 1984, with then husband President Samora Machel of Mozambique, and P W Botha and Pik Botha of South Africa, at the signing of the Nkomati Accord.
Machel received the 1995 Nansen Medal from the United Nations in recognition of her longstanding humanitarian work, particularly on behalf of refugee children.

In July 1998, she married South African President Nelson Mandela.

In 1998, she was one of the two winners of the North-South Prize.

Machel currently serves as the chair of the Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa (AWEPA) Eminent Advisory Board.

Nelson Mandela And Graca Machel Met 1990 After He Was Released From Prison

February 4, 2012 by · Comments Off on Nelson Mandela And Graca Machel Met 1990 After He Was Released From Prison 

Nelson Mandela And Graca Machel Met 1990 After He Was Released From Prison, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ( born 18 July 1918) served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1962 he was arrested and convicted of sabotage and other charges, and sentenced to life in prison. Mandela served 27 years in prison, spending many of these years on Robben Island. Following his release from prison on 11 February 1990, Mandela led his party in the negotiations that led to multi-racial democracy in 1994. As president, he frequently gave priority to reconciliation, while introducing policies aimed at combating poverty and inequality in South Africa.

In South Africa, Mandela is often known as Madiba, his Xhosa clan name; or as tata (Xhosa: father). Mandela has received more than 250 awards over four decades, including the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.

Mandela has been married three times, has fathered six children, has twenty grandchildren, and a growing number of great-grandchildren. He is grandfather to Chief Mandla Mandela.

First marriage
Mandela’s first marriage was to Evelyn Ntoko Mase who, like Mandela, was also from what later became the Transkei area of South Africa, although they actually met in Johannesburg. The couple broke up in 1957 after 13 years, divorcing under the multiple strains of his constant absences, devotion to revolutionary agitation, and the fact she was a Jehovah’s Witness, a religion which requires political neutrality. Evelyn Mase died in 2004. The couple had two sons, Madiba Thembekile (Thembi) (1946-1969) and Makgatho Mandela (1950-2005), and two daughters, both named Makaziwe Mandela (known as Maki; born 1947 and 1953). Their first daughter died aged nine months, and they named their second daughter in her honour. All their children were educated at the United World College of Waterford Kamhlaba. Thembi was killed in a car crash in 1969 at the age of 23, while Mandela was imprisoned on Robben Island, and Mandela was not allowed to attend the funeral. Makgatho died of AIDS in 2005, aged 54.

Second marriage
Mandela’s second wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, also came from the Transkei area, although they, too, met in Johannesburg, where she was the city’s first black social worker. They had two daughters, Zenani (Zeni), born 4 February 1958, and Zindziswa (Zindzi) Mandela-Hlongwane, born 1960. Zindzi was only 18 months old when her father was sent to Robben island. Later, Winnie would be deeply torn by family discord which mirrored the country’s political strife; while her husband was serving a life sentence on the Robben Island prison, her father became the agriculture minister in the Transkei. The marriage ended in separation (April 1992) and divorce (March 1996), fuelled by political estrangement.

Mandela was still in prison when his daughter Zenani was married to Prince Thumbumuzi Dlamini in 1973, elder brother of King Mswati III of Swaziland. Although she had vivid memories of her father, from the age of four up until sixteen, South African authorities did not permit her to visit him. The Dlamini couple live and run a business in Boston. One of their sons, Prince Cedza Dlamini (born 1976), educated in the United States, has followed in his grandfather’s footsteps as an international advocate for human rights and humanitarian aid.

Zindzi Mandela-Hlongwane made history worldwide when she read out Mandela’s speech refusing his conditional pardon in 1985. She is a businesswoman in South Africa with three children, the eldest of whom is a son, Zondwa Gadaffi Mandela.

Third marriage
Mandela was remarried, on his 80th birthday in 1998, to Graça Machel née Simbine, widow of Samora Machel, the former Mozambican president and ANC ally who was killed in an air crash 12 years earlier. The wedding followed months of international negotiations to set the unprecedented bride price to be remitted to Machel’s clan. Said negotiations were conducted on Mandela’s behalf by his traditional sovereign, King Buyelekhaya Zwelibanzi Dalindyebo. The paramount chief’s grandfather was the regent Jongintaba Dalindyebo, who had arranged a marriage for Mandela, which he eluded by fleeing to Johannesburg in 1940.

Mandela still maintains a home at Qunu in the realm of his royal nephew (second cousin thrice-removed in Western reckoning), whose university expenses he defrayed and whose privy councillor he remains.

Nelson Mandela Wedding 1998

February 4, 2012 by · Comments Off on Nelson Mandela Wedding 1998 

Nelson Mandela Wedding 1998, Nelson Mandela and Graca Machel on August 29, 2007 in London, England.
For Nelson Mandela, the third time is the charm in his marriage to Graca Machel. Graca is not only the first African woman to become a British dame, she is also the only woman to hold the title of “first lady” to two presidents from two different countries. Here is information about their marriage.
Nelson Mandela’s great-granddaughter, Zenani Mandela, died in a car crash. She was 13 years old and on the way home after attending the World Cup soccer tournament kick-off concert in Soweto.
Nelson Mandela aka Rolihlahla Dalibhunga Mandela: July 18, 1918 in the province of Transkei, South Africa.
Graca Simbine Machel: October 17, 1945 in Incadine, Gaza, Mozambique.

Nelson and Graça were married on July 18, 1998, his eightieth birthday, in the presence of family, sixteen friends, and one photographer.
“They were married in the new house [in Houghton], Mandela in a gold-patterned open shirt, Graca wearing a long white dress with wide puffed sleeves, Elizabethan-style. They were blessed beforehand by the Chief Rabbi, and also by the Muslim Sheikh Nazim Mohammed and the Hindu Mrs. Nanachene. They were married by a methodist Bishop, Myume Dandala — since they had both been brought up as Methodists — assisted by Desmond Tutu …”
Source: Anthony Sampson. Mandela: The Authorized Biography. 2000. pg. 543.
The wedding reception for Nelson and Graca was combined with Nelson’s birthday party at the Gallagher Convention Centre. There were 2000 guests including Michael Jackson, Danny Glover, and Stevie Wonder.

Nelson and Graca honeymooned in Argentina and Brazil and later had a private honeymoon in Qunu.

Nelson had four children with Evelyn Mase.
Madiba Thembekile (Thembi) Mandela: Born in 1946. Thembi died in July 1969 in a car crash.
Makaziwe Mandela I: Born in 1947. She died after 9 months in 1948.
Makgatho Lewanika Mandela: Born in 1950. Makgatho was an attorney. He died of Aids in January 2005.
Makaziwe Mandela II: Born in 1953.
Nelson: “In our culture, to give a new child the name of a deceased child is considered a way of honoring the earlier child’s memory and retaining a mystical attachment to the child who left too soon.”
Source: Nelson Mandela. Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela. Paperback edition 1995. pg. 206.
Nelson had two children with Winnie Madikizela.
Zenani Mandela: Born abt. 1959. Zenani married Prince Thumbumuzi Dlamini in 1973. They reside in Boston.
Zindziswa Mandela: Born in 1960.
Graca has two children, daughter Jozina and son Malnga. She is step-mother to her first husband’s five children.
Nelson: Former President of South Africa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, attorney, former President of African national Congress, author, speaker, and anti-apartheid activist.
Graca: Chairperson of the National Organization of Children of Mozambique, President of the Foundation of Community Development, Minister for Education and Culture in Mozambique, and school teacher.

Nelson Mandela Graca Machel

February 4, 2012 by · Comments Off on Nelson Mandela Graca Machel 

Nelson Mandela Graca Machel, Nelson Mandela and Graca Machel on August 29, 2007 in London, England.
For Nelson Mandela, the third time is the charm in his marriage to Graca Machel. Graca is not only the first African woman to become a British dame, she is also the only woman to hold the title of “first lady” to two presidents from two different countries. Here is information about their marriage.
Nelson Mandela’s great-granddaughter, Zenani Mandela, died in a car crash. She was 13 years old and on the way home after attending the World Cup soccer tournament kick-off concert in Soweto.
Nelson Mandela aka Rolihlahla Dalibhunga Mandela: July 18, 1918 in the province of Transkei, South Africa.
Graca Simbine Machel: October 17, 1945 in Incadine, Gaza, Mozambique.

Nelson and Graça were married on July 18, 1998, his eightieth birthday, in the presence of family, sixteen friends, and one photographer.
“They were married in the new house [in Houghton], Mandela in a gold-patterned open shirt, Graca wearing a long white dress with wide puffed sleeves, Elizabethan-style. They were blessed beforehand by the Chief Rabbi, and also by the Muslim Sheikh Nazim Mohammed and the Hindu Mrs. Nanachene. They were married by a methodist Bishop, Myume Dandala — since they had both been brought up as Methodists — assisted by Desmond Tutu …”
Source: Anthony Sampson. Mandela: The Authorized Biography. 2000. pg. 543.
The wedding reception for Nelson and Graca was combined with Nelson’s birthday party at the Gallagher Convention Centre. There were 2000 guests including Michael Jackson, Danny Glover, and Stevie Wonder.

Nelson and Graca honeymooned in Argentina and Brazil and later had a private honeymoon in Qunu.

Nelson had four children with Evelyn Mase.
Madiba Thembekile (Thembi) Mandela: Born in 1946. Thembi died in July 1969 in a car crash.
Makaziwe Mandela I: Born in 1947. She died after 9 months in 1948.
Makgatho Lewanika Mandela: Born in 1950. Makgatho was an attorney. He died of Aids in January 2005.
Makaziwe Mandela II: Born in 1953.
Nelson: “In our culture, to give a new child the name of a deceased child is considered a way of honoring the earlier child’s memory and retaining a mystical attachment to the child who left too soon.”
Source: Nelson Mandela. Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela. Paperback edition 1995. pg. 206.
Nelson had two children with Winnie Madikizela.
Zenani Mandela: Born abt. 1959. Zenani married Prince Thumbumuzi Dlamini in 1973. They reside in Boston.
Zindziswa Mandela: Born in 1960.
Graca has two children, daughter Jozina and son Malnga. She is step-mother to her first husband’s five children.
Nelson: Former President of South Africa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, attorney, former President of African national Congress, author, speaker, and anti-apartheid activist.
Graca: Chairperson of the National Organization of Children of Mozambique, President of the Foundation of Community Development, Minister for Education and Culture in Mozambique, and school teacher.

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