Albertina Sisulu
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Albertina Sisulu was a South African anti-apartheid activist. A member of the African National Congress, she was the founding co-president of the United Democratic Front. In South Africa, where she wa
Albertina Sisulu in 2007
Sisulu had a fraught relationship with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
The Houses of Parliament in Cape Town, where Sisulu worked from 1994 to 1999
Albertina's wedding to Walter Sisulu in July 1944. Evelyn Mase is to the left of the groom, and Nelson Mandela is beside her on the far left. Anton Lembede is to the right of the bride. Walter's sister, Rosabella, looks out over the couple.
Evelyn Mase
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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. Mas
Albertina Sisulu
…on 15 July 1944 in a civil ceremony in Cofimvaba. Walter's best man was Nelson Mandela, and one of Albertina's bridesmaids was Mandela's first wife, Evelyn Mase; Mase was Walter's maternal cousin and had met Mandela at the Sisulus' home. During reception speeches by A. B. Xuma and Anton Lembede, Lembede warned…
Mase (right) with Mandela (left) on the wedding day of Walter and Albertina Sisulu in 1944
Mandela and Mase's home in the Johannesburg township of Soweto
Nelson Mandela's second wife, Winnie (pictured), related that despite rumours of discord between them, she had a good relationship with Mase