Evelyn Mase: Bio, Age, Height, Family, Education, Political Career, Net Worth

Nelson Mandela and his future first wife Evelyn Mase in the bridal party at Walter and Albertina Sisulu’s wedding on 17 July 1944. Mandela was best man. Mandela and Mase were to marry three months later, 5 October 1944.

Biography & Wikipedia

Evelyn Mase was a South African nurse who lived from 18 May 1922 to 30 April 2004. She was married to Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid campaigner and future president, from 1944 to 1958. She was his first wife.

Mase was orphaned as a child after being born in Engcobo, Transkei. She proceeded to Johannesburg to study nursing, where she met and married Mandela. They raised four children in Soweto, three of whom—Thembekile, Makgatho, and Makaziwe—lived to adulthood. While working as a nurse, she studied to become a midwife. Her connection with Mandela deteriorated in the 1950s.

Age and birthday

Evelyn Mase was born on 18 May 1922 and died on 30 April 2004 (she died at the age of 82 years)

Height and weight

Evelyn Mase’s height and weight are unknown

Nationality & Ethnicity

Evelyn Mase is a citizen of South Africa with a black accent.

Education

Evelyn moved to Johannesburg with her brother and Sisulu in 1939. She trained as a nurse in the city’s non-European hospital at Hillbrow, fulfilling her late mother’s request that she do so.

Political party and views

She is not part of any political party according to research.

Parents and siblings

Her father worked as a miner, and her mother was his second marriage; they had six children, three of whom died while they were little. Mase’s father passed away while she was a child. Mase’s mother died when she was twelve years old, leaving her in the care of her older brother, Sam Mase.

Husband and children

Mase and Mandela are a couple with three children: Makaziwe in 1948, who died at the age of nine months, Makgatho in 1950, and Makaziwe in 1954.

Salary and net worth

Evelyn Mase’s salary and met worth are unknown.

Social media: Instagram & Twitter

There is no information about her socials.

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