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Graça Machel (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɡɾasɐ mɐˈʃɛl]; née Simbine; born 17 October 1945) is a Mozambican politician and humanitarian. She is the widow of former President of Mozambique Samora Machel (1975–1986) and former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela (1998–2013).
Graça Machel is an African stateswoman whose decades-long professional and public life is rooted in Mozambique’s struggle for self-rule and international advocacy for women and children’s rights.
Dec 15, 2013 · Nelson Mandela once said his wife, Graca Machel, makes him “bloom like a flower.” Despite her reluctance to marry him at first, they’ve been inseparable since they tied the knot on his 80th...
Apart from her involvement in the Mozambican liberation struggle, Graca Machel is known as an international advocate for women and children rights, and headed the first United Nations study on the impact of war on children. The couple decided to tie the knot on Nelson Mandela's 80th birthday.
Feb 10, 2021 · Graça is certainly talented, a leader in her own right, and one of the most important women in Mozambique’s history. She is well-known in South Africa for her fifteen years as their first lady, the third wife of their beloved president, Nelson Mandela. [4]
Jul 18, 2018 · On the 100th birthday of Nelson Mandela, Graça Machel, his widow, writes that world leaders could learn a thing or two from her late husband’s inclusive leadership style.
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Feb 9, 2023 · With Graça Machel that would apply twice, first as the widow of Mozambique’s revolutionary first President, Samora Machel, then as the third wife of South African leader Nelson Mandela. But...
