See the only woman in modern history of Africa to become first Lady of two countries

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Graca simbine Machel is an international advocate for the right of women and children.

In 1997, she was awarded the Honorary Lady of the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth ll of the United Kingdom for her humanitarian work. She is the only woman in modern history to have served as the first Lady of South Africa and Mozambique. Graca Machel is a politician  and a humanitarian in Mozambique. She is the widow of the former president of Mozambique"Zamora Machel" and the former president of South Africa "Nelson Mandela" .



ABOUT HER POLITICAL CAREER. 


Simbine returned to Portuguese  East Africa in 1973, joining the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO) and working as a schoolteacher. Following Mozambique's independence in 1975, Simbine was appointed Mozambican first  minister of Education and Culture  on the 25th June 1975.

During her tenure, the number of students  enrolled in primary and secondary  schools rose from about 40 percent of all school-aged children to over 90 percent for males and 75 percent for females.



About her personal life. 


Simbine married to samora Machel , the first president of Mozambique, in 1975.

Together they had two children: daughter Josina ( born April 1976 ) Malengane ( born December 1978 ). Samora Machel died in office in 1986 when his presidential aircraft crashed near the Mozambique South-Africa border. Josina is a women's right activists and in 2020 she was listed as one of the  BBC's 100 women. 

Graca Machel Mandela married her second husband,  Nelson Mandela, in Johannesburg on 18 July 1998, Mandela's 8th birthday. At the time Mandela was serving as the first post-Aparthied president of South Africa. 

Mandela died of pneumonia on the 5th December 2013.





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