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Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by ybalogs(m): 2:26pm On Oct 23, 2025
Rare grace.
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by goslowgoslow(m): 2:26pm On Oct 23, 2025
Lalami3232:
Mandela of all people married a single mother rather than a virgin? One man's food is another man's poison.
What rubbish is this one saying?
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by DomPerignon: 2:26pm On Oct 23, 2025
The ANC had a military training camp in Mozambique which Mandela was part of.

Most people don't know that the ANC under Mandela was an ultra violent Marxist militia that staged violent attacks on White settlements and committed acts of sabotage during their heydays.

Mozambique is still this day the only African country with a communist government running it.

I am sure Mandela met her back in those ''revolutionary '' days in an ANC camp in Mozambique that might have led to an affair or sort.

She was a rebel comfort woman who cashed out first, by marrying her first and late former rebel husband who ended up ruling Mozambique as a dictator and later switched to Mandela after Winnie was found to be all round no good for nothing slut.
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by goslowgoslow(m): 2:28pm On Oct 23, 2025
Sermwell:
OS don drop motivational quote oh!! cheesy
You dey mind am, very senseless comment.
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by peleson1: 2:30pm On Oct 23, 2025
GanagiBitrus:
Maybe Mandela was covertly or openly admiring her even as Mozambique President's wife.
Lies bro
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by Angelfrost(m): 2:30pm On Oct 23, 2025
A woman with class...!

No matter how beautiful you are, without dignity, intelligence and class, you will remain pedestrian in life and relationships.
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by Kalulu44: 2:30pm On Oct 23, 2025
Pls Op enlighten us more on this story.
Mandela became president of South Africa in 1994 and served only one term which ends in 1998. And the report says he marries this woman in same 1998, so when did she became the first lady of South Africa when Winnie Mandela was already there. And if Winnie wasn't there. She married Mandela from 1998 till 2013. When was she the first lady?
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by GanagiBitrus: 2:35pm On Oct 23, 2025
Sermwell:
You mean admiring her from prison!?
You never can tell.
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by Wealthoptulent(m): 2:36pm On Oct 23, 2025
WELL REGINA is NEXT, another USASENATOR will pick up aftr her SILENT WOLRD FALLING APART
so make MACHALA or werin una call her name came down! HISTORY to repeat itself

Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by GanagiBitrus: 2:36pm On Oct 23, 2025
peleson1:
Lies bro
How you take know?
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by ProfOkai: 2:39pm On Oct 23, 2025
GanagiBitrus:
Maybe Mandela was covertly or openly admiring her even as Mozambique President's wife.
When the tragedy happened, Mandela was still in prison.
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by simpleseyi: 2:40pm On Oct 23, 2025
Agba Olosho
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by DanseMacabre(m): 2:41pm On Oct 23, 2025
DiamondsAreFore:
Didn't the same Mandela choose Winnie Mandela? And wasn't she cheating on him with numerous young men while he was incarcerated by the apartheid government?
So in essence Mandela was a simphuh
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by Pootle: 2:42pm On Oct 23, 2025
Talismann:
imagine riding two presidential executive gbolas.

Just imagine
it called spercial offer cool
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by doncartel: 2:45pm On Oct 23, 2025
Reminds me of Obasanjo who tried to marry the then president of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. But I think it was just a rumor because they were seen as being too close as sitting presidents.
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by DanseMacabre(m): 2:48pm On Oct 23, 2025
Kalulu44:
Pls Op enlighten us more on this story.
Mandela became president of South Africa in 1994 and served only one term which ends in 1998. And the report says he marries this woman in same 1998, so when did she became the first lady of South Africa when Winnie Mandela was already there. And if Winnie wasn't there. She married Mandela from 1998 till 2013. When was she the first lady?
A more proper phrasing should have been that she's the only known woman to be married to two presidents of different countries.
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by judewrites: 2:54pm On Oct 23, 2025
Lalami3232:
Mandela of all people married a single mother rather than a virgin? One man's food is another man's poison.
Mandela was already married I think like twice before his imprisonment.

I think at his age, he just wanted companionship more than copulation grin
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by tiswell(m): 2:57pm On Oct 23, 2025
Let's not glorify love-peddling aje huh


There's nothing inspiring about this crap story
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by casualobserver: 2:59pm On Oct 23, 2025
Angelfrost:
A woman with class...!

No matter how beautiful you are, without dignity, intelligence and class, you will remain pedestrian in life and relationships.
There is no class in this. Go and ask the Mozambicans how they feel about the wife of their national hero remarrying and becoming the First Lady of another country.

Before you glorify the inglorious, how would a Nigerian feel about the wives of Awo, Zik, Balewa or Sardauna if they remarried the president of day Ghana after their deaths?

Like I said before there is a reason she is the first and the only. It is not done!
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by Angelfrost(m): 3:05pm On Oct 23, 2025
casualobserver:
There is no class in this. Go and ask the Mozambicans how they feel about the wife of their national hero remarrying and becoming the First Lady of another country.

Before you glorify the inglorious, how would a Nigerian feel about the wives of Awo, Zik, Balewa or Sardauna if they remarried the president of day Ghana after their deaths?

Like I said before there is a reason she is the first and the only. It is not done!
That the others didn't do it, doesn't make it inglorious or abominable.

She didn't divorce the man, but was widowed... By the laws of God and man, she did absolutely nothing wrong or despicable.


Say what you like, but it remains your personal opinion... She exuded class! Simple!

Come to think of it, if all the former first ladies you mentioned chose to remarry even a gatekeeper in their old age, no one would have overly stressed their brains about it.

Their lives as private individuals, their choices.
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by thatigboman: 3:10pm On Oct 23, 2025
GanagiBitrus:
Maybe Mandela was covertly or openly admiring her even as Mozambique President's wife.
mandela was in prison for 27 years or so. Came out, divorced his wife Winnie Mandela and married this woman. Maybe the woman was visiting him in jail.
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by SpaceX: 3:29pm On Oct 23, 2025
She is an apex predator who is good at monkey branching,always looking out for high value men. Nothing special!!!!
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by chipet67(m): 3:33pm On Oct 23, 2025
Aeman:
Just do all you can do to fear women in all your dealings
Okoko stop being petty.
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by DaddyJapan(m): 3:33pm On Oct 23, 2025
SpaceX:
She is an apex predator who is good at monkey branching,always looking out for high value men. Nothing special!!!!
You dare to describe a woman who was prepared to lay down her life in the service of her people in such terms? This is misogyny of the highest order!

What sacrifices have you made in the service of your people, Mr Armchair analyst?
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by Infoay: 3:34pm On Oct 23, 2025
Wow!
Interesting destiny
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by DaddyJapan(m): 3:35pm On Oct 23, 2025
casualobserver:
There is no class in this. Go and ask the Mozambicans how they feel about the wife of their national hero remarrying and becoming the First Lady of another country.

Before you glorify the inglorious, how would a Nigerian feel about the wives of Awo, Zik, Balewa or Sardauna if they remarried the president of day Ghana after their deaths?

Like I said before there is a reason she is the first and the only. It is not done!
Why cry more than the bereaved when Mozambique's journey to nationhood is completely different from Nigeria's?

You have no idea what it means to be a consummate freedom-fighter. cool

The President of the Republic, Daniel Chapo, today sent a message of congratulations to social activist and former First Lady of Mozambique, Graça Simbine Machel, on the occasion of her 80th birthday marked today.

The message, on behalf of the people and the Government of the Republic of Mozambique, and personally from President Chapo, conveys the “warmest congratulations” to the birthday celebrant, recognising her as an “illustrious daughter of Mozambique and citizen of the world”.

The head of state highlights Graça Machel’s dedication to public causes and human rights, stating that on this significant day “we celebrate a life entirely devoted to public service, the service of humanity, and the unwavering defence of human rights, with particular emphasis on the promotion of education, gender equality, and the protection of children”.
Source: https://clubofmozambique.com/news/graca-machel-turns-80-chapo-praises-illustrious-daughter-of-mozambique-and-citizen-of-the-world-294227/
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by ademijuwonlo(f): 3:36pm On Oct 23, 2025
casualobserver:
Didn’t Mandela marry Winnie? Winnie get sense?

The man was old having spent all his life in jail. He needed a wife who could operate at his level. She having been the wife of a former president was available. E no pass that. Don’t dramatize and glorify what is not there.

If you want to talk about character, I will easily say a former First Lady and mother of a nation has a lot of responsibilities in her shoulder. As a mother of a nation you don’t remarry talk less become a First Lady of another country.

Bring a person from Mozambique and ask them how they feel they’re their First Lady not just remarried but remarried someone from another country.

There is a reason why she is the only one….it is not done! She isn’t the only First Lady to be widowed!
So because she was widowed she shouldn't remarry abi? She was not the reigning First lady of Mozambique when she remarried and she stayed for over a decade before she remarried. How many men can stay for 10 years after their wives pass on before they remarry?

People are allowed to remarry after the passing of their partners if they like and no one has a say over that. No society judges people for remarrying except if it's immediately after the passing of the partner.

Marriage is till death do us part!
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by spencekat(m): 3:37pm On Oct 23, 2025
Lalami3232:
Mandela of all people married a single mother rather than a virgin? One man's food is another man's poison.
He married a widow.
Re: Graça Machel: First Lady In 2 Countries by DaddyJapan(m): 3:42pm On Oct 23, 2025
DomPerignon:
She was a rebel comfort woman who cashed out first, by marrying her first and late former rebel husband who ended up ruling Mozambique as a dictator and later switched to Mandela after Winnie was found to be all round no good for nothing slut.
Another unfair characterisation laced with unrestrained misogyny.

Talk is cheap for the lily-livered.
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