(CNN)-- In a rare and candid interview, CNN's Robyn Curnow spoke to Nelson Mandela's wife of 10 years, Graca Machel, to find out more about the man from the person who arguably knows him the best.

Without fear of contradiction, I think Winnie – anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela’s first wife – is an icon of women's ...

A new play about anti-apartheid icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela seeks to highlight the struggles of Black women in South Africa who had to wait years for their husbands’ return from exile, prison ...

Graca Machel was Nelson Mandela’s champion and companion right up to his death. MANY South Africans will say they have lost their tata, as in father. But amid the outpouring of emotion in ...

Evelyn Mase a nurse was the first wife of the late former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela, to whom she was married from 1944 to 1958. Mase, a Xhosa from the Transkei province met Mandela ...

Jennifer Hudson has been tapped to portray Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela, in the upcoming biopic 'Winnie.' The film -- based on the Anne Marie du ...