(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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Nelson Mandela was a famous leader. A man who went from being a prisoner to a President and became an inspiration to people all over the world! Mandela was born in 1918 in South Africa.

Nelson Mandela was “trying to come to the United ... “Although Mr. Mandela and his wife, Winnie, are visiting the United States as private citizens, the U.S. government is picking up part ...

One episode focuses on Nelson Mandela, the South African leader who many today remember as the dignified elder statesman who was imprisoned for 27 years by the country’s apartheid regime.

In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island ... They also offer a glimpse of the painful guilt Mandela felt for the wife and family he always had to put second to his political ...