Nelson Mandela married three times, fathering six children, only three of whom are alive today.
Mandela married his first wife Evelyn Ntoko Mase in 1944 but they divorced 13 years later.
The couple had two sons, Madiba 'Thembi' Thembekile, who died in 1969, and Makgatho Mandela who died in 2005.
They had a daughter named Makaziwe 'Maki' Mandela who died a few months after being born in 1947 and named their second daughter in her honour.
He married his second wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in 1957 and they divorced in 1996.
They had two daughters, Zenani 'Zeni' and Zindziswa 'Zindzi' Mandela-Hlongwane.
Mandela remarried on his 80th birthday in 1998 to Graça Machel who he was still married to at the time of his death.
He has 17 grandchildren - the oldest born in 1965 and the youngest in 1992 - and a growing number of great-grandchildren.
- Ukdailymail
Follow @africanewspost
