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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Evelyn Mase

1922 - 2004

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Evelyn Ntoko Mase (18 May 1922 – 30 April 2004), later named Evelyn Rakeepile, was the first wife of the South African anti-apartheid activist and the future president Nelson Mandela, to whom she was married from 1944 to 1958. Mase was a nurse by profession. Born in Engcobo, Transkei, Mase was orphaned as a child. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Evelyn Mase has received more than 1,183,393 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Evelyn Mase is the 374th most popular social activist, the 76th most popular biography from South Africa and the 3rd most popular South African Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Evelyn Mase ranks 374 out of 538Before her are Katarina Taikon, Chen Qimei, Hanan Ashrawi, Gustave Moynier, Lester R. Brown, and Mary Harris Jones. After her are Estela de Carlotto, Udham Singh, Mahmoud Taleghani, Catharine MacKinnon, Naziha al-Dulaimi, and Viola Desmond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Evelyn Mase ranks 240Before her are Simon Hantaï, Mariano Gonzalvo, George Knobel, Donald Keene, Roland Dumas, and Chairil Anwar. After her are Ruby Dee, Mariya Dolina, Tom Finney, Carmen McRae, Xenia Stad-de Jong, and Lizabeth Scott. Among people deceased in 2004, Evelyn Mase ranks 156Before her are Tony Randall, Paul Sweezy, Maxime Rodinson, Ivan Hlinka, John Peel, and Alexander Ragulin. After her are Rogelio Domínguez, Christl Cranz, Rodney Dangerfield, Alicia Markova, Luis E. Miramontes, and Gennadi Strekalov.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Evelyn Mase ranks 76 out of 374Before her are Steve Nash (1974), Nico Diederichs (1903), Ronald Harwood (1934), Piet Retief (1780), Laurens van der Post (1906), and Cecil Kellaway (1890). After her are Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868), Deon Meyer (1958), Oliver Tambo (1917), Walter Sisulu (1912), Alan Paton (1903), and Gary Player (1935).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In South Africa

Among social activists born in South Africa, Evelyn Mase ranks 3Before her are Nelson Mandela (1918) and Steve Biko (1946). After her are Frances Ames (1920), Devdas Gandhi (1900), Denis Goldberg (1933), Ted Grant (1913), Beyers Naudé (1915), Bram Fischer (1908), Albertina Sisulu (1918), Kumi Naidoo (1965), and Nkosi Johnson (1989).