Graca Machel

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  Barack Obama's Speech To Mark 100th Birth Anniversary of Nelson Mandela

  Former US president Barack Obama will deliver a speech to a crowd of 15,000 people in South Africa on Tuesday as the centrepiece of celebrations marking 100 years since Nelson Mandela's birth.

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  Nelson Mandela's Widow Says Heart 'Heavier' as Anniversary Approaches

  As the first anniversary of Nelson Mandela's death approaches, his widow Graca Machel said on Tuesday that her heart was growing heavier and that it was still difficult to accept he is gone.

• Nelson Mandela's Widow to Resume Public Life After Mourning 'Best Friend'

  Nelson Mandela's widow, Graca Machel, on Friday announced she will resume her public life after completing a six-month mourning period for her "best friend."

• Nelson Mandela's Widow Calls on Nigerian Government to Find Kidnapped Girls

  Nelson Mandela's widow Graca Machel has broken a customary mourning period to call on the Nigerian government and international community to do more to find the 200-plus schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram.

• Nelson Mandela widow formally waives right to estate

  Nelson Mandela's widow Graca Machel has given up her right to half his more than USD 4-million estate, an executor of his will said today.

• Nelson Mandela laid to rest

  South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela received a tearful state funeral at his childhood village of Qunu on Sunday.

• Nelson Mandela laid to rest at state funeral

  A 21-gun salute and full honour guard escorted the coffin of Nelson Mandela as his state funeral got underway on Sunday in the rolling hills of his rural boyhood home.

• With VIPs gone, South Africans get Madiba back

  Nelson Mandela was given back to ordinary South Africans on Thursday, who queued in their thousands from early morning to file past his open casket.

• The widow who made a 'decent man' of Mandela

  Nelson Mandela's widow Graca Machel, who barely left her husband's bedside in the final six months of his life, has hardly been seen in the wake of his death.

• Public triumph, private tragedy: Nelson Mandela's family heartache

  Nelson Mandela, who was separated from his family for nearly three decades in an apartheid prison, endured a long history of heartache in his private life.