15. While Awaiting Trial, He Met His Second Wife, Winnie
Winnie was a social worker who was also active in the ANC. The two would have two children together remain married throughout his 27-year prison sentence on Robben Island. Because of her work to end apartheid and, along with her husband, help heal the racial divisions in South Africa, Winnie Mandela would become known as the “Mother of South Africa.”
