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First Lady of South Africa

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First Lady of South Africa is the title held by the wife or most senior wife of the president of South Africa. The title can occasionally be used for the daughter or other female relative of the president.

First ladies of South Africa[edit]

Apartheid era[edit]

Portrait	First Lady	State President	In Office
	Cornelia Swart	Charles Robberts Swart	1961–1967
	Lettie Fouché	Jacobus Johannes Fouché	1968–1975
	Marga Potgeiter	Nico Diederichs	1975–1978
	Martini Vorster	B. J. Vorster	1978–1979
	Dorothea Viljoen	Marais Viljoen	1979–1984
	Elize Botha	Pieter Willem Botha	1984–1989
	Marike de Klerk	F. W. de Klerk	1989–1994

Post-Apartheid era[edit]

No.	Portrait	First Lady	President	In Office
1		Zindzi Mandela-Hlongwane (daughter)	Nelson Mandela	1994–1998
		Zenani Mandela-Dlamini (daughter)
		Graça Machel (married in 1998)		(married in 1998)- 1999
2		Zanele Mbeki	Thabo Mbeki	1999–2008
3		Mapula Motlanthe	Kgalema Motlanthe	2008–2009
4		Sizakele Zuma	Jacob Zuma[NB 1]	2009–2018
		Nompumelelo Ntuli Zuma
5		Tshepo Motsepe	Cyril Ramaphosa	15 February 2018 – Present

See also[edit]

• President of South Africa
• State President of South Africa
• Annie Botha
• Isie Smuts

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