First Lady of South Africa

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 Apartheid era 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 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 Zumaboth Sizakele Zuma and Nompumelelo Ntuli Zuma have been referred to on the official Presidency of South Africa website as First Lady 2009–2018 Nompumelelo Ntuli Zuma 5 Tshepo Motsepe Cyril Ramaphosa 15 February 2018 – Present

See also President of South Africa State President of South Africa Annie Botha Isie Smuts

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