Naceva was born on September 28, 1920, in Kumanovo.[2] She finished primary school in her hometown. At the age of 15, she became a textile worker. In 1936, she led a strike at her factory, for which she was fired. She became a member of the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia.
In 1939, she left for Niš and became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. A year later, Naceva became a member of the Local Committee and the District Committee of the CPY of Niš, and was arrested twice. She participated during the fifth ground conference of the CPY in Zagreb as a delegate from Serbia.
^ abcDimitar Bechev, Historical Dictionary of North Macedonia, Historical Dictionaries of Europe, Edition 2, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019, ISBN9781538119624, p. 215.
^ abСветлана Дарудова, "Страшо Пинџур во писмо открива чувства спрема Мара Нацева", Дневник, година XVIII, број 5433, петок, 4 април, 2014, стр, 13.
^Francisca de Haan, Krassimira Daskalova, Anna Loutfi (eds.) A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries, Central European University Press, 2006, ISBN9786155053726, p. 298.