Zelda La Grange became Nelson Mandela’s personal assistant in 1994. Born and raised by a Boer family in an isolated community in South Africa, La Grange was taught to believe that she and others like her were superior merely by virtue of their skin color.
Zelda La Grange was born in Pretoria, South Africa. As a white Afrikaner, she grew up in a conservative family that fully supported the apartheid. However, just before Nelson Mandela was appointed the first black president of South- Africa, he chose Zelda La Grange to be his personal assistant. She devoted the next twenty years to serving one of the world’s most beloved politicians. How did she change, and how did South African people change?
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