Zelda La Grange was born in Pretoria, South Africa on 29 October 1970. From 1994 until 1996, she served as a typist for Mary Mxadana, the private secretary to Nelson Mandela, the newly elected post-Apartheid President of South Africa. In 1996, she was promoted to assistant private secretary, and in 1999 she was again promoted to become private secretary to the Office of the President. Later in 1999, after Mandela left office, she was appointed as the executive personal assistant and spokesperson for the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg.
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