Zelda la grange controversy

zelda la grange controversy

Nelson Mandela was 'completely intolerant of dishonesty ...

  • Zelda la Grange (born 29 October 1970) is a former private secretary to Nelson Mandela.

    • “#Zeldadoesntevenknow” is the newest hashtag trending on Twitter after former personal assistant to Nelson Mandela, Zelda la Grange, posted a number of controversial Twitter comments on Saturday.

    La Grange took to social media to criticise President Jacob Zuma’s comments that the country’s problems started when Jan van Riebeeck arrived at the cape.

    Zuma had made these statements at the African National Congress’s 103rd birthday celebrations in Cape Town last week.

    Among several racially motivated tweets she posted, La Grange said Zuma made white people feel unwelcome in South Africa, but considered their tax money good enough for the multimillion rand upgrades at his private Nkandla home in Kwazulu-Natal.

    La Grange revealed her desires to approach French President Francois Hollande for a position because “the organisation that praises Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe but condemns former president FWDe Klerk, doesn’t want us in SA”.

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      Controversy [ edit ] On 17 January , La Grange stated on her official Twitter account that she felt that President Jacob Zuma was making white South Africans feel unwelcome in the country by saying that all of South Africa's problems started when Jan van Riebeeck arrived at the Cape in [ 1 ].

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      As a teenager in South Africa, Zelda la Grange knew of only one label for Nelson Mandela: “terrorist." That was her father’s description of the soon-to-be president of South Africa upon.
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    For a brief period Zelda La Grange changed her Twitter name to Zelda Van Riebeeck.
    Late president Nelson Mandela's assistant Zelda La Grange has issued a 14-take apology on her Twitter account after comments that whites did.
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      From the Amanpour Archive, Nelson Mandela’s former private secretary Zelda la Grange tells Christiane Amanpour how he radically changed her life.

    Public Speaking - Zelda La Grange

  • Twenty years of walking one step behind Nelson Mandela and being the symbol of racial reconciliation have been wiped out in one lousy weekend of Twitter rants.

    • Zelda La Grange - Wikipedia

  • Zelda la Grange's book also stirred controversy by accusing Mandela's family of freezing out his wife, Graça Machel, in an ugly feud over his.

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      Zelda la Grange, the former assistant to Nelson Mandela, has written another book.

    Zelda La Grange Apologizes Following Public Backlash

  • Many accused her of being out of touch with the realities of post-apartheid South Africa, labelling her a racist.