Working With Nelson Mandela
Zelda has been his secretary, butler, aide-de-camp, spokesperson, travelling companion, confidante and - as she put it, and he agrees - honorary granddaughter, growing ever closer to him from the day she began work as an anonymous typist in the presidential office in 1994.
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