Zelda la Grange, Nelson Mandela’s Personal Secretary, On Her Book ‘Good Morning, Mr. Mandela’ [VIDEO EXCLUSIVE]

Zelda la Grange recounts her experiences serving the late South African President Nelson Mandela as his personal secretary in her memoir Good Morning, Mr. Mandela. “He recognized things in me, I think he could see that he could shape my life and easily mentor me,” la Grange told uInterview, “maybe it was easy to influence me and he could actually mold me into whatever he wanted me to become, and I rose to the challenge, I accepted the challenge.”

In the years of working for Mandela, la Grange took a wild ride into the world of foreign affairs. “I was one of very few women at that point who ever met and shook hands with the king of Saudi Arabia,” she told uInterview. “That was totally in contrast to what we know of the Middle East and specifically Saudi Arabia.”

Good Morning, Mr. Mandela by is available now in paperback and ebook formats.