Zelda la Grange met Nelson Mandela for the first time in the Presidential Office in 1994, and spent much of the next 19 years by his side.
Zelda la Grange, former assistant to Madiba, went off on a bit of a rant last week. Now she has had to back-pedal at a rate of knots with this public apology.
While Mandela certainly deserves the amount of praise he has received in the past few days, there is also plenty of credit that is due to those people who were behind him all the time. People like Zelda La Grange.