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Zelda La Grange was Nelson Mandela's private secretary and handled his diary even after he left office.

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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. That's what happened in the Zelda La Grange incident. Ms La Grange was Mr Mandela's personal assistant, strategically hand-picked by the late statesman precisely because her family history is deeply rooted in the Afrikaner community.

The Afrikaners were seen as the driving force behind the brutal racial segregation system of apartheid. The word apartheid comes from Afrikaans, the language of Afrikaners. Zelda La Grange recently released a book on her life with Mandela. In the anti-apartheid uprising, black students were protesting against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in government schools.

This would have meant being forced to learn other subjects such as mathematics, biology, history, geography, etc in Afrikaans. The students held up banners denouncing it as the "language of the oppressor". It was for this reason that when President Mandela came into office, after serving 27 years in prison, he insisted on hiring an Afrikaner assistant to show the world that he wanted to reconcile black and white communities of South Africa.

So it came as a huge surprise when a series of messages from Ms LaGrange's Twitter account, which has just over 55, followers, appeared to downplay the effects of apartheid and colonisation on the majority of South Africans.