Zelda la Grange (born 29 October 1970) is a former private secretary to Nelson Mandela.
La Grange was born in Boksburg, South Africa.
From 1994 until 1996, she served as a typist for Mary Mxadana, private secretary to Nelson Mandela, the newly elected post-apartheid President of South Africa.
On 17 January 2015, 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 1652.
[1] Her several tweets on the issue prompted a significant public backlash (with some coming out in Zelda's defence), including a reaction from Zuma, leading her to issue an apology later that day.