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The South African Council of Churches (SACC) welcomes the Nelson Mandela Foundation report that clears senior executives, CEO Sello Hatang and COO Limpho Monyamane.
We commend the board of the Foundation for taking any allegations of wrongdoing seriously, and occasioning an independent investigation into the allegations.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has set a good example for all our organisations, in the non-profit, public and private sectors, that even with the most trusted executives, investigating and reaching conclusion is good for the integrity of the institution. Sello Hatang and Limpho Monyamane humbled themselves to the process and removed themselves from the organisation for the purpose of investigations; leaving no doubt as to the fairness of the process that has subsequently cleared them.
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It is with sadness that we learnt about the passing of Ms Zubeida Patel late on the evening of Saturday, 13 February 2021.
Ms Patel was Mandela’s first secretary when he established his own law practise. This was before he and Oliver Tambo set up Mandela & Tambo Attorneys in 1952.
Zubeida Patel (next to Mandela) (Image: Courtesy Patel family)
Mandela recounts this in his autobiography
Long Walk to Freedom: “In August 1952 I opened my own law office. What early success I enjoyed I owed to Zubeida Patel, my secretary. I had met her when she had gone to work at H.M. Basner as a replacement for an Afrikaans-speaking secretary, Miss Koch, who had refused to take my dictation. Zubeida was the wife of my friend Cassim Patel, a member of the Indian Congress, and she was without any sense of colour bar whatsoever. She had a wide circle of friends, knew many people in the legal world, and when I went o
The board of trustees of the Nelson Mandela Foundation has held two extraordinary board meetings this week to discuss allegations by some staff against members of the Fou