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News 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 ....