Zanele mbeki biography for kids
Biography for 2nd graders.
Zanele mbeki biography for kids
Zanele Dlamini Mbeki
South African social worker and feminist (born 1938)
Zanele MbekiOMSS (néeDlamini; born 18 November 1938) is a feminist South African social worker who founded the Women's Development Bank.
She is also a former first lady of South Africa.
Early life and education
Zanele Dlamini was born in 1938 in Alexandra, South Africa, where her father was a Methodist priest and her mother a dressmaker.[1][2] She has five sisters.[1]
Zanele was a boarder at the Catholic Inkamana Academy in KwaZulu-Natal, before studying to be a social worker at the University of the Witwatersrand.[1]
After working for three years for Anglo American plc as a case worker in Zambia, she moved to London and completed a diploma in social policy and administration at the London School of Economics in 1968.[1] She later won a scholarship to do her PhD on the position of African women under apartheid at Brandeis University in the United