Zanele mbeki biography reluctance meaning

South African social worker and feminist (born )

Zanele MbekiOMSS (néeDlamini; born 18 November ) 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 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 ^[1] She later won a scholarship to do her PhD on the position of African women under apartheid at Brandeis University in the United States, although