Zanele Mbeki

• Zanele Dlamini Mbeki

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Zanele Dlamini Mbeki
First Lady of South Africa
In role
14 June 1999 – 24 September 2008
President Thabo Mbeki
Preceded by Graça Machel
Succeeded by Mapula Motlanthe
First Lady of African Union
In office
9 July 2002 – 10 July 2003
President Thabo Mbeki
Preceded by position established
Succeeded by Marcelina Rafael Chissano
Personal details
Born Zanele Dlamini
18 November 1938 (age 86)
Alexandra, Gauteng, South Africa
Spouse Thabo Mbeki ​(m. 1974)​
Children Dlammini
Alma mater University of the Witwatersrand
London School of Economics
Brandeis University
Profession Social worker
Zanele Mbeki OMSS (née Dlamini; 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, England, 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 States, although before completing it, she left the United States to marry Thabo Mbeki.[2][1][3]

Alexandra, Gauteng, South Africa

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