Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Map

Author’s Note

Prologue: Zeldina

PART ONE: ‘If it isn’t good, let it die’

1970–1994

1. Childhood

2. Change

PART TWO: Start of a New Dawn

1994–1999

3. Meeting Mr Mandela

4. Working for a President

5. Travelling with a President

6. Running to Keep Up

PART THREE: Gatekeeper to the Most Famous Man in the World

1999–2008

7. Travel and Conflict

8. Working with World Leaders

9. Holidays and Friends

10. The Biggest Fundraiser of My Life

PART FOUR: What Next?

2009–2013

11. Staying Until the End

12. Saying Goodbye

13. Tot weersiens Khulu!

 

Photographs

Acknowledgements