# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zoleka-mandela
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:59:20.137Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zoleka-mandela"
name: "Zoleka Mandela"
slug: "zoleka-mandela"
description: "Zoleka Zobuhle Mandela was a South African writer and activist, and Nelson Mandela's granddaughter. She wrote about her addictions to sex, alcohol and drugs, her daughter's death, and her own battles with breast cancer, which killed her in 2023. She is the author of When Hope Whispers which she published in 2013."
tagline: "South African writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zoleka_Mandela_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1980-04-09"
deathDate: "2023-09-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.23136133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm14564066"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump