Ixtab
01-02-2007, 10:54 PM
Nelson Mandela has spoken of his youthful exploits as a pig thief.
The former South African president made the revelations during a visit from the director and stars of the film Tsotsi, which won a Best Foreign Film Oscar.
Tsotsi is about a young gangster, and Mr Mandela said he identified with the main character.
Mr Mandela told how as a teenager in South Africa’s rural Transkei region, he and friends would use the dregs of traditional beer to lure pigs.
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Mr Mandela also thanked the makers of Tsotsi for putting South Africa “on the map”, but Gavin Hood responded that it was Mr Mandela himself who had done this.
“You put us on the map so that we could follow, because without what you did, we would not have been able to make this film together as South Africans in a free country,” the director said
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4816266.stm
The former South African president made the revelations during a visit from the director and stars of the film Tsotsi, which won a Best Foreign Film Oscar.
Tsotsi is about a young gangster, and Mr Mandela said he identified with the main character.
Mr Mandela told how as a teenager in South Africa’s rural Transkei region, he and friends would use the dregs of traditional beer to lure pigs.
{snip}
Mr Mandela also thanked the makers of Tsotsi for putting South Africa “on the map”, but Gavin Hood responded that it was Mr Mandela himself who had done this.
“You put us on the map so that we could follow, because without what you did, we would not have been able to make this film together as South Africans in a free country,” the director said
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4816266.stm