The Nelson Mandela Foundation has authorised South African filmmaker Mandla Dube to do a definitive documentary series on the life of the late former president Nelson Mandela. The doccie is expected to be narrated in his own words and in his own voice.
The documentary series currently has the working title Mandela: Life will be an unprecedented and exclusively authorised five-part series founded on Mandelas extraordinary life and the most dramatic period in South African history 1984 to 1994, the deadly decade during which thousands of people died in political violence.
A decade that began with Mandela in prison, and ended with him being elected President of South Africa after the countrys first democratic election.
The Dube directed series is authorised by the Nelson Mandela Foundation with exclusive permission to archivally recreate Nelson Mandelas voice from his personal archive and to feature previously unreleased material and unpublished letters written by him from prison.
We are decolonizing the lens and the framework of who Nelson Mandela was, said Dube.
There are certain nuances and subtleties that we havent seen in films made by international filmmakers about Nelson Mandela, because theres a certain voice that comes with being a child of the soil.
Letter to Zindzi and Zenani 26 June 1969. Picture: Nelson Mandela Foundation.The series has been in development for two years and will be ready for global release on Freedom Day next year on the 31st anniversary of South Africas first democratic election.
