Botswana gets a share in Mandela movie

The late Keitseng's house that will be used to shoot Mandela's Gun. PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
The late Keitseng's house that will be used to shoot Mandela's Gun. PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

Botswana had to fight for recognition in an upcoming movie based on Nelson Mandela’s life, the National Museum and Monuments director, Gaogakwe Phorano has revealed.

The movie, Mandela’s Gun, will be shot in Peleng, Lobatse this weekend and is set for release by the end of 2014.  The movie follows Mandela’s last eight months before imprisonment, which he spent travelling in Africa and includes the safety and support he received while in Lobatse. During that time, Mandela stayed at Fish Keitseng‘s Peleng home where African National Congress (ANC) members met. According to the director, the Keitseng safehouse was the place where Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the ANC, met for the first time outside South Africa in 1963.

Yesterday in Lobatse, Phorano said that those behind the movie had wanted to recreate a set that would match the late Keitseng’s safehouse.

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