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Looks like Jennifer Hudson is doing her thing in the biopic Winnie. The film, which is centered around the life of South African activist and  Nelson Mandel’s wife Winnie Mandela, also stars Terrence Howard as Nelson Mandela. Check out the pic of the two superstars on set after the jump:

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Ex-South African President and freedom fighter Nelson Mandela and his family have reportedly suffered the loss of his great-granddaughter in a car accident. According to the Associated Press, Zenani Mandela, 13, died when traveling home after the kickoff concert in Soweto which featured performances from The Black Eyed Peas, Alicia Keys and Shakira. Reports state that […]

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Terrence Howard and Jennifer Hudson have been tapped to star in a biopic surrounding the controversial life of Winnie Mandela. The film, ‘Winnie’, will be directed by Darrell J. Roodt , from a script based on the Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob biography Winnie Mandela: A Life, according to Variety magazine. “I was compelled and […]

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Winnie Mandela, the ex-wife of South African icon Nelson Mandela has received harsh backlash from an interview where she was quoted criticizing Africa’s former leader. In an interview with the London Evening Standard, she’s quoted as saying that she “can’t forgive” Mandela for accepting the Noble Peace Prize in 1993 alongside white president F.W. De […]

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Africa is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s freedom from prison. 20 years ago on February 20, 1990 Mandela was released from a Cape Town, South Africa prison after being a political prisoner for 27 years. Mandela served 27 years behind bars of a life sentence  for his activism against apartheid, the movement that […]