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Nelson Mandela Dead, Nelson Mandela Death, Nelson Mandela Died: latest news updates, Nelson Mandela Dead, Nelson Mandela Death, Nelson Mandela Died, nelson mandela death, nelson mandela, chris henry, chris henry dead, iron man 2 trailer, The latest rumors that are doing the rounds on the internet are, predictably, about the death of some celebrity. However, this time, there has been a shift in focus.
The death mongers have not put on the death row some movie star or some sports celebrity, rather, this time, it is the turn of the venerated political and anti-apartheid activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela.

The rumors this time are really undeveloped. No news is available regarding the manner of his death. The only fact that can be gathered on this matter is that the rumor was started by someone on Twitter, probably by the very same person or persons who had brainstormed the others. This is indeed quite surprising, considering that generally, celebrities die elaborate, graphic and occasionally quite innovative deathson the internet. It is also being speculated that the Nelson Mandela dead rumors might have been started by the marketing team of the film “Invictus”, that is based on the life and political struggle of the activist.

Both the explanations seem quite plausible. On the one hand, Twitter is known to be the Golgotha of celebrities, with one or the other reported to be killed dutifully almost every week. On the other hand, spreading the death rumors of celebrities in any way connected to a film has always been a very popular and successful promotional gimmick. Whatever be the case, it seems to have been spurned by the people, surprisingly enough. There are lots of tweets rejecting the Nelson Mandela dead rumor outright.
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Hudson to Play Nelson Mandela’s Ex-Wife

LOS ANGELES: Oscar-winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson is to play the role of Winnie Mandela, the controversy-plagued ex-wife of South Africa’s first black president Nelson Mandela in a new movie called Winnie, Variety reported on Wednesday.

The film is based on the Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob biography, Winnie Mandela: A Life, according to Variety.

Production is scheduled to begin May 30 in the South African locations of Johannesburg, Cape Town, Transkei and Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela served 18 of his 27 years of imprisonment.

The movie is the second about the Mandelas this year, with Morgan Freeman set to star as the iconic president in the Clint Eastwood film Invictus, which is due in cinemas in December.

Hudson, who is expected to sing the film’s theme song, won the Oscar for her screen debut in Dreamgirls and followed with The Secret Life of Bees and Sex in the City.

“I was compelled and moved when I read the script,” Hudson said. “Winnie Mandela is a complex and extraordinary woman and I’m honoured to be the actress asked to portray her. This is a powerful part of history that should be told.”

Winnie Mandela was a fierce opponent to apartheid alongside her husband before the end of the racist regime. But she was tarnished by an association with a bodyguard who murdered a 14-year-old alleged informer in 1989. The Mandelas divorced in 1996 and she was convicted of fraud in 2003 for stealing from a funeral fund.

Winnie will be directed by Darrell J. Roodt, the veteran South African filmmaker whose 2006 film Yesterday was Africa’s Best Foreign Film nominee, and who also directed Cry, The Beloved Country and Sarafina!

Nobel Peace Prize Us Presidents

PARIS — Citizens and world leaders urged US President Barack Obama to seize on his surprise Nobel Peace Prize win to forge peace in the globe’s trouble spots and rid the world of nuclear weapons.
From Tokyo to Cape Town, news that the 48-year-old had won the prestigious award just nine months into his presidency was met by a mixture of shock and appeals for Obama to solve a host of local and global issues.

A “surprised” and “deeply humbled” Obama said he doubted he deserved the honour, but vowed to wield it as a “call to action” to lead a united world against its greatest challenges.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy hailed the prize as “America’s return to the hearts of the world’s peoples” after disenchantment with the previous presidency of George W. Bush.

Former UN chief Kofi Annan called it “an unexpected but inspired choice.” But the announcement was not universally lauded.

“Who, Obama? So fast? Too fast — he hasn’t had the time to do anything yet,” was the incredulous response of Lech Walesa, Poland’s historic trade union leader and the 1983 laureate.

Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro called the award a “positive measure.”

In an article, Castro said the Nobel committee decision was designed to criticize “the politics of genocide” pursued by Obama’s predecessors.

“I don’t always agree with decisions by this institution,” Castro wrote. “But this time, I recognize that it was a positive step.”

For others, Obama’s promotion to the rank of global peacemaker was an opportunity to give him some new assignments.

The prize is in “good hands,” said Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, expressing “hope that world peace is a reality and that we have no more nuclear bombs.”

The Dalai Lama, who won the prestigious award in 1989, called on Obama to champion “freedom and liberty.”

The exiled Tibetan leader wrote a letter to Obama congratulating him even though the president, in an apparent bid not to upset China, avoided meeting him during the Dalai Lama’s weeklong visit to Washington.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Obama’s win was an “incentive” for all to do more for peace, adding that his goal of a nuclear-free world is one “we must all try to achieve in the coming years.”

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, meanwhile, said he hoped it would be a “boost to our joint efforts in forming a new climate in international politics and promoting initiatives that are critically important for global security.”

The 2008 laureate, former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari, noted that as Middle East peace efforts remain stalled, “this time, it was very clear that they wanted to encourage Obama to move on these issues.”

Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas said he hoped the prize would help bring about an independent Palestinian state, but the Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, decried Obama’s win.

“He did not do anything for the Palestinians except make promises,” said Hamas spokesman Samir Abu Zuhri.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, said the award “expresses the hope that your presidency will usher in a new era of peace and reconciliation.”

In Afghanistan, where the United States is in the ninth year of a bloody conflict against Taliban extremists, President Hamid Karzai hailed Obama’s “hard work and new vision on global relations.”

But the decision was condemned by the Taliban, who said he had “not taken a single step toward peace in Afghanistan.”

On the streets of Kabul, Afghans said they did not believe Obama’s policies had improved the situation in their war-ravaged country.

“The situation is getting worse here,” said shopkeeper Ahmad Tawab.

“At least I can say that he is better than George Bush,” said tailor Abdul Hakeem, 18.

The Nobel committee acted “hastily,” said arch foe Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, arguing a “good timing” for the prize would have been after US troops pull out of Afghanistan and Iraq “and the United States is standing up for the rights of the Palestinian people.”

UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei — another former winner — said Obama had “reached out across divides and made clear that he sees the world as one human family, regardless of religion, race or ethnicity.”

In Iraq, 45-year-old bank security guard Abu Istabraq said that Obama “really deserved this prize more than anyone else.”

Obama “was able to calm the situation in Iraq and other countries, and he made America reach out to Islamic and Arabic countries,” he said.

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama of Japan, the only country to have suffered a nuclear attack, said he saw “the world changing” since Obama entered the White House on January 20.

South African archbishop Desmond Tutu, who won the prize in 1984, saw Obama as a younger incarnation of Nelson Mandela, a 1993 co-laureate.

“It is a very imaginative and somewhat surprising choice. It is wonderful,” he said in Cape Town.

Obama’s Kenyan relatives reacted with delight.

“It is an honour to the family… we are very happy that one of us has been honoured. We congratulate Barack,” Said Obama, the president’s step-brother, told AFP. Obama’s father was Kenyan and the president is considered a favourite son of the east African country.
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