At Home with the Mandelas? Nelson Mandela’s Granddaughters prep new Reality TV Show
Posted on Tuesday, October 4th, 2011 at 6:17 PMBy BellaNaija.com
Nelson Mandela's granddaughters Swati Dlamini, Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway and Dorothy Adjoa Amuah with producers Graham Swanepoel, left, and Rick Leed
Three of South African Icon Nelson Mandela’s granddaughters have started filming a brand new reality TV show which is set to air in Africa and around the globe in 2012.
The ladies are all young professionals aged between 27 and 34. Two of them are sisters and the other is their cousin. They were all raised in Boston.
Check out more info on the ladies below via CNN.com
Meet the Mandelas
Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway
Age: 34
Children: 2 (A 10-year-old son and a 2-year-old daughter) with 1 on the way!
Zaziwe is the child of Mandela’s daughter, Zenani, who was born to Mandela’s second wife, Winnie. She is married to David Manaway, an American businessman who she met while studying psychology at Clark Atlanta University.
Swati Dlamini
Age: 32
Children: 1 (A 3-year-old daughter)
Swati (Zaziwe’s sister) is a single mum who works in the communications field. According to producers, She is setting up a charitable foundation focused on housing, education and health.
Dorothy Adjoa Amuah
Age: 27
Children: None
Dorothy’s grandmother was Mandela’s first wife, Evelyn. She has a law degree and recently earned her master’s in business administration — specializing in luxury management from a school in Monaco. she lives with her brother and dog, Pan.
Unlike other reality TV shows on TV, the Mandela reality show is being described as “refreshingly authentic” and the ladies positioned as “positive role models to women all over the world.”
Will you watch?
Photo & Info Source: CNN Wire
Tags: Nelson Mandela, Reality TV
uhmmm
well well well….will be interesting to see how this plays out
hmmm nawa o,the way reality shows are now….hehn i wonder what these poeple are going to do,couldnt they have done interview or written book,why does it have to be a reality show?and there is no way that it will not be related to their father..hmm this is not looking good
LOVE IT
um, so what exactly are we watchin, how they go to work? Or how they drop of their kids as school? Or wait, we are meant to stop and stare cuz they have a famous grand father? Smh
I don’t like the sound of it at all. Why would they want to put their family on display for the world to see? If it’s money, I’m sure so many people would be willing to pay them what these producers are paying to keep them from doing this, but I guess they want the celebrity status. I don’t like the thought of it it one bit, but we will see how it plays out when the show broadcasts.
Adjua Amuah? thts a full ghanaian name. Dorothy’s dad must be a ghanaian then.
Hmm reality shows are just sooo déclasser. For such an “upper” class family…like someone said, couldn’t they have just written a book? I don’t wanna see a man who is an inspiration to the world’s family air their “dirty” laundry on tv…. Because let’s face it, reality tv thrives on drama and not good clean christian drama but the dirty nasty bad ones. I wonder if Mandela himself approved of this.
utter rubbish. none of them are even bearing the name mandela sef
terrible idea. is Nelson Mandela aware of this? aww i have that yellow zara dress as well. cute
ha joro njoo
Abeg what is this?…..Nelson Mandela alone is a BRAND. They dont need a reality tv show to show themselves. Which kind nonsense be this. Why do they want to spoil their legendary family/name? Reality tv shows, are for wannabes. These women are established ‘somebodies’. They just fell flat for the oyibo producers deceit.
Heard about this! Wonder what ‘genre’ of reality shows this is meant to fit into…
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It’s just a show, chill people
Pls, can they not to this to Nelson Mandela’s image.Please girls!Please
They are riding on Mandela’s coat tails, if they weren’t his grand kids no one would offer them a show. They should let the man have a tarnish free legacy, he doesn’t need a trite reality show surlying his good name, he’s been through enough.
Hmmm, are these girls going to have sex for the cameras and scream at each other like the Kardashians? Are they going to have 8 children like the Gosslins? Are they going to parade topless while displaying their surgically enhanced books like the Girls of the Playboy Mansion? Do they have a sex video somewhere in the past and they got married to a sports star like Kendra Wilkinson-Baskett and Kim Kardashian-Humphries? Is any of them a former swimsuit model married to a rapper/actor a la Ice loves Coco? Is any of them a TV Presenter married to the Winner of Apprentice South Africa just like Guiliana & Bill Rancic? Is someone going to have sex on camera and date 4 housemates within 90 days?
If the answer to all of the above questions is NO, then what on earth are they doing a Reality Show for? Their lives won’t provide an escape from reality for anyone because it’d be the exact same life most of us live- wake up in the morning, pray, make breakfast, drop the kids at school, go to work, hang out with family and friends and do it all over again year in,year out.
My own be say, I don’t want to hear any scandal about the Mandiba, this one that they are putting children from his second wife with a grandaughter from his first wife together in the same story!
I love the idea…
O…..kay. I got nothing.
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