Mandela: Life

Directed by South African director Mandla Dube, the series will focus on Mandela’s extraordinary life and specifically the dramatic 1984-1994 period, known as the ‘deadly decade’ during which thousands died in political violence.

It is being billed as “Nelson Mandela’s own story ‘in his own words, narrated in his voice’ and is being made in collaboration with the archive and research team Nelson Mandela personally authorized in 2004, Verne Harris, Razia Saleh and Sahm Venter. They are aiming to make the most rigorously-researched, in-depth and personal long-form doc on his life.