Africa Mad At Dreamgirl

Jennifer Hudson To Play Winnie Mandela 03:00PM ET December 8, 2009 Contributor : Hip Hop Blog Staff A Rocky Williform Company According to EUR, The Creative Workers Union of South Africa is protesting the casting of actress/singer Jennifer Hudson as Winnie Mandela in an upcoming biography about the ex-wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela. The union says that using foreign actors to tell the country's stories undermines efforts to develop their national film industry. "It can't happen that we want to develop our own Hollywood and yet bring in imports," the union's president Mabutho Sithole said in The Citizen newspaper. "This decision must be reversed, it must be stopped now," union secretary general Oupa Lebogo said in The Times. "If the matter doesn't come up for discussion, we will push for a moratorium to be placed on the film." The film Winnie is currently in development.