It was therefore deeply poignant for me to be cast in this film in the role of King Cetshwayo kaMpande, my maternal great-grandfather. Originally, there has been no intention of casting me in the film ...

But one does not start a story at the end. After the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 the British banished King Cetshwayo, son of King Mpande, from the Zulu kingdom and divided the kingdom into 13 kinglets, ...