{"id":43431,"date":"2016-02-23T13:07:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T11:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/43431\/movie-to-be-made-of-zeldas-madiba-book\/"},"modified":"2016-02-23T13:07:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T11:07:56","slug":"movie-to-be-made-of-zeldas-madiba-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/uncategorized\/2016\/02\/23\/movie-to-be-made-of-zeldas-madiba-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie to be made of Zelda&#8217;s Madiba book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zelda la Grange is a former private secretary to Nelson Mandela. She was first hired as a typist in Mandela&#8217;s office in 1994, but was promoted to the post of private secretary during his tenure as president.<\/p>\n<p>The film rights to the book were bought by New York-based film production company, Maven Pictures, a partnership between Golden Globe winning producer, Celine Rattray and Bafta-nominated producer, Trudie Styler.<\/p>\n<p>La Grange pays tribute to Madiba as she knew him \u2013 her friend and the teacher who taught her the most valuable lessons of her life.<\/p>\n<p>There are many books about Mandela, but\u00a0<em>Good Morning, Mr. Mandela<\/em>\u00a0is the first by a trusted member of his inner circle.<\/p>\n<p>The cast has not been announced yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s Zelda talking about her book:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/fY9J5PtETjk' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A movie will be made of Zelda la Grange\u2019s book, Good Morning, Mr. Mandela. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7782,"featured_media":43432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2704,2681],"tags":[3502,799,800,3503],"class_list":["post-43431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-book-made-into-movie","tag-madiba","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-zelda-la-grange"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["book made into movie","madiba","nelson mandela","Zelda la Grange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}