'Shaka iLembe' is a South African-made creation with a transcendent, inside-looking-out gaze about a ruler's perilous rise to power. The biggest South African TV Production (2023) set in the 1700s, tells a story of the making of the iconic African king, with iterations from his early childhood through to adulthood. The production has been SIX years in the making, consulting historians, academics, and family descendants, including the incumbent King Misuzulu kaZwelithini, Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, as well as the late King Goodwill Zwelithini.
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