In her interview with popular US magazine, The Cut, Meghan Markle compared herself to activist and former president Nelson Mandela which has been widely criticized and what seems to upsets people the most.
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In the magazine interview, Markle says she was told during the Lion King London premiere by a “male South African male cast member” that her marriage to the royal family caused the same rejoice in 2018 in South Africa as the release of Mandela in prison in 1990.
Dr John Kani, who is the only South African cast member and voiced Rafiki character on the Disney’s The Lion King play has come out to say he has never met Meghan Markle despite her claims.
According to Dailymail UK, Dr Kani said Mr Mandela’s walk to freedom after 27 years was a ‘landmark moment’ while her marriage to Prince Harry was ‘no big deal’ in South Africa, adding that the two events ‘cannot be spoken in the same breath’ and ‘no one in South Africa can’t really say where they were when Meghan married Harry’.
He added that the only other South African who was involved was Lebo M, a composer who together with Hans Zimmer was responsible for the music for The Lion King but Lebo M was not in the cast.
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