{"id":2803,"date":"2026-01-13T09:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/votters.com\/about\/?p=2803"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:57:09","slug":"mandela-long-walk-to-freedom-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/votters.com\/about\/mandela-long-walk-to-freedom-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)<\/em><\/strong> is a sweeping biographical drama that chronicles the extraordinary life of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nelson_Mandela\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nelson_Mandela\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nelson Mandela<\/a><\/strong>, South Africa\u2019s anti-apartheid revolutionary, political prisoner, and first democratically elected Black president. Based on Mandela\u2019s own autobiography, the film follows his journey <em>from a humble rural childhood<\/em>, through decades of struggle and 27 years of imprisonment, to his role in dismantling apartheid and leading a nation toward reconciliation. It stars <strong>Idris Elba<\/strong> in a powerful performance as Mandela, with <strong>Naomie Harris<\/strong> and <strong>Tony Kgoroge<\/strong> in supporting roles, and captures both the personal sacrifices and historic triumphs of one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Where to Watch:<\/strong><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/za\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Netflix<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Available to stream on <strong>Netflix<\/strong> in many regions including South Africa.<br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.primevideo.com\/offers\/nonprimehomepage\/ref=dv_web_force_root\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.primevideo.com\/offers\/nonprimehomepage\/ref=dv_web_force_root\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon Prime Video<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 You can watch or rent it digitally on <strong>Prime Video<\/strong> where available.<br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple TV<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Also available for <strong>rental or purchase<\/strong> on the Apple TV app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) is a sweeping biographical drama that chronicles the extraordinary life of Nelson Mandela, South Africa\u2019s anti-apartheid revolutionary, political prisoner, and first democratically elected Black president. Based on Mandela\u2019s own autobiography, the film follows his journey from a humble rural childhood, through decades of struggle and 27 years of imprisonment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-african-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/votters.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/votters.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/votters.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/votters.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/votters.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/votters.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2805,"href":"https:\/\/votters.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions\/2805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/votters.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/votters.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/votters.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/votters.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}