Keeping Up with the Mandela's Not the Kardashian's
Three grandchildren of former South African president, Nelson Mandela, are set to star in their own reality TV show to be aired in the United States, possibly beginning in January of 2012.
The Boston-American raised granddaughters of Mandela told the Guardian newspaper in a press conference, "We are exposing Africa for what it is...with a new middle class of intellectuals...contributing to the economy."
The show will be following sisters – Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway, 34, and Swati Dlamini, 32, and cousin Dorothy Adjoa Amuah, 27, as the show documents their personal and professional lives as African women and mothers.
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"We're definitely not the African Kardashians," Amuah was quick to warn at a press conference.
The show came about when Dlamini-Manaway was able to arrange a meeting with Dr. Robert Rey, the star of an E! reality show about plastic surgery in Beverly Hills, visited South Africa who then pitched the idea to executive producer Rick Leed.
"The pieces of the puzzle just fitted, the decision was fast, one Skype call and the rest, as they say, is history," Leed said.
One of the production companies involved in the show, the Cutting Edge, says the Mandela family supports "the right for their children to choose their own destiny and their own path."
Other descriptions of the show include "refreshingly authentic" and describes the women as "positive role models to women all over the world."
