The Nelson touch

What have Morgan Freeman, Danny Glover, Terrence Howard, David Harewood, Dennis Haysbert, Clarke Peters and Sidney Poitier - among many others - got in common?

And we don't mean in a Luis Suarez kind of way.

They've all played Nelson Mandela - or Mandiba as he's popularly known in South Africa - in various films and TV dramas down the years.

Now the search is on for a suitable actor or actors to portray Mandiba, for that is also the title, in an expensive six hour TV mini-series which will track the history of the great man from his humble begnnings up to his accession as President of the new rainbow nation.

You may have spotted that all the actors mentioned above are either British or American. Nice if they could actually find a South African to play this most prestigious of roles.

Like Presley Cheweneyagae (pictured bottom), the charismatic star of the brutal 2005 drama Tsotsi.