Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who played his forebear, dismissed those in Kent who tried to ban the film The Prime Minister of the Zulu nation who appeared alongside Michael Caine in the 1964 epic film of the Battle of Rorke’s Drift has risen to defend the film’s cultural and historical merits after it was denounced as “inaccurate, distorted and racist”. Critics of the film, which is based on a ferocious battle from the Anglo-Zulu War in January 1879, called for it to be dropped at a fundraising event in Folkestone, citing risks that it “could have a negative effect on relationships within the changing and richly diverse communities” of the town in Kent. Although the screening went ahead after an acrimonious debate during which the film’s fans deried the would-be censors as “snowflakes”, organisers reported a poor turnout and low takings for armed forces…

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