Long Walk to Freedom pips Hollywood blockbusters

The film, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, has out grossed several box office favourites to come out as the highest grossing film in South Africa, earning R4,431,228 this past opening weekend. It outperformed opening weekend box office earnings of some of the biggest studio films of the year, including Hunger Games - Catching Fire, World War Z, The Wolverine, Hangover 3 and 'Schuks! Your Country Needs You', which earned R3,635,876.

The film also opened in the US on Friday 29 November, with exclusive engagements in New York and Los Angeles, earning an average of $25 076 per screen, the highest this past weekend.