Nelson Mandela was sufficiently worried that the 2007 film ‘Blood Diamond’ would have a negative impact on those African economies which were reliant on diamond sales, that he reached out to Warner Brothers before its release. In his letter to director Ed Zwick, he wrote: “it would be deeply regrettable if the making of this film obscured the truth, and as a result led the world …to cease buying mined diamonds from Africa… we hope that the desire to tell a gripping and important real-life historical story will not result in the destabilisation of African diamond-producing countries and ultimat…
