Charlize Theron In Trouble Over Mandela Offer At OneXOne Charity Auction
Filed under: donations — Michael d'Estries @ 12:43 pm
October 28th 2009
Looks like Charlize Theron might have some explaining to do to the winner of that $140,000 kiss and prize pack.
The actress was on stage during a fundraising auction for the OnexOne charity offering up a trip to South Africa for next year’s World Cup finals and a meeting with Nelson Mandela. When bids stalled, she upped the ante with that famous 20-second kiss everyone was talking about later.
Unfortunately, that whole “meeting with Mandela” part of the package was never actually approved — something the Nelson Mandela Foundation is apparently quite pissed about.
“A very strict process needs to followed to get a meeting with Mandela,” the foundation’s chief executive, Achmat Dangor, told Beeld, an Afrikaans-language newspaper. “Not even the charity foundations Mandela himself established are allowed to auction off time with him.”
It makes sense that Mandela wouldn’t want to be attached to every single charity fundraiser, but it’s odd that such a high-profile event would mess up a detail like “asking permission”. Theron’s camp couldn’t be reached for comment — so we assume someone is running around trying to make amends here. Stay tuned.
