All eyes in South Africa are on Hollywood’s Oscar favourite Charlize Theron — even in Parliament, it was reported on Thursday.
In a motion before Parliament’s National Council of Provinces on Wednesday, a New National Party representative asked the house to congratulate Theron on her Golden Globe achievement, the Beeld newspaper reported.
Adrian van Niekerk also urged the gathering to note with appreciation that the blonde 28-year-old actress and model considers herself proudly South African.
The council adopted a motion asking that Theron, who stars as a serial killer in the film Monster, to speak ”a little Afrikaans” should she collect an Oscar award for her role.
Theron, who won a Golden Globe award for her role in Monster, was born in Benoni, a semi industrial area east of Johannesburg in 1975 of Afrikaner parents. She left the country as a teenager to fulfil modelling contracts abroad, and eventually settled in the United States. – Sapa