Urban and Rural Development Minister James Sankwasa says he has become a target of threats and surveillance linked to his reform agenda, but insists he is prepared to risk his life rather than allow the country to “deteriorate” under his watch. https://t.co/IfCtVpN6FO
Leonora Jacobs (formerly Airos), who starred as a child in the 1989 film The Gods Must Be Crazy II, currently lives in Keetmanshoop, Namibia. As of 2023, she is in her 40s, working as a shop assistant, and has expressed that she received little to no payment for her role in the globally successful movie. Leonora lives in her mother’s house with her three children.
She was 5 years old when it was filmed in 1985.
“𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙,” says Namibian actress Leonora Jacobs, revealing she was never paid for her role in the hit 1989 film "𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝘽𝙚 𝘾𝙧𝙖𝙯𝙮."
She expressed that she was very young and didn’t know much about earning as an actress and feels used now that she knows better, especially considering the fact that the movie grossed up to $6.3 million.