Mangosuthu Buthelezi he still holds today. In 1963 and 1964 he served as adviser on the film "Zulu" about the Battle of Rorke's Drift and starring Michael Caine and Stanley Baker. Buthelezi also acted in the film, playing the role of his real-life great-grandfather, King Cetshwayo kaMpande. In 1970, Buthelezi was appointed leader of the KwaZulu territorial Authority and in 1976 became chief minister of the quasi-independent Bantustan of KwaZulu. The emerging Black Consciousness Movement of the 1970s branded him an Apartheid regime collaborator, because of his strong anti-Communist beliefs. However, he consistently declined homeland independence and political deals until Nelson Mandela
Stanley Baker released he played another villain role for Box and Thomas, "Campbell's Kingdom" (1957), opposite Dirk Bogarde, shot in Italy (substituting for Canada). He was meant to make "Tread Softly Stranger" with Diana Dors but George Baker was cast instead. "Hell Drivers" became a minor hit and at the end of the year, exhibitors voted Baker the seventh most popular British star at the British box office for 1957 (after Bogarde, Kenneth More, Peter Finch, John Gregson, Norman Wisdom and John Mills, and before Ian Carmichael, Jack Hawkins and Belinda Lee). "Hell Drivers" success saw Baker play a series of tough