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
Michael McConnell and Jack Baker v. Nelson". Baker and McConnell were still living as a married couple as late as May 2015. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed in 2015, "to decide the issue Jack Baker and Mike McConnell tried to bring before it in 1972: Do same-sex couples have a constitutional right to get married?" That case was dismissed "for want of a substantial federal question." Minnesota's Attorney General argued, in March 2015, as a friend of the court: "The procreation rationale [used by the Minnesota Supreme Court] does not support the prohibition of same-sex marriage" Michael McConnell and Jack Baker Michael McConnell and Jack