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    Nando's drop Colonel Gaddafi advert over threats

    By Adam Parris-Long | Yahoo! News – Fri, Dec 2, 2011

    Nando's have pulled a controversial advert that featured Colonel Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein and Robert Mugabe due to threats to staff.

    The advert, aired in South Africa, contained lookalikes of deceased despots Saddam Hussein and Colonel Gaddafi as well as South African apartheid leader P W Botha and former Ugandan president Idi Amin. The 'Last dicator standing' short caused uproar in Zimbabwe where the "political reaction" and threats to staff have forced the ad to be dropped.

    "Nando’s South Africa takes these threats very seriously and will regrettably no longer flight the TV commercial," a spokeswoman said. "We feel strongly that this is the prudent step to take in a volatile climate and believe that no TV commercial is worth risking the safety of Nando’s staff and customers."
    The advert opens with a Robert Mugabe lookalike wistfully picking up a Colonel Gaddafi place card from an empty dinner table. In a dream sequence he is then met by the deceased Libyan dictator who starts a waterfight with a golden AK-47. Mugabe is then seen with PW Botha and Idi Amin, in which a scene from Titanic is recreated.

    Nando's South Africa is well known for controversial adverts which have frequently commented on political situations. The firm gave a tongue-in-cheek response to the expulsion of Julius Malema from the African National Congress, releasing an advert which stated "Juju, you've been served". The firm also responded to the South African Protection of the State Information Bill (referred to as the "secrecy bill") by releasing an advert with blacked out words- parodying censorship in the media.

    A Nando's UK spokeswoman earlier confirmed that there are no plans to bring to advert to the UK.
     

    99 comments

    • teacher
      teacher  •  5 months ago
      Now this is what you call humourous and absolutely hilarious! The pc brigade can sod off
    • Andy
      Andy  •  5 months ago
      Robert Mugabe can go take a running jump!
    • nick
      nick  •  5 months ago
      Oh come on, That ad was freakin genius, If Robert Mugabe was the thing people were complaining about they could of re-shot with Hitler.Picture all three on pink space hoppers hi-fiving each other. But death treats are well uncalled for.
    • JustHowIFeel
      JustHowIFeel  •  5 months ago
      LOL great ad, don't matter if they pull the ad now as once its on the net it's here forever.
    • Keen Key
      Keen Key  •  5 months ago
      Nando's are just chicken.
      • B
        B 5 months ago
        YUCK YUCK YUCK THE YOLKS ON YOU
      • B
        B 5 months ago
        THAT WAS FOWL
      • Keen Key
        Keen Key 5 months ago
        Don't flap he's just being cocky the young pullet, pecker up!
    • Motor-Mouth.
      Motor-Mouth.  •  5 months ago
      Love the add thought it a great joke.But then again I am British and we Brit's have a sense of humour.
      You only have to look at the comedians we vote into power every 4 yrs.lol lol
    • patience
      patience  •  5 months ago
      love it,good job nandos SA
    • Ark Royal R09
      Ark Royal R09  •  5 months ago
      Nothing wrong with it.......................................would be better if it had included Bush and Blair.
      • Mr N
        Mr N 5 months ago
        And the guns were real ...
    • Foxy
      Foxy  •  5 months ago
      Too close to the truth for Mr Murderer Mugabe methinks !!
      • The Bear
        The Bear 5 months ago
        And who on this planet gives $%&£ as to what that freak thinks Foxy
    • Yordanka
      Yordanka  •  5 months ago
      Well, I though it was funny. People should really stop being so uptight. It might cheer them up.
    • elizabeth
      elizabeth  •  5 months ago
      This made me laugh nearly as much as Jeremy Clarkson declaring all public sector workers should be executed for going on strike....that is Jeremy Clarkson who test drives cars and reports on them for a living. Why are interviewers asking a blokey bloke about politics? all you are going to get from him is the kind of drivel spouted in real ale pubs by middle class twits! but Mugabe and Gadaffi in a water fight, now that's proper international politics for you!!!
    • jackie
      jackie  •  5 months ago
      I found it hilarious. For God's sake, lighten up. It's only a bit of fun. There isn't much to laugh about at the moment is there?
    • Old
      Old  •  5 months ago
      Well i liked it!.
    • .
      .  •  5 months ago
      The advert has done its work well.
    • Vic.
      Vic.  •  5 months ago
      Mugabes democracy, one man one vote, ONCE. a TOTAL DISASTER OF A MAN. Has taken the garden of Africa and turned it into a desert. No OIL, so carry on.
    • rashieda
      rashieda  •  5 months ago
      lol its hilarious....!
    • sanchopanches
      sanchopanches  •  5 months ago
      They told in advert "last dictator", but forgot to mention another on in the centre of Europe- Alexander Lukashenko with his last communist reservation- Republic of Belarus
    • joe
      joe  •  5 months ago
      ClaRKSONS GOT NOTHING ON THAT .
    • frank
      frank  •  5 months ago
      the advert is funny and lets hope he gets buried in that sand
    • bee
      bee  •  5 months ago
      Funny while it lasted.
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