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Nelson Mandela played cupid for Mel B

LONDON: Nobel Peace prize winner and former South African president Nelson Mandela once tried to play cupid by fixing a date between Spice Girl Melanie Brown and his cousin. The Wannabe hitmaker who met Mandela in 1997 in South Africa said that though she was not interested,the leader insisted that she meet his cousin,reported Contactmusic. Mandela was trying to pawn me off to date one of his cousins. I was trying to say to him Im not really interested and he said,No,no,no. Come and meet him now, Brown said.