Durban artist Lungelo Gumede has been asked to paint Michelle Obama but would much rather model her in wax for his museum, he tells Ziphezinhle Msirnango. When 16-year-old Marie Tussaud created her first wax sculpture in 1777, and even when she opened Madam Tussauds in 1836, she couldn’t have imagined that almost two centuries later the museum would still be one of London’s major tourist attractions. (read full article…)

– SUNDAY TIMES, Lifestyle Magazine 31 Mar 2013 page 14