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A three-part series in which the people of Soweto tell the story of Soweto, South Africa’s largest city, from the turn of the century to the present day.
A tribute to the pioneering South African painter Gerard Sekoto, who died in exile in Paris during the making of this film.
Covers: Milner, Kruger, gold; two Boer republics humiliate the British Empire, guerilla and commando versus blockhouse and concentration camp; toll and legacy of war. Presented by Dr J R Smith with Professor...
Shows the work of a number of Ndebele women artists in South Africa who are famous for their skills at decorating houses. The traditional designs are geometic shapes like triangles and zig-zags, often...
Filmed openly in South Africa for the first time, this video charts the involvement of the South African authorities at the highest level in the murder of political opponents. Shows how the black-on-black...
An insight into the South Africa police, in which officers talk frankly about their work and their politics. Follows members of the Cape Riot Unit during a time of unrest in Cape Town. Both black and white...
Athol Fugard and John Kani, who together with Winston Ntshona devised ‘The Island’, trace the background of this fiercely funny and critical play. Set in the South African prison of Robben Island, where...
Shows what happens when the apparently awkward Nick Broomfield tries to make a film about the white right-wing neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement and its leader Eugene Terreblanche. Broomfield lulls his...
Sir Laurens van der Post, who has devoted much of his life to the plight of the disappearing Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert, lectures to the Royal Geographical Society on exploration, recalling his original...
Considers isolation, censorship and social deprivation in South Africa. Participants include writers Andre Brink, Don Mattera, Njabulo Ndebele, Albie Sachs, Heim Willemse and Lauretta Ngcobo.
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