A fast paced, triumphant, yet complex representation of the political history of South Africa from the time of the discovery of gold in 1886 up to the election of Nelson Mandela as President in 1994.
Through the often bloody milestones that litter this path - including the Anglo-Boer War, 1922 miners strike, Passive Resistance and Defiance campaigns, Sharpeville massacre, 1976 uprisings, 1983 Tricameral Parliament protests, 1984 township uprisings, the ANC's bombing campaign, State-aided counter-revolutionary vigilante violence, the dreaded necklace executions, ANC/Inkatha violence and third force orchestrated train massacres - we are reminded of the human cost beneath South Africa's romantic memory of a miracle change.

1989, South Africa, 57 minutes


DIRECTED BY
Jürgen Schadeberg

Spoken Language
English

PRODUCER
Jürgen Schadeberg