A little synopsis about this (along with other South African documentaries) can be found
here:
"...this documentary was shot clandestinely during the State of the Emergency of the 1980s and subsequently banned. It is a dramatic exposure of the extent of apartheid’s violence and brutality. The narrative consists of testimonies of victims, as well as eyewitnesses to police repression and torture including children as young as fourteen, who were beaten in detention."
Whether it is the mass arrests and beating and sometimes shooting of
schoolchildren by the police, the absolutely amazing ignorance shown by "on-the-street" interviews with average South Africans (including some amazing sentiments expressed like the lady in Part 3 who supports
wiping out the blacks entirely) or the white Rugby manager who faced death threats and had his house burned down
merely for coaching and befriending black players, or the chilling descriptions (Part 5) of fatal wounds delivered to children by an undertaker (who was arrested by the police after interviewing) it's worth your time view...
and remember.
Almost everyone who was interviewed in this movie was arrested and imprisoned shortly after the film's release by South African authorities. A doctor interviewed in the film was assassinated by masked gunman. The license plate was recorded and traced back to Pretoria police. All further reporting of the assassination was
banned by the government. None of his family members were allowed to attend his own funeral.
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