Word: apartheid
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...apartheid, South Africa had no film industry to speak of. Filmmakers had either been co-opted by the white regime for propaganda or driven underground. Foreign filmmakers - whose big budgets can help prop up smaller local industries - had stayed away. With apartheid gone and sanctions lifted, that changed. Television commercial producers from around the globe discovered that Cape Town combined a spectacular location with skilled, cheap crews. Movie makers found that South Africa's diverse landscape - savannah to desert, winelands to white-sand beaches - could stand in for almost anywhere, while the people of the Rainbow Nation, with a carefully...
...Hollywood found a great backdrop for its movies, it also fell in love with South Africa's stories. The end of apartheid narrative in particular - an epic of racist repression that climaxes in a transcendent moment of redemption under an iconic leader - is a movie script made real. And Hollywood has shot that script over and over again. In 2004, Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche made In My Country about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in the mid- to late '90s, and Hilary Swank starred as an attorney representing a black South African political activist seeking amnesty...
...rise and fall of a Johannesburg slumlord - a kind of South African American Gangster - which made its star, Rapulana Seiphemo, the new face of South African cinema. Later this year Seiphemo teams up with Tsotsi's Nkosi in White Wedding, a road movie that, with impressive maturity, plays apartheid's legacy of racial division for laughs...
...Kirkland.” Logan, who is currently a correspondent for 60 Minutes and CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, focused on several events in her life that she said have shaped the way she reports. The South African-born journalist stressed the importance of her upbringing during the apartheid era, comparing the period to the time during the American Constitution’s formation. “I saw what it really means to fight for democracy,” she said. “The lessons were so bloody.” Logan began writing for the Sunday...
...trouble making the transition from revolutionary to democrat. In office, Mandela expressed admiration for autocrats like Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi, and in his farewell speech to the ANC party conference in 1997 claimed South Africa's violent crime was part of a "counter-revolution" engineered by pro-apartheid whites "to render the country ungovernable." But in retirement, Mandela rediscovered his inner democrat, speaking out against tyranny, wherever he found it - even in his own party. In March 2007, at the funeral of Adelaide Tambo, wife of his longtime friend and comrade Oliver Tambo, the old man scolded the assembled...