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August 4th, 2009
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Apartheid based on race is outlawed now, but the system always went far deeper than that. The cruelty and injustice were underwritten by an economic apartheid, which regarded people as no more than cheap expendable labor. It was backed by great business corporations in South Africa, Britain, the rest of Europe, and the United States. And it was this apartheid based on money and profit to allow a small minority to control most of the land, most of the industrial wealth, and most of the economic power. Today, the same system is called – without a trace of irony – the free market.
John Pilger was banned from South Africa for his reporting during the apartheid era. On his return thirty years later with Alan Lowery, he describes the extraordinary generosity of a liberated people, but asks who are the true beneficiaries of a democracy – the black majority or the white minority? Won the Gold Award in the category of ‘Film & Video Production: Political/International Issues’, Worldfest-Flagstaff, 1998; Certificate for Creative Excellence (third place), U.S. International Film & Video Festival, Elmhurst, Illinois, 1999.
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Whilst the Apartheid government may have not allowed equal rights what this film does not show is the vicious and cruel means by which the ANC tried to come to power through bombing innocent civilians, with blacks supporting the ANC necklacing their own people and burning down their own schools and institutions.
Winnie Mandela advocated and supported the “necklacing” method for killing suspected informers in kangaroo courts, a barbaric and inhumane manner of murder- today she walks free
At one stage Baragwanath hospital was one of the most sophisticated hospitals in the Southern hemisphere- a hospital for blacks and mine workers- not whites.
The Health minister of the ANC, Mantombazana Tshabalala-Msimang is indirectly responsible for sentencing 350 000 black people to death for not supplying anti-retroviral drugs to them.
The current president Zuma has been charged with money laundering, bribery, corruption and worst of all rape- all charges were dropped due to the sensitivity of the possible backlash in the country.
ANC cronies have looted the coffers of state and corruption is rife.
Whites are raped, tortured, mutilated and murdered by feral gangs. Their jobs are taken away and unless they join the ANC cannot find employment- so much for equal rights or addressing these policies. BEE is a policy of reverse racism in SA.
Today there are over 20 000 people murdered every year in South Africa since 1994, that is more than the total a hundred fold over of all the people murdered during apartheid.
After all of this…what price does equal rights come at and was apartheid the true evil portrayed in this documentary?
@chase abrahams is a typical racist South African thinking that the past was all rosy and today is all doom and gloom.
As a 43 year old white South African male, I can only tell the world how wrong he is and here’s why…
Firstly he picks out 1 or 2 “good” things that aparthied did for the black majority like a decent hospital, he forgets the shacks with no water or electricity that surrounded that hospital. He also forgets the schools around “one of the most sophisticated hospitals in the Southern hemisphere”, where black people were given only a basic education because the aparthied government said they’d never need a better education.
As for the murders and rapes that he’d like everyone to believe is happening to all whites, what a load of rubbish! I have a family of over 100 close relatives in South Africa, and not one has ever been murdered or raped, sure we’ve had stuff stolen from us, but who in the modern world where there are a minority of rich or middle class and a majority of poor people hasn’t had stuff stolen ?
The black people in SA are still by far the overwhelming majority of victims in most crimes, not the whites who can afford private security.
The fact is that when you spend centuries brutalising a nation based on their skin colour, you deny them an education and a role in the economy, how can you expect no violent crime or corruption ????
South Africa is a miracle nation, we had a bloodless revolution and it will take a genaration or 2 to normalise our society, but the miracle is that there isn’t more violent crime or civil war.
The 20 000 people murdered every year is also misleading, as over 80% of these murders are committed by people the victims knew, now that tells you that our society is traumatised and violent, a legacy of Aparthied’s cruel propaganda war not against an enemy, but against it’s own people, black and white.
@chase abrahams get real, stop defending our past, we white people were wrong, but we also made it right, our black brothers were hard done by, but they forgave, all round this is nothing short of a miracle..
Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika – God save Africa