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BBC - Reporting History: Mandela and a New South Africa (2019) Movies

Posted by notbanned at May 17, 2019

On the 25th anniversary of Mandela's election, BBC Correspondent Fergal Keane goes back to examine his reports, and considers why history did not turn out the way he expected. At the heart of the film is an interview in which Fergal explores his decades of reporting in South Africa, from the fear being caught up in violent protests to the joy of reporting for BBC Newsbeat as Mandela was sworn in. He also meets historians and other experts as he considers how Mandela’s legacy has played out.

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BBC Our World - Blasian Love in South Africa (2020) Movies

Posted by notbanned at March 1, 2020

Few events are more nerve wracking than meeting the parents of someone you love. For black and Asian couples in South Africa, it's even more challenging. The country's painful past means interracial dating is still often frowned upon. Meet Ithra and Tumelo, a 'Blasian' couple about to introduce their parents to each other.

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South Africa Walks with Julia Bradbury (2010) Movies

Posted by notleech at May 28, 2015

All the episodes from Julia Bradley's BBC series, where she journeys on four different walks across South Africa. Getting away from the usual tourist routes, Julia explores the Garden Route, the Drakensburg mountain range, the Kruger National Park and the Augrabies Falls at the edge of the Kalahari Desert.

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CH4 Unreported World - South Africa's Deadly Gold Rush (2018) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Nov. 24, 2018

Seyi Rhodes and director Eric McFarland visit Johannesburg to meet miners who are risking their lives to descend deep underground in South Africa's abandoned gold mines, hoping to scratch a dangerous living from whatever ore remains. With the mines controlled by violent gangs and surrounded by lawless settlements, Unreported World's miniature cameras capture the stark reality of life at the end of a gold rush.

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ITV - Trevor McDonald: Return to South Africa (2018) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Jan. 22, 2019

Trevor McDonald returns to where he conducted one of television's most historic interviews with Nelson Mandela. To mark what would have been Nelson Mandela's 100th birthday in 2018, Sir Trevor McDonald is back in the country which he first visited for ITN in the 1980's and where he conducted one of television's most historic interviews. Nearly three decades after the release of Mandela, Trevor returns to find a very different South Africa, hearing the stories of a diverse range of people whose fortunes and attitudes sum up a nation changes beyond all recognition. But is it truly the Rainbow Nation Nelson Mandela hoped it would become or is it a land of division, inequality and extremes?

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BBC - South Africa in Pictures (2010) Movies

Posted by FenixN at Oct. 7, 2011

British fashion photographer Rankin explores South Africa's rich photographic tradition, discovering how its photographers have captured this complex and turbulent nation through remarkable images and charting the role photography has played in documenting its story. Through encounters with conflict photographers the Bang Bang Club, documentary photographer David Goldblatt and photojournalist Alf Kumalo, Rankin goes on a moving photographic journey to see the nation through their gaze.

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BBC This World - South Africa: The Massacre That Changed a Nation (2013) Movies

Posted by vivid23 at April 30, 2013

In August 2012, 34 miners were shot dead by police as they protested outside a mine in Marikana, just outside Johannesburg. Nearly 50 years after he left South Africa as a teenager, Peter Hain MP returns to ask how the country of his childhood, once such a beacon of hope, is now the scene of such tragedy. Hain speaks to the families of some of the men killed at Marikana and uncovers a day of shocking brutality with many disturbing allegations.

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ITV On Assignment - Turkiye, South Africa and New York (2023) Movies

Posted by rwdfox at March 4, 2023

Peter Smith reports from Turkiye near the epicentre of the deadly earthquake that has cost tens of thousands of lives. Rageh Omaar travels to South Africa to uncover the truth about the country's devastating energy crisis.

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CH4 Unreported World - South Africa's Discipline Camps Exposed (2025) Movies

Posted by notbanned at March 26, 2025

Drug use among South Africa's youth is surging, as is violence in the classroom. Parents are struggling to control their children and a thriving 'troubled teen' industry has emerged. Twenty five-year-old Prince Motlou claims his Rising Stars Generation discipline camp offers military-style training that sends children back to their parents with newfound respect. However, Sahar Zand discovers an abusive side to its methods. This is no ordinary boot camp, but something far more sinister, with children marching for hours in the heat and without water. Physical violence is employed and there are allegations of sexual abuse.

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BBC - The Real Winnie Mandela (2010) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Oct. 21, 2018

Documentary about the late Winnie Mandela. Was she mother of the nation or an out-of-control egotist? Whilst her husband will forever be associated with taking South Africa to democracy, it is Winnie's life that most accurately mirrors the story of the struggle. The apartheid regime targeted her with harassment, torture and banishment, but Winnie responded with bravery and defiance bordering on recklessness. Illustrated with rich BBC archive drawn from the last seven decades and interviews with leading British and South African journalists, the film charts the role that Winnie played in the struggle and shows why she continues to divide opinion.

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