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2) Sarafina!
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a world where truth is forbidden, an inspiring teacher dares to instill in her students lessons not found in schoolbooks. In doing so, she challenges their freedom and hers.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
"It could have been a bloodbath of historic proportions. But instead, one man made the end of apartheid possible: in February 1990, President F.W. de Klerk lifted the ban on the African National Congress and ordered the release of Nelson Mandela. As the world celebrated, Mandela would go on to become South Africa's first democratically elected president -- with de Klerk as his Vice President. But de Klerk's history is complicated. Before becoming...
Series
Publisher
California Newsreel
Pub. Date
1988.
Physical Desc
1 video cassette (102 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
Zulu
Description
Panic is a mapantsula, a Zulu term for a petty crook. Set in South Africa, he is imprisoned with Anti-apartheid activists. There he is transformed into a man willing to become involved with social change.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new account of Nelson Mandela's relationship with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Drawing on never-before-seen material, Steinberg reveals the fractures and stubborn bonds at the heart of a volatile and ground-breaking union, a very modern political marriage which was performed on the world stage"--
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
Poetry, politics, madness, and desire collide in the true story of the woman hailed as South Africa's finest poet. In 1960s Cape Town, as Apartheid steals the expressive rights of blacks and whites alike, young Ingrid Jonker finds her freedom scrawling verse while frittering through a series of stormy affairs. Amid escalating quarrels with her lovers and her rigid father, a parliament censorship minister, the poet witnesses an unconscionable event...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (141 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, it chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country's once segregated society.
16) Absolution
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In modern-day South Africa, Clare Walde tells the story of her sister's death and the disappearance of her daughter during apartheid twenty years earlier.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of the beloved Hum If You Don't Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time and discover the ways that love can transcend the strictest of boundaries.
In a squatter camp on the outskirts of Johannesburg, seventeen-year-old Zodwa lives in desperate poverty, under the shadowy threat of a civil war and a growing AIDS...
In a squatter camp on the outskirts of Johannesburg, seventeen-year-old Zodwa lives in desperate poverty, under the shadowy threat of a civil war and a growing AIDS...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When anti-apartheid activist Shack Twala is freed from prison, he quickly runs into trouble with the police. British engineer Keogh helps Twala elude a sadistic government official, but as both men, now fugitives, race 900 miles to cross the border to safety, they are drawn into a conspiracy much bigger and deadlier than they realize.
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