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Don't Shoot - 11 minute documentary
Riaan Cruywagen has been reading the news on television since it arrived in South Africa in 1976. He prides himself in the nickname "The face of news in South Africa" and his record of the longest serving Afrikaans news reader in the world. In the context of South Africa's spectacular transformation to democracy, Riaan explains how his professional ethics have kept him in the news reader's seat. Don't Shoot is part of the international documentary series called, Why Democracy. More...
   
Brothers in arms - a film by Jack Lewis
Brothers in Arms, is a tale of two countries: South Africa and Cuba, and of a family separated by 40 years of exile. It tells the story of Ronald Herboldt,    the only African to participate in the Cuban revolution, his love of his adopted country, his Cuban family and his determination to come home.
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A truly wonderful adventure - a film by Laddi Bosch
A Truly Wonderful Adventure tells the story of the 1980 student boycott in the Western Cape. Laddie Bosch, an ex-student of Spes Bona High, starts this story: "I was born in 1964... but it was in 1980 that I became a person."
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