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Collectie NiZA: VIDEO-ITEMS UIT/OVER ZUIDELIJK AFRIKA 

Collection NiZA: VIDEO-ITEMS FROM/ON SOUTHERN AFRICA 

(April 2009) 

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Come back Africa / dir. by Lionel Rogosin. - South Africa, Johannesburg ; USA, New York : Rogosin, 1960. 

- Video : VHS; 90 min. B/W picture 

Call number: BG V8/001 

Keywords: * South Africa * migrant workers * apartheid system * labour relations * Sophiatown * rural-urban 

relations * history; 1945-1960 

Summary: 

This classic documentary tells the story of Zachariah, a Zulu man 

who is driven from his rural home in Zululand to the shantytowns of 

Johannesburg to find work in the goldmines, and later in a variety 

of low payed jobs. The film offers a vivid view of the everyday 

life in Johannesburg's black community, contrasting Zachariah's 

docile, subservient behaviour on the job and as himself as a quiet, 

reserved person trying to survive. Using documentary and dramatic 

sequences, the film is a valuable document of the lives of black 

intellectuals, writers, journalists, and labourers, with Miriam 

Makeba making her screen debut in an unforgettable sequence in a 

shebeen in Sophiatown. No professional actors used. 

Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood * VZA 001. Also on VZA 075 

The magic garden / dir. by Donald Swanson. - UK, London : [s.n.], 1961. - Video : VHS; 62 min. 

Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Alexandra * jazz * history; 1945-1960 * feature films (form) 

Summary: 

Very funny South African slapstick, filmed in Alexandra, with the 

use of local inhabitants as amateur actors, and music from the 

'Jazz Maniacs' and Dolly Rathebe. 

Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood * VZA 002 

Ninety days / prod. and dir. by Jack Gold. - UK, London : BBC, 1966 [?]. - Video : VHS; 54 min. 

B/W picture. 


Keywords: * South Africa * First, Ruth (1925-1982) * detention * law and government * feature films (form) 

Summary: 

This film is about the arrest and detention of Ruth First, 

anti-apartheid activist, in 1963, under the General law Amendment 

Act (ninety-days detention law), that authorises any commissioned 

officer to detain without a warrant people suspected of political 

activities and to hold them, without access to a lawyer, for ninety 

days. In practice, people were often released after ninety days and 

immediately re-detained for a further ninety-day period. Ruth First 

is played by Ruth First.

Remarks: Picture quality: bad * VZA 003 

Last grave at Dimbaza / dir. by Nana Mahomo. - UK, London : Moreno Films, 1973. - Video : VHS; 52 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * Bantustans * forced removals * working conditions * social 

and economic rights * social-economic conditions * education * NP * foreign investment * resettlement * 

families 

Summary: 

Classical documentary about the horrors of apartheid, filmed in 

secret by a PAC film crew that went into exile after finishing the 

film. It reviews the full range of the racial policy, pass system, 

military might, segregation and inequality in industry, housing, 

medical services, education and especially the effects of the 

system on black family life. 


Six days in Soweto / prod. and dir. by Antony Thomas. - UK, London : IDAF, 1977. - Video : VHS; 50 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto uprising (1976-1977) * history; 1970s 

Summary: 

The Soweto uprising of June 1976 marked a turning point in South 

Afrixcan history. This film looks at the uprising, its causes and 

its aftermath. Through interviews and verite footage, the camera 

provides a unique and intimate look at the dynamics of black family 

life, against the backdrop of the South African apartheidsystem. 

The six days are recreated in full, with stories from many of the 

original participants in the uprisings. The film is not merely a 

record of rebellion against the violence of apartheid, but an 

insight into the daily lives and consciousness of the people in Soweto. 


The search for Sandra Laing / dir. Antony Thomas. - UK, London : IDAF, 1977. - Video : VHS; 50 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * ethnic relations 

Summary: 

A dark skinned girl is born into a white skinned family in a colour 

prejudiced society. The child is excluded from the society of her 

family, and her story reveals the pain and injustice of the 

apartheid system. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 006 

Rythm of resistance / dir. by Chris Austin, Jeremy Marre. - UK, London : Harcourt/Virgin, 1978. - Video : 

VHS; 47 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * blacks * music * apartheid system * migrant workers * rural areas 

Summary: 

A beautiful portrayal of black culture in apartheid South Africa. 

Music from single sex hostels (all-night singing/dancing contests), 

the music in rural areas, township music, the problems for black 

musicians with a white dominated music industry and radio 

censorship. The defiant character of black music is emphasized. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough (bad at the start) * VZA 007 

Light in a dark world : the life of Solomon T. Plaatje / prod. and dir. by Kate Turkington. - South Africa, 

Johannesburg : University of the Witwatersrand Television Unit, 1979. - Video : VHS; 55 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Plaatje, Solomon Tshekisho (1876-1932) * ANC * history; 19th century * history; 

1900-1914 * history; 1914-1920 * history; 1920-1939 * biographies (form) 

Summary: 

Biographical documentary of Solomon T. Plaatje, black journalist, 

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editor, writer, and politician, one of the founders of the ANC. 

With lots of archival footage, narrated by his grandson. 


Wat is apartheid / School TV Weekjournaal. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1980?. - Video : VHS; 12 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * educational materials (form) * apartheid system 

Summary: 

Uitleg over wat apartheid is n.a.v. het VN sanctiejaar tegen Zuid - 

Afrika. Met een interview met David de Beer. 


Jabula : a band in exile / prod. and dir. by Jan Bernard Bussemaker. - UK, London : Channel Four, 1988. - 

Video ; 40 min. First released: 1980. 


Keywords: * South Africa * music * exile 

Summary: 

A portrait of a band in exile, its music and its members, Julian 

Bahula, Lucky Ranku, Pinise Saul a.o.. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VZA 010 

'Isitwalandwe' : the story of the South African Freedom Charter / dir. by Barry Feinberg ; VNS. - UK, 

London : IDAF, 1980. - Video : VHS; 51 min. Also on VSA 014 


Keywords: * South Africa * history; 1945-1960 * Freedom Charter * Treason Trial (1956-1961) * high treason 

Summary: 

This film is about the Freedom Charter, a people's blueprint for 

democracy, that was adopted at the Congress of the people, held on 

June 25-26, 1955. On the first day the Isitwalandwe awards were 

given to Yusuf Dadoo, Albert Luthuli, and Trevor Huddleston, for 

their role in the Anti-apartheid struggle. On June 26 the Freedom 

Charter was accepted by the 3000 representatives of the people. The 

film also depicts the apartheid regime's response to the Freedom 

Charter: the arrest of 156 leaders and the Treason Trial that would 

take four and a half years and ended in the acquittal of all the 

accused. The film is a combination of rare archival footage and 

impassionated interviews with leaders who were there at the time. 


Abaphuciwe : the dispossessed / dir. by Gavin Younge, Amanda Younge. - UK, London : Gavin Younge, 

1980. - Video : VHS; 40 min. Also on VZA 033 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * forced removals * migrant workers * tenant farmers * women 

workers * wages * resettlement * Crossroads 

Summary: 

This documentary shows how large areas of the country where black 

people live are being forcibly cleared, the inhabitants being moved 

hundreds of miles into barren reserves. There are interviews with 

black families in rural areas who are being systematically 

dispossessed of their land and forced into overcrowded reserves 

where there are no jobs, no fertile land and high mortality rates. 

The film explores the plight of the black worker under the 

apartheidsystem: being payed low wages, having to live as a migrant 

worker, facing the perpetual threat of removal back to the 

reserves. The last section focuses on women resisting removal in 

the squattercamp of Crossroads. 


Il diritta al cappotto : spettacolo sull apartheid. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1980?. - Video : VHS; 43 min. 


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Keywords: * theatre 

Summary: 

Theatre performance by Mathilde Wijnbergh. 

Remarks: picture quality: bad * VZA 013 

Shadowplay / written and dir. by Oliver Stapleton. - UK, London : NFS, 1980. - Video : VHS; 70 min. 

B/W (green) picture 


Keywords: * South Africa * UK * political refugees * intelligence services * feature films (form) 

Summary: 

A kind of experimental paranoia thriller concerning South African 

exiles in London. Interspersed with fragments from Alan Fugard's 

stage play "Statements from an arrest under the immorality act". 


Amandla Cultural Group live in Rotterdam 3-12-80. - Nederland, [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1980. - Video : VHS; 60 

min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * ANC * performing arts 

Summary: 

Registration of an Amandla performance in Rotterdam. 


Soweto Dawn / dir. by Mark Lawrie ; prod. by Devereux Harris. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Video Lab, 

1980. - Video : VHS; 5+5+10 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * jazz * music artists 

Summary: 

Three times the same videoclip with the music "Soweto Dawn" from 

Mike Makhalemele, sax player. The second time there is a poem by 

Zakes MDA shown as english subtitle, the third version is preceded 

by an interview with Makhalemele. 


I talk about me - I'm Africa / Chris Austin ; Arena. - UK, London : BBC, 1980. - Video : VHS; 55 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * theatre * Africans 

Summary: 

Four black South African theatergroups at work, with different 

kinds of 'grassroots communitytheatre'. Fragments of their 

performances and interviews with the makers. The Crossroads woman's 

committee, The Gibson Kente Company, The James Mthoba Workshop, 

Mihloti Black Theatre with Ingoapele Madingoane. 


Mercenaries / ed. Robert Oliver ; TV eye. - UK, London : Thames, 1981. - Video : VHS; 26 min. 

Start: na 121 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Angola * UK * mercenaries 

Summary: 

Documentary about the secret war of South Affrica in Angola, were 

they claim only to attack Namibian SWAPO fighters, but are in fact 

in war with the Angolan army, and the role of British mercenaries in it. 


Miriam Makeba / Vara Studio 1. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 1979. - Video : VHS; 25 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * music * Makeba, Zenzile Miriam (1932- ) 

Summary: 

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Optreden van Miriam Makeba. 


Opstaan uit wanhoop / dir. by Chris Austin ; prod. by Elisabeth Wolpert. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 

1981. - Video : VHS; 47 min. + See: filmalfabet. Original: Awake from mourning (On VZA 021) 

Dutch subtitles. Start: na 73 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto * women's organisations * women's empowerment 

Summary: 

Documentaire over de zelfhulpaktiviteiten van vrouwen in Soweto, 

waar ze na de opstand van 1976 een stichting vormden, de Maggie 

Magaba Trust, om vrouwengroepen op te zetten en te ondersteunen: 

bijv. groentetuintjes opzetten, naaiateliers, gezamelijke 

gaarkeukens, opvang en scholing van kinderen etc. Deze activiteiten 

creëren een sterk saamhorigheidsgevoel wat tot verdere politisering kan leiden. 


De slag om Zuid-Afrika / prod. by Howard Stringer ; Actuele documentaire. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 

1979. - Video : VHS; 49 min. + See: filmalfabet 

Original: CBS Reports with Bill Moyers: The battle for South Africa. Produced by CBS News,1978. 

Dutch comment and subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto uprising (1976-1977) * independence struggle * Frontline states * youth 

Summary: 

A documentary abouth the situation two years after the Soweto 

uprising (of which pictures are shown) , which caused many students 

to go abroad in order to receive a guerilla training. The situation 

in the frontlinestates is also pictured, and many leaders 

interviewed. Kaunda claims that the root cause for all problems in 

Africa is Apartheid. Oliver Tambo, president of the ANC, explains 

that the fact that they look for support at communist countries 

doesn't mean that they are communists themselves ('our revolution 

is older than the socialist revolution'), but merely that support 

from the west is lacking. Thabo Mbeki, an ANC commander, explains 

that the whites in South Africa cannot isolate themselves from the 

blacks. After the film an interview of Sonja Barend with Karel 

Roskam, who is propagating at least economic sanctions if the West 

refuses to give armed support. 


South Africa....at the crossroads / dir. by John Bush ; Weekend World. - UK, London : LWT, 1981. - Video 

: VHS; 55 min. Start: na 147 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Botha, Pieter Willem (1916-2006) * political scenarios* 

Summary: 

A film about a plan of PW Botha to make South Africa a federal 

state, where in the federal assembly and cabinet the whites would 

retain a majority, but in the individual states blacks would also 

get the vote, accept for one entirely white state around Pretoria 

and Johannesburg. Blacks nor whites seem really enthusiastic about it. 


You have struck a rock / dir. by Georgina Karvellas, Debbie May. - Switzerland, Geneva : UN, 1981. - Video : 

VHS; 32 min. Durtch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * women * anti-apartheid resistance 

Summary: 

Overview of the role the women play in the anti-apartheid struggle 

in South Africa. 


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South Africa belongs to us / dir. by Chris Austin ; Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1981. - Video : 

VHS; 55 min. Dutch subtitles and comment 

Original an Gerhard Schmidt production im Auftrag des WDR, Köln, 1980. 


Keywords: * South Africa * women * Bantustans * anti-apartheid resistance * social-economic conditions 

Summary: 

This film gives a clear picture of the influence of the apartheid 

system on black South African women. They are being repressed in 

three ways: as blacks, as women and as labourers. Different women 

tell of their experiences in the bantustans, as house workers for 

white families and as nurses. Also with Winnie Mandela. 


Awake from mourning / Chris Austin. - UK, London : Elisabeth Wolpert, 1981. - Video : VHS; 50 min. 

See also VZA 018 for a Dutch subtitled version ("Opstaan uit wanhoop") 


Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto uprising (1976-1977) * women's empowerment * civic associations 

Summary: 

A film in memory of the children who died in the 1976 Soweto 

uprisings, this video is about the inspiration of the parents born 

through the courage of their children. The story revolves around 

four black women, involved in the struggles of their community in 

Soweto, who decided in 1979 to give support to the growth of the 

self-help movement among black women in South Africa. They created 

the Maggie Magaba Trust for the development of women in general. It 

was these four trustees - Helen Khuzwayo, Joyce Seroke, Sally 

Matlana and Magdalene Mokgatha - who conceived the idea of making a 

film to give the work of the trust a broader audience. Seroke 

describes seperate education offered to black students and the 

frustrations it causes; Motlana explores the hardships of the aged 

and disabled; Mokgatha visits a family supported by the trust and 

Khuzwayo discusses problems with people in a rural resettlement area. 


This we can do for justice and peace / dir. and prod. by Kevin Harris. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Kevin 

Harris Productions, 1981. - Video : VHS; 20 min. With time-code. 


Keywords: * South Africa * church and society * SACC * Tutu, Desmond Mpilo (1931- ) 

Summary: 

The role of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) is 

outlined in its function as the voice of the voiceless, opposing 

injustice and seeing to the more immediate needs of those afflicted 

by it in the form of relief aid and finance for education. The film 

is a desperate plea for change. With lots of Tutu. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough. * VZA 022 

Ons is almal werkers. - South Africa, [Cape Town?] : [s.n.], 1981 [?]. - Video : VHS; 33 min. 

English comment and voice over. 


Keywords: * South Africa * FAWU * strikes * consumer boycotts * wages * living conditions * working 

conditions * contract labour 

Summary: 

A report of the strike and consumer boycott at Fatti's and Moni's, 

a food industry and retail chain for macaroni, bread, flour etc., 

that had mainly black customers. Five active members of a 

non-registered union were fired, after which a strike started that 

would last six months. Interviews with some of the fired workers. 

Pictures of the (bad) living conditions in a hostel in Crossroads, 

the system of contract labour, a representative of the Food and 

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Canning Workers Union interviewed about the strike. It ended with 

an agreement with the firm that was acceptable for those on strike. 


Onrecht voor één is onrecht voor allen / red. Harry Prins, Frank Diamand ; De Onderste Steen. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 1981. - Video : VHS; 52 min. 

Dutch subtitles when necessary. Also on VZA 033 


Keywords: * South Africa * trade unions * apartheid system * living conditions 

Summary: 

Een dokumentaire over vakbonden in Zuid-Afrika, het dagelijks leven 

van zwarte arbeiders, vaak lastig door politie-optreden, de 

problemen van organisatie van onafhankelijke vakbonden onder 

apartheid. De documentaire wordt gevolgd door een gesprek met Karel Roskam. 


To the last drop of blood / dir. by Peter Taylor ; Panorama. - UK, London : BBC, 1981. - Video : VHS; 48 

min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * political violence * military * guerrilla war * Sharpeville 

massacre (1960) * Soweto uprising (1976-1977) * extrajudicial killing 

Summary: 

A film about the background and motives from the ANC to change from 

non-violent resistance movement to a movement that uses violence 

aginst the white minority-regime (that was after the Sharpville 

massacre in 1960). Both sides in the conflict get a change to 

explain their actions. The title comes from a quote from Winnie 

Mandela: "We shall fight till the last drop of our blood". 


Country lovers / dir. Manie van Rensburg. - Lesotho, [S.l.] : Profile Productions, 1981. - Video : VHS; 58 

min. Book and screenplay by Nadine Gordimer. 


Keywords: * South Africa * sexual relationships * ethnic relations 

Summary: 

A relation between a white farmerboy and a black girl. When the 

girl gives birth to a child, they kill it and go to trial for murder. 


The hungry earth / Written&dir. by Maishe Maponya ; Bahumutsi Theatre Company of Soweto. - South 

Africa, Johannesburg ; UK, London : Togail Ltd., 1981 ¸. - Video : VHS; 126 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * social-economic conditions * plays (form) 

Summary: 

A play performed by the Bahumutsi Theatre Company of Soweto in the 

Oval in London. About the daily struggle for survival as a human 

being, of miners and migrant workers, their longing for a better 

future, to gain control over one's own life and their need for 

freedom. Scenes of daily life are depicted: hunger, survival, 

police, campaign against the passbooks and arrest. 


My Country, my hat : loose your pass and you loose your life / dir. by David Bensusan. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : VPRO, 1982. - Video : VHS; 90 min. 

Originally produced by: Bensusan Films Ltd, Johannesburg. Dutch subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * criminal law 

Summary: 

A low budget feature film about the sad plight of a passless black 

man in his attempts to find employment. 

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Remarks: Picture quality: not so good. * VZA 028 

Mazimbu - proeftuin voor een bevrijd Zuid-Afrika / prod. en reg. Anke Scheepvaart ; Anti-Apartheids 

Beweging Nederland. - Nederland, Amsterdam : Belbo Film Productions ; Novib Gast aan Tafel, 1982 ¸. - 

Video : VHS; 30 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Tanzania * Soweto uprising (1976-1977) * torture * education programmes * ANC 

* anti-apartheid resistance 

Summary: 

Verslag over een ANC school in Tanzania, waar gevluchte leerlingen 

uit Zuid-Afrika, die na de opstand in Soweto genoeg hadden van het 

Bantu-onderwijs, opgeleid worden voor een Zuid-Afrika zonder 

apartheid. In de film vertellen ze over de verschrikkingen van 

Bantu-onderwijs en politie martelingen, maar ook over hun 

toekomstdromen. Ook komt de nadruk op cultuur binnen het onderwijs aan bod. 


Dubbelleven deel 4: Stephan Sanders in gesprek met Breyten Breytenbach / samenst. Manuela 

Hartsuyker ; Kwartslag. - Nederland, Hilversum : Humanistisch Verbond, 1982 [?]. - Video : VHS; 18 min 


Keywords: * South Africa * exile * cultural identity * Breytenbach, Breyten (1939- ) 

Summary: 

Interview met Zuid-Afrikaanse schrijver in Parijse ballingschap 

Breyten Breytenbach, over ballingschap en identiteit. 


Woza Albert / spelreg. Barney Simon ; Company. - South Africa, Johannesburg : KRO/RKK, 1982. - Video : 

VHS; 53 min. Original a BBC production. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * plays (form) * apartheid system 

Summary: 

Interview over het ontstaan het maken en het spelen van dit 

befaamde toneelstuk met de spelers Mbongeni Ngema en Percy Mtwa; 

het toneelstuk zelf en fragmenten van het leven in Zuid-Afrika 

onder apartheid. 


Stories by Nadine Gordimer: 1] Praise 2] A chip glass of ruby 3] Oral history / screenplays Nadine 

Gordimer ; dir. by Richard Green, Ross Devenish, Peter Chappel. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA ; NOS, 

1982. - Video : VHS; 54, 54 & 57 min. Produced by Profile Productions for VARA/NOS. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * literature * Gordimer, Nadine (1923- ) 

Summary: 

Three stories of Nadine Gordimer. Screenplays by herself. Praise 

was directed by Green, A chip of glass ruby was directed by 

Devenish, Oral history by Chappel. 


Woza Albert / prod. by David M. Thompson. - Nederland, Hilversum : KRO, 1982. - Video : VHS; 53 min. 

Dutch subtitles. Originally produced for BBC 


Keywords: * South Africa * plays (form) 

Summary: 

This play asks what would happen if Jesus Christ chose the 

self-avowedly Christian country of South Africa for his second 

coming. The authrities are flattered at first when Jesus arrives, 

but when he opposes injustice he is arrested as agitator. All the 

parts inthis video are played by the two actors and creators of 

the play: Percy Mtwa and Mbongeni Ngena. They discuss the genesis 

of various extracts of the play as these are interspersed with 

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footage of the markets, labour exchanges, train stations, the 

open-air barbers, youthful street vendors and aged scavengers, who 

were the inspiration for the sketches. 


Abaphuciwe : the dispossessed / dir. by Gavin Younge, Amanda Younge ; Hier en Nu. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : NCRV, 1980. - Video : VHS; 35 min. Also on VZA 012. Start: na 204 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * forced removals * migrant workers * tenant farmers * women 

workers * wages * resettlement * Crossroads 

Summary: 

This documentary shows how large areas of the country where black 

people live are being forcibly cleared, the inhabitants being moved 

hundreds of miles into barren reserves. There are interviews with 

black families in rural areas who are being systematically 

dispossessed of their land and forced into overcrowded reserves 

where there are no jobs, no fertile land and high mortality rates. 

The film explores the plight of the black worker under the 

apartheidsystem: being payed low wages, having to live as a migrant 

worker, facing the perpetual threat of removal back to the 

reserves. The last section focuses on women resisting removal in 

the squattercamp of Crossroads. Followed by an interview with 

Oliver Tambo, who gives his opinion on the film and hopes the Dutch 

will start an oil boycott. 


Borderline : a view of Southern Africa / presented by Anthony Verrier ; ed. Kevin Lester ; prod. by Alan 

Bell. - UK, Birmingham : ATV, 1979. - Video : VHS; 54 min. Start: na 151 min. 


Keywords: * Southern Africa * Frontline states * international economic relations * international political 

relations * politics 

Summary: 

Film that shows the 'state of affairs' in the frontline states in 

1979, with much attention given to economic interests that 

influence the political developments, for instance De Beers and 

Anglo American in Botswana, Rossing Uranium Mine and Rio Tinto Zinc 

Coorperation in Namibia. 

Remarks: Picture quality: verybad * VZA 033 

Kinderen van Soweto / eindred. Ad Langebent ; reg. Piet Kaart ; Brandpunt. - Nederland, Hilversum : KRO, 

1982. - Video : VHS; 22 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Tanzania * apartheid system * children * refugees * ANC * anti-apartheid 

resistance * torture 

Summary: 

Children who fled South Africa after the Soweto uprising were 

received in Mazimbu, an ANC reception camp in Tanzania. They tell 

about their experiences, like police torture. With archival footage 

of the Soweto uprising. 


Onrecht voor één is onrecht voor allen / red. Harry Prins, Frank Diamand ; De Onderste Steen. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 1981. - Video : VHS; 52 min. 

Dutch subtitles when necessary. Start: na 22 min. 

Also on VZA 024 


Keywords: * South Africa * trade unions * apartheid system * living conditions 

Summary: 

Een dokumentaire over vakbonden in Zuid-Afrika, het dagelijks leven 

van zwarte arbeiders, vaak lastig door politie-optreden, de 

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problemen van organisatie van onafhankelijke vakbonnden onder 

apartheid. De documentaire wordt gevolgd door een gesprek met Karel Roskam. 


Portrait of Nelson Mandela / dir. Frank Diamand ; Vara Visie. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 1978. - 

Video : VHS; 20 min. Dutch subtitles. Start: na 131 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * ANC * apartheid system 

Summary: 

Film about Nelson Mandela, the ANC leader imprisoned on 

Robbenisland, with interviews with his daughter Zenani and Ruth 

First. With lots of archival footage. 


Wie boycot Zuid Afrika ? / Panoramiek. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1982. - Video : VHS; 28 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * Frontline states * Netherlands * parliamentarians * economic sanctions 

Summary: 

Een groep van vijf Nederlandse kamerleden, waaronder Jan Nico 

Scholten, reisde door de Frontlijnstaten, om eens te onderzoeken 

hoe er tegen sancties tegen Zuid-Afrika wordt aangekeken. Het 

blijkt dat de Frontlijnstaten zelf economisch zó afhankelijk zijn 

van Zuid-Afrika dat ze zich een economische boycot niet kunnen 

veroorloven. Wel vinden ze het gewensd dat het Westen daartoe over 

gaat. Onder andere een interview met Harry Oppenheimer, directeur 

van Anglo American, de Zuidafrikaanse gigant met grote belangen in 

de regio, onder andere de kopermijnen in Zambia en de diamantmijnen in Botswana. 


Zuid-Afrika - olieboycot / Hier en Nu. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 1980. - Video : VHS; 19 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * Shell * oil embargo * oil trade 

Summary: 

Tutu legt uit dat een olie boycot toch nodig is , ondanks het feit 

dat de zwarten er ook onder zullen lijden (het is beter om te 

lijden met een doel voor ogen dan gewoon maar doorgaan met lijden). 

Jan Nico Scholten, Nederlands CDA-dissident, is voor een boycot. 

Martin Baily, VN-waarnemer en journalist, legt uit waarom olie de 

zwakke plek van Zuid-Afrika is, zowel vanuit economisch als 

militair stanpunt bekeken. De Shell-smokkelroute van Curaçau naar 

Durban wordt ook behandeld. Opmerkelijk genoeg voorspellen veel 

zwarte Zuid-Afrikanen als ze gevraagd wordt hoe hun land er over 

tien jaar uit zal zien, dat Nelson Mandela dan president zal zijn. 


Stories by Nadine Gordimer: 1] Good climate, friendly inhabitants 2] Six feet of the country 3] City 

lovers / dir. by Lynton Stephenson, Barney Simon. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA ; NOS, 1982. - Video : 

VHS; 57, 28 & 53 min. Produced by Profile Productions for VARA/NOS. Dutch subtitles 



Summary: 

Three stories of Nadine Gordimer. Screenplays by Barney Simon, who 

also directed the third story (City lovers). 


"Radio Freedom : de stem van het verzet" / Omroep voor Radio Freedom. - Nederland, Amsterdam : 

[s.n.], 1982?. - Video : VHS; 22 min. 


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Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * Radio Freedom * ANC 

Summary: 

Eerst een geschiedenis van apartheid en het ANC in vogelvlucht, en 

de rol die Radio Freedom speelt in het verzet; daarna de diaserie 

"Radio Freedom - de stem van het verzet", die in opdracht van 

Omroep voor Radio Freedom - een club Hilversumse programmamakers 

die solidair is met Radio Freedom - is gemaakt. Getoond worden 

dia's van de studio's van Radio Freedom in Zambia, Angola en Ethiopië. 


Last supper in Horstley Street / dir. Lindy Wilson. - South Africa, Rondebosch : Lindy Wilson Productions, 

1983. - Video : VHS; 50 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * Cape Town * Coloureds * District Six * forced removals * 

Group Areas Act* 

Summary: 

A film about the forced removals as a result of the Group Areas Act 

in South Africa. About 33.000 coloureds from District Six near Cape 

Town were forced to move by the end of 1982. 


The workers' struggle in South Africa. - UK, Oxford ; UK, London : TUIREG ; CIIR, 1983. - Video : VHS; 

24 min. Also on VZA 083 


Keywords: * South Africa * workers * workers' rights * working conditions * trade unions * apartheid system * 

history; 20th century 

Summary: 

A history of the South African trade unions in the era of 

apartheid. The apartheid system is explained in terms of 

Bantustans, contract labour, pass laws and police repression: in 

the view of these circumstances the growth of the trade unions is 

almost incredible. The founding of SACTU (South African Congress of 

Trade Unions) in the fifties, the severe repression in the sixties, 

the growing strength in the seventies, the Wiehahn Commission, who 

researched the labour relations in South Africa, the new Labour 

Relation Act, the founding of FOSATU (Federation of South African 

Trade Unions, voorloper van COSATU), which was based upon 

non-racial principles, CUSA, which aimed only at black workers, the 

Food and Canning Workers Union, characterised by its very 

democratic structures, and SAAWU (South African Allied Workers 

Union), which takes a clear political stance, passthe stage. 


Afravision #10: Mayfair / dir. Tony Bensusan, Wendy Schwegmann, ... [et al.]. - UK, London : Afravision 

Ltd, 1984. - Video : VHS; 27 min. 

This film was made by Tony Bensusan, Deborah Morgan, Wendy Schwegmann, Brian Tilly and Paul 

Weinberg for the Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in South Africa. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Coloureds * apartheid system * Group Areas Act* 

Summary: 

The multi-racial Johannesburg community Mayfair is declared an 

Indian Group Area. Poor blacks & whites are to be evicted. 

Remarks: Picture quality: ? * VZA 038 

Swedish TV on South Africa / Projektledare Bo Bjelfvenstam ; Fakta. - Sweden, Stockholm : TV1, 1983. - 

Video : VHS; 60 min. Swedish subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * South Africa * history * apartheid system * Mabuza, Lindiwe 

Summary: 

Comprehensive Swedish documentary on the history of South Africa 

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since the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck. For the first period 

fragments of old black&white feature films are used as 'archival 

footage'. Much attention is given to the development of the 

apartheid system. Also with Lindiwe Mabusa from the ANC as studio guest. 


South Africa: Resisting apartheid The devil's circle Funeral Neil Aggett / 20/20 Vision. - UK, London : 

Channel Four, 1983. - Video : VHS; 25, 28, 16 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Namibia * war resisters * torture * trade unionists * extrajudicial killing 

Summary: 

: War resisters in South Africa: the motives and problems of 

white South Africans who refuse to enlist the SADF. 

: Report about torture in Namibia by South African security forces. 

: Report on the funeral of trade unionist Neil Aggett, killed in 1982. 

Remarks: Picture quality: bad. * VZA 040 

Apartheid = agressie : het stilzwijgen doorbroken / reg. Conny Braam, Fons Geerlings ; cam. Maarten 

Rens. - Nederland, Amsterdam : AABN, 1984. - Video : VHS; 48 min. English spoken with Dutch subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * Southern Africa * destabilisation policy * military interventions 

Summary: 

Een video over de agressie van Zuid-Afrika tegen de zgn. 

Frontlijn-staten en over de westerse collaboratie met het 

apartheidsregime. Voor een deel beelden van de door de AABN 

georganiseerde hoorziting in Amsterdam van 14 - 18 december 1983, 

over de Zuidafrikaanse geweldspolitiek tegenover de buurlanden; 

voor het grootste deel beelden opgenomen tijdens een rondreis van 

Fons Geerlings en Maarten Rens door Zuidelijk Afrika in het najaar van 1983. 


The sun will rise. - UK, London : IDAF, 1983. - Video : VHS; 38 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * anti-apartheid resistance * Mahlangu, Solomon Kalushi (1956 - 1979) * antiapartheid 

activists * political violence 

Summary: 

The film is the story of young members of the ANC sentenced to 

death or to life imprisonment in South Africa for their activities 

to end apartheid. It is a tribute to Solomon Mahlangu, the first MK 

freedom fighter to be sentenced to death, executed on April 6th, 

1979. Told through the eyes of their parents, whom they left behind 

when they fled the country to join the liberation movement after 

the Soweto uprising, the film reflects the growing awareness of 

their children's commitment and sacrifices. The film forthrightly 

addresses the qestion of armed struggle in South Africa, and puts 

it in perspective through interviews with student leaders and trade 

unionists. The film ends with footage of the massive demonstration 

at the funeral of murdered trade unionist Neil Aggett in 1982, 

followed by a written overview of the comrades sentenced to death 

or to life imprisonment. The film was shot secretly and anonymously 

in 1982, and completed outside the country in 1983. 


Manifestatie Boycot Zuid-Afrika in Utrecht, 1983 / Gerard De Haar, ... [et al.]. - Nederland, Utrecht : [s.n.], 

1983. - Video : VHS; 95 min. kamera - montage - organisatie: Gerard De Haar, Aart Pohl, Bert Peys, 

Jaqueline Koster, Brigitte van der Linden. Met dank aan de VARA. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * boycotts * international solidarity * music 

Summary: 

Overzicht van de muziekbands die optraden tijdens de manifestatie 

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'Boycot Zuid-Afrika', op 4 & 5 juni 1983 in Utrecht: James Madlope 

Phillips and choir, Rapalje, Mandingo Warrior, Tribu, Dubbel en 

Dwars, Dudu Pukwana s Zila, Henriette Matiuana en Bonga. 


Reserve 4 / prod. and dir. by Gavin Younge. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Gavin Younge, 1984. - Video : 

VHS; 27 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * KwaZulu-Natal * forced removals 

Summary: 

A profile of a large black farming community on the Natal north 

coast who are threatened by removal. As a scheduled reserve, 

special parliamentary permission was needed to evict the 20.000 

residents. This was given in 1974 and 6000 people were moved to 

make way for the building of a white suburb of Richard's Bay. Made 

for the Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in 

Southern Africa, the film contrasts, through oral testimonies, the 

rich agricultural character of the area known as Reserve 4 with 

that of the area to which already thousands have been moved. Made 

with the cooperation of the tribal elders,the film seeks to give 

them a voice in their struggle against removal from an area which 

has recently been discovered to have vast mineral resources. Rare 

footage details the multinational mining operation wich dredges up 

the coastal sand dunes in the search for titanium and zircon. 


Tsiamelo - a place of goodness / dir. by Elisabeth Wolpert, Ellen Khuzwayo, Blanche Tsimatsima. - UK, 

London : Channel Four, 1984. - Video : VHS; 54 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * land rights * Plaatje, Solomon Tshekisho (1876-1932) * 


Summary: 

Ellen Kuzwayo visits at the age of seventy, with her aunt Blanche 

Tsimatsima, aged 84, her birthplace, the family farm at Tsiamelo. 

Owned since the 1880s by her family, in 1974 Tsiamelo was called a 

'black spot' in a white area and the farmland was taken awayfrom 

its black owners. Ellen Kuzwayo considers in some detail the 

protestations against the 1913 Native Land Act made to the British 

government by black South African representatives in the early 

twentieth century. The Act drastically limited the rights of 

Africans to own land and resulted in the eviction of one million 

black farmers. The documentary also looks at the life and 

resistance of the famous black nationalist leader, journalist and 

historian Sol T Plaatje. Extensive use is made of oral testimony, 

uncovering the history of apartheid in South Africa through 

interviews with those old enough to remember other times. 


And now we have no land / Hennie Serfontein. - South Africa, Johannesburg : SACBC, 1984. - Video : 

VHS; 55 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Bantustans * forced removals * anti-apartheid resistance * resettlement 

Summary: 

Made after the shooting of Saul Mkhize, leader of the steadfast 

Driefontein community, the film critically examines the regulations 

governing the lives of those living in so-caled "black 

spots".Produced for the Southern African Catholic Bishops' 

Conference, this film centres on the plight of those affected by 

Grand Apartheid. It follows the plight of three different communities 

- Driefontein, Magopa and Nyanga which are affected by the government's 

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esettlement policy and is both informative and extremely moving. 


Allan Boesak : choosing for justice / written and dir. by Nadine Gordimer, Hugo Cassirer. - South Africa, 

Johannesburg : Felix Films, 1984. - Video : VHS; 28 min. 

A ZEBRA Pictures production, copyright Felix Films 1984. 


Keywords: * South Africa * church and society * church and state * Boesak, Allan (1946-) * anti-apartheid 

resistance 

Summary: 

A film over the role of Allan Boesak and the churches in the 

struggle against apartheid. Also with Beyers Naudé. 


Re tla bona = we will see / prod. and dir. by Elaine Proctor. - South Africa, Johannesburg : LOY Films, 1984 

¸. - Video : VHS; 47 min. English subtitles when necessary. 


Keywords: * South Africa * adult literacy * educational projects * rural communities * Tzaneen 

Summary: 

The film looks at a literacy project in Tzaneen in the 

Gazankulu-Lebowa area. With a wonderful sensitivity and closeness 

to the people, the film explores the despairs and hopes of rural 

South Africans and their struggles on the fringe of the political economy. 


Allan Boesak / dir. Wessel van de Hamme, Henny Cerfontein ; Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

IKON/KRO/RKK, 1983. - Video : VHS; 27 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Boesak, Allan (1946-) * church and society 

Summary: 

Portret van Allan Boesak, zwarte Zuid-Afrikaan en voorzitter van de 

wereldalliantie van gereformeerde kerken. 


Boycot Zuid-Afrika / De Alles is Anders Show. - Nederland, Hilversum : KRO, 1984. - Video : VHS; 23 min. 

Start na 150 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * cultural boycott * economic sanctions 

Summary: 

Aad van de Heuvel in gesprek met Heldring (NRC collumnist, net 

terug uit Zuid-Afrika) en Sietse Bosgra (KZA) over nut en noodzaak 

(of niet) van een economische en/of culturele boycot tegen Zuid-Afrika. 


Faust und Krummstab : schwarze Gewerkschaften und Kirche in Südafrika / dir. Heinrich Büttgen. - 

BRD, [Köln] : WDR, 1982. - Video : VHS; 28 min. Start na 200 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * trade unions * Roman Catholic Church * church and society 

Summary: 

De paus vindt dat geestelijken zich niet met politiek moeten 

bemoeien. Kan de kerk dan wel zwarte vakbonden in Zuid-Afrika 

steunen? Jawel, want zwarte vakbondsleden zijn ook de kerkleden, en 

de kerk heeft de opdracht een sociaal en ethisch bewustzijn te 

ontwikkelen, wat nu eenmaal een politieke activiteit is. Oa 

interview met Government Zini, zwart vakbondslid. 


Interview Samora Machel / dir. Ike Bertels ; Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1984. - 

Video : VHS; 14 min. Start na 61 min. Dutch subtitles. 


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Keywords: * South Africa * Mozambique * Machel, Samora Moisés (1933-1986) * Nkomati Accord (March 

1984) 

Summary: 

Interview met Samora Machel naar aanleiding van de net gesloten 

Nkomati - akkoorden tussen Zuid-Afrika en Moçambique. 


Johnny be good / dir. Ton Koole. - Nederland, Utrecht : Humanistisch Verbond ; De rode lantaren, 1984. - 

Video : VHS; 25 min. Start na 104 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * conscientious objectors * exile 

Summary: 

The story of Johnny Jones, South African war resister, living in 

Holland as political refugee in exile. 


Mozambikaanse vluchtelingen in Zimbabwe / Televizier Magazine. - Nederland, Hilversum : AVRO, 1984. 

- Video : VHS; 14 min. Start na 75 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Zimbabwe * refugee assistance * RENAMO * floods * famine 

Summary: 

Item over Mozambikanen die vanwege overstromingen, honger en 

MNR-activiteiten naar Zimbabwe vluchten. 


NZAV bibliotheek + Nieuwe nationaliteitswetgeving in Nederland en in Zuid-Afrika / Kenmerk. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1983. - Video : VHS; 11 min. + 9 min. Start na 27 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * local anti-apartheid groups * NZAV * nationality 

Summary: 

Item over de aktiegroep 'Amsterdammers tegen racisme en 

diskriminatie', die boeken van de NZAV-bibliotheek in de 

Keizersgracht gesmeten hebben. Interviews met twee anonieme 

aktievoerders en Connie Braam, voorzitter van de AABN, die de aktie 

afkeurt. Ook leden van de NZAV komen aan het woord. 

Door nieuwe wetgeving wordt het onmogelijk voor Nederlanders in 

Zuid-Afrika om een dubbele nationaliteit te houden. Moeten we bang 

zijn dat ze allemaal terugkomen? 


Sportboycot Zuid-Afrika / Sport op Maandag, Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS ; IKON/KRO/RKK, 

1983?. - Video : VHS; 5 min. + 9 min. Start na 47 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * KLM * sport boycotts * KZA 

Summary: 

Twee items over het verbreken van de sportboycot tegen Zuid-Afrika 

door drie incidenten, waarvan het belangrijkste het tennis- en 

golftoernooi is dat de KLM in Sun City organiseert. Oa interview 

met Francesco Mascini van het KZA, dat samen met Vervoersbond FNV 

aktie voert tegen de KLM. 


Vielleicht kommen sie wieder und hohlen mich : Missionsarbeit im Kriegsgebiet von Namibia / dir. 

Gernot Schley, Amina Frense. - BRD, Mainz : ZDF, 1984. - Video : VHS; 28 min. Start na 131 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Namibia * Koevoet * human rights violations * church and society 

Summary: 

Naar aanleiding van het 'Namibië rapport' van de Zuidafrikaanse 

Bischoppenconferentie (dat door de Zuidafrikaanse regering werd 

verboden), een documentaire over schendingen van de mensenrechten 

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door het Zuidafrikaanse leger (met name de afdeling bekend als 

Koevoet) in Namibië, en de rol van de katholieke kerk in het gebied. 


Zuid-Afrika's relaties met Angola en Namibië / samenst. Wim Wansink ; Panoramiek. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : NOS, 1984. - Video : VHS; 15 min. Start na 183 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Angola * Namibia * international political relations 

Summary: 

Naar aanleiding van het staakt-het-vuren tussen Angola en 

Zuid-Afrika een overzicht van de situatie in Angola en Namibië. Oa 

interviews met Colin Legum, 'Afrika-deskundige' en Tutu. 

Zuid-Afrika probeert binnenlandse stabiliteit te verkrijgen door 

vrede aan z'n grenzen, maar zal daarin niet slagen zolang de 

apartheid niet is afgeschaft. 


Sales talk / dir. by William Kentridge ; Junction Ave.Theater Co.. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Hugo 

Cassirer, 1984. - Video : VHS; 28 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * feature films (form) 

Summary: 

In a house in Bertrams, Johannesburg, two old women are falling 

into decreptitude together. Miss Heather in the sitting room and 

reliable old Esther in the kitchen. Into their house comes Nimrod 

Kufa, who has a solution for all their problems. An unusual film 

which experiments continuously with our expectations, providing 

some eight resolutions to the story. 


Amandla! Maatla! / Magnus Bergmar, Kjell Söderlund. - Sweden, Stockholm : Magnus Bergmar, 1984. - 

Video : VHS; 63 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Tanzania * ANC * educational projects * youth * anti-apartheid resistance 

Summary: 

A film about Mojaki Thulo, a young South African girl who is 

studying at the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, a schoolvillage 

for South African children and youth in Tanzania, built by the ANC. 

Mojaki, who was actively involved in the open resistance, fled from 

South Africa when she was 17 years old, the police being after her. 

They arrested her best friend, who was badly tortured and later 

taken to a mental hospital. She is followed by the filmmakers at 

the Freedom College. These sequences are interspersed with footage 

from South Africa. 


Maids and madams / dir. by Mira Hamermesh. - UK, London : Channel Four, 1985. - Video : VHS; 52 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * white South Africans * domestic workers * social-economic conditions 

Summary: 

Over one million black women are employed as domestic workers in 

South Africa and this film illustrates the effects of domestic 

bondage on their lives. Underpaid, working long hours and without 

the protection of labour legislation, these women are separated of 

their own families and children in order to take care of the needs 

of the far more privileged white community. 


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Afravision compilation "Growing under apartheid": #45: Challenge to the church # 57: May Day #62: 

This report has been censored #57: Women awake / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1985. - Video : 

VHS; 14, 15, 11, 15 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * church and society * workers * state of emergency * freedom of the press * 

women's empowerment * trade unions 

Summary: 

#45: Video using footage of #34 & #35, concentrating on South 

African churches that are radically opposed to Apartheid. 

# 57:Video using footage of #30, of the 1986 Soweto May Day rally, 

plus commentary. 

#62: This video highlights the hardship black people face under the 

emergency regulations, and the difficulties committed journalists 

face in trying to tell people about it. 

#57:Video using footage of #30 (about the role of women in the 

struggle), and focusses on women in the trade union movement. 

additional interviews with Irene Barendilla of the NUM and Margaret 

Nhlapo of the SA Domestic Workers Association. 

Remarks: Picture quality: * VZA 053 

Makro Duivendrecht / Televizier. - Nederland, Hilversum : AVRO, 1987. - Video : VHS; 28 min. 



Keywords: * Netherlands * transnational corporations * foreign investment * sabotage * Fentener van 

Vlissingen, Paul (1941-2006) 

Summary: 

Item over de brandstichtingen bij de Makro in Duivendrecht. De 

verschrikkelijke Fentener van Vlissingen, president-directeur van 

SHV, het moederbedrijf van de Makro, krijgt ruim de gelegenheid 

zijn stoerste 'jongen-van-Jan-de-Wit' kop te trekken als hij 

verklaart niet voor terreur te zullen wijken (en dus te blijven 

investeren in Zuid-Afrika). 


Radio Freedom : interview with Victor Matlou. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1985. - Video : VHS; 14 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Radio Freedom * interviews (form) 

Summary: 

Interview with Victor Matlou, director of Radio Freedom, about the 

role it plays in the anti-apartheidsstruggle. 


South Africa - a paradise under siege. - South Africa, [S.l.] : Luckett, David, 1985. - Video : VHS; 50 min. 

Produced by 'Mojalefa', a white Basutu Call number: BG V8/055 

Keywords: * South Africa 

Summary: 

Three copies of the same footage of vague pictures of South Africa, 

the last copy with handwritten interpolations, speaking out against apartheid. 


Inside South Africa / dir. by I Jabulani Tafari. - UK, London : The other cinema, 1985. - Video : VHS; 60 

min. Produced in Jamaica. 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * violence * history; 1945-1960 * history; 1960s * history; 1970s 

* history; 1980s 

Summary: 

As the situation in South Africa deteriorayes, with an escalation 

of civil violence matched by an intensification of police 

brutality, this video takes an explosive view of apartheid-in 

-action from the 1940s up to the present, exposing the 

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international web of institutionalised illusion and corporate 

deception employed by the racist regime and its supporters around 

the world. The documentary highlights the Women's campaigns of the 

1950s, the Sharpville massacre of the 1960s, the Soweto uprising of 

the 1970s and the over-20-year imprisonment of the icon of the ANC, 

Nelson Mandela. With lots of reggae music. 


Nagging doubt / written and perf. by Jack Klaff. - UK, London : Channel Four, 1985. - Video : VHS; 55 min. 

Produced by Limehouse Productions for Channel Four. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Sharpeville massacre (1960) * plays (form) 

Summary: 

Nagging Doubt is a dramatic evocation of the social and political 

climate surrounding the Sharpeville massacre of 1960, when police 

opened fire on 15.000 Africans who gathered peacefully to protest 

against apartheid. At least 69 lay dead, including 10 children, and 

200 were wounded. The shock waves traveled throughout the world. 

The events are depicted through the eyes of 17 characters including 

Prime Minister Verwoerd, Harold MacMillan and Nelson Mandela, all 

played by Jack Klaff, a white South African. With an introduction of 5 minutes. 


One hundred and seventeen days / dir. by Bernie Moran. - UK, [London?] : Bernie Moran, 1985. - Video : 

VHS; 32 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * First, Ruth (1925-1982) * detention * plays (form) 

Summary: 

Fragments of a play about the 117 days Ruth First stayed in 

detention under the General Law Amendment Act in 1963, interspersed 

with interviews with the actress who impersonates First. 


I shall never loose hope : the Mandela family - a life of resistance / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

IKON/KRO/RKK, 1985. - Video : VHS; 43 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * Madikizela-Mandela, Winnie (1934-) * ANC 

Summary: 

Interview with Winnie and Zinzi Mandela about their life with a 

missing husband/father (Winnie: "I knew I was marrying the 

struggle"), interspersed with lots of footage. 


Radio Freedom Festival. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 1985. - Video : VHS; 90 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * Radio Freedom * ANC * festivals 

Summary: 

TV registration of artists in solidarity with Radio Freedom and 

ANC, May 1985 in Carré theatre,Amsterdam. 


Two rivers / dir. by Mark Newman, Edwin Wes. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Mark Newman, 1985. - Video 

: VHS; 58 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Venda (geogr.) * Venda (culture) * traditional culture * labour migration * rural 

areas * rural-urban relations * urban areas 

Summary: 

Narrator Rashaka Ratshitanga, a garden supervisor at Venda 

University, is also a published poet. In the documentary he takes 

the viewer on a voyage down the two rivers of, on one side, 

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historical and traditional life in Venda, and on the other, a 

migrant's life in the city of Johannesburg. He points to the 

erosion, under pressure, of traditional life in Venda and the 

impact of city life and civil unrest on the migrant labourer, and 

ends with the wish that when the two rivers meet there will be 

reintegration and harmony. 


The anvil and the hammer / dir. by Barry Feinberg. - UK, London : IDAF, 1985 ¸. - Video : VHS; 40 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * anti-apartheid resistance * UDF (South Africa) * political violence * repression * 

Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) 

Summary: 

A documentary about the repression by the apartheid-regime, and the 

growing strength and unity of those who fight it. Footage of the 

inaugural conference on the UDF, and of the rejection by Nelson 

Mandela of the regime's offer of conditional release, read by his 

daughter Zinzi to a vast gathering in Soweto on 10 February 1985. 

Interviews with ao Alfred Nzo, Secr. Gen. of the ANC; Oscar Mpetha, 

ex-president of the UDF; Helen Joseph of the Women's Federation; 

and Billy Nair, released from Robben Island in 1984 after serving 20 years. 


Poppie Nongena + Black dog / dir. by David Hart. - UK, Manchester : Granada TV, 1985. - Video : VHS; 20 

min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * theatre 

Summary: 

Poppie Nongena is based on a novel by Elsa Joubert, who wrote with 

Sandra Kotze the script for the stage. Adapted and directed by 

Hillary Blecher, produced by Joe Boyd, music by Sophie Mgcina. 

Black dog is created by director Barney Simon and the cast. Scenes 

from South Africa, fragments of the plays, mixed with interviews 

with members of the casts. 


The struggle from within / Kevin Harris. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Kevin Harris Productions, 1985. - 



Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * referendums * rent boycotts 

Summary: 

Referendum day - victory for Prime Minister PW Botha, and an 

endorsement by the white electorate for his new constitution. 

Designed to change the face of apartheid through the illusion of 

reform, for white South Africa the new constitution holds the 

promise of reacceptance by sectors of the international community. 

For South Africa's black majority, it guarantees political 

exclusion and denationalisation. With customary disregard for black 

oppinion, Botha's government confidently anticipates the 

implementation of the final phase of the apartheid design. The 

struggle from within traces events from the referendum of November 

1983 to the aftermath of the anti-rent increase demonstrations in 

the black townships of the Vaal-triangle in September 1984. 


Mayibuye i Afrika : Zuidafrikaanse jongeren over wit racisme, zwart verzet en een toekomst zonder 

apartheid / real.: Maarten Rens, Anneke Vreeburg ; prod.: Fons Geerlings ; Anti-Apartheids Beweging 

Nederland. - Nederland, Amsterdam : AABN, 1985. - Video : VHS; 41 min. 

Gemaakt in opdracht van de AABN in het kader van de 'Jongeren tegen apartheid'- kampagne 'APART? WE 

ZIJN HET ZAT'. Dutch subtitles when necessary 

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Keywords: * South Africa * Zambia * Tanzania * Netherlands * youth * white South Africans * ethnic 

discrimination * blacks * anti-apartheid resistance * apartheid system 

Summary: 

The story of a young Dutch girl, Anneke who returned to South 

Africa where she lived as a child and interviewed black and white 

youngsters about their future and the struggle. She also meets ANC 

president Tambo in Lusaka who explainsthe struggle and the fears 

of the whites and a couple of youngsters in Tanzania just arrived 

into exile. The stories range from blunt, naive racism from her 

former class mates to stories of the struggle from some 'young lions'. 


Hugh Masekela - the African ambassador / dir. by Terry Braun, Alan Ravenscroft ; Arena. - UK, London : 

BBC, 1985. - Video : VHS; 84 min. A BBC TV production in association with Filmscreen International. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Masekela, Hugh (1939- ) * biographies (form) * music 

Summary: 

A musical biography of Hugh Masekela, who after a self-imposed 

exile of 25 years went back to Africa. Not quite South Africa, but 

Gabarone, Botswana, as close by as you can get. Old footage of 

South Africa in the fities, concert fargments, and lots of 

interviews with (mainly) musicians, in South Africa and America, 

with whom he played, and with the man himself. 


The hidden farms / Kenneth Kaplan. - [s.l.] : D.S.U., 1985. - : VHS; 22 min. 

Produced by the School of Dramatic Art, University of the Witwatersrand 


Keywords: * South Africa * forced labour * imprisonment * apartheid system * feature films (form) 

Summary: 

This film is a adaptation of Mtutuzeli Matshoba's short story "A 

glimpse of slavery". The film follows the story of a black man , 

imprisoned for striking a white man in self-defence. The convict is 

contracted out to a farmer in the Eastern Transvaal, whose 

maltreatment culminates in the convict's escape - only to be 

confronted by the racism of a white industrialist and apartheid's 

belief in the "dompass". 


South Africa / South African Tourism Board. - South Africa, Pretoria : SATOUR, 1986. - Video : VHS; 19 

min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * tourism * propaganda 

Summary: 

Propagandafilm for tourists produced by the South African Tourism Board. 


Afravision #33: Opposition media / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1986. - Video : VHS; 32 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * media * freedom of the press * censorship * state of emergency 

Summary: 

The problems of the press in South Africa under the State of 

Emergency in the 1980-ies. 


Witness to apartheid / prod. and dir. by Sharon Sopher. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 1986. - Video : 

VHS; 55 min. Dutch subtitles. 


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Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * anti-apartheid resistance * violence * police * youth * Tutu, 

Desmond Mpilo (1931- ) * Nobel prize * repression * torture 

Summary: 

Shot clandestinely during the State of Emergency and press ban in 

1985, this film is a dramatic exposure of the extend of apartheid's 

violence and brutality. Testimonies of victims, as well as eye 

witnesses to police repression and torture include children as 

young as 14 years who were beaten in detention, doctors who 

secretly treated torture victims, teenagers in hiding because of 

their membership of banned youth organisations and bishop Tutu, who 

questions the effectiveness of non-violence against the system of 

apartheid, which won him the Nobel Prize. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good. * VZA 070 

Have you seen Zandile. - South Africa, Johannesburg : SABC, 1986. - Video : VHS; 91 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * plays (form) 

Summary: 

Registration of the same play. Zandile lives with her grandmother 

in Durban, a bright child who dreams of growing up to become a 

teacher . . . until her world is turned upside down when she is 

kidnapped by her natural mother and expected to conform to the ways 

of life in the harsh, rural Transkei homeland. 

Have You Seen Zandile? has won the Edinburgh Festival's Fringe 

First Award, and Gcina Mhlophe won Chicago's Jefferson Award for Best Actress. 


Zuid-Afrika, op weg naar morgen / reg.: Jop Pannekoek. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA ; Belbo Film 

Productions, 1986 ¸. - Video : VHS; 119 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * apartheid system * anti-apartheid resistance 

Summary: 

Twee uur durend TV-programma over het Zuid-Afrikaanse verzet tegen 

de apartheid, gepresenteerd door Paul Witteman en Sonja Barend. Met 

vele gasten (sommigen per satelietverbinding), waaronder Harry 

Belafonte, W. de Gaay Fortman, Oliver Tambo, Beyers Naudé, Jan-Bart 

Gewald (Zuid-Afrikaans dienstweigeraar). 


Afravision # 13: Marching orders / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1986. - Video : VHS; 27 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * militarisation * military conscription * End Conscription Campaign 

Summary: 

The film shows how the End Conscription Campaign unites a wide 

range of groups into a creative political campaign that combines 

resistance to apartheid with a growing opposition among young 

whites to the militarisation of the South African society; and 

thereby contributes to the building of a non-racial, democratic South Africa. 


Afravision #18: Media / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1986. - Video : VHS; 17 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * media * freedom of the press * censorship * state of emergency 

Summary: 

The problems of the press in South Africa under the State of 

Emergency in the 1980-ies. 


Come back Africa / prod. and dir. by Lionel Rogosin. - USA, New York ; South Africa, Johannesburg : 

Rogosin, 1960. - Video : VHS; 90 min. English subtitles. B/W picture 

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Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * Sophiatown * rural-urban relations * migrant workers * labour 

relations * history; 1945-1960 

Summary: 

The first time that fiction film placed black people at the centre 

of the apartheid experience, to speak for themselves and not 

through the voice of well-meaning whites. It was shot on location 

in Sophiatown, under the pretext of a musical being made. It 

contains about the only footage of everyday life in Sophiatown in 

the 1950s: the vital street life, the crime, the impassionated 

conversation of the shebeen, the very personalities of Modisane, 

Themba and Nkosi, and the first screen appearance of Miriam Makeba. 

The main character Zachariah, is a migrant worker forced to leave 

the country and seek work on the mines in Johannesburg. He goes 

through a series of jobs - mineworker, house-boy, hotel cleaner, 

auto mechanic, giving a clear depiction of the confrontation 

between unskilled labour and industrial society. 

Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood * VZA 075. Also on VZA 001 

Sharpeville spirit / dir. by Elaine Proctor. - South Africa, Johannesburg : LOY Films, 1986 ¸. - Video : VHS; 

50 min Start: na 90 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * anti-apartheid resistance * Sharpeville massacre (1960) * theatre * detention 

Summary: 

Made in South Africa during the State of Emergency with the close 

cooperation of a group of young comrades, this film explores their 

grassroots resistance culture of songs , poems and popular theatre. 

The eloquent testimony of an older generation is interposed with 

the resistance drama of present day youth to tell the story of the 

1960 and 1985 Sharpeville massacres. The film places the current 

mood of defiance within the context of continuing police activity 

and the repressive experiences of apartheid. 


Afravision #27: Bound to strike back / Capricorn Video Unit. - Zimbabwe, Harare : Afravision Ltd, 1986. - 



Keywords: * South Africa * anti-apartheid resistance * state of emergency * political violence * townships * 

military * ANC * UDF (South Africa) * Maharaj, Sathyandranath Ragunanan 'Mac' (1935- ) 

Summary: 

This film shows a South Africa in the midst of civil war. 30,000 

have been detained and 2,500 killed under the State of Emergency in 

a battle growing more ruthless by the day. The filmmakers secretly 

follow the security forces as they seal of townships with razor 

wire and move in shooting. And the cameras keep rolling as the 

police viciously beat journalists who have been caught in a 

restricted area. But they also show how people sustain the struggle 

despite the overwhelming repression. We're introduced to some of 

the 600 organisations, trade unions and consumer boycotts which 

have mobilized millions. In the townships, street committees are 

replacing government puppet administrations. And the ANC, convinced 

that repression, not reform, will be the state's response to 

political demands, is strengthening its underground networks and 

multiplying its armed actions. 


Afravision #50: Samora Machel funeral / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1986. - Video : VHS; 15 min. 

Also on VZA 145. Start: na 80 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Machel, Samora Moisés (1933-1986) * funerals 

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Summary: 

Registration of the funeral of Samora Machel, the Mozambican 

president that led his country towards independence, and died in a 

much disputed airplane crash in South Africa. 


Afravision compilation: #52: Alexandra Township. The community and it's struggle for health #51: 

"Bitter roots": the Transvaal Alloys dispute #50: Samora Machel funeral / VNS. - UK, London : 

Afravision Ltd, 1986. - Video : VHS; 18, 13 & 23 min. English voice-over when needed. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Alexandra * health care * working conditions * Mozambique * Machel, Samora 

Moisés (1933-1986) 

Summary: 

#52: Edited documentary looks at the root causes of ill-health in 

Alexandra, and at the efforts of doctors, nurses and residents to 

develop community-based health programmes. 

# 51: Edited documentary set in the 'homeland' Lebowa where fired 

workers from Transvaal Alloys, a German owned metal company, recall 

the conditions that led to the dispute and how they live now in 

unrelenting poverty. 

#50: Rushes from Machel's funeral in Maputu 


When I eat chocolate I remember you / Ramolao Makhene, Arthur Molepo, Patrick Molefe Shai. - South 

Africa, Johannesburg : Free Film Makers, 1986 ¸. - Video : VHS; 42 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * plays (form) * Europe 

Summary: 

The junction Avenue Theatre Company is touring Europe (Switzerland, 

Germany & Italy) with the play "Sophiatown". This video covers the 

problems and fun they experienced. 


Amakomanisi : the South African Communist Party 1921-1986 / South African Communist Party. - UK, 

London : Inkululeko Film Productions, 1986. - Video : VHS; 28 min. Distribution by IDAF 


Keywords: * South Africa * SACP * history; 20th century * anti-apartheid resistance 

Summary: 

Interviews with leaders of the SACP including Joe Slovo and Dan 

Tloome are intercut with rare and dramatic archival footage 

depicting over the decades the party's role, in alliance with the 

national movement, of advancing united mass resistance to Apartheid. 


The cry of reason : Beyers Naudé - an Afrikaner speaks out (excerpts from preliminary interviews) / prod. 

and dir. by Robert Bilheimer. - USA, New York : Worldwide Documentaries, 1986 ¸. - Video : VHS; 18 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * anti-apartheid resistance * church and society * Afrikaner culture * Afrikaners 

(people) * Naudé, Christiaan F. Beyers (1915 - 2004) * interviews (form) 

Summary: 

Excerpts of interviews with Beyers Naudé, that are used for the 

film from 1988, an exceptionally well structured film which 

elaborates the role of the Church in struggle. The central 

character, Rev Beyers Naudé, develops a systematic theology of 

resistance and liberation to oppose the theology that underlies 

apartheid, to which he subscribed as a young man. Naudé's 

autobiographical narrative of his fundamental political shift shows 

why it was so difficult for Afrikaners of the 1960s to break out of 

their racist ideology. The film symbolically indicates the psychic 

wilderness that Naudé had to traverse, never to return, or be 

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allowed to return by his culture or group. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good enough * VZA 081 

Mazimbu : behind the lines of a liberation movement / dir. by Toni Strasburg. - UK, London : Scope Films 

Ltd., 1986. - Video : VHS; 52 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Tanzania * ANC * educational projects * youth * anti-apartheid resistance * 

political refugees 

Summary: 

Since the Soweto uprising of 1976 hudreds of youth have fled 

political violence, crossing into neighbouring states to join the 

ANC. In 1977 the ANC set up the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College 

(Somafco) at Mazimbu in Tanzania on land given by the Tanzanian 

government. Today it is a small town run by the ANC, housing 2000 

South African exiles. There are several schools, a hospital, a farm 

and various light industry which provide vocational training. The 

film looks at the politics behind Mazimbu and nearby Dakawa, where 

the ANC is establishing facilities for a further 5000 exiles from 

apartheid.Students, recently from South Africa, relate their 

experiences and discuss the difficulties of adjusting to the life 

there and their plans for the future. 


Afravision compilation: #51: "Bitter roots": the Transvaal Alloys dispute #4: Chief Ampie Mayisa #14: 

Alexandra township #xx: The workers struggle in South Africa #23: MAWU and the built up to May 

Day - May 1986 #88: Moulding a future education for worker power / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 

1986. - Video : VHS; 13, 5, 32, 24, 20, 53 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * labour disputes * Bantustans * political violence * armed 

civilians * Alexandra * health services * health care * trade unions * health and safety * workers * history; 

20th century * MAWU * strikes * labour negotiations * NUM * conferences * education policy 

Summary: 

#51: "Bitter roots": the Transvaal Alloys dispute: Edited 

documentary set in the 'homeland' Lebowa where fired workers from 

Transvaal Alloys, a German owned metal company, recall the 

conditions that led to the dispute and how they live now in 


#4: Chief Ampie Mayisa: Item about township violence, more special 

about right wing vigilantes and their relation with the police. 

#14: Fragments of Alexandra township: interviews with the Alexandra 

Action Committee & police, soldiers and road blocks in Alexandra. 

A history of the South African trade unions in the era of 

apartheid. The apartheid system is explained in terms of 

Bantustans, contract labour, pass laws and police repression: in 

the view of these circumstances the growth of the trade unions is 

almost incredible. The founding of SACTU (South African Congress of 

Trade Unions) in the fifties, the severe repression in the sixties, 

the growing strength in the seventies, the Wiehahn Commission, who 

researched the labour relations in South Africa, the new Labour 

Relation Act, the founding of FOSATU (Federation of South African 

Trade Unions, voorloper van COSATU), which was based upon 

non-racial principles, CUSA, which aimed only at black workers, the 

Food and Canning Workers Union, characterised by its very 

democratic structures, and SAAWU (South African Allied Workers 

Union), which takes a clear political stance, passthe stage. 

#88: Scenes of different workers actions, supported by MAWU (Metal 

Allied Workers Union). A new action form is used: the sit-in in 

factories. Preparations for the hundredth birthday of May Day, when 

1,5 miljon workers joined the largest national stay-away in 

history, and pictures of the day itself. 

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#23: Registration of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) 

education conference, with speeches, discussions( ao with Cyril 

Ramaphosa and Zwelakhe Sisulu), short interviews, musical 

performances (ao Ntemi Pilisio). 


Children of god / ed. Graham Dean ; photogr. Martin Patmore ; Inside Story. - UK, London : BBC, 1991. - 

Video : VHS; 48 min. Start: na 47 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Cape Town * police 

Summary: 

Documentary about the Cape Riot Unit, a South African police unit 

in Cape Town, about how they adapt (or don't) to the 'new South Africa'. 


Sharpeville spirit / dir. and prod. Elaine Proctor. - UK, London : LOY Films, 1986. - Video : VHS; 47 min. 

Dutch subtitles. Also on VZA 075 


Keywords: * South Africa * Sharpeville * anti-apartheid resistance * detainees * detention * history; 1960s * 

history; 1970s * history; 1980s 

Summary: 

A group of young, black South Africans is searching for the "Spirit 

of Sharpeville", the passionate longing for freedom and 

independence, which manifested itself during the events of 1960, 

1976, 1980 and 1985. Witnesses of the 1960 massacre tell their 

story; the Vaal Information Service, that helps family of detained 

or killed people to find lawyers and provide them with foodparcels. 


Afravision compilation: #41: Black conservatives, Inkatha II #14: Alexandra township / VNS. - UK, 

London : Afravision Ltd, 1986. - Video : VHS; 27 & 22 min. + see: Afravision Library Catalogue 


Keywords: * South Africa * Inkatha * Alexandra * Alexandra Civic Organisation 

Summary: 

#41: Mainly fragments with Inkatha critics, one item were Buthelezi 

rejects accusations. 

#14: Fragments of Alexandra township: interviews with the Alexandra 

Action Committee & police, soldiers and road blocks in Alexandra. 


Afravision #40: Black conservatives, Inkatha I / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1986. - Video : VHS; 

30 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Inkatha 

Summary: 

Several fragments concerning events with Inkatha involvement, with 

speeches of Buthelezi and one positive comment on Inkatha (of Gavin 

Relly, chairman of Anglo-American) and one negative comment (of Jay 

Naidoo, COSATU General Secretary). 


Afravision compilation: #25: ANC leaders talk about 1976 #19: Effects of township violence on 

children #21: Mass arrest of Soweto school students in 1985 / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1986 

(#25 & #19) 1985 (#21). - Video : VHS; 21, 21 & 9 min. + Afravision Library Catalogue 


Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto * school children * detention 

Summary: 

#25: Planning of June 16, 1986 (10 years after) and memories of 

Lazarus Mphahlele (head of ANC Youth Secretariat) and Oliver Tambo 

(ANC president) of the Soweto upraising in 1976. 

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#19: Winnie Mandela describes how black children are becoming 

militarized. Psychologist Saths Cooper and Audrey Coleman, Black 

Sash, discuss the effects of detention on young children. 

#21: Arrest of 200 Soweto school students during the state of 

emergency. Interviews with angry parents. 


Apartheid : een nieuwe orde / dir. by Allan Segal ; prod. by Brian Lapping ; Ned. bew. Pauline Peters. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1986 ¸. - Video : VHS; 53 min. Originally produced by Granada Television. 



Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid (ideology) * apartheid system * NP * history; 1945-1960 

Summary: 

Deel 2 van een vierdelige reeks documentaires over de geschiedenis 

van apartheid in Zuid-Afrika. Dit deel handelt over de installering 

van apartheid als officiele regeringspolitiek na de door de 

Nationale Partij gewonnen verkiezingen van 1948, toen Malan met als 

belangrijkste item het invoeren van het systeem van apartheid de 

verkiezingsstrijd inging. Veel historich beeldmateriaal en 

interviews met oa Wentzel Du Plessis, NP-parlementslid, die in 1986 

nog verkondigt dat "apartheid is a fact of nature", Neville 

Alexander, Trevor Huddleston, Helen Joseph, Joe Slovo. 


Apartheid: verdeeldheid / dir. by Allan Segal ; prod. by Brian Lapping ; Ned. bew. Pauline Peters. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1986 ¸. - Video : VHS; 51 min. 

Originally produced by Granada Television. Start: na 89 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid (ideology) * apartheid system * NP * history; 1960s * history; 1970s 

Summary: 

Deel 3 van een vierdelige reeks documentaires over de geschiedenis 

van apartheid in Zuid-Afrika. Dit deel handelt over de uitbouw van 

het programma van apartheid door de opvolgers van Malan, Verwoerd 

en Vorster. En de golfbeweging in het zwarte verzet daartegen. 

Onder andere aandacht voor Steve Biko en zijn Black Consciousness 

beweging, en de toenemende arbeidsconflicten in 1973. 


Zuid-Afrika ... mazen in de censuurwet / Panoramiek. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1986. - Video : VHS; 

19 min. Start: na 70 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * censorship * Uys, Pieter-Dirk (1945- ) * Akerman, Anthony (1949- ) 

Summary: 

De censuurwetgeving in Zuid-Afrika is onder de noodtoestand nog 

verder verscherpt. Toch laat niet iedereen in Zuid-Afrika zich 

hierdoor de mond snoeren, zoals in dit programma getoond wordt aan 

de hand van Pieter-Dirk Uys, cabaretier, en Anthony Akerman, toneelschrijver. 

Remarks: Picture quality; notsogood * VZA 088 

Tien jaar na Soweto / Kees van Twist ; Achter het Nieuws. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 1986. - Video : 

VHS; 28 min. Dutch comment and subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto uprising (1976-1977) * anti-apartheid resistance * history; 1980s * 

international solidarity 

Summary: 

Documentaire over de ontwikkeling van het verzet tegen apartheid in 

de tien jaar na de Soweto-opstand van juni 1976. Twee studenten die 

er toen bij waren vertellen over de ontwikkelingen, en verder 

interview-fragmenten met oa ds Alan Boesak, over de oprichting van 

het UDF in 1983 en van COSATU in 1985, die een infrastructuur boden 

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voor het verzet. Verder aandacht voor de sterke groei van de Free 

South Africa beweging in de USA. 


Mama I'm crying / dir. by Joyce Seroke, Elisabeth Wolpert. - UK, London : E. Wolpert Production, 1986. - 



Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * repression * political violence 

Summary: 

The film begins as a personal journey of a black woman, Joyce 

Seroke, and a white woman, Betty Wolpert. Although born in the same 

town within a few years of each other, they could have come from 

different countries. Through their search into the past they try to 

understand the present. In their journey Seroke and Wolpert 

encounter the radical youth of today, as they meet Benjamin 

Oliphant, 22, who was killed before the film was finished. 


David Goldblatt : in black and white : South African photographs / dir. by Noel Chanan. - UK, London : 

Bernard Joffa Productions ; Channel Four, 1986. - Video : VHS; 51 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * photography * Goldblatt, David (1930- ) * biographies (form) * 

history; 1945-1960 * history; 1960s * history; 1970s * history; 1980s * interviews (form) 

Summary: 

The life and work of South African photographer David Goldblatt, 

that are interwoven with the history of apartheid in South Africa. 


Sharpeville spirit [Ned. versie] / prod. and dir. by Elaine Proctor. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1986. - 



Keywords: * South Africa * Sharpeville * repression * anti-apartheid resistance * arts and culture 

Summary: 

Made in South Africa during the state of Emergengy with the close 

cooperation of a group of young 'comrades', this film explores 

their grassroots resistance culture of songs, poems and popular 

theatre. The programme places the current mood of defiance within 

the context of continuing police activity and the repressive 

experience of apartheid. The filmmakers had unique access to the 

experience of the people inside the township. One sequence is flmed 

inside a community self-help centre where relatives of detainees 

talk through their problems while young people organise food 

parcels, legal and other aid for families of detainees. 


Sharpeville spirit / prod. and dir. by Elaine Proctor. - UK, London : Channel Four ; LOY Films, 1986 ¸. - 



Keywords: * South Africa * Sharpeville * repression * anti-apartheid resistance * arts and culture 

Summary: 

Made in South Africa during the state of Emergengy with the close 

cooperation of a group of young 'comrades', this film explores 

their grassroots resistance culture of songs, poems and popular 

theatre. The programme places the current mood of defiance within 

the context of continuing police activity and the repressive 

experience of apartheid. The filmmakers had unique access to the 

experience of the people inside the township. One sequence is flmed 

inside a community self-help centre where relatives of detainees 

talk through their problems while young people organise food 

parcels, legal and other aid for families of detainees. 

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Women awake : women workers August 1986 / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1986. - Video : VHS; 

15 min. Also on VZA 103 (bad quality) 


Keywords: * South Africa * women * women workers * trade unions * social-economic conditions * gender 

discrimination 

Summary: 

Documentary about the life of women workers under apartheid: the 

celebration of women's day in 1986, 30 years after more than 20.000 

women protested against the Pass Laws; the living conditions in the 

townships; participation in rent and consumer boycotts and 

streetfights; the struggle for gender equality in COSATU; the 

position of domestic workers, who are least payed and protected 

because they are least organised, and how SADWA (South African 

Domestic Workers Association) is trying to change that, the 

difference in the position of women in the city or in the homelands. 


Death is part of the process part 1 & 2 / novel by Hilda Bernstein ; screenplay by Alan Plater ; dir. by Bill 

Hays. - UK, London : BBC, 1986. - Video : VHS; 72 & 90 min. Video case is broken. 


Keywords: * South Africa * history; 1960s * apartheid system * Umkhonto we Sizwe * political violence 

Summary: 

The story of a multiracial group of dissidents who resort to acts 

of sabotage apartheid after all other forms of action are banned by 

the apartheid regime. Based on the history of Umkhonte we Sizwe, 

the military wing of the ANC. 


Bopha = Arrest / dir. by Daniel Riesenfeld. - [s.l.] : DJR, 1986. - Video : VHS; 58 min. 

A shortened, Dutch subtitled copy is on VZA 203. 


Keywords: * South Africa * plays (form) * police officers * Africans * political violence 

Summary: 

South African play about the role and dilemma's of black policemen, 

interspersed with real life footage, and interview fragments with 

the performers (the Earth Players). 


Geld is niet neutraal / samenst. en reg. Guillaume van den Bogaerde. - [s.l.] : Dienstenbond FNV, 1986. - 

Video : VHS; 40 min. Een Dimensie-3 produktie in opdracht van Dienstenbond FNV. 


Keywords: * world * South Africa * financial institutions * financial policy * foreign investment * developing 

countries * corporate social responsibility 

Summary: 

Discussie film van de FNV, over de oorzaken van de armoede in de 

ontwikkelingslanden, en de hypocrisie van de banken en instellingen 

als IMF en Wereldbank als het gaat om waar men wel en niet 

investeert dan wel leningen verstrekt. Een groot deel gaat over de 

investeringen in Zuid-Afrika: Sietse Bosgra van het KZA legt uit 

dat het apartheidsregime door buitenlandse investeringen in het 

zadel wordt gehouden, en bekritiseert bedrijven die hun 

maatschappelijke verantwoordelijkheid ontkennen. 


Lied voor Mandela / dir. by Lynda J. Fowke ; prod. by Sally Hibbin. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

IKON/KRO/RKK, 1986. - Video : VHS; 30 min. 

Dutch subtitles. Original title: Sounds for Mandela. * Zie ook: VZA 141 


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Keywords: * South Africa * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * history; 20th century * ANC 

Summary: 

A powerful portrayal of Nelson Mandela's life and work through 

stills, poetry and music knitted together by selections of his 

writings and court statements. 


Afravision #3: The workers are coming / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1986. - Video : VHS; 16 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * COSATU * workers 

Summary: 

This documentary deals with the formation of COSATU and the entry 

of organised black workers into South African politics. 


Asinamali / written&dir. by Mbongeni Ngema ; film dir. Ross Devenish. - South Africa, Johannesburg ; UK, 

London : Market Theatre Foundation ; BBC ; Portobello Productions, 1987(6). - : VHS; 60 min. 

The play is from 1986, the filmed version from 1987. English subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * police informers * prisoners * prison staff * plays (form) * 

township revolt (1984-1986, South Africa) * state of emergency 

Summary: 

"Asinamali'' was written and directed by Mbongeni Ngema, the South 

African playwright whose other works include ''Woza Albert'' and 

''Sarafina''. This version of ''Asinamali,'' produced by the BBC 

and Portobello Productions and directed by Ross Devenish, was 

filmed at Johannesburg's famed Market Theater. An enthusiastic 

audience that includes Winnie Mandela is seen at the beginning and 

end of the hour, but the play itself appears to have been recorded 

without an audience present. Five actors dominate the action: 

Solomzi Bisholo, Thami Cele, Bongani Hlophe, Bheki Mgadi and Boy 

Ngema. They grew up in the townships surrounding Johannesburg and, 

using speech, song, dance and mime, they recount the humiliation 

and horror of their lives, especially under the state of emergency. 

The playwright makes brief appearances as a Government official. 

''Asinamali'' means ''nothing to lose.'' Explaining that he always 

approaches theater musically, Mbongeni Ngema has described his play 

as ''a piece of jazz that keeps changing its rhythm but always has 

the same tempo.'' Working on a small stage, bare except for a few 

props when needed, the barefoot, shaven-headed actors are dressed 

in simple shorts and short-sleeved shirts. Upset by the police 

killing of a local leader named Msize Dube, they begin telling 

their own stories, slipping in and out of several languages. 

Subtitles are used occasionally. They describe lives of constant 

uncertainty and humiliation. The movements and sounds are 

infectious, but this is no ingratiating entertainment. Throughout 

can be heard the rumble of genuine anger and rage. And there are 

warnings: ''The day will come when the hunter will become the 

hunted.'' Black informers will be eliminated without mercy, they 

warn. ''The power is ours,'' the performers shout, ''this is the 

day of reckoning.'' As both theater and television, ''Asinamali'' 

is a powerful document on the present state of South Africa. 


Back on the frontier / dir. by Francis Gerard ; ed. by David Leighton ; Viewpoint. - UK, Birmingham : Central 

Television, 1986. - Video : VHS; 80 min 


Keywords: * South Africa * Afrikaners (people) * apartheid (ideology) * apartheid system * apartheid reforms 

Summary: 

A three-part documentary about the Afrikaners and their system of 

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apartheid, after the reforms of Botha, that for many Afrikaners 

already went to far. Some dissident voices can also be heard: a 

(big) businessman tells that apartheid has proven to be wrong: 

instead of preventing frictions between different groups it is 

causing them (in fact he means he needs more highly skilled 

labourers, since industrialisation of the country has made 

unskilled labour scarce, and under the apartheid system he'll never 

get enough qualified personnel), and a minister who feels that the 

Afrikaners are playing God to the blacks. The blacks are growing 

impatient: reforming apartheid can never be a solution, it must be 

abolished completely. Both sides are preparing themselves for a violent struggle. 


Liberation women / prod. and dir. by Beata Lipman. - UK, London : BBC, 1985. - Video : VHS; 29 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * women * anti-apartheid resistance * state of emergency 

Summary: 

Documentary about the role of women in the struggle against 

apartheid. Interviews with ao Winnie Mandela and Helen Joseph, and 

pictures of daily life under the state of emergency. 


Winnie and Nelson Mandela / prod. and dir. by Peter Davis. - USA, New York ; Canada, Vancouver : NPBC 

; Villon Films, 1986. - Video : VHS; 57 min. Start: na 44 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Madikizela-Mandela, Winnie (1934-) * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * antiapartheid 

resistance * interviews (form) * history; 1945-1960 * history; 1970s * history; 1960s * history; 1980s 

Summary: 

Biografical documentary about Winnie and Nelson Mandela, told by 

Winnie, wich also means a history of the struggle against 

apartheid, with lots of archival footage. 


Women awake : women workers August 1986 / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1986. - Video : VHS; 

15 min. Also on VZA 094 (good quality). Start: na 29 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * women * women workers * trade unions * social-economic conditions * gender 

discrimination 

Summary: 

Documentary about the life of women workers under apartheid: the 

celebration of women's day in 1986, 30 years after more than 20.000 

women protested against the Pass Laws; the living conditions in the 

townships; participation in rent and consumer boycotts and 

streetfights; the struggle for gender equality in COSATU; the 

position of domestic workers, who are least payed and protected 

because they are least organised, and how SADWA (South African 

Domestic Workers Association) is trying to change that, the 

difference in the position of women in the city or in the homelands. 


Afravision compilation: Stetsasonics: A.F.R.I.C.A. #4: Chief Ampie Mayisa #51: "Bitter roots": the 

Transvaal Alloys dispute #63: Mzwakhe Mbuli: a peoples poet #76: The railway strike II #87: Lessons 

of the minerstrike / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1986-87. - Video : VHS; 5, 11, 14, 11, 19 &25 min. 

Dutch subtitles. Stetsasonics also on VZA 182. #4 also on VZA 083. #51 also on VZA 150. #63 also on VZA 

151. #76: also on VZA 150 & 151. #87 also on VZ 150 & 148. 


Keywords: * South Africa * music * armed civilians * violence * townships * transnational corporations * 

Lebowa * poetry * Mbuli, Mzwakhe (1960?- ) * rail transport * strikes * SARHWU * mineworkers * NUM 

Summary: 

Stetsasonics: A.F.R.I.C.A.: videoclip, dir. by Hart Perry, ed. by 

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Bill Davis, prod. by Tommy Boy Music, Inc., 1987. 

#4: Chief Ampie Mayisa: Item about township violence, more special 

about right wing vigilantes and their relation with the police. 

#51: "Bitter roots": the Transvaal Alloys dispute: Edited 

documentary set in the 'homeland' Lebowa where fired workers from 

Transvaal Alloys, a German owned metal company, recall the 

conditions that led to the dispute and how they live now in 


#63: Mzwakhe Mbuli: a peoples poet: Performances by and interviews 

with Mzwakhe Mbuli, black poet. 

#76: The railway strike II: Film about the railway strike that 

started in March 1987, witch untill then was the biggest strike yet 

in the public sector. 18.000 workers were sacked by the management. 

The strike ended in victory in June: all workers were reinstated. 

With Mike Roussos of the SA Railway and Harbour Workers' Union and 

Jay Naidoo of COSATU. 

#87: Lessons of the minerstrike: Examination of the miner's strike 

of August 1987. Leader Cyril Ramaphosa hails the strike as an 

organisational victory, even though the workers failed to win all 

their demands, and in spite of the police violence that killed nine 

workers and wounded hundreds of others. Also comments of Jay Naidoo. 


Mazimbu / Achter het Nieuws. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 1986. - Video : VHS; 10 min. 

Dutch subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * South Africa * Tanzania * ANC * youth * educational projects * anti-apartheid resistance 

Summary: 

Een vernederlandste BBC - documentaire over de geschiedenis van 

Mazimbu, een ANC-dorpje in Tanzania, waar jongeren die het geweld 

in Zuid-Afrika ontvluchten door het ANC opgevangen en geschoold 

worden. Interviews met Mohammed Tickley, directeur onderwijs, en 

met leerlingen en docenten, over de situatie in Zuid-Afrika, en in Mazimbu. 


Comrades / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1986. - Video : VHS; 23 min. 

Originally a BBC Documentary. Dutch subtitles and comment. Also on VZA 145 (incomplete version) 


Keywords: * South Africa * militarisation * AWB * ANC * youth * Krugersdorp * consumer boycotts * 

communal violence 

Summary: 

Een reportage over de radicalisering in Zuid-Afrika: enerzijds de 

jonge zwarten (comrades) die zich radicaler en geweldadiger 

opstellen tegenover de gematigde ouderen, anderzijds de groei van 

extreem-rechtse blanke groeperingen als de AWB. Ook aandacht voor 

het steeds harder wordende politie-optreden. Als voorbeeld wordt de 

blanke plaats Krugersdorp genomen, met ten noorden daarvan de 

zwarte township Munsieville, waar de comrades de macht uitmaken, 

consumenten-boycotts uitroepen en handhaven, en dmv eigen 

rechtbanken 'verraders' berechten, tot aan necklacing toe. 


South Africa now, newsreel 1 & 2. - USA, New York ; South Africa, Johannesburg : S.A. Now ; Global 

Vision ; Africa Fund, 1986. - Video : VHS; 30 + 35 min. + see: filmalfabet 

The show is produced on a non-profit basis in association with The Africa Fund by Globalvision Inc. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Southern Africa * media coverage 

Summary: 

South Africa Now is a weekly television program devoted to airing 

current news stories about South Africa that are not getting 

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airplay on the major networks, due to South Africa's media 

censorship. These two newsreels cover a list of subjects, ao police 

brutality in Bophuthatswana; death of Petrus Nchabeleng, ANC member 

killed by the police; end of the conscription campaign; consumer boycots. 


Song of the spear / dir. by Barry Feinberg. - UK, London : IDAF ; ANC, 1986. - Video : VHS; 57 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * arts and culture * society and culture * anti-apartheid resistance 

Summary: 

The role of culture in the struggle for national liberation is the 

theme of this film. Intercutting performances of Amandla Cultural 

Ensemble - while on tour in Brittain - with mass singing of 

resistance songs in the streets of South Africa, the film 

dramatically exposes the emerging culture of liberation. Interviews 

with Thabo Mbeki, ANC director of information, Barbara Masekela, 

head of the ANC Cultural Department, and Jonas Gwangwa, director of Amandla. 


CASA Choir / reg., prod. en cam. L. Kahlman. - Nederland, Amsterdam : Stichting CASA, 1987. - Video : 

VHS; 180 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * songs 

Summary: 

Footage van repetities en optredens van het CASA Koor in december 

1987, tijdens de zgn CASA-week. 

Remarks: Picture quality: bad * VZA 109. Zie ook: VZA 112. 

Act for freedom / dir. by Steve Schmidt. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Action Workshop ; Video Action 

Unit, 1987. - Video : VHS; 22 min. An Action Workshop and Video Action Unit 1987 co-production 


Keywords: * South Africa * theatre * social differentiation * civic education 

Summary: 

A video about elite-culture versus community-culture, and how the 

latter can be used in community empowerment and the struggle 

against apartheid, like the productions of the Action Workshop. 


A song for South Africa. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1987. - Video : VHS; 90 min 


Keywords: * South Africa * songs * festivals 

Summary: 

Pro-apartheid song festival 1986. 


CASA Choir / reg., prod. en cam. L. Kahlman. - Nederland, Amsterdam : Stichting CASA, 1987. - Video : 

VHS; 222 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * songs 

Summary: 

Repetities en optredens van het CASA Koor in december 1987, tijdens 

de zgn CASA-week. 

Remarks: Picture quality: bad * VZA 112. Zie ook: VZA 109. 

The stick / dir. by Darrell Roodt. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Anant Singh Productions, 1987. - Video : 

VHS; 90 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * military * armed conflicts * witchcraft 

Summary: 

The film intents to show the dehumanising effect of war on seven 

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soldiers who set out on a 'search and destroy' mission in a 

neighbouring northern state. The film mixes intimations of "black" 

magic into the concept as the crazed representatives of "white" 

South Africa enter into the "black" lands. 


Strike a woman - strike a rock = Watintha Bafaza – Wathinta Imbokoto / dir. by Miranda Harris, Roger 

Harris. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Roger Harris, 1987. - Video : VHS; 58 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * plays (form) * women's struggle* * apartheid system * social-economic conditions 

Summary: 

A video after the play performed by the Vusisizwe players, 

interspersed with scenes from everyday life in South Africa. 


Shotdown / dir. by Andrew Worsdale ; prod. by Jeremy Nathan ; Weekend Theatre. - South Africa, 

Johannesburg : Gold Cristal International, 1987. - Video : VHS; 97 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * feature films (form) * intelligence services * anti-apartheid resistance 

Summary: 

A South African filmmaker returns from America to make a film about 

a radical black playwright. As he makes his way into the circles of 

artists and activists connected to his subject, he finds he is 

being used by the security police who hope to reach the playwright 

through him. His whole quest falls apart around him, leaving him an 

isolated and ridiculous figure in a landscape of bitter conflict. 

The film captures dimensions of nihilistic rebellion and confusion 

typical of young white South African reactions to Apartheid. 


Spot Beyers Naude 1987 / Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika. - Nederland, Amsterdam : Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika, 

1987. - Video : VHS; 1 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * international solidarity 

Summary: 

T.V. spot in which Beyers Naude asks the Dutch people for support against apartheid. 


Frontline Southern Africa : destructive engagement / prod. and dir. Toni Strasburg. - UK, London : Scope 

Films Ltd., 1987. - Video : VHS; 28 min. 

A shortened version of the original. See VSA 4. Dutch subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Frontline states * armed conflicts 

Summary: 

A film about South Africa's agression towards the Frontline states: 

the MNR in Mozambiek, the Beira corridor, attacks on (white) 

farmers in Zimbabwe, attacks of SADF in Angola, support of UNITA. 

Comments of ao Kenneth Kaunda, Chris Hani, Carlos Cardoso and Oliver Tambo. 


We are the elephant / dir. by Glenn Ujebe Marokoane, Jimi Matthews. - UK, London : Channel Four, 1987. - 

Video : VHS; 57 min. Produced for Channel Four by CEDDO film video workshop. 


Keywords: * South Africa * student activists * student movements * anti-apartheid resistance * state of 

emergency * detention 

Summary: 

A documentary about the growing anti-apartheid resistance among 

students and youth in general, since the Soweto-uprising in 1976, 

and the problems they engage under the state of emergency: 

detention without trial, torture, banning of organisations, 

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censorship, etc. Interviews with, inter alia, Neville Alexander; 

Zackie Achmat, youth leader of the Belville Youth Organisation; 

Murphy Morobe of the UDF; Emeka Amyaoku, Common Wealth deputy 

Secretary General; Nijibe Nikete, COSAS student leader; Zwelake 

Sisulu, editor of the New Nation, reverend Abie Visagie. Also with 

theatrical scenes, one about Biko, and apiece of the National Theatre of Anzania. 


Apartheid means war / ANC Video Unit. - Zambia, Lusaka : ANC Unit, 1987. - Video : VHS; 9 min. 

Start na: 149 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * violence 

Summary: 

Archival footage of violence in South Africa 


Australia's national conscience / ANC Video Unit. - Zambia, Lusaka : ANC Video Unit, 1987 [?]. - Video : 

VHS; 26 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Australia * AAAM (NSW) 

Summary: 

About the history and activities of the Australian Anti Apartheid 

Movement (New South Wales). 


Ferriton Group in Lusaka / ANC Video Unit. - Zambia, Lusaka : ANC Video Unit, 1987 [?]. - Video : VHS; 8 

min. Start na: 158 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * pop music 

Summary: 

The Ferroton Band, live at the Nakatindi Hall, in Lusaka. 


Mazimbu art workshop / ANC Video Unit. - Zambia, Lusaka : ANC Unit, 1987. - Video : VHS; 18 min. 

Start na: 55 min. Co-produced with the Eli Weinberg Photo-Lab, as a joint learning project. 


Keywords: * South Africa * arts education * society and culture * anti-apartheid resistance 

Summary: 

ANC arts education at Somafco, Tanzania. 


National Women's Conference / ANC Video Unit. - Zambia, Lusaka : ANC Video Unit, 1987. - Video : VHS; 

28 min. Start na: 121 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * ANC Women's League * conferences 

Summary: 

Report of the 2nd Women coference, held in Luanda, Angola, about 

the role of women in the struggle against apartheid. 


National Youth Conference / ANC Video Unit. - Zambia, Lusaka : ANC Video Unit, 1987 [?]. - Video : VHS; 

48 min. Start na: 73 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * ANC Youth League * conferences 

Summary: 

Report of the 2nd National Youth Conference in Morogoro, Tanzania, 

which had as theme: Fight - Produce - Learn. 


Youth for liberation / ANC Video Unit. - Zambia, Lusaka : ANC Unit, 1987. - Video : VHS; 29 min. 

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Keywords: * South Africa * ANC Youth League * Soweto uprising (1976-1977) 

Summary: 

The 10th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising, with archival footage, 

interviews and activities. 


Stetsasonic: A.F.R.I.C.A. / dir. Hart Perry ; ed. Bill Davis. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1987. - Video : 

VHS; 5 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * pop music * politics 

Summary: 

An anti-apartheid videoclip clip with footage of the apartheidsregime. 


A brother with perfect timing / dir. by Chris Austin, Gill Bond ; Arena. - UK, London ; FRG, Cologne : BBC ; 

Indigo ; WDR, 1987. - Video : VHS; 90 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * jazz * Ibrahim, Abdullah (1934- ) 

Summary: 

Interviews with and performances of South African jazzcat in exile 

(New York) Abdullah Ibrahim, formerly known as Dollar Brand. 

Remarks: Picture quality: bad * VZA 122. German dubbed version on VZA 140. 

Resisting apartheid / VNS. - UK, London : IDAF, 198?. - Video : VHS; 25 mins 


Keywords: * South Africa * military conscription * conscientious objection * military * torture * defence policy * 

war crimes 

Summary: 

A film about the SADF, military conscription, the dirty wars the 

SADF is waging in countries like Namibia and Angola, the war-crimes 

that are committed, the growing number of white war resisters, and 

the activities of the London based Committee On South African War Resisters (COSAWR). 


Simon Ngubane still on strike / dir. by Melanie Chait. - UK, London : Lusia Films, 1987. - Video : VHS; 55 

min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * MAWU * transnational corporations * BTR Sarmcol * labour relations * trade 

unionists * strikes 

Summary: 

This film tells the story of the dispute between the British 

multinational BTR Sarmcol in Natal, and its black employees. it not 

only charts the strike at BTR, started legally in May 1985 for 

union recognition of MAWU (Metal and Allied Workers Union), but 

looks at the fast growing black trade unions and their problems 

under apartheid. Simon Ngubane is no longer on strike. A shop 

stewart of MAWU, he and a colleague both seen in this film were 

murdered in December 1986 by strike-breaking vigilantes. 


BUWA = speak out / South African Artists United. - Zimbabwe, Harare : Zimbabwe TV, 1987. - Video : VHS; 

23 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * music * history 

Summary: 

A powerful music tape from Zimbabwe TV, with South African music, 

mixed with political history. 


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ANC 75 jaar. - Nederland, Hilversum : [s.n.], 1987. - Video : VHS; 6 min. Start: na 10 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * ANC * history; 20th century 

Summary: 

Twee anonieme stukjes van allebei 3 min. over de 75e verjaardag van 

het ANC. In het kort wordt de geschiedenis van het ANC geschetst, 

met veel oude archiefopnamen. In het tweede fragment wordt melding 

gemaakt van het feit dat Klaas de Jonge ook meeviert, in de 

Nederlandse ambassade in Zuid-Afrika, waar hij al twee jaar vast zit. 


Chikane houdt Don Helder Camara lezing aan VU / Marion Oskamp ; Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

IKON/KRO/RKK, 1987. - Video : VHS; 12 min. Start: na 73 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Chikane, Frank (1951- ) * state of emergency 

Summary: 

Frank Chikane is in Nederland om de Camara -lezing aan de VU te 

geven, reden voor een gefilmd portret, dwz interview in Nederland 

afgewisseld met beelden van zijn gezin in Zuid-Afrika, waar hij ivm 

de Noodtoestand in Zuid-Afrika van gescheiden is. Hij vertelt hoe 

het leven onder de noodtoestand is en dat hij ziin gezin erg mist. 


Het is oorlog in mijn straat / Kees van Twist ; Achter het Nieuws. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 1987 ¸. - 



Keywords: * South Africa * children * detention * torture * state of emergency 

Summary: 

Een documentaire over de wrede en geweldadige wijze waarop de 

Zuid-Afrikaanse politie onder de noodtoestand zwarte kinderen 

gevangen zet, martelt en neerschiet, met vele getuigenissen van 

slachtoffers en de soms wonderlijke reacties van blanke burgers 

('als ze het verdienen, is het goed...') op die situatie. Ook interview met 

de later door het regime vermoorde Dave Webster, lid van DPSC, die 

dmv councelling, tracing en legal assistance bijstand tracht te verlenen. 


Mbata / Ver van mijn bed show. - Nederland, Hilversum : [s.n.], 1987. - Video : VHS; 9 min 



Keywords: * South Africa * ANC * political refugees 

Summary: 

Gesprek met politiek vluchtelinge mevr. Mbata, van het ANC. 


Mozambique / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1986. - Video : VHS; 20 min. 

Start: na 25 min. Oorspronkelijk een BRT/Panorama produktie. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * RENAMO * South Africa * international economic dependence 

Summary: 

Reportage over Mozambique, en met name de schade die het land wordt 

toegebracht door RENAMO. Oftewel, Zuid-Afrika, zoals meermalen 

beweerd wordt, onder andere door de journalisten Carlos Cardoso en 

Joseph Hanlon. De echte vijand is daarom niet RENAMO maar het 

apartheidsregime in Zuid-Afrika. 


NG kerk in Zuid-Afrika / interviewer: Andries Knevel. - Nederland, Hilversum : EO, 1987. - Video : VHS; 29 

min. Start: na 85 min. 

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Keywords: * South Africa * Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk * church and society * politics 

Summary: 

Knevel interviewt een vertegenwoordiger van de Nederduits 

Gereformeerde Kerk over de hypocriete houding tav apartheid. 


Paul Simon in Zuid-Afrika / Achter het Nieuws. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 1987. - Video : VHS; 10 



Keywords: * South Africa * cultural boycott * music 

Summary: 

Item over Paul Simon, die met zijn plaat 'Graceland' de culturele 

boycott schond. Wel of geen acties tegen hem. Meningen van hemzelf, 

Hugh Masekela (fameus Zuidafrikaans trompettist), Fulco van Aurich(van de AABN), ...et al. 


Zuid-Afrika - hoofdstuk apart / Jaaroverzicht. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1986. - Video : VHS; 10 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * politics 

Summary: 

In het jaaroverzicht van 1986 werd er ook een hoofdstukje gewijd 

aan de gebeurtenissen in Zuid-Afrika, wat resulteerde in dit 

programma. Zuid-Afrika 1986 in vogelvlucht: afschaffen 

noodtoestand, pasjeswetten afgeschaft, geweld tussen zwarten 

onderling (Crossroads) en geruchten over betrokkenheid leger dmv 

wapenleveranties, noodtoestand weer ingesteld, Soweto herdenking, 

persvrijheid aan banden, blanken kopen meer wapens, sancties EU 

blijven uit (Kohl & Tatcher), Machel stort neer in Zuid-Afrika. 

Remarks: Picture quality; goodenough * VZA 126 

Women's day - 9 August 1987 / FEDTRAW. - South Africa, Johannesburg : UDF, 1987. - Video ; 162 min 


Keywords: * South Africa * UDF (South Africa) * FEDTRAW * women 

Summary: 

One of those days. 


The Culture of Resistance / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1987. - Video : VHS; 50 min. 

Provisional edition, roughly edited, of what later would become: Zilima Ziya Etsheni = Compelling freedom 


Keywords: * South Africa * arts and culture * anti-apartheid resistance * COSATU 

Summary: 

The role of the arts (especially the working class culture) in the 

struggle against apartheid. Partly related to the work of COSATU. 


Compilation of CVET work / Community Video Education Trust. – South Africa, Cape Town : [s.n.], 1987. - 



Keywords: * South Africa * civic associations * civil protest* * video* 

Summary: 

A compilation of video's produced by different civic groups as 

testimony of their actions and inspiration for other civics. CVET's 

(Community Video Education Trust) mission is to provide opportunity 

for those seeking entry into the film and video industries who 

would not normally be able to access resources available from other providers. 


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Jobs for all at a living wage / Community Video Education Trust. - South Africa, Cape Town : CVET, 1987. 

- Video : VHS; 15 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * labour market * unemployment * unemployed people's organisations* 

Summary: 

The Michells Plain Advice Office tries to help the unemployed by 

bringing them together so they can discuss their problems and 

develop a sense of community. They also provide food and help out 

with financial problems (eg energy bills). Also a mobile clinic is 

organised, where medical students do health check ups. They have 

organised a run in order to raise money for their relief projects. 


June 16 remembered by Murphy Morobe. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1987. - Video : VHS; 20 min. Start: na 15 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto uprising (1976-1977) * Morobe, Murphy (1956- ) 

Summary: 

Murphy Morobe remembers the Soweto uprising. 


Zuid Afrika - deel 1 : een land, twee werelden / reg.: Trudy van Keulen. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 

1987. - Video : VHS; 30 min. Dutch subtitles and comment. 


Keywords: * South Africa * school children * children * detention * torture * apartheid system * boycotts 

Summary: 

Deze film laat zien hoe de kinderen in Zuid-Afrika tegen de 

Apartheid aankijken, welke gevolgen het voor ze heeft en hoe de 

zwarte kinderen deelnemen aan het verzet ertegen. 


Zuid Afrika - deel 2 : kinderen en ouders in verzet / reg. Trudy van Keulen. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

VPRO, 1987. - Video : VHS; 30 min. Dutch subtitles and comment. Start: na 30 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * school children * children * detention * torture * apartheid system * boycotts * 

Boesak, Allan (1946-) 

Summary: 

Deze film laat zien hoe de kinderen in Zuid-Afrika tegen de 

Apartheid aankijken, welke gevolgen het voor ze heeft en hoe de 

zwarte kinderen deelnemen aan het verzet ertegen. In deel twee met 

name aandacht voor de kinderen van Allan Boesak. 


Lessons of the 1987 Miner's Strike (# 87) / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1987. - Video : VHS; 26 

min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * NUM * mineworkers * strikes * Ramaphosa, Cyril (1953- ) * Naidoo, Jay (1954- ) 

Summary: 

An examination of the historic miner's strike which began on the 

9th August and lasted three weeks. Although the miners failed to 

win all their demands, their leader Cyril Ramaphosa hailed the 

strike as an organisational victory, which laid foundations for 

more significant gains in 1988. Jay Naidoo, COSATU General 

Secretary emphasises that in spite of management's strike -breaking 

tactics, which included violent use of police, sackings, arrest and 

employment of scab-labour, that there would be greater 

determination to resist in the future. 


Mandela / dir. by Philip Saville ; written by Ronald Harwood. - UK, London : Channel Four, 1987 ¸. - Video : 

VHS; 165 min. Ronald Harwood also made a book of his script: see BIO-Man.N-07. 

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Produced by TV South for Channel Four. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * biographies (form) * feature films (form) 

Summary: 

Biographical feature film about Nelson Mandela, strongly critizised by Winnie Mandela. 


Afravision # 86: Steve Biko commemoration / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1987. - Video : VHS; 19 

min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Biko, Stephen Bantu (Steve) (1946-1977) 

Summary: 

The tape covers two contrasting memorial services for Steve Biko, 

the black conscious leader, killed in detention by South African 

police. In the first section, Muntu Mjeza, a black consciousness 

leader, addresses a meeting in King Williamstown and takes a 

humanist line that in the absence of god, blacks are forced to sort 

out their own problems. In the second part a memorial service led 

by the Anglican bishop Russell in the Ciskei bantustan, is disrupted 

by armed police. The bishop appeals to them to leave but they refuse. 


Kleur bekennen - jongeren tegen apartheid / samenst. Fons Geerlings, Hedda van Gennep, ... [et al.] ; 

Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland. - Nederland, Amsterdam : AABN, 1987 ¸. - : VHS; 20 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * international solidarity 

Summary: 

Op allerleiverschillende manieren wordt in Nederland door mensen 

geageerd tegen de apartheidspolitiek van de regering in 

Zuid-Afrika. Deze film geeft voorbeelden van enkele van deze 

acties. Een benefiet optreden van bands in Krommenie voor het ANC, 

Freek de Jonge en Ruud Gullit bezig met het maken van een TV-spot 

voor Radio Freedom, een 'Zuid-Afrikadag' op een scholengemeenschap 

in Amsterdam Oud-West: ieder geeft op eigen wijze uiting aan 

solidariteit met de onderdrukte zwarte bevolking van Zuid-Afrika. 


Classroom warriors / dir. by Chris Sheppard, Claude Sauvageot. - UK, Oxford : New Internationalist, 1987. 



Keywords: * South Africa * school children * apartheid system 

Summary: 

The life of a black and a white girl in South Africa, their 

contrasting lifes and their position with regard to the school struggle. 


Somafco art workshop / ANC Video Unit. - Zambia, Lusaka : ANC Unit, 1987. - Video : VHS; 18 min. 

Start na: 13 min. Also on VZA 172 (with title: Mazimbu art workshop) 

Co-produced with the Eli Weinberg Photo-Lab, as a joint learning project. 


Keywords: * South Africa * arts education * society and culture * anti-apartheid resistance 

Summary: 

ANC arts education at Somafco, Tanzania. 


Youth for liberation / ANC Video Unit. - Zambia, Lusaka : ANC Unit, 1987. - Video : VHS; 29 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * ANC Youth League * Soweto uprising (1976-1977) 

Summary: 

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The 10th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising, with archival footage, 

interviews and activities. 


The ribbon / Harriet Gavshon. - UK, Chesham : CDI, 1987. - Video : VHS; 50 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * women * peace activists 

Summary: 

In 1986 black and white mothers started to act in an effort to end 

the escalating conflict in their country. One of the ways they did 

this was by making a Peace Ribbon. Individually or collectively, 

women sewed, drew or painted their visions of peace which were 

joined in the Ribbion, that reached a length of over 500 meter. It 

was shown in public places and was displayed whenever women 

discussed peace. The documentary follows the journey of the Peace 

Ribbon over eight months in South Africa, at a time when protest 

was almost impossible because the General State of Emergengy was declared. 


Mongane Wally Serote - South African poet in conversation with Ralph Mzamo / dir. by Mark Sebba ; 

interviewer Ralph Mzamo. - UK, York : Meridian Productions, 1987 ¸. - Video : VHS; 20 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * poetry * society and culture * Serote, Wally Mongane (1944- ) * anti-apartheid 

resistance * interviews (form) 

Summary: 

Interview with Mongane Serote, about the role of poetry in the 

struggle; about sanctions, especially about the remark of Margaret 

Tatcher that the call for sanctions is immoral; about the cultural 

boycott, and about the policy of the ANC in the future. 


A brother with perfect timing / dir. by Chris Austin, Gill Bond ; Arena. - UK, London ; BRD, Köln : BBC ; 

Indigo ; WDR, 1987. - : VHS; 90 min. German voice-over. Start: na 43 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * jazz * Ibrahim, Abdullah (1934- ) 

Summary: 

Interviews with and performances of South African jazzcat in exile 

(New York) Abdullah Ibrahim, formerly known as Dollar Brand. 

Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood * VZA 140. Also on VZA 122 (English version). 

Burgeroorlog Mozambique / Nieuwslijn. - Nederland, Hilversum : Veronica, 1987. - Video : VHS; 10 min. 



Keywords: * Mozambique * South Africa * civil war * RENAMO * famine * famine relief * transport 

Summary: 

Uitzending over de gevolgen van de burgeroorlog in Mozambique 

tussen FRELIMO en de door Zuid-Afrika gesteunde RENAMO rebellen. De 

burgeroorlog is de oorzaak van de heersende hongersnood, waaraan 

miljoenen dreigen te bezwijken. Zwakke schakel in de voedselhulp 

die op gang komt is transport, wat gebrekkig, onvoldoende of afwezig is. 


Verkiezingen: slegs vir blankes / Panoramiek. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 1987. - Video : VHS; 18 

min. Start: na 14 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary. 


Keywords: * South Africa * general elections * apartheid system * repression * political violence 

Summary: 

Uitzending over de situatie in Zuid-Afrika vlak voor de 

verkiezingen in 1987, waarbij alleen de blanken kunnen stemmen. Met 

aandacht voor de protesten van zwarten tegen de verkiezingen en het 

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politiegeweld wat daarop volgt; over de bewapening van de blanken, 

die hun kinderen met automatische wapens leren omgaan; over de 

vermeende groei van extreem rechts, als reactie op de hervormingen 

van president P.W. Botha; met Pik Botha, minister van Buitenlandse 

Zaken die de direkte verantwoordelijkheid voor de slechte 

omstandigheden waar de zwarten in moeten leven bij de Nederlandse 

regering legt; met Sampie Terreblanche van de Universiteit van 

Stellenbosch en Joseph Lelyveld, auteur van een boek over de 

apartheid, die praten over het isolement waarin de blanke zich in 

Zuid-Afrika geplaatst heeft. Ook Boesak komt nog aan bod. 


Apartheid: adapt or die = Apartheid: buigen of barsten / dir. by Mark Anderson, Norma Percy ; prod. by 

Brian Lapping ; Ned. bew. Pauline Peters. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1986 ¸. - Video : VHS; 52 min. 

Start: na 30 min. Originally a Granada TV production. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid reforms * Botha, Pieter Willem (1916-2006) * Lekoa Vaal * international 

financial relations * international economic relations * local governments * rent boycotts * school boycotts * 

Coloureds * UDF (South Africa) * COSATU * township revolt (1984-1986, South Africa) * history; 1980s 

Summary: 

Een documentaire over de apartheidshervormingen van president Botha 

in het begin van de 1980s en de reacties die dat opriep (het 

toestaan van permanente bewoning van de townships door zwarten, met 

lokale raden die zich financieel moeten bedruipen met de 

huurinkomsten en als handlangers van het regime bedoeld zijn en 

beschouwd worden door de 'comrades'; de oprichting van het UDF, een 

alliantie van alle organisaties die tegen de nieuwe grondwet zijn; 

het instellen van een parlement voor Indiërs en Kleurlingen (wat 

een conflict opleverde tussen Botha en Treurnicht, die uit de NP 

stapte en een konservatieve Partij begon, en tussen Allan 

Hendrickse van de Labour Party en Boesak van de UDF, over al dan 

niet deelnemen aan de verkiezingen); de Rubicon-toespraak van 

Botha, waarna de Rand in één week 35% in waarde daalde en de beurs 

van Johannesburg gesloten werd; over de oprichting van COSATU; over 

de toenemende druk van het bedrijfsleven, zowel binnenlands 

(Anglo-American) als buitenlands (Chase Bank) om de apartheid af te 

schaffen; over het verzet in de townships en in de Vaal-driehoek 

(rent boycotts, school boycotts, necklacing) en het inschakelen van 

het leger in de townships en het instellen van de noodtoestand in juni 1986. 


Klaas de Jonge terug in Nederland / Argus. - België, Brussel : BRTN, 1987. - Video : VHS; 17 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * anti-apartheid resistance * Jonge, Klaas de (1937- ) * ANC 

Summary: 

Interview met de net weer vrijgekomen Klaas de Jonge, die voor 

wapensmokkel voor het ANC enkele jaren in de Nederlandse ambassade 

in Zuid-Afrika moest schuilen voor de Zuidafrikaanse politie. Hij 

legt uit wat hem deed besluiten de gewapende strijd van het ANC te steunen. 


Klaas de Jonge terug in Nederland / NOS Journaal. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1987. - Video : VHS; 6 



Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * Jonge, Klaas de (1937- ) * ANC 

Summary: 

Journaal item over de terugkeer van Klaas de Jonge naar Nederland 

en ontvangst op Schiphol, met aandacht voor de gevangenenruil waar 

de vrijkoming van Klaas een onderdeel van was. 


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Klaas de Jonge terug in Nederland / Achter het Nieuws. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 1987. - Video : 

VHS; 13 min. Start: na 88 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * Jonge, Klaas de (1937- ) * ANC * interviews (form) 

Summary: 

Interview met Klaas de Jonge, na zijn vrijlating uit de Nederlandse 

ambassade in Zuid-Afrika, waar hij twee jaar vast zat. Hij wordt 

vooral streng ondervraagd over het punt waarom hij wapens en 

explosieven voor het ANC het land in smokkelde. ('Explosieven!! 

Maar meneer de Jonge, realiseerde u zich niet dat daar slachtoffers 

bij zouden kunnen vallen??!!!') 


Lied voor Mandela / dir. by Lynda J. Fowke ; prod. by Sally Hibbin. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

IKON/KRO/RKK, 1986. - Video : VHS; 13 min. Dutch subtitles. Original title: Sounds for Mandela. 

Eerste 17 min. ontbreken. Start: na 17 min. * Zie ook: VZA 098 (complete version) 


Keywords: * South Africa * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * history; 1960s * history; 1970s * history; 

1980s * ANC 

Summary: 

A powerful portrayal of Nelson Mandela's life and work through 

stills, poetry and music knitted together by selections of his 

writings and court statements. Whit lots of archival photographs of 

the Sharpville and Soweto massacres. 


Liefde kent geen kleur / Metterdaad. - Nederland, Hilversum : EO, 1987. - Video : VHS; 21 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * Venda (geogr.) * church and society * physical health care * disabled people * 

vocational education 

Summary: 

Film over Nederlandse christenen die goed werk doen in Venda, Zuid 

Afrika, waar ze gehandicapten revalideren en van een 

beroepsopleiding binnen hun mogelijkheden voorzien, in het Siloam 

Hospitaal en met de christelijke vereniging voor gehandicapten Thusanani. 


De strafschop / Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland. - Nederland, Amsterdam : AABN, 1987. - Video : 



Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * Radio Freedom * ANC 

Summary: 

TV spotje met Ruud Gullit en Freek de Jonge om steun aan het 

Nederlandse volk te vragen voor Radio Freedom, de stem van het ANC. 


Afravision compilation #80: # 76: Railway workers strike # 63: Mwzakhe Mbuli - people's poet # 78: 

Group areas act and Hillbrow # 74: The battle of the Berg: election special / VNS. - UK, London : 

Afravision Ltd, 1987. - Video : VHS; 19,12,15,10 min. # 78 also on VZA 151 


Keywords: * South Africa * public service workers * trade unions * literature * Mbuli, Mzwakhe (1960?- ) * 

elections * NP * Conservative Party (South Africa) 

Summary: 

These tapes focus on four subjects of SA in 1987. The first (# 76) 

describes the historic victory of SARHWU and COSATU in the public 

sector transport services. The second (# 63) focusses on the 

charismatic and popular poet Mzwakhe Mbuli. The third (# 78) shows 

black residents of the 'white' Hillbrow area organising to oppose 

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forced evictions from their homes. The last (# 74) examines some of 

the issues in May 'whites only' elections by showing the election 

fight between the National and Conservative Parties in the 

Waterberg Consistuency of Dr. Andries Treurnicht. 


The cutting edge / prod., dir., and ed. Maria Nobrega. - UK, London : IDAF, 1987. - Video : VHS; 21 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * UK * trade unions * mineworkers * international sanctions 

Summary: 

Trade unionists, from South Africa as well as Britain, call for 

sanctions. Among others: James Motlatsi, NUM President; Jay Naidoo, 

COSATU Gen. Secretary; Zolan Zembe, SACTU Co-ordinator W. Europe; 

Norman Willis and Arthur Scargill from the UK trade unions. 


Shotdown / dir. by Andrew Worsdale ; prod. by Jeremy Nathan. - South Africa, Johannesburg : [s.n.], 1987. 



Keywords: * South Africa * feature films (form) * intelligence services * anti-apartheid resistance 

Summary: 

A South African filmmaker returns from America to make a film about 

a radical black playwright. As he makes his way into the circles of 

artists and activists connected to his subject, he finds he is 

being used by the security police who hope to reach the playwright 

through him. His whole quest falls apart around him, leaving him an 

isolated and ridiculous figure in a landscape of bitter conflict. 

The film captures dimensions of nihilistic rebellion and confusion 

typical of young white South African reactions to Apartheid. 


Afriavision #50: Samora Machel funeral / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1986. - Video : VHS; 15 min. 

Also on VZA 076. Start: na 40 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Machel, Samora Moisés (1933-1986) * funerals 

Summary: 

Registration of the funeral of Samora Machel, the Mozambican 

president that led his country towards independence, and died in a 

much disputed airplane crash in South Africa. 


Anti Apartheidsmonument Amsterdam / NOS Journaal. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1987. - Video : 



Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * local government * Amsterdam (Netherlands) 

Summary: 

Reportage over de onthulling van het Anti-Apartheidsmonument in 

Amsterdam-oost en de voor- en tegenstanders van het veranderen van 

straatnamen in de Transvaalbuurt. 


Apartheid - oorsprong / dir. by John Blake ; prod. by Brian Lapping ; Ned. bew.: Pauline Peters. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1986 ¸. - Video : VHS; 51 min. . - (Apartheid; 1) 

A Granada TV production. Start: na 55 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid (ideology) * apartheid system * history 

Summary: 

Deel een over de geschiedenis van apartheid, vanaf Jan van 

Riebeeck, via de Grote Trek, de Boerenoorlog, de Land Act van 1913, 

de Tweede Wereldoorlog, de Broederbond, en hun 

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nationaal-socialistische organisatie de Ossewa Brandwag, tot aan de 

overwinning van de NP in 1948. Lots of archival footage and many 

interviews with white Afrikaner and black victims. 


Beyers Naudé. - Nederland, Hilversum : [s.n.], 1987. - Video : VHS; 10 min. Start: na 107 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Naudé, Christiaan F. Beyers (1915 - 2004) * Afrikaners (people) * apartheid 

system 

Summary: 

Interview-fragment van Paul Witteman die Beyers-Naudé interviewt 

over apartheid en zijn eigen positie als Afrikaner. 


Comrades / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1986. - Video : VHS; 14 min. 

Originally a BBC Documentary. Dutch subtitles and comment. Also on VZA 106, the full 24 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * militarisation * AWB * ANC * youth * Krugersdorp * local government 

representatives * consumer boycotts * communal violence 

Summary: 

Een reportage over de radicalisering in Zuid-Afrika: enerzijds de 

jonge zwarten (comrades) die zich radicaler en geweldadiger 

opstellen tegenover de gematigde ouderen, die soms geneigd zijn om 

als raadslid op te treden, wat door de comrades als verraad gezien 

wordt:anderzijds de groei van extreem-rechtse blanke groeperingen 

als de AWB. Ook aandacht voor het steeds harder wordende 

politie-optreden. Als voorbeeld wordt de blanke plaats Krugersdorp 

genomen, met ten noorden daarvan de zwarte township Munsieville, 

waar de comrades de macht uitmaken, consumenten-boycotts uitroepen 

en handhaven, en dmv eigen rechtbanken 'verraders' berechten, tot aan necklacing toe. 


Herdenking Soweto 1987 / Achter het Nieuws. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 1987. - Video : VHS; 7 min. 

Start: na 117 min. Dutch subtitles and comment 


Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto uprising (1976-1977) * trade unions * state of emergency 

Summary: 

Reportage over de herdenking van de Soweto opstand elf jaar 

geleden, en aandacht voor de Sate of Emergency en het groeiende 

belang van de vakbonden in Zuid-Afrika. 


KZA spotje / Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1987. - Video : VHS; 1 min. 



Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * KZA 

Summary: 

KZA spotje met Oliver Tambo 


Mbata / Ver van mijn bed show. - Nederland, Hilversum : KRO, 1987. - Video : VHS; 12 min 



Keywords: * South Africa * ANC * political refugees 

Summary: 

Gesprek met politiek vluchtelinge mevr. Mbata, van het ANC. 


Sounds for Mandela. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1987. - Video : VHS; 26 min. 

Dutch subtitles. incomplete copy. Start: na 14 min. 

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Keywords: * South Africa * history; 20th century * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * apartheid system * 

anti-apartheid resistance 

Summary: 

Part of the documentary "Sounds for Mandela" . A history of 

apartheid and the role Mandela plays in the struggle against it. 

Archival footage of how the apartheidsystem operates interspersed 

with footage of the concert "Sounds for Mandela". 


Govan Mbeki interviewed 12-11-1987 unedited / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1987. - Video : VHS; 

30 min. Afravision nr.89 


Keywords: * South Africa * Mbeki, Govan Mvunyelina (1910-2001) * interviews (form) 

Summary: 

In early November Govan Mbeki was released from Robben Island after 

23 years imprisonment. In this, his first television interview 

since his release he discusses a range of issues, including the 

possibilities of negotiations with the government, his commitment 

to the ANC and marxism, the political views of Nelson Mandela and 

his view of sanctions. 


COSATU second National Congress 1987 / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1987. - Video : VHS; 53 

min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * COSATU * congresses 

Summary: 

Report of the COSATU second National Congress 1987. 


Afravision compilation: #87: Lessons of the 1987 miners' strike #44: Health : emergency needs / VNS. 

- UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1986/87. - Video : VHS; 25 & 34 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * NUM * strikes * health care 

Summary: 

#87: Examination of the miner's strike of August 1987. Leader Cyril 

Ramaphosa hails the strike as an organisational victory, even 

though the workers failed to win all their demands, and in spite of 

the police violence that killed nine workers and wounded hundreds 

of others. Also comments of Jay Naidoo. 

#44: Interviews with Lloyd Vogelman of Emergency Services Group, 

and with victims of the Soweto shootings, September 1986. 


Afravision #62: This report has been censored / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1987. - Video : VHS; 

11 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * censorship * state of emergency 

Summary: 

Media clamdown by the apartheid state has produced an embattled 

press, struggling to report against the odds. This short film looks 

at a day in the life of a black South African journalist working 

under the State of Emergency restrictions. 


Afravision compilation: #51: "Bitter roots": theTransvaal Alloys dispute #76: Railway strike II #87: 

Lessons of the 1987 Miners' strike / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1987. - Video : VHS; 19 min. 

#76 also on tape VZA 151 & 104 (Dutch subtitles); #51 also on tape VZA 077 & 104 (Dutch subtitles); #87 

also on tape 148 & 104 (Dutch subtitles). 

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Keywords: * South Africa * SARHWU * NUM * strikes 

Summary: 

#51: Edited documentary set in the 'homeland' Lebowa where fired 

workers from Transvaal Alloys, a German owned metal company, recall 

the conditions that led to the dispute and how they live now in 


#76: Film about the railway strike that started in March 1987, 

witch untill then was the biggest strike yet in the public sector. 

18.000 workers were sacked by the management. The strike ended in 

victory in June: all workers were reinstated. With Mike Roussos of 

the SA Railway and Harbour Workers' Union and Jay Naidoo of COSATU. 

#87: Examination of the miner's strike of August 1987. Leader Cyril 

Ramaphosa hails the strike as an organisational victory, even 

though the workers failed to win all their demands, and in spite of 

the police violence that killed nine workers and wounded hundreds 

of others. Also comments of Jay Naidoo. 


Afravision compilation: #76: Railway strike II #63: Mzwakhe Mbuli - people's poet #78: Hillbrow and 

the groups area act #74: The battle of the Berg: election special / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 

1987. - Video : VHS; 19, 12, 15 & 10 min. + See: Afravision Library Catalogue 

#76 also on VZA 150 & 104 (Dutch subtitles); #63 also on VZA 104 (Dutch subtitles); #78 also on VZA 142 


Keywords: * South Africa * strikes * Mbuli, Mzwakhe (1960?- ) * apartheid system * elections 

Summary: 

#76: Film about the railway strike that started in March 1987, 

witch untill then was the biggest strike yet in the public sector. 

18.000 workers were sacked by the management. The strike ended in 

victory in June: all workers were reinstated. With Mike Roussos of 

the SA Railway and Harbour Workers' Union and Jay Naidoo of COSATU. 

#63: Performances by and interviews with Mzwakhe Mbuli, black poet. 

#78: Thousands of blacks have moved into Hillbrow, an area in 

Johannesburg, in spite of apartheid laws. After the elections the 

new government wants to be strict on the Land Areas Act. 

#74: In the campaign for the white-only elections of May 1987, it 

seems that in the conservatives stronghold Waterberg in the 

Northern Transvaal, the CP will gain a considerable victory over 

the ruling National Party. With Treurnicht (CP- candidate and 

party-leader) and Lamprecht (NP- candidate). 


Segopotso : Remembrance / dir. by Joelle Chesselet, Craig Matthew. - South Africa, Cape Town : Doxa 

Productions, 1988. - Video : VHS; 27 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * townships * youth * violence * plays (form) * funerals * Soweto uprising (1976- 

1977) 

Summary: 

Funerals strengthen the anti-apartheid protests. Against the 

background of scenes from the play "Township Boy" by the Mamu 

Players, directed by Christo Leach and written by John M. Ledwaba, 

about a poet from Soweto who got killed in the Soweto revolt in 1976. 


Cuba and Angola : response to the South African escalation / dir. Victor Martin. - UK, London : 

Pathfinder, 1988. - Video : VHS; 172 min. 


Keywords: * Angola * Cuba * Cuito Cuanavale, battle of (1987-1988) * international assistance * military 

cooperation 

Summary: 

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A three-part documentary about Cuba's military assistance in 

Angola, especially at the battle for Cuito Cuanavale in March 1988. 

With, inter alia, Fidel Castro. 


Assassinations / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1988. - : VHS; 45 min 


Keywords: * South Africa * extrajudicial killing * intelligence services * military 

Summary: 

This video made of footage from other Afravision tapes, is about 

assassinations by the South African military intelligence of 

opponents of apartheid. Interviews with, inter alia, Thabo Mbeki, 

Stephen Ellis, Albie Sachs. 


Mapantsula / dir. by Oliver Schmitz. - UK, London ; South Africa, Johannesburg ; Australia, Sydney : 

Haverbeam ; OneLook Productions ; David Hannah Productions, 1988. - Video : VHS; 100 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * feature films (form) * Soweto * anti-apartheid resistance 

Summary: 

This feature film shows the life of a small township gangster 

called 'Panic'. He lives in a shack behind Ma Modise's house, whose 

son is involved in the radical youth and trade union movements. 

Panic, however, is indifferent to the political struggles of others 

in the ghetto, hanging out as a carefree thug. One day he is 

arrested together with some political activists. The police sees in 

him a potential informer. Over a period of days he is alternatively 

cajoled and tortured, untill finally he is forced to take a stand 

that may cost his life. Thomas Mogotlane, Dolly Rathebe & Peter 

Sephuma are in the cast. 


Changing this country : the testimony of four South African workers / prod. and dir. by Peter Entell. - 

Switzerland, Geneva : ILO, 1988. - Video : VHS; 58 min 


Keywords: * South Africa * trade unions * trade unionists * anti-apartheid resistance 

Summary: 

This film focusses on the lives of four black workers. As elected 

shop stewards they are part of the trade union movement which has 

emerged as one of the strongest anti-apartheidforces in the country 

and therefore has come under fierce attack by the government. It 

looks behind the scenes of the demonstrations and police brutality, 

highlighting in the workers' own words the effect of apartheid on 

people in their homes, workplaces and meeting halls. The workers 

talk about their relationship to whites, attitudes towards 

sanctions and future aspirations. 


Die Söldnerinseln : Legionäre erobern die Komoren / Dir. Jürgen Roth. - BRD, Stuttgart : SDR, 1988. - 



Keywords: * Comoros * France * Denard, Robert (1929- ) * neo-colonialism * PMCs 

Summary: 

A documentary about Bob Denard, a French mercenary who started his 

career in the Cono in 1960 and did his major trick in 1978, when he 

'conquered' the Comoros. Just before that, the government of the 

Comoros had ordered the French soldiers to leave, because it wanted 

to establish a demilitarised zone in the Indian ocean. This was 

unacceptable for France, but they didn't want to intervene 

themselves: the Comores were de iure independent (except for 

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Mayotte, that stayed under French rule), so the French feared to be 

accused of neo-colonialism. Also attention for the relations of 

Denard with South Africa. 


People matter : Zuid-Afrika - recht op ontwikkeling / reg. Lionel Ngakane. - Nederland, Hilversum : RVU, 

1988. - Video : VHS; 24 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * right to development 

Summary: 

Het recht op ontwikkeling behoort tot de mensenrechten zoals in het 

VN handvest omschreven. Vice-president van het Internationaal 

Gerechtshof in Den Haag, Keba Mbaye, die als eerste dit recht 

formuleerde, vertelt over de geschiedenis ervan. In Zuid-Afrika 

wordt dit recht, naast nog een aantal andere, geschonden door het 

systeem van apartheid. Getoond wordt wat het apartheidssysteem 

inhoud, op het gebied van huisvesting (bantustans), 

(bantu)onderwijs (advocaat Dave Webster, later zelf ook 

slachtoffer, vertelt dat 59 % van de gedetineerden in Zuid-Afrika 

uit schoolkinderen bestaat), gezondheidszorg, werkgelegenheid. 

O.R.Tambo en Thabo Mbeki benadrukken dat eerst het 

apartheidssysteem de wereld uitmoet voordat ernst gemaakt kan 

worden met het recht op ontwikkeling. 


Serving apartheid - in dienst van apartheid / Feike Salverda. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 1988. - 


Gebaseerd op het door de AABN gepubliceerde boekje: Fighting for apartheid: a job for life. 


Keywords: * South Africa * mercenaries * transnational corporations 

Summary: 

Based on the booklet 'Fighting for Apartheid - A job for life', 

published by theAABN, the film reveals the European involvement 

in the South African Defence Force and the role of multi-national 

corporations. Comments of members of the European parliament, the 

ANC and South African war resisters. 


Afravision #129: Certain unknown persons / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1988. - Video : VHS; 46 

min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * intelligence services * informal repression * extrajudicial killing * Sachs, Albert 

Louis (1935- ) * student activists * Goniwe, Matthew ( -1985) * September, Dulcie (1935-1988) 

Summary: 

Documentary about the extrajudicicial killings of ANC members and 

anti-apartheid activists in and outside South Africa by the 

military intelligence service of South Africa. Interviews with, 

inter alia, Albie Sachs, who survived a bombattack in Maputo; Steve 

Ellis (editor of Africa Confidential) about the killing of Dulcie 

September; Jann and Kim Turner, daughters of one of the first 

victims of this assassination-policy, Dr. Rick Turner, killed in 

1978; Nyameka and Alex Goniwe, parents of Matthew, a 'rural 

organizer' in the Eastern Cape, killed in 1985; Dr. Fabian Ribeiro, 

'the people's doctor' from Mamelodi, interviewed before he was 

killed in 1986, together with his wife; Sicelo Dhlomo, Sowetan 

student activist, interviewed before he was killed in 1988. Also 

comments of Thabo Mbeki. 


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De regering schrijft mijn teksten / cam. Marijke Vreeburg ; interview Marja Roskam ; Kenmerk. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1988. - Video : VHS; 28 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * performing arts * Uys, Pieter-Dirk (1945- ) 

Summary: 

An interview with Pieter-Dirk Uys, cabaret performer from South 

Africa, who is in Amsterdam for a show in the 'Nieuwe La Mar', cut 

with scetches from his show. He talks about his personal and political motivation. 


Interview P.W. Botha & reactie daarop van Beyers Naudé / Hier en Nu. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 

1988. - Video : VHS; 11 min. Start: na 46 min. Dutch subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Botha, Pieter Willem (1916-2006) * Naudé, Christiaan F. Beyers (1915 - 2004) 

Summary: 

John Coker (black British journalist) interviews P.W. Botha, about 

the (still not forthcoming) release of Nelson Mandela, the 

eventuality of economic sanctions from the USA, and the image of 

South Africa in the West. Answers as expected. After the interview 

Cees Labeur asks Beyers Naudé, who happens to be in Holland at the 

time, for a reaction. Beyers Naudé expresses his deep 

disappointment with the statements of PW. He sees two reasons for 

this attitude: the fear of the whites for loosing their privileges, 

and their unwillingness to share power with the black majority. 


Hearing about abductions, Amsterdam, December 1988 / Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland. - 

Netherlands, Amsterdam : AABN, 1988 (Dec). - Video : VHS; 180 min. See also VZA 164 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * abductions * politically motivated crime 

Summary: 

Report on the Hearing on abductions in December 1988 in the city 

hall in Amsterdam, organised by the AABN, about abductions and 

other crimes by the Pretoria apartheidsregime. Victims and witnesses tell their stories. 


Hearing about abductions, Amsterdam, December 1988 / Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland. - 

Netherlands, Amsterdam : AABN, 1988 (Dec). - Video : VHS; 100 min. See also VZA 163 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * abductions * politically motivated crime 

Summary: 

Report on the Hearing on abductions in December 1988 in the city 

hall in Amsterdam, organised by the AABN, about abductions and 

other crimes by the Pretoria apartheidsregime. Victims and 

witnesses tell their stories. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VZA 163a 

Still on strike...'The Long March' on tour / dir. by Yossi Bal. - UK, London : University of London, 

Goldsmiths' College, 1988 ¸. - Video : VHS; 45 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * labour disputes * MAWU * BTR Sarmcol * performing arts 

Summary: 

A Goldsmiths' College Television Production from a performance of 

'The Long March', created and performed by members of Sarmcol 

Workers Co-operative, at Lambeth Townhall, Brixton, London, on 1st 

November 1987, about their dispute with British multinational BTR 

Sarmcol, since May 1985. 


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Geen moment van twijfel / geschr. door Jack Klaff ; reg. en bew. Eric Oosthoek ; spelers Ian Bruce, Joseph 

Mosikili. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1988. - Video : VHS; 47 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * plays (form) * Sharpeville massacre (1960) 

Summary: 

A play about the impact of the Sharpville massacre in 1960, which 

changed the strategy of the ANC from non-violent to violent action. 


Freedom beat : UK freedom festival / dir. by Deborah Kermode ; Artists Against Apartheid. - UK, London : 

Clapham Common Productions, 1988 ¸. - Video : VHS; 70 min 


Keywords: * South Africa * UK * festivals * music * Anti Apartheid Movement GB 

Summary: 

A registration of the freedom beat festival, the biggest UK outdoor 

festival since the Isle of Wight, with 250.000 people attending, 

filmed June 28th, 1986; with (inter alia): the Style Council, Sade, 

Sting, Peter Gabriel and Hugh Masekela. 


Egoli, stad van goud, haat en ellende / reg. Henk Barnard ; Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : Ter Haar, Riek, 1988?. - Video : VHS; 54 min. 

Nederlandse vertaling: Thea Doelwijt. toneelregie: Rufus Collins en Henk Tjon 

Deze produktie kwam tot stand in samenwerking met het KZA 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * theatre * mineworkers 

Summary: 

Nederlandse versie van beroemd Zuidafrikaans toneelstuk over het 

leven van zwarte mijnwerkers in Johannesburg ten tijde van de apartheid. 


"We wanted to make history" : BTR - South Africa's longest strike / Open Eye Film Video and Animation 

Workshop. - UK, Liverpool : Open Eye, 1988. - Video : VHS; 28 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * NUMSA * strikes * plays (form) 

Summary: 

In Autumn 1987 eight of the 970 black South African strikers sacked 

by BTR- Sarmcoll in 1985 over union recognition toured Britain with 

their play "The long march". Interviews and excerpts from the play 

show how they are organising to survive and continue the long 

-running campaign, with the repression of trade unions under 

apartheid as the backdrop. The videotape was produced with the 

assistance of the NUM and all proceeds will go to the strike fund. 


Amandla / Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland. - Nederland, Amsterdam : AABN, 1988. - Video : VHS; 38 

min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * arts and culture * ANC 

Summary: 

Selection of performance of the cultural ensemble of the ANC in Belgium/Holland, June 1988 


Revelation time: "Red Bullit". - [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1988. - Video : VHS; 4 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * pop music 

Summary: 

Video clip by the band Revelation Time in which Ruud Gullit is performing 


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Before Dawn : culture in another South-Africa / dir. by Maarten Rens ; Anti-Apartheids Beweging 

Nederland, African National Congress. - Netherlands, Amsterdam ; Zambia, Lusaka : AABN Unit ; ANC 

Video Unit, 1988. - Video : VHS; 60 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * society and culture * conferences 

Summary: 

Video made on the occasion of the CASA conference that took place 

in Amsterdam in December 1987, where South African artists met, 

many of whom were living in exile. The film reflects the dynamics 

of culture through a multitude of performances and debates the role 

of culture, the cultural boycot and the role of the press. 


The soldier. - South Africa, [Johannesburg?] : [s.n.], 1990 [?]. - Video : VHS; 10 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Voortrekkermonument * soldiers 

Summary: 

A rather enigmatic short film about the Voortrekkermonument and two 

soldiers, ending with the conclusion that 'the army will fuck you'. 


Freiheit durch terror ? / Bericht von Sharon Brown, Bobby Tolksdorf. - BRD, München : ARRI, 1988. - 

Video : VHS; 30 min. German voice-over when necessary 


Keywords: * South Africa * ANC * terrorism * communism * political violence * Buthelezi Mangosuthu Gatsha 

(1928-) 

Summary: 

Dieser Dokumentar versucht zu erweisen das der ANC eine 

kommunistische Terrorbewegung ist von im Ost-Deutschland, Rusland 

und Lybie ausgebildete Kämpfer die unschuldige Bürger umbringen 

(viele Close-ups von 'necklacing' Slachtopfer) um ihre Heilstaat zu 

bilden. Ganz im Gegensatz zu dem friedlichen Buthelezi. 


A world apart / dir. by Chris Menges. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 1988. - Video : VHS; 112 min. 

Originally produced by: Working Title Limited, Zimbabwe 

Script by Shawn Slovo, the daughter of Ruth First & Joe Slovo. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * First, Ruth (1925-1982) * anti-apartheid resistance * detention * history; 1960s 

Summary: 

A feature film about the arrest without charge and solitary 

imprisonment of anti-apartheids journalist Ruth First in the 1960s 

(being the first woman detained under the "90-Day Act"), as seen 

through the eyes of her thirteen year old daughter Shawn. 

Remarks: picture quality: good * VZA 174 

Censuur in Zuid-Afrika: the New Nation / dir. Henny Cerfontein ; Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

IKON/KRO/RKK, 1988. - Video : VHS; 12 min. Interviews in English with Dutch subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * media * newspapers (specific) * New Nation (Johannesburg) * censorship * 

freedom of the press 

Summary: 

Reportage over de New Nation,een 'zwarte' krant, opgericht met 

financiële steun van de katholieke kerk in 1986, een vooorbeeld van 

de 'alternatieve' pers in Zuid-Afrika, die het zwaarst onder de 

censuurmaatregelen van de regering te lijden heeft. Hoofdredacteur 

Zwelake Sisulu (zoon van Walter) zit al langer dan een jaar 

gevangen sinds een optreden op de education crisis conference in 

1986. Hem is door CASA (Culture in Another South Africa) de CASA 

Media Award toegekend in december 1987. Interviews met Gabu 

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Tugwana, waarnemend hoofdredakteur, en Zodwa Sisulu, vrouw van Zwelake. 


SANCO North Coast Crisis. - South Africa, [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1988?. - Video : VHS; 69 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * drought 

Summary: 

A rather enigmatic video about watershortage (?) and education 

projects (?) and anyway about what a greenfilter can do for your video. 


Nelson Mandela's 70th Birthday tribute / ex. dir. Kenn O'Neill. - UK, London : Elephant House ; BBC, 

1988. - Video : VHS; 117 min. An Elephant House production in association with BBC TV. 


Keywords: * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * music * international solidarity 

Summary: 

The historic Nelson Mandela 70th birthday concert at Wembly stadium 

on June 11, 1988, duration 14 hours, has been compiled into this 

video. The concert was broadcasted live by satelite and viewed by 

an estimated 500 million people in 63 countries. The message was 

clear and simple: "Free Nelson Mandela". 


Women writers : Nadine Gordimer / prod. and dir. by Jill Fullerton-Smith. - UK, London : Channel Four, 

1988. - Video : VHS; 26 min. A Thames Colour Production for Channel Four. 



Summary: 

An interview with the famous South African writer. She gives her 

views on the South African situation, talks about her upbringing 

and shares her ideas about writing with the interviewer. She sees 

the writer's primary function as making sense of life and her work 

as human being as working towards progress in South Africa. She 

demonstrates this by reading relevant exerpts from her work. 

Remarks: Picture quality: * VZA 178 

Nederland loopt te hoop tegen apartheid - 11 June 1988 / Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland. - 

Nederland, Amsterdam : AABN Video Unit, 1988. - Video : VHS; 45 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * anti-apartheid movements * demonstrations 

Summary: 

Report of the national demonstration and manifestation in 

Amsterdam. Speeches of Pallo Jordan, Toivo, Busak, Van Thijn, Mies 

Bouwhuis, presentator Freek de Jonge, mixed with musical performances. 


"Send a message to Mandela" / Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland. - Nederland, Amsterdam : AABN 

Video Unit, 1988. - Video : VHS; 13 min. B/W film 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * Madikizela-Mandela, Winnie 

(1934-) * demonstrations 

Summary: 

A representative of the Dutch AAM hands over 11 mailbags with 

greetings for Mandela, the result of the campaign "Send a message 

to Mandela", to Winnie and Zinzi Mandela in Soweto. 


Afravision #139: Farid Esack speech + Arekopaneng / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1988. - Video : 

VHS; 53 min. 


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Keywords: * South Africa * exile * religion 

Summary: 

A speech by Islam leader Esack in London on the part of religion in 

the freedom struggle. He calls for different religions, peoples and 

sexes to fight together and to reclaim the power of religion from 

the oppressors for the people. Followed by a performance of Arekopaneng, 

about exile and the part of exile in weakening the apartheid regime. 

Remarks: Picture quality; not so good * VZA 181 

Afravision compilation: #129: Certain unknown persons #133: Profile of David Bruce. Stetsasonic: 

A.F.R.I.C.A. / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1987/88. - Video : VHS; 45, 6 & 5 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * extrajudicial killing * Sachs, Albert Louis (1935- ) * conscientious objectors * 

music 

Summary: 

#129: An investigative documentary looking at the killings of 

anti-apartheid activists between 1978 and 1988. The film takes up 

the cases of Dulcie September, Ric Turner, Matthew Goniwe and 

comrades, Dr. Fabian Ribiero and his wife Florence, and Sicelo Dlomo. 

#133: Profile of David Bruce, war resister who was sentenced to six 

years in prison. 

Videoclip of Stetsasonic: A.F.R.I.C.A./dir. by Hart Perry, prod. by 

Bill Davis . - Tommy Boy Music Inc., 1987 


The best of Nelson Mandela 70 Birthday tribute. - Nederland, Hilversum : Veronica, 1988. - Video : VHS; 

60 min. 


Keywords: * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * pop music 

Summary: 

Parts of the Wembley concert held for Mandela's 70th birthday, with 

many famous popartists. 


Afravision compilation: #128: Olivier Tambo interviewed #108: Interview with Archie Gumede / VNS. - 

UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1988. - Video : VHS; 25 &12 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * extrajudicial killing * KwaZulu-Natal * peace negotiations * interviews (form) 

Summary: 

#128: ANC president Oliver Tambo is interviewed about the Pretoria 

regime's alleged campaign of assassinations, and the ANC's ability to respond. 

#108: Possibly the last interview with Archie Gumede before his 

banning in Februari 1988, about efforts to bring about peace talks in Natal. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 184. #108 also on VZA 190 

Afravision compilation: #122: Interview with Albie Sachs #89: Govan Mbeki interviewed #110: 

Interview with Thabo Mbeki / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1987/88. - Video : VHS; 51, 28 & 21 min. 

+ See: Afravision Library Catalogue 


Keywords: * South Africa * extrajudicial killing * Sachs, Albert Louis (1935- ) * Mbeki, Govan Mvunyelina 

(1910-2001) * Mbeki, Thabo Mvuyelwa (1942- ) 

Summary: 

#122: Lawyer and activist Albie Sachs was maimed by a car bomb 

blast in Maputo, Mozambique in March 1988. In this interview, one 

of the first after the blast, he describes what happened and his 

immediate plans. He also analysyes the South African government's 

campaign of terrorism. 

#89: In November 1987 Govan Mbeki was released from Robben Island 

after 23 years of imprisonment. This is his first television 

interview since his release. He discusses a range of issues, 

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including the possibility of negotiations with the government, his 

commitment to the ANC and marxism, the political views of Nelson 

Mandela, and gives his view of sanctions. 

#110: Thabo Mbeki, then ANC Director of Information, is interviewed 

about the South African government's alleged involvement in 

assassinations of anti apartheid activists at home and abroad. 


Any child is my child / dir. by Barry Feinberg. - UK, London : IDAF, 1988. - Video : VHS; 31 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * children * children's rights * repression * anti-apartheid resistance * torture 

Summary: 

This film is about the repression of children in South Africa. It 

is also about the extraordinary bravery of children who despite 

police brutality, including horrific beatings and torture, continue 

to resist the apartheid system. Apart from the testemony of the 

children themselves the film includes statements from Archbishop 

Huddleston, Oliver Tambo, Angela Davis and Glenys Kinnock. 


Who killed Dr. Rick Turner / Ebony. - UK, London : BBC 2, 1988. - Video : VHS; 35 min 

See also: VZA 155: this is a shortened and slightly revised edition of the Afravision tape. 


Keywords: * South Africa * extrajudicial killing * intelligence services * military 

Summary: 

This video made of footage from other Afravision tapes, is about 

assassinations by the South African military intelligence of 

opponents of apartheid. Interviews with, inter alia, daughters and 

mother of Dr. Rick turner, Stephen Ellis, Albie Sachs. At the end 

an interview with a South African government representative. 


Suffer the children / Nicholas Claxton. - UK, London : BBC, 1988. - Video : VHS; 50 min. 

Produced by Penumbra for BBC 


Keywords: * South Africa * torture * political violence * children's rights * state of emergency * police * 

children 

Summary: 

A documentary about police violence and torture of children under 

the state of emergency where approximately 10.000 children have 

been arrested, most of them without charges. 


Afravision compilation: #100: UDF-Inkatha clashes #103: Leadership views of Natal conflict #104: 

Grassroots experiences of Natal conflict #108: Archie Gumede on the Natal Fighting / VNS. - UK, 

London : Afravision Ltd, 1988. - Video ; 11, 22, 20 & 10 min. + See: Afravision Library Catalogue 


Keywords: * South Africa * KwaZulu-Natal * Inkatha * UDF (South Africa) * violence 

Summary: 

#100: Scenes of violent clashes between Inkatha vigilantes and UDF 

supporters, with brief interviews with injured people on either 

side. Features alleged Inkatha warlords, Inkatha and COSATU rallies 

shown. Winnie Mandela on Gatsha Buthelezi's role. 

#103: Peter Kerchoff (Pietermaritzburg Agency for Christian Social 

Awareness), Winnie Mandela, Peter Mokaba (SA Youth Congress), 

Lechesa Tsenoli (UDF), Velaphi Ndlovu (Inkatha), Paul Dlamini 

(Inkatha). Most of them criticize a "black on black" interpretation 

of the violence. 

#104: Features two female victims of Inkatha attacks (speaking in 

Zulu), one desillusioned Inkatha member (in Zulu), and a former member. 

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#108: In possibly his last television interview before he was 

restricted, veteran UDF leader Archie Gumede speaks about the 

fighting around Pietermaritzburg. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good. * VZA 190. #108 also on VZA 184 

Afravision compilation: #62: This report has been censored #105: The February bannings #120: 

Stayaway against the new labour relations bill #121: Interview Jay Naidoo (COSATU General 

Secretary) / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1987/88. - Video : VHS; 11, 12, 18 & 15 min. 

+ See: Afravision Library Catalogue 


Keywords: * South Africa * censorship * banning orders* * right to organise and collective bargaining * labour 

legislation * trade unions 

Summary: 

#62: Journalist Mono Badela is followed as he investigated a case 

of police brutality. It highlights the hardship black people face 

under emergency regulations and the problems of committed 

jouralists in trying to inform the people. 

#105: This film looks at the impact of the bannings of 17 popular 

organisations in February 1988. Journalists interviewed are Anton 

Harber (Weekly Mail), Glenn Moss (Work in progress) and Gabu 

Tugwana (New Nation). 

#120: This film describes the political processes at work in the 

June stayaway called by COSATU and MDW in part to protest the new 

Labour relation Bill outlawing certain forms of trade union activities. 

#121: Interview with Jay Naidoo, Secretary General of COSATU about 

the June stayaway call. 


Afravision compilation: #95: Interview with Sicelo Dlomo #93: Sicelo Dlomo's death - DPSC press 

conference #94: Sicelo Dlomo memorial service / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1987/88. - Video : 

VHS; 18, 28, & 17 min. + See: Afravision Library Catalogue 


Keywords: * South Africa * student activists * torture * extrajudicial killing 

Summary: 

#95: Interview with Sicelo Dlomo, student activist from Soweto, six 

months before he was murdered. He speaks about his experience of 

torture in prison, his involvement in politics, and his 

determination not to be put off by state harrassment and brutality. 

#93: DPSC (Detainees Parents Support Committee) press conference to 

explain the circumstances of the murder on Dlomo. Speakers include 

Frank Chikane (SACC) and Ismail Ayob (lawyer). 

#94: The memorial service held for murdered activist Sicelo Dlomo. 

His killers have not be found. Those present include his mother and 

Audrey Coleman (DPSC). 


James Madhlope Phillips 1919-1987 and friends. - UK, Blaengarw Mid Glamorgan : Valley and Vale, 

1988. - Video : VHS; 30 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * music * anti-apartheid resistance 

Summary: 

James Madhlope Phillips, in full fighting voice, singing on his own 

and with Cardiff's Cor Cochion, Mayapi from Chile and the whole of 

the audience at the Berwyn Centre in Nantymoel at the LA Lucha 

international festival, March 1987. 


Restricted person. - South Africa, [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1988. - Video : VHS; 11 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * banning orders* * human rights violations 

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Summary: 

The story of Vusi Mavuso, who tells about how his life is affected by being restricted. 


Afravision #112: Interview with Stephen Ellis / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1988. - Video : VHS; 

29 min. + See: Afravision Library Catalogue. 


Keywords: * South Africa * extrajudicial killing * September, Dulcie (1935-1988) * Sachs, Albert Louis (1935- 

) 

Summary: 

Interview with Stephen Ellis, editor of Africa Confidential, about 

the murder of Dulcie September and the attack on Albie Sachs, and 

about the South African government secret work abroad. 


Robben Island: our university / prod. and dir. by Lindy Wilson. - South Africa, Cape Town : Lindy Wilson 



Keywords: * South Africa * political prisoners * Robben Island * anti-apartheid resistance * anti-apartheid 

activists 

Summary: 

This documentary consists of three talking heads punctuated by 

transitional shots of the seashore, which frame segments of the 

discussion. The three participants, Neville Alexander, Fikile Bam 

and Kwedi Mkalipi did 'time' together in the isolation section of 

Robben Island. They explain how the South African government 

inadvertently helped to build a closeness between diverse political 

groupings and individuals by holding them in a single section on 

Robben Island. They discuss how they survived emotional deprivation 

and social isolation and built solidarity and discipline in the 

early brutal years of their incarceration after 1964. This was done 

through establishing a prisoners' committee, and devising formal, 

informal and clandestine educational methods, which benefitted 

themselves and fellow prisoners, and eventually even the warders. 

Also attention is given to their relationships with Nelson Mandela 

and Walter Sisulu whom they describe as people with great dignity and strength. 


Union movements in South Africa / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1988. - Video : 

VHS; 35 min. Dutch subtitles. A co-production of Kenmerk and IVVV, in cooperation with FNV. 


Keywords: * South Africa * trade unions * anti-apartheid resistance * COSATU 

Summary: 

This documentary focusses on the role of the unions in South Africa 

in the struggle against apartheid, with special attention for COSATU. 


Afravision compilation: #111: Interviews with Jann and Kim Turner #xxx: Interview with Pallister / 

VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1988. - Video : VHS; 31 & 9 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * extrajudicial killing * death squads 

Summary: 

On the night of January 8, 1978, Dr. Rick Turner, a leading 

opponent of apartheid, was assassinated in his house. In this film 

his two daughters, Kim and Jann, tell about what they remember of 

that night and what kind of impact it had on their lives. Also an 

interview with David Pallister, journalist of the Guardian, who 

speaks about methods and strategies ("total strategy") of the South 

Africangovernment, wich is believed to be responsible for this 

kind of assassinations. 

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Free Mandela / Barry Feinberg. - UK, London : IDAF, 1988. - Video : VHS; 40 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * international solidarity 

Summary: 

The video highlights the impact of the international campaign to 

release Mandela, interspersed with a history of Mandela's 

imprisonment. Included are speeches and interviews by Winnie 

Mandela, Tutu, Boesak, O.R. Tambo, Jesse Jackson, the greet Mandela 

campaign of the Dutch AAM and fragments of the Nelson Mandela 70th 

Birthday concert in Wembley. 


Jazzpioneers : a South African jazz group - demo. - South Africa, Johannesburg : [s.n.], 1988 [?]. - Video 

: VHS; 5 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * jazz 

Summary: 

Jazz Pioneers demotape 


COSATU Women conference / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1988. - Video : VHS; 18 min. 

Afravision nr.109 


Keywords: * South Africa * COSATU * women * gender discrimination * congresses 

Summary: 

This conference looks at the problems involved in women's labour 

struggles and the relative successes and failures of COSATU's 

effort to involve women in it's structure. It includes interviews 

with Jay Naidoo, Fossie Molefe and Dorothy Mogalo. 


Bopha = Arrest / dir. by Daniel Riesenfeld. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1988. - Video : VHS; 

46 min. Dutch subtitles. Full version on tape VZA 096 


Keywords: * South Africa * plays (form) * police officers * Africans * political violence 

Summary: 

Dutch subtitled and shortened version of South African play about 

the role and dilemma's of black policemen, interspersed with real 

life footage, and interview fragments with the performers (the Earth Players). 


Interview O.R. Tambo. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1988. - Video : VHS; 19 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * Tambo, Olivier Reginald (1917-1993) * ANC * anti-apartheid 

resistance * interviews (form) 

Summary: 

Interview made for the Dutch Radio Freedom group. Tambo compares 

the liberation struggle he is involved in with the Dutch resistance during worldwar II. 


Nelson Mandela Wembley concert 1. - Nederland, Hilversum : Veronica, 1988. - Video : VHS; 240 min. 



Summary: 

Part 1 of the Wembley concert to celebrate Mandela's 70th birthday: 13.10 - 17.10 

Opmerkingen: * Picture quality: notsogood * VZA 205 


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Summary: 


Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood * VZA 205a 




Summary: 


Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood * VZA 205b 

Interview met Mandela over blank referendum en komst Lubbers / Nieuwslijn. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

Veronica, 1992. - Video : VHS; 13 min. Start: na 20 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * referendums * heads of state * Netherlands 

Summary: 

Interview met Nelson Mandela over het referendum waarin de blanken 

zich kunnen uitspreken voor of tegen de hervormingsplannen van 

president De Klerk; en over het geplande bezoek in augustus van 

minister-president Lubbers naar Zuid-Afrika, waar Mandela zich in 

krachtige bewoordingen tegen uitspreekt (want te vroeg). 


Bezoek Lubbers aan Zuid-Afrika / Den Haag Vandaag. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1992. - Video : 



Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * visits * ANC * politics 

Summary: 

Item over het voorgenomen bezoek van Lubbers aan Zuid-Afrika, waar 

het ANC op tegen is (het is nog te vroeg). Over enkele dagen zal er 

in de Tweede Kamer over worden gedebatteerd. 


Meindert Leerling (RPF) over christenen in Zuid-Afrika / NOVA. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1992. - 



Keywords: * South Africa * Christians * apartheid (ideology) 

Summary: 

Fractievoorzitter van de RPF Meindert Leerling legt uit waarom de 

(blanke) christenen in Zuid-Afrika zolang achter de apartheid zijn 

blijven staan (door de "Cham-theorie"). Hij keurt het niet goed, 

maar begrijpt het wel, en hoopt dat De Klerk het referendum zal winnen. 


Referendum De Klerk / Achter het Nieuws. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 1992. - Video : VHS; 12 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * referendums * voting * politics 

Summary: 

Het ziet er naar uit dat De Klerk zijn referendum zal winnen. Jan 

van Ek van de DP wordt op de verkiezingsdag gevolgd. Ook een 

interview met Boesak over de betekenis van het referendum, waaraan 

alleen de blanken konden meedoen. 


Uitslag referendum De Klerk / NOS Journaal. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1992. - Video : VHS; 15 min. 



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Keywords: * South Africa * referendums * election results * politics 

Summary: 

Reacties op de winst van De Klerk bij zijn referendum over de 

onderhandelingen voor een nieuwe grondwet. Onder andere reacties 

van Tutu, Lubbers en ambassadeur Nothnagel. Ook van Sietse Bosgra, 

die waarschuwt dat de druk op Zuid-Afrika voorlopig nog wel 

gehandhaafd moet worden. 


War on Peace / Reporter John Carlin ; Assignment. - UK, London : BBC, 1992. - Video : VHS; 44 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * military * intelligence services * police * Africans * violence 

Summary: 

Documentary about the role the security forces play in the 

black-black violence in the townships. General Jac Buchner of the 

SAP learned in the Rhodesian war that it was more effectfull to use 

blacks against blacks. Back in South Africa he became the creator 

of the "Askari's", blacks, usual former ANC comrades, who became 

policemen for the regime, and were deployed in the most dirty 

assassinations. Also about the role of the Civil Cooperation Bureau 

(CCB): an interview with Peter Botes, who when working for the CCB, 

placed the carbomb that was meant to kill Albie Sachs in Maputo in 1988. 


David Bruce / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1988. - Video : VHS; 5 min. Afravision nr.133 


Keywords: * South Africa * conscientious objectors * military conscription 

Summary: 

Interview with David Bruce just after he was sentenced to six years 

in prison for refusing military service. 


Johannesburg, second greatest city after Paris / drawing William Kentridge ; ed. Angus Gibson. - South 

Africa, Johannesburg : Free Film Makers, 1989. - Video : VHS; 8 min. Also on VZA 227 


Keywords: * South Africa * Johannesburg * film art 

Summary: 

Animationfilm portraying the Johannesburg' goldmagnate Soho 

Eckstein and his adultress wife. 


Love and rockets / dir. Carsten Rasch. - South Africa, [Johannesburg?] : Urban Noizz, 1989. - Video : VHS; 

6 min. No spoken text, black/white film. Music by Yello. 


Keywords: * South Africa * urban areas 

Summary: 

A rather enigmatic film about a killing in the big city. 


Anyway we won in Nigaragua / dir. Robyn Aronstam. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Kevin Harris 

Productions ; Film and Allied Workers Organisation, 1989. - Video : VHS; 9 min. Also on VZA 227 


Keywords: * South Africa * film industry 

Summary: 

Film about a cynical Hollywood producer who is shooting a film 

about Nigaragua in South Africa. 


Free the children. - South Africa, [Johannesburg] : [s.n.], 1989. - Video : VHS; 16 min. 

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Keywords: * South Africa * children * juvenile justice system * detention 

Summary: 

Film about the bad effects of detention on children and their 

parents. The Free the Children Alliance has organized the Free the 

Children Campaign to raise attention for this problem. Interviews 

with workers of the campaign and of Black Sash. 


Sjtwetla and Greens / dir. David Barkham ; ed. Kathy Weir ; cam. Paul White. - South Africa, 

[Johannesburg] : Alex Action Committee ; Film and Allied Workers Organisation, 1989. - Video : VHS; 6 min. 

Black/white film. English subtitles when needed. 


Keywords: * South Africa * informal settlements * squatters 

Summary: 

Film about two squatter camps: Sjtwetla and Greens, and about the 

deploring living conditions in them. 


World action against apartheid / prod. Richard Sydenham. - USA, New York : United Nations Centre 

against Apartheid ; United Nations Department of Public Information, 1989. - Video : VHS; 28 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * international sanctions * UN Centre against Apartheid 

Summary: 

A documentary about apartheid in South Africa and the need for oil 

& arms embargo's and international sanctions on economic, 

financial, artistic and sportive level to end the apartheid system. 

It highlights the role the UN has played in the fight against Apartheid. 


Election compilation and Defiance campaign / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1989. - Video : VHS; 

140 min 


Keywords: * South Africa * election campaigns * apartheid system * health care 

Summary: 

This video starts with an interview with Dr. Van Zyl Slabbert, head 

of IDASA. He gives his viewpoint on the coming elections, and if 

these will be the last racial based elections, and if De Klerk will 

be the last white president, and about the talks in Lusaka with the 

ANC. Next is a Democratic Party meeting with Wynand Malan. Next is 

footage of a campaign for equal health service outside a 

Johannesburg hospital, which is also the academic hospital of the 

Wits University. Next is the National Party election campaign, with 

De Klerk displaying a letter from Kenneth Kaunda,calling for peace 

in Southern Africa. Finally footage of the election campaign of the 

Conservative Party of Dr. Treurnicht. 


Zonderwater, city of prisoners / dir. and prod. by Steve Moni. - UK, London : VIVA Films, 1989. - Video : 

VHS; 180 min. B/W. 


Keywords: * South Africa * World War II (1939-1945) * prisoners of war * Italy 

Summary: 

A three part series (pt.1- Prisoners of the south; pt.2- The black 

whites; pt.3- In the national interest) of documentaries dealing 

with the imprisonment of Italian prisoners of war during the Second 

World War. The arrival of these prisoners in Durban harbour 

heralded the start of an unusual wartime saga. The massive POW camp 

at Zonderwater at its top in 1943 counted 90.000 Italian prisoners, 

Making it the largest POW concentration anywhere. The video include 

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interviews and unseen archive footage from private sources. The 

start of the camp was disastrous: problems of hygiene, food 

shortages, crime and living conditions in general. After the war 

most italians returned home, but some had married South African women and stayed. 

Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood. * VZA 215 

The Mohale street brothers / dir. Michael Hammon, Angus Gibson, Patrick Molefe Shai. - FRG, Berlin : 

Hammon, Michael, 1989. - : VHS; 62 min. + see: filmalfabet 


Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto 

Summary: 

In Mohale street, Mzimhlope, Soweto, lived three Matshoba brothers 

of whom two, Fezi, a gangster and Diliza, a comrade, were killed 

within three months. The third one, Mtutuzeli, is a writer. He 

tells about the lives of his brothers and other Mohale street 

people tell their memories. 


Starving for freedom [a] Chant of the march [b]. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Dynamic Images, 1989?. 

- Video : VHS; [a] 19 min. [b] 6 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * political prisoners * anti-apartheid resistance * death squads * Webster, David 

(1945-1989) 

Summary: 

[a]A short documentary of the 1988-89 hunger strike by political 

prisonners in South Africa 

[b]) A musical production in commemoration of the late 

anti-apartheid activist David Webster, who was assassinated by the 

SA Death Squads in 1989. 


ANC rally - Soccer city / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1989. - Video : VHS; 84 min 


Keywords: * South Africa * ANC * demonstrations 

Summary: 

Registration of the ANC rally in Soccer City in 1989, with speeches 

of many of the ANC-top. 


Have you seen Drum recently ? / dir. Jürgen Schadeberg. - UK, London : BBC, 1989. - Video : VHS; 79 

min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Drum (magazine) * Sophiatown * jazz * photography * history; 1945-1960 

Summary: 

The history of Drum magazine, and of the 1950's in South Africa, 

especially in Sophiatown. Lots of photographs from the magazine, 

jazz, and interviews with journalsts, musicians, photographers, singers, etc. 


Die Prang (the car crash) / Hofmeyer Scholting. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Hofmeyer Scholting, 1989. - 



Keywords: * South Africa * feature films (form) * violence 

Summary: 

Shown at the Weekly Mail Film Festival, September 1989, this film 

depicts the relationship between sex and violence within a South African family. 


Goodbye Tarzan / dir. by Veronique Malherbe. - South Africa, Johannesburg : [s.n.], 1989. - Video : VHS; 

20 min. 

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Keywords: * South Africa * sexuality 

Summary: 

Shown at the Weekly Mail Filmfestival, this film takes a sardonic 

look at the thoughts and practices of the politics of sexuality in 

and around Johannesburg. 


Limpopo line / dir. by Simon Bright ; prod. Ingrid Sinclair. - Zimbabwe, Harare : Zimmedia, 1989. - Video : 

VHS; 45 min. 


Keywords: * Southern Africa * Frontline states * RENAMO * rail transport * banditry 

Summary: 

The Limpopo Railwayline is of vital importance for the im- and 

exports of the Frontline states. The South African supported RENAMO 

bandits try to do everything they can to paralyse this vital route. 


Interview with Sisulu and Kathrada (# 176) / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1989. - Video : VHS; 30 

min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * ANC * Kathrada, Ahmed M. (1929- ) * Sisulu, Walter Max Ulyate (1912-2003) * 

Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * Robben Island * politics * interviews (form) 

Summary: 

A brief interview with two veteran Leaders of the ANC, in which 

they discuss their prison experiences, the question of negotiations 

and the position of Nelson Mandela. 


Ossewa Rock / dir. by Leon C.C.. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1989. - Video : VHS; 27 min. 

Dutch subtitled. Produced by Ingrid Gavshon & Marie-Louise van Agimael 


Keywords: * South Africa * pop music * Kerkorrel, Johannes (1960-2002) 

Summary: 

The band was formed by a group of white young South Africans who 

wanted to express their dissatisfaction with the conservatism of 

the present white society and with apartheid. Music and interviews 

with Johannes Kerkorrel (Ralph John, leader) and his Gereformeerde Blues Band. 


Frontline : Farewell ANC - SWAPO women / ANC Video Unit. - Zambia, Lusaka : New Age Productions, 

1989. - Video : VHS; 17 min. Also on VZA 236 


Keywords: * Southern Africa * ANC Women's League * SWAPO Women's Council 

Summary: 

This program was made for the Zambian television:ANC women saying 

goodbye to women from SWAPO in Luanda. 


How I'd love to feel free : music from South Africa / dir. and prod. Jimi Matthews, H.O. Nazareth ; ed. 

Graham Whitlock. - UK, London : BBC ; Penumbra, 1989. - Video : VHS; 77 min. 

This film is dedicated to the memory of Kippie Moeketsi, Johnny Gertze and other musicians like them who 

died alone and in poverty. A Penumbra co-production with BBC TV. 


Keywords: * South Africa * music 

Summary: 

From crowded nightclubs, township squatter camps and community 

halls, the distinctive style of South African Music is captured and 

preserved. The viewer is educated and entertained by a series of 

live performances interspersed with interviews. Six distinct styles 

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are showcased by live footage and explained afterwards by the musicians. 


Anyway we won in Nigaragua / dir. Robyn Aronstam. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Kevin Harris 

Productions ; Film and Allied Workers Organisation, 1989. - Video : VHS; 9 min. Start: na 7 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * film industry 

Summary: 

Film about a cynical Hollywood producer who is shooting a film 

about Nigaragua in South Africa. 


The boxer / ed., dir. and prod. Guy Spiller ; photogr. Dave Forbes. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Lizard 

Productions, 1989. - Video : VHS; 19 min. Start na: 33 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Johannesburg * Denver * working class * white South Africans * youth 

Summary: 

A white working class suburb in Johannesburg: the history of white 

workers militancy, starting when in the twenties white british 

mineworkers were replaced by cheaper blacks; in the following 

decades evolving into a narrow-minded form of Afrikaner 

nationalism. The white working class is now trying to hold on to 

their old way of life in a revolutionary context. A young kid is 

followed, whose greatest passion is boxing. 


Brave world / script, dir. and ed. Mark Napier ; cam. and prod. by Lance Gewer ; sound Bob Hazel. - South 

Africa, Johannesburg : CineClic Productions ; Film and Allied Workers Organisation, 1989. - Video : VHS; 10 



Keywords: * South Africa * film art 

Summary: 

A kind of "New Age" fairy tale, about the old (bad) human and the new (good) one. 

Remarks: Picture & sound quality: bad * VZA 227 

Johannesburg, second greatest city after Paris / drawing William Kentridge ; ed. Angus Gibson. - South 

Africa, Johannesburg : Free Film Makers, 1989. - Video : VHS; 8 min. Start: na 25 min. Also on VZA 209 


Keywords: * South Africa * Johannesburg * film art 

Summary: 

Animationfilm portraying the Johannesburg' goldmagnate Soho 

Eckstein and his adultress wife. 


"Reasonable man" by the Kalahari surfers / dir. by Robyn Aronstam, Neria Cohen. - South Africa, 

[Johannesburg] : [s.n.], 1989. - : VHS; 3 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * pop music * white South Africans 

Summary: 

Popsongs & clip from a presumably liberal (anti-apartheid) 

anglo-south-african popband. 


"South-African male" by the Aeroplanes / dir. by Robyn Aronstam, Neria Cohen. - South Africa, 

[Johannesburg] : Audrey Wainwright, 1989. - Video : VHS; 3 min. Start: na 3 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * pop music * white South Africans 

Summary: 

Popsong & clip from a presumably liberal (anti-apartheid) 

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anglo-south-african popband. 


Compilatie Pieter-Dirk Uys : Adapt or Dye. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 1989. - Video : VHS; 67 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * theatre * apartheid (ideology) 

Summary: 

Compilatie van show van Zuidafrikaanse witte komiek. 


People's leaders come home. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Dynamic Images, 1989. - Video : VHS; 36 m. 


Keywords: * South Africa * political prisoners * anti-apartheid resistance * ANC 

Summary: 

The October 1989 releases of six ANC leaders (not TreasonTrialists 

though, as the text on the cassette suggests): Walter Sisulu, 

Andrew Mlangeni, Elias Motsoaledi, Ahmed Kathrada, Raymond Mhlaba 

and Wilton Mkwayi, against the background of the growing resistance 

against the state of emergengy regulations at the end of the eighties. 


As surely as an AK / script Carolyn Roth, Vic Finkelstein ; London ANC Health Team. - UK, London : 

Solidarity Films, 1989. - Video : VHS; 25 min. + Includes booklet with teaching notes. 


Keywords: * South Africa * HIV/AIDS * ANC 

Summary: 

A feature production in three parts that follows the lives of four 

comrades: Nat, Nomvuyo, Thami and Thembi as they discuss the AIDS 

virus and how to deal with it. 


SABC programma's / SABC. - Suid-Afrika, Johannesburg : SABC, 1989. - Video : VHS; 120 min 


Keywords: * South Africa * television * general elections 

Summary: 

Een aantal TV-fragmenten van de Zuidafrikaanse televisie, met als 

belangrijkste onderwerp de verkiezingen van 1989. 


Radio Freedom : de stem van het verzet / Omroep voor Radio Freedom. - Nederland, Amsterdam : 

Omroep voor Radio Freedom, 1989. - Video : VHS; 22 min 


Keywords: * South Africa * ANC * Radio Freedom * Frontline states 

Summary: 

A slide and sound show on video, about Radio Freedom, the 

resistance radio of the ANC, broadcasting from several African 

countries. Insight is given into the founding and function of this 

radionet against apartheid. 


David Webster : lived for democracy; killed by apartheid. - UK, London : IDAF, 1989. - Video : VHS; 30 

min. A shortened version of VZA 239 


Keywords: * South Africa * Webster, David (1945-1989) * pressure group activists * anti-apartheid activists * 

extrajudicial killing 

Summary: 

A compilation of: pictures of the scene of the crime, were David 

Webster was shot dead out of a passing car, with police statement 

and collegues and students comments; the spontaneous mourning 

gathering with speeches; the 'official' memorial; the funeral 

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service with speeches; the funeral and demonstration; an interview 

with David when still alive, about his work for people in detention and their families. 


Just an inch away / prod. and dir. by Andrew Bethell. - UK, London : Channel Four, 1989. - Video : VHS; 52 

min. Produced by Double Exposure in association with Afravision for Channel Four. 

With time code. Also on VZA 235 


Keywords: * South Africa * UK * youth * apartheid system 

Summary: 

The story of four british teenagers on their 17 day experience of 

the South African society. Two are white and two aren't. They 

stayed with host families of the same racial classification. Their 

utter suprise at the horrors of apartheid is probably one of the 

most striking features of this video. 


Just an inch away / prod. and dir. by Andrew Bethell. - UK, London : Channel Four, 1989. - Video : VHS; 52 

min. Produced by Double Exposure in association with Afravision for Channel Four. 

Also on VZA 234, with time code. 


Keywords: * South Africa * UK * youth * apartheid system 

Summary: 

The story of four british teenagers on their 17 day experience of 

the South African society. Two are white and two aren't. They 

stayed with host families of the same racial classification. Their 

utter suprise at the horrors of apartheid is probably one of the 

most striking features of this video. 


Erik van Ees / RUR. - Nederland, Hilversum : Veronica, 1992. - Video : VHS; 13 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * Ees, Erik van * foreign correspondents * Madikizela-Mandela, 

Winnie (1934-) 

Summary: 

Erik van Ees vertelt over zijn leven als buitenlands correspondent 

in Zuid-Afrika en over de val van Winnie Mandela. 


Hongersnood Afrika / Nieuwslijn. - Nederland, Hilversum : Veronica, 1992. - Video : VHS; 21 min. 



Keywords: * Southern Africa * Zimbabwe * famine * drought 

Summary: 

Niet alleen in oost-Afrika maar ook in Zuidelijk Afrika heerst er 

hongersnood door de droogte. Het ergst getroffen is Zimbabwe, 

waarvan beelden. 


Vijf x Zuid-Afrika / Panorama. - België, Brussel : BRT, 1991. - Video : VHS; 28 m. Also on VZA 564 


Keywords: * South Africa * history * Blood River, battle of (1838) * land claims * church and society * church 

and state * political prisoners * tourism 

Summary: 

Dit programma geeft een overzicht van de Zuid-Afrikaanse 

maatschappij in 5 hoofdstukken aan de vooravond van De Klerks 

referendum voor blanken of hij door moet gaan met hervormingen: 1) 

de geschiedenis; 2) de grond; 3) de kerk; 4) de haat; 5) de toekomst. 


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Winnie Mandela beschuldigd van moord op Stompie en dr. Aswat / Nieuwslijn. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

Veronica, 1992. - Video : VHS; 7 min. Dutch comment and subtitles when necessary. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Madikizela-Mandela, Winnie (1934-) * murders 

Summary: 

Na de beschuldigingen van de moord op Stompei wordt Winnie Mandela 

nu beschuldigd van het opdracht geven tot de moord op dr. Aswat. 

Het voormalige symbool van het zwarte verzet tegen apartheid 

brokkelt steeds verder af. 


Zimbabwe for tourists / dir. by David Steward. - UK, London : BBC, 1991. - Video : VHS; 40 min. 



Keywords: * Zimbabwe * tourism 

Summary: 

A touristic view of Zimbabwe (with inter alia the Tengenenge sculptors in action). 


Frontline / ANC Video Unit. - Zambia, Lusaka : New Age Productions, 1989. - Video : VHS; 55 min 


Keywords: * Southern Africa * ANC Women's League * ANC Youth League * SWAPO Women's Council * 

cultural boycott 

Summary: 

Compilation of five programs made for the Zambian television: 1] 

Pioneers in Mazimbu (20 min.); 2] ANC women saying goodbye to women 

from SWAPO in Luanda (17 min.); 3] Discussion abouth the cultural 

boycott (6 min.); 4] Comments (6 min.); 5] Fragments from Amandla (6 min.). 


Maarten Rens werkt! (in Lusaka) / ANC Video Unit. - Zambia, Lusaka : [s.n.], 1989. - Video : VHS; 62 min. 



Keywords: * Zambia * ANC * video* 

Summary: 

The goodbye-party for Maarten Rens, who has been working (timbering 

and such) on a New Age studio in Lusaka. 


Radio Freedom - the voice of the people / ANC Video Unit. - Zambia, Lusaka : New Age Productions, 

1989. - Video : VHS; 17 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Radio Freedom * ANC 

Summary: 

The role of Radio Freedom, explained by o.a. Oliver Tambo. 


Way of life Touba / Filmed by Oskow Bayhan ; Sadanki & the Paincos. - Netherlands, Amsterdam : John 

Kok Video Faciliteiten, 1989. - Video : VHS; 8 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * pop music 

Summary: 

Two video clips, filmed in Amsterdam, interspersed with South 

African footage; mainly dances and people toitoiing. 


David Webster / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1989. - Video : VHS; 130 min. 


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Keywords: * South Africa * Webster, David (1945-1989) * pressure group activists * anti-apartheid activists * 


Summary: 

A compilation of: pictures of the scene of the crime, were David 

Webster was shot dead out of a passing car, with police statement 

and collegues and students comments; the spontaneous mourning 

gathering with speeches; the 'official' memorial; the funeral service 

with speeches; the funeral and demonstration; an interview with David 

when still alive, about his work for people in detention and their families. 


Mwzakhe Mbuli / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1989. - Video : VHS; 32 min 


Keywords: * South Africa * Mbuli, Mzwakhe (1960?- ) * poetry * anti-apartheid activists 

Summary: 

Interviews with and performances of this anti-apartheids poet. 


Video * " Beyond the 16th parallel" / B.R.O.T.H.E.R.. - UK, [London?] : Octopus Video Company, 1989. - 



Keywords: * Southern Africa * music * liberation struggle 

Summary: 

A video clip including some news footage abouth the Angolan, South 

African and Namibian freedom struggle. 


Apartheid : the stress on the mind / David Cohen. - UK, London : Channel Four, 1989 [?]. - Video : VHS; 

27 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * mental health 

Summary: 

This is a documentary on the psychological effects which apartheid 

has on black and white South Africans. The effects have been 

studied and are discussed by dr. Michael Simpson, an ex-lecturer 

from Natal. Footage is shown of twoex-detainees discussing their 

detentions, their tortures and the subsequent effects on their 

health. On the other side of the spectrum, Dr. Simpson examined and 

tries to explain occurences like white family whipe-outs. 


Zuid-Afrika aan de vooravond van de vrijlating van Mandela / TROS Aktua. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

TROS, 1989. - Video : VHS; 29 min. Start: na 18 min. Nederlands ondertiteld waar nodig. 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system 

Summary: 

Interviews met Zuid-Afrikanen op het moment dat de vrijlating van 

Mandela al in de lucht hangt, over hoe ze tegen apartheid en de 

toekomst van hun land aankijken. Onder andere interviews met leden 

van regerings- en oppositiepartijen en Beyers Naudé. Ook met twee 

vrouwelijke kunstenaars, Thembi Mtshali (zwart)en Jennifer Ferguson 

(blank), die zowel in Zuid-Afrika, waar ze vandaan komen, als in Amsterdam, 

waar ze aan de Malibongwe conferentie deelnemen, gevolgd worden. 


A dry white season / dir. by Euzhan Palcy ; prod. by Paula Weinstein. - USA, Hollywood : Metro-Goldwyn- 

Mayer, 1989. - Video : VHS; 105 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto uprising (1976-1977) * apartheid system * history; 1970s 

Summary: 

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Taking place during the Soweto uprising the story follows a white 

school teacher whose life and values are threatened when his black 

gardener is killed after trying to investigate his son's death. 

Based on the novel of the acclaimed Afrikaaner writer André Brink. 


That old black magic / reg. Gloria Lowe ; Medelanders Nederlanders. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1989. 



Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * music * ethnic discrimination * emigration 

Summary: 

A film about Darius Dhlomo, black South African boxer, drummer and 

soccerplayer, who came to Holland in 1960, to play for Heracles. 

His memories about Apartheid in South Africa and discrimination in Holland. 


The fruits of fear / dir. by Ngozi Onwurah. - UK, London : Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1989. - Video : VHS; 

22 min. Prod. by Non-Aligned Productions for the Anti-Apartheid Movement. 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * economy* * economic sanctions * consumer boycotts 

Summary: 

This documentary exposes how South Africa's export trade is used to 

fund apartheid. The video explains the need for sanctions clearly 

and simply, appealing to the British public to make their 

opposition to apartheid felt through theuse of the consumer 

boycott and people's sanctions. 


Masupatsela ANC about boycotts Nat Seraje Historical moment Amandla / Frontline. - Zambia, 

Lusaka : New Age Productions, 1989. - Video : VHS; 60 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Tanzania * Angola * ANC Youth League * ANC Women's League * SWAPO 

Women's Council 

Summary: 

: The formal launch of the ANC pioneers, called Masupatsela, and 

their first camp in Mazimbu, Tanzania in August 1989 (20 min.). - 

: Barbera Masekela interviews Pallo Jordan about the ANC 

viewpoint on the cultural, academic and sports boycotts (10 min.). 

- : Nat Seraje gives comment on the current situation in South 

Africa (3 min.). -: Farewell of the ANC Women's Section to the 

SWAPO Women's Council in Angola (camera Maarten Rens) (23 min.). - 

: Performance of Amandla (3 min.) 


Out in Africa / dir. by Melanie Chait. - UK, London : Channel Four, 1989. - Video : VHS; 23 min. 

A Melanie Chait Production for Channel Four Call number: BG V8/245 

Keywords: * South Africa * homosexuals * military conscription * apartheid system * Delmas Treason Trial 

(1985-1988) 

Summary: 

The video profiles two gay men, one white and one black, and both 

active in the South African liberation struggle. Ivan Thomas is 

sentenced to three years for refusal to do military service and 

Simon Nkoli is one of the Delmas treason trialists, who are held 

responsible for the unrest in the Vaal region in 1984. The film 

suggests parallels between racial and sexual oppression, yet gives 

a sense of the huge gulf separating black and white gay existence. 


Shell spektakelbrigade 1988 + de gevaren van electronisch betalen / VPA. - Nederland, Amsterdam : 

VPA, 1989. - Video : VHS; 41 min 

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Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * Shell * anti-apartheid movements 

Summary: 

Bespreking van de Shell Spektakelblokkade op 19, 20 & 21 april 1989 

in Amsterdam, gevolgd door de gevaren voor de privacy van het 

electronisch betalen, waarvoor Shell één van de eerste bedrijven 

was die toestemming kreeg om daarmee te experimenteren. 


Interview Dirk Coetzee / African National Congress. - Zambia, Lusaka : ANC, 1989. - Video : VHS; 33 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Coetzee, Dirk * police officers * death squads 

Summary: 

Interview with Dirk Coetzee, former commander of the South African 

police death squad, operating from Vlakplaats, who left the branch 

and became an ANC member instead. He was an important witness about 

the police killings during apartheid. Also his son is interviewed 

about the change in their lives, just after Coetzee fled the country. 


The comrade king / dir. Ben Horowitz. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Trader Films, 1990. - Video : VHS; 43 

min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Transkei * Tembu * Dalindyebo, Sabata * ANC 

Summary: 

The story of Sabata Dalindyebo, king of the Tembu nation and 

cousion to Nelson Mandela, who joined the ANC in exile. This film 

documents his death, the macabre disposal of his body by his 

power-hungry cousin Mantazima, who was then ruling the Transkei 

"homeland"and his reburial by his nation three years later. 


Fruits of defiance / dir. by Brian Tilley, Oliver Schmitz ; VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1990. - Video : 

VHS; 45 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Manenberg * civil protest* 

Summary: 

The 1989 defiance campaign as experienced in the Manenberg area on 

the Cape flats. Footage of the Women's March, the Purple Rain March 

and the events of the last tri-cameral elections wich left 23 dead 

due to brutal police action in the Western Cape. The people's anger 

as result of the killing and the celebration onDe Klerk's 

concession to allow the first legal protest in Cape Town's City's 

centre for 30 years. Public statements by ao Allan Boesak, Desmond Tutu, Jay Naidoo. 


Newsitems from South Africa / News tonight. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Bop TV, 1990. - Video : VHS; 

13 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * literacy * taxi industry * child abuse * Madikizela-Mandela, Winnie (1934-) 

Summary: 

A number of newsitems of News Tonight: ao about Literacy day, the 

taxi war, child abuse and the arrest and release of Winnie Mandela. 


Operation Iron Fist Winnie Mandela charged with kidnapping and asault / Network, TV1 News. - South 

Africa, Johannesburg : SABC, 1990. - Video : VHS; 18 & 3 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * violence * townships * army * Madikizela-Mandela, Winnie (1934-) * abductions 

Summary: 

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: Item about the operation 'Iron Fist' that is about to start, 

where the police calls in the assistance of the army to control the 

violence in the townships. Nelson Mandela who had blamed the 

government for inadequate response to the violence, is now blaming 

the army for the violence.Also interview with Beyers Naudé on the violence. 

: Newsitem about the arrest (and immediate release) of Winnie 

Mandela, charged with kidnapping and assault. 


Promised land / dir. Caroline Pick. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Bop TV, 1990?. - Video : VHS; 28 min 

Originally an Otmoor production for BBC Television. 


Keywords: * USA * racism (ideology) * discrimination * history; 20th century 

Summary: 

Documentary on the South African television about racism and 

discrimination in Montgomery, Alabama, (where Martin Luther King 

lived from 1954 -1960), in past and present times. 

Remarks: Picture quality: not so good * VZA 253 

Afravision #192: Education crisis : an open and shut case / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1990. - 



Keywords: * South Africa * Bantu education * educational performance 

Summary: 

Film about the bad school results for blacks in South Africa, due 

to the Bantu school system. 


The ANC's national consultative conference on local government and planning. - South Africa, 

Johannesburg : Dynamic Images, 1990. - Video : VHS; 58 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * ANC * civic associations * local government * democratisation * conferences 

Summary: 

ANC conference towards establishing structured relationships 

between civic associations and a post-apartheid democratic local leadership. 


Malibongwe spot / Stichting Malibongwe. - Nederland, Amsterdam : Stichting Malibongwe, 1989. - Video : 

VHS; 1 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * women * conferences 

Summary: 

Advertisement on the Dutch immigrant television for a South African 

women's conference held in Amsterdam. 


Border welcomes Mandela. - South Africa, [Johannesburg] : Dynamic Images, 1990. - Video : VHS; 58 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Eastern Cape * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) 

Summary: 

Mandela meets the people in the Eastern Cape after his release from 

prison in February 1990. 


Radio 702 : radio that opens your eyes / written by Norman Greenberg. - South Africa, [Johannesburg] : 

Max Katz & Associates, 1990. - Video : VHS; 8 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * community radio 

Summary: 

Promo-video for Radio 702. 

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The return of the Communist Party / ed. by Eddie Mbalo. – South Africa, Johannesburg : Dynamic Images, 

1990. - Video : VHS; 40 m. 


Keywords: * South Africa * SACP * history; 20th century 

Summary: 

A short history of the Comminist Party untill it was relaunched 

inside South Africa, on July 29 1990. 


The way forward : negotiations. - South Africa, Cape Town : CVET, 1990. - Video : VHS; 20 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * political negotiations * ANC 

Summary: 

In 1989 UDF, ANC and COSATU met in Lusaka to discuss the matter of 

negotiations and the way forward. Also the pretoria regime is now 

agreeing that there need to be negotiations about the future of 

South Africa. This video is about the role of the ANC in the process. 


The unbannings and Mandela freed. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1990. - Video : VHS; 44 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * banning orders* 

Summary: 

During the first months of 1990 the ANC and SACP were unbanned and 

Nelson Mandela was released. This video captures the excitement and 

the spirit of this period. It contains elements of Mandela's most important 

speeches during this time and shows him at work meeting and speaking. 


Too far apart / dir. Elizabeth Fish. - UK, London : BBC, 1990. - Video : VHS; 23 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * conscientious objectors 

Summary: 

A video on South African war resisters in London. It shows their 

daily activities and gives an insight into the emotional problems they have to deal with. 


Cape Town future options. - South Africa, Cape Town : CVET, 1990. - Video : VHS; 60 min. 

Produced by Community Video Educatio Trust for the Community Law Centre 


Keywords: * South Africa * Cape Town * urban administration * housing policy * political systems 

Summary: 

A report about the Cape Town local government and housing workshop 

18-21october 1990, where city development under a new (democratic) system is discussed. 


The land of dreams / dir. Allan Cubitt. - UK, London : BBC, 1990. - Video : VHS; 90 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * UK * asylum-seekers * plays (form) 

Summary: 

A screenplay featuring Antony Sher, about a black South African who 

tries to get political asylum in the UK. 


Images in struggle: South African photographers speak / dir. Barry Feinberg. - UK, London : IDAF, 1990. 

- Video : VHS; 28 min. + see: filmalfabet. 


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Keywords: * South Africa * photographers * Badsha, Omar * Lawson, Lesley * Lombard, Rashid * Mafokeng, 

Santu * Nunn, Cedric * Vallie, Zubeida * Weinberg, Paul 

Summary: 

Interviews with Paul Weinberg, Santu Mafokeng, Zubeida Vallie, Omar 

Badsha, Rashid Lombard, Cedric Nunn, Lesley Lawson. The video shows 

examples of their work and technique and reveals their motivatios and aspirations. 


Compilation of five South African music clips: Voelvrij struggle Angel fish Nadar MK-ANC clip / 

singer Pieter van der Lugt ; band The Genuines ; singer Jennifer Ferguson ; band The Tamana's ; MK-ANC. 

- South Africa, Cape Town : Doxa Productions, 1988 - 1990. - Video : VHS; 4, 3, 5, 6 & 6 min. 

MK-ANC is Corp. auteur of 



Summary: 

Five music clips from South Africa. 


An appeal for South African refugees / dir. David Brown. - UK, London : Health And Refugee Trust, 1990. 

- Video : VHS; 12 min. Distributed by IDAF. 


Keywords: * South Africa * refugees * health care 

Summary: 

The Health And Refugee Trust - HEART- is collecting money for 

medical equipment, medical trainings and medicins for health 

clinics for refugees like the Dakawa clinic in Tanzania, and for 

the repatriation of refugees from the Frontline states. 


The element of change / dir. by M. la Mantia. - South Africa, [Johannesburg?] : K. Spencer, 1990. - Video : 

VHS; 25 min. No spoken text. 



Summary: 

A rather enigmatic art film. 


The path to power - 7th Congress of the SACP Joe Slovo speaks at the FNB Home rally . - South 

Africa, Johannesburg : [s.n.], 1990. - Video : VHS; 31 & 42 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * SACP * congresses * Slovo, Joe (1926-1995) * speeches (form) 

Summary: 

:Film abouth the 7th congress of the SACP, again possible in 

South Africa after the unbanning of the party. 

: Speeches of ao Joe Slovo at the FNB Welcome Home Rally in Johannesburg, 1990. 

Remarks: Picture quality: = bad, = good * VZA 271 

Nelson Mandela spot. - Nederland, Amsterdam : KZA ; VARA, 1990?. - Video : VHS; 30 sec. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * ANC * anti-apartheid movements 

Summary: 

A television spot for the fundraising action of the AABN, KZA, 

Kairos and Radio Freedom to support the ANC, with the slogan: "Give 

a present to Mandela". 


South Africa, the wasted land / dir. Jamie Hartzell. - UK, London : Strasburg, Toni ; Channel Four, 1990. - 



Keywords: * South Africa * environmental degradation * apartheid system * rural areas * Bantustans 

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Summary: 

Apartheid politics have been directly responsible for environmental 

degradation in the black homelands, for sterile fields, hills 

stripped bare of tree cover, yawning gullies and drastically 

reduced crop yields. leaking drums of toxic waste and abandoned 

piles of asbestos have been dumped in the bantustans by unscrupulus 

industrialists, resulting in insidious demoralisation and loss of 

self-esteem of the black population, being denied control over their own lives. 


The red flag : Which way? Socialism or capitalism / Stanley Ndlovu. - South Africa, Johannesburg : [s.n.], 

1990 [?]. - Video : VHS; 25 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * SACP * political ideologies 

Summary: 

Due to the celebration of the relaunching of the SACP as a legal 

political party in South Africa for the first time in forty years, 

this video asks a lot of people what they think of communism; is 

there still place for communism after the fall of the Berlin Wall; 

is it a suitable system for South Africa; is capitalism not to be 

preferred; etc. Among the interviewees are ao: Joe Slovo, Chris 

Hani, Essop Pahad (SACP), Boy Geldenhuys (NP), Zac De Beer (DP), 

Musa Myeni (IFP) and Vladimir G. Shubin (Sovjet official who states 

that it is a lengthy process to lift people up to the stage of 

socialism, one shouldn't jump to it). 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough; Sound quality: bad * VZA 274 

The sanctions debate / dir. Ingrid Sinclair ; ed. Terry Flaxton ; prod. Simon Bright. - Zimbabwe, Harare : 

Zimmedia, 1990. - Video : VHS; 29 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * international sanctions 

Summary: 

This film tries to cover the sanctions debate, divided in four 

sections: sanctions and blacks; sanctions and the economy; 

sanctions and frontline states; sanctions and change. The 

conclusion is that sanctions are effective and (still) very 

necessary. With ao Pallo Jordan (ANC). 


Adult Literacy Project [a] Student Services Centre [b]. – South Africa, [S.l.] : CVET, 1990?. - Video : 

VHS; [a]:20 min.[b]:13 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * adult literacy * education 

Summary: 

[a]:Teachers and students talk about the ALP (adult literacy 

project): about what they want to learn and why. [b]:The SSC is a 

combination of three trusts who supply funds for interestfree 

student loans. The video shows how the SSC operates. 


Drowning in blood No way back / Panorama. - UK, London : BBC, 1990. - Video : VHS; 2 x 50 min. 

is a BBC co-production with ABC/Sydney and WGBH/Boston. 


Keywords: * South Africa * political violence * informal repression * townships * ANC * Inkatha * army * white 

South Africans 

Summary: 

: A film about the black-black violence (between ANC and 

Inkatha) and the role of the 'third force' in it. Also about the 

operation 'Iron Fist': to bring the army into the townships to stop 

the violence. 

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: A film about how the whites react on the coming changes in 

South Africa. They feel uncertain about the future and the 

conservatives feel betrayed by De Klerk. 


Mandela Homecoming. - USA, Atlanta : CNN, 1990. - Video : VHS; 93 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) 

Summary: 

CNN-report over the release of Mandela and his welcome in Soweto. 


Out of darkness / dir. by Brenda Goldblatt ; ed. Shelly Wells ; cam. Michael Hammon. - South Africa, [S.l.] : 

[s.n.], 1990. - : VHS; 50 min. English comment and subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Ndebele (South Africa) * apartheid system * Bantustans * history; 20th century 

Summary: 

Colonial conquest and subsequent racist administration have left 

the Ndebele speaking people weak and divided, but still very 

attached to traditions and customs. When a Pretoria appointed 

parliament agreed to accept 'independence' from South Africa, a 

large number of people objected. A cultural organisation called the 

Mbokodo was formed which began to attack opponents of independence. 

South African security forces attacked a peaceful meeting and a 

violent civil conflict was unleashed. Then Ndebele women, 

traditionally excluded from political affairs, involved themselves 

in the struggle against independence. This video gives a valuable 

overview of the divisions and conflicts resulting from the 

'bantustan'system with its attempts to co-opt sections of the 

people to exploit their communities. 


Video-letter from Open School Johannesburg for OSG De Rietlanden. - South Africa, Johannesburg : 

[s.n.], 1990?. - Video : VHS; 4 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * secondary schools * exchange 

Summary: 

Two secondary schools, one in South Africa and one in the 

Netherlands, exchange video-letters with each other. 


Viva Mandela ! / dir. Robert Lemkin, ... [et al.]. - UK, London : Wadham Film ; Canon Collins Educational 

Trust for Southern Africa, 1990. - Video : VHS; 120 min. 

A Wadham Film Production for the Canon Collins Educational Trust for Southern Africa. 

Other directors: Paul Snell, Shaun Fenton, Jane Jackson, Andrew Hunt and Christopher Stylianou. 

Narration by: Kenneth David Kaunda, president of Zambia. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Southern Africa * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * apartheid system * 


Summary: 

A film about the history of Apartheid in South Africa from 1918 to 

1990, with many famous musicians on the soundtrack;and with 

lots of footage covering almost the entire period. 


Aitken Conference I. - South Africa, [Johannesburg?] : [s.n.], 1990?. - Video : VHS; 180 min. 

See also: VZA 283, VZA 284 & VZA 285 


Keywords: * South Africa * AEPP 

Summary: 

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First part (out of four) of the Aiken Conference of the Association 

of Ex-Political Prisoners (AEPP), an organisation aimed at the 

reintegration and development of epp's and providing welfare for 

those in need: presentation and discussions of national and 

regional reports; of training and reintegration projects; and the 

election of the new committee. 


Aitken Conference II. - South Africa, [Johannesburg?] : [s.n.], 1990?. - Video : VHS; 120 min. 

See also VZA 282, VZA 282b & VZA 282c. 



Summary: 

Second part (out of four) of the Aiken Conference of the 

Association of Ex-Political Prisoners (AEPP), an organisation aimed 

at the reintegration and development of epp's and providing welfare 

for those in need: presentation and discussions of national and 



Remarks: Picture quality: bad * VZA 282a 

Aitken Conference III. - South Africa, [Johannesburg?] : [s.n.], 1990?. - Video : VHS; 180 min. 

See also: VZA 282, VZA 282a & VZA 282c 



Summary: 

Third part (out of four) of the Aiken Conference of the Association 






Remarks: Picture quality: bad * VZA 282b 

Aitken Conference IV. - South Africa, [Johannesburg?] : [s.n.], 1990?. - Video : VHS; 120 min. 

See also: VZA 282, VZA 282a & VZA 282b 



Summary: 

Last part (out of four) of the Aiken Conference of the Association 






Remarks: Picture quality: bad * VZA 282c 

Fighting the Zulu war / Assignment. - UK, London : BBC, 1992. - Video : VHS; 44 min. 

Also on tape VSA 09 


Keywords: * South Africa * Zulu (people) * IFP * ANC * Buthelezi Mangosuthu Gatsha (1928-) * KwaZulu- 

Natal * political violence * history 

Summary: 

A film about the history of the Zulu's, the struggle between IFP 

and ANC, the place of the Zulu's in the 'New South Africa', the 

role of Buthelezi (claiming that he ended apartheid) and the 

growing violence in Kwazulu-Natal. 


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Mujaji in Mohlakeng / Marc Radomsky. - Nederland, Hilversum ; South Africa, Johannesburg : Free Film 

Makers ; Dreamstone Productions ; IKON Televisie, 1992. - Video : VHSDutch subtitles; 27 min. 

Start: na 32 min. Also on VZA 338 


Keywords: * South Africa * youth * violence * theatre * ethnic relations * secondary schools 

Summary: 

Moving documentary about South Africa's youth: how they feel about 

their country, the other ethnic groups, the violence, about falling 

in love, and about theatre (a group of white students is going to 

perform a theater production on a black school in a township). 


Op de rand van een burgeroorlog ? / red. Raymond Hasselerharm, Ilona Hofstra ; Nieuwslijn. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : Veronica, 1992. - Video : VHS; 32 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * political violence * political negotiations * constituency building 

Summary: 

Het ANC heeft de gewapende strijd opgeschort en is nu bezig met 

onderhandelingen over het nieuwe Zuid-Afrika. Veel jongeren hebben 

die stap niet genomen en uiten hun frustraties over de almaar 

langer durende onderhandelingen dmv geweld. Volgens Cyril Ramaphosa 

kan het geweld het uiteindelijke onderhandelingsresultaat 

verstoren, maar aangezien de onderhandelingen zo voorspoedig gaan 

dat ze er over een paar maanden wel uit zullen zijn, verwacht hij 

niet dat het uiteindelijk tot een ware burgeroorlog zal komen. 


Afrika : Eric Miyeni - portret van de eerste zwarte Zuidafrikaanse stand-up comedian / prod. and dir by 

Ingrid Gavshon. - Nederland, Hilversum ; South Africa, Johannesburg : IKON ; Free Film Makers, 1992. - 

Video : VHS; 7 min. Start: na 117 min. Dutch subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * theatre * blacks 

Summary: 

Portret van een jonge zwarte stand-up comedian in Johannesburg. 


Afrika : Fee en Bonnie - portret van twee vrouwelijke kunstenaars in Zuid-Afrika / prod. and dir. by 

Ingrid Gavshon. - Nederland, Hilversum ; South Africa, Johannesburg : IKON ; Free Film Makers, 1992 ¸. - 

Video : VHS; 7 min. Start: na 129 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * artists * women 

Summary: 

Fee is a white female and Bonnie black; the latter used to be the 

servant of the former, but now they are both artists (ceramics) and 

they won a price together. 


Karel van der Graaf spreekt met Freek de Jonge / Karel. - Nederland, Hilversum : AVRO, 1992. - Video : 

VHS; 16 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * artists * ethnic discrimination 

Summary: 

Karel van der Graaf spreekt met Freek de Jonge die net terug is van 

een rondreis door Zuid-Afrika met wat Nederlandse artiesten en 

vertelt hoe het is om daar als blanke rond te lopen en hoe je 

reageert als je met racisme geconfronteert wordt. 


Verbeteringe in wording / samenst. en reg. Hans Bosscher. - Nederland, Amsterdam : VPRO ; Hans 

Bosscher Produkties, 1992 ¸. - Video : VHS; 43 min. Start: na 19 min. Also on VZA 559 

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Een co-productie van VPRO en Hans Bosscher Produkties 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * festivals * cultural cooperation 

Summary: 

Op uitnodiging van Het Vrije Weekblad, Komittee Zuidelijk Afrika en 

ANC reisden een aantal Nederlandse artiesten, waaronder toneelgroep 

DNA en Freek de Jonge, naar Johannesburg en Kaapstad, om deel te 

nemen aan de culturele manifestatie 'Breaking the Barriers' die als 

doel had de culturele banden tussen Zuid-Afrika en Nederland aan te 

halen. De film geeft een impressie van het bezoek tegen de 

achtergrond van het net gehouden referendum van De Klerk, met 

beelden van een rondleiding door Soweto, een ontmoeting met Wally 

Serote, een interviewtje met Boesak over de consequenties van de 

uitslag van het referendum, en fragmenten van optredens van Freek de Jonge. 


Video-brief aan Major : alles wat u over het 'nieuwe'Zuid-Afrika wilde weten maar niet durfdete vragen 

/ reg. en prod. Francis Gerard ; uitvoering Pieter-Dirk Uys, ... [et al.]. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1991 ¸. - 

Video : VHS; 49 min. Start: na 67 min. Originally a Totem production for BBC, ¸1991. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Uys, Pieter-Dirk (1945- ) * theatre 

Summary: 

A cabaret production with Pieter-Dirk Uys as Evita Bezuidenhout, 

together with Lizz Meiring and Ramaloe Makene. 


We've come a long way : Dakawa - An ANC development centre in Tanzania - a message from 

Somafco. - [s.l.] : ANC, 1990. - Video : VHS; 25 min. Produced by the video unit of the Anti-Apartheid 

Movement Netherlands in cooperation with the video unit of the ANC. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Tanzania * educational aid * education programmes 

Summary: 

This video is about the ANC education and development centres in 

Dakawa and, in Mazimbu, the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College School 

(SOMAFCO), both in Tanzania. It tells about why they were put up, 

what the motivations and the ambitions of their students are, what 

problems they face and how they see the near future. 

Remarks: picture quality: good b/w copy * VZA 286 


Somafco. - Netherlands, Amsterdam ; Zambia, Lusaka : AABN ; ANC, 1990. - Video : VHS; 25 min. 

Produced by the video unit of the Anti-Apartheid Movement Netherlands in cooperation with the video unit of 

the ANC. See also VZA 286 & 286b. Color copy 


Keywords: * South Africa * Tanzania * educational aid * education programmes 

Summary: 






Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 286a * Original footage & description available at: African skies. 


Somafco. - Netherlands, Amsterdam ; Zambia, Lusaka : AABN ; ANC, 1990. - Video : VHS; 25 min. 

Produced by the video unit of the Anti-Apartheid Movement Netherlands in cooperation with the video unit of 

the ANC. See also VZA 286 & 286a. Dutch subtitles. Color copy 


Keywords: * South Africa * Tanzania * educational aid * educational projects 

Summary: 

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Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 286b * Original footage & description available at: African skies. 

A titre personnel : interview with Mandela. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1992. - Video : VHS; 17 min. Start na: 29 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * biographical facts 

Summary: 

Interview with Nelson Mandela, in which he talks about prison life 

on Robben island and about his relation with Winnie. 


Afrika : Kolwane Mantu - portret van een zwarte Zuidafrikaanse musicus / reg. en prod. door Ingrid 

Gavshon. - Nederland, Hilversum ; South Africa, Johannesburg : IKON ; Free Film Makers, 1992. - Video : 

VHS; 11 min. Dutch subtitles. Also on VZA 557 (Tape MC 1352) 


Keywords: * South Africa * classical music * Soweto * youth * vocational education 

Summary: 

Portrait of the black violin player/conductor Kolwane Mantu, who 

also teaches music to children in Soweto, the African Youth Ensemble. 


ANC zoekt confrontatie met NP / Tijdsein. - Nederland, Hilversum : EO, 1992. - Video : VHS; 4 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * ANC * NP * political negotiations * political violence 

Summary: 

Het ANC zoekt de confrontatie met de NP vanwege het uitblijven van 

resultaten in het CODESA-overleg dat zou moeten leiden tot een 

nieuwe grondwet en een overgangsregering, en vanwege blanke steun 

aan het geweld van Inkatha. De relatie tussen Mandela en De Klerk 

komt steeds verder onder druk te staan. 


Beyers Naudé over geweld in Zuid-Afrika / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1992. - 



Keywords: * South Africa * political violence * military * Inkatha * Boipatong massacre (1992) * Naudé, 

Christiaan F. Beyers (1915 - 2004) 

Summary: 

Interview met Beyers Naudé over het Inkatha geweld en de rol die de 

veiligheidsdiensten daarin spelen; dit alles naar aanleiding van 

het bloedbad in Boipatong, waar Inkatha aanhangers 47 mensen 

vermoordden. Met zware kritiek op De Klerk, die wel de macht heeft 

om het geweld te stoppen, maar daar geen gebruik van maakt. 


Honger in Afrika / Kenmerk. - [s.l.] : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1992. - : VHS; 8 min. Start na: 63 min. 


Keywords: * Kenya * refugee camps * famine 

Summary: 

Typisch honger-in-Afrika filmpje van Artsen zonder Grenzen, over 

een Vluchtelingenkamp in Noord-Kenia, waar voornamelijk Somalische 

vluchtelingen verhongeren, als voorbeeld van de veel grotere 

hongersnood in Afrika. Met aktie en gironummer. 


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Hillbrow 1 / NOVA. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA ; NPS, 1993. - Video : VHS; 10 min. 

Start: na 25 min. Also on VZA 362. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Hillbrow * drugs * prostitution * housing * police * health care 

Summary: 

A series about Hillbrow, a racialy mixed neighbourhood in the 

centre of Johannesburg. Part 1, about the violence, drugs, 

prostitution, health care, streetchildren, bad housing and high rents. 


The transformation of the SABC / presented by Donald Woods ; Assignment. - UK, London : BBC, 1993. - 

Video : VHS; 43 min. Start: na 77 min. Also on VZA 354. 


Keywords: * South Africa * SABC * propaganda * journalists * documentaries 

Summary: 

A documentary about the changes the SABC is going through: from 

apartheid-propaganda machine to a pluralistic Media concern, were 

for the first time in their history is place for independent 

documentaries about everyday life in South Africa (the series 

'Ordinary People'). Interviews with SABC presenters and independent 

documentary makers like Clifford Bestall and Harriet Gavshon. 


SABC television Februari 1990 / SABC. - South Africa, Johannesburg : SABC, 1990. - Video : VHS; 173 

min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * television * history; 1990s 

Summary: 

SABC television programmes from Februari 1990, with lots of 

attention for the speech of president De Klerk in which he 

announces the release of Nelson Mandela and the unbanning of the 

ANC and other organisations, and reactions on it. 


SABC television Februari 1990 / SABC. - South Africa, Johannesburg : SABC, 1990. - Video : VHS; 162 

min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * television * history; 1990s 

Summary: 

SABC television programmes from Februari 1990, with lots of 

attention for the speech of president De Klerk in which he 

announces the release of Nelson Mandela and the unbanning of the 

ANC and other organisations, and reactions on it. 


SAYCO : jongeren in verzet / Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika. - Nederland, Amsterdam : Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika, 

1990?. - Video : VHS; 16 min. 

TV pictures from NOS, VPRO, IKON. Interviews with SAYCO kids in English, partly with Dutch voice-over. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * history; 20th century * ANC * 

SAYCO 

Summary: 

A history of Nelson Mandela and the ANC, and information about 

SAYCO (South African Youth Congress). Interview with three SAYCO 

kids who are in Amsterdam for the SAYCO fundraising campaign by Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika. 


Blowing Home / dir. by Michael Robins. - UK, London : IDAF ; Arekopaneng, 1990. - Video : VHS; 28 min 


Keywords: * South Africa * music * exile 

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Summary: 

This video takes a look at South African musicians in exile who are 

preparing for their contribution to the 1990 Mandela concert. 

Interviews with and music from ao Julian Bahula, Dudu Pukwana , the 

Manhatan Brothers, Sakhile, Jonas Gwanga, Caiphus Semenya and Letta Mbulu. 


Tarkari and Coke / dir., prod., ed. Rukhsana Mosam. - [s.l.] : LCP, 1990. - Video : VHS; 18 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Indians (people) * cultural identity * ethnicity 

Summary: 

A film in which a number of South African Indians, mostly old 

people, is interviewed about their personal history in South Africa and their identity. 


South Africa now pilot. - USA, New York ; South Africa, Johannesburg : S.A. Now ; Global Vision ; Africa 

Fund, 1991. - Video : VHS; 25 min. + see: filmalfabet 

The show is produced on a non-profit basis in association with The Africa Fund by Globalvision Inc. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Southern Africa * media coverage 

Summary: 

South Africa Now is a weekly television program devoted to airing 

current news stories about South Africa that are not getting 

airplay on the major networks, due to South Africa's media 

censorship. This pilot covers a range of subjects, ao Media 

freedom, black to black violence, exiles returning, land act, 

environmental problems, the first frontline film festival. 


Zinloos geweld in Zuid-Afrika / reg. Caroline Naarding ; Veronica's Nieuwslijn. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

Veronica, 1991. - Video : VHS; 9 min. Start: na 16 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Johannesburg * violence * townships 

Summary: 

Reportage over het (trein)geweld in de townships (Thokaza) waardoor 

het vredesakkoord bedreigd wordt. 


Environment for a changing South Africa : Film Festival and Conference 1990 / Video Batho, Free Film 

Makers. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Video Batho ; Environment Film Workshop Group, 1991 ¸. - Video : 

VHS; 93 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * environment protection * waste management * physical environment * 

environmental pollution * environmental policy * environmental conservation * conferences 

Summary: 

Registration of four conferences on environmental issues, held in 

1990 at the University of the Witwatersrand.Conference 1: Toxic 

and industrial waste (i.a. discussion about if the government is 

importing waste or not, and about safe working conditions): among 

the speakers W.F. Visagie, Dir.Gen. of the Dept. of Environmental 

Affairs; Jim Valette, Greenpeace International; Shirley Miller, 

Chemical Workers Ind. Union; Barney Desai, PAC; G. Claasens, Dir. 

Gen. of the Dept. of Water Affairs, Erina Botha, Wildlife Society. 

Conference 2: Pollution and acid rain (what are the causes, locally 

as well as globally, in how far is electrification the answer): 

among the speakers George Ellison, Univ. of Pretoria; Japhta 

Lekgetho, National Environmental Awareness Campaign; Bruce Wells, 

CSIR. Conference 3: Conservation in South Africa (nature 

conservation versus local population, colonial conservation 

practices, sustainable development, the importance of negotiations 

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to reconcile different interests): among the speakers Carlson 

Tembe, ISIDIDI; Richard Clacey, Association for Rural Advancement; 

Karl Lane, Kangwane Parks Corporation. Conference 4: Future 

environmental policy (the relation with the new constitution, 

growing concern about environmental problems, empowerment of civil 

society pressure groups, which should play a key role in decision 

making): among the speakers Jan Glazewski, Univ. of Cape Town; 

Stanley Sangweni, ANC; Jay Naidoo, COSATU. At the end of each 

conference there was room for discussions with the public. 


Hartseer land : extreem rechts in Zuid-Afrika / reg. Saskia Vredeveld ; montage Leo de Boer ; cam. Deen 

van der Zaken. - Nederland, Amsterdam ; Nederland, Hilversum : CinéTé Filmproduktie ; NOS, 1991. - Video 

: VHS; 48 min. Nederlandse ondertitels. 

CinéTé Filmproduktie b.v. in co-produktie met NOS-televisie. Also on VZA 553 


Keywords: * South Africa * AWB * Afrikaners (people) 

Summary: 

Documentaire over blank extreem rechts in Zuid-Afrika en hoe ze 

reageren op de veranderingen in hun land. Aan bod komen de 

Afrikaner Weerstand Beweging (AWB) van Eugene TerreBlanche, De 

Boerenstaatpartij van Robert van Tonder, met als gewapende tak de 

Boerenweerstand beweging (BWB), Carel Boshoff en André Putter, die 

een blanke Afrikaner Volksstaat, Orandeë, willen oprichten in het 

noord-oosten van Zuid-Afrika (volgens Putter staan er 75.000 Urkers 

klaar om naar die nieuwe staat te emigreren). Verder beelden over 

de fascinatie met wapens, die alle Boeren kenmerkt. 


Huurmoordenaars tegen het ANC / samenst. Dorothy Byrne ; bew. Els Bonger ; Impact. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : VARA, 1992. - Video : VHS; 25 min. Start: na 86 min. 

Originally produced for Granada TV. Dutch comment and subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * townships * political violence 

Summary: 

Documentaire over de 'Derde Macht', een groep binnen de 

Zuidafrikaanse politie en het leger die Inkatha leden gebruikt (en 

zelfs opleidt) als huurmoordenaars tegen ANC activisten. 


Premier Lubbers naar Zuid-Afrika / Nieuwslijn. - Nederland, Hilversum : Veronica, 1992. - Video : VHS; 8 



Keywords: * South Africa * visits * foreign investment * referendums 

Summary: 

Item over het geplande bezoek van Premier Lubbers, vice-premier Kok 

en Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Van der Broek in Augustus naar 

Zuid-Afrika; wat Nederlanders in Zuid-Afrika van dat bezoek vinden 

en bezoek van een Nedelandse zakendelegatie die onderzoekt of er al 

weer geïnvesteerd kan worden; en over het referendum dat De Klerk 

wil houden over zijn hervormingsplannen. 


Een zwarte toekomst / reg. Saskia Vredeveld. - Nederland, Amsterdam ; Nederland, Hilversum : CinéTé 

Filmproduktie ; NOS, 1992 ¸. - Video : VHS; 11 min. Start: na 48 min. Dutch subtitles. Also on VZA 553 


Keywords: * South Africa * whites * suicide * murders 

Summary: 

Documentaire over de zelf- en gezinsmoorden die door blanke 

Zuid-Afrikaners gepleegd worden omdat ze onzeker zijn over de 

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toekomst in het 'nieuwe' Zuid-Afrika. 


Dark City / dir. Chris Curling. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1991. - Video : VHS; 100 min. 

Original produced by: BBC Films & Celestia Fox & Filmafrica & CSL, 1990. Also on VZA 303. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * townships * political violence * local government * local government employees * 

corruption * apartheid system * anti-apartheid resistance 

Summary: 

A feature video about the struggle for power in a black township 

between the ANC and a corrupt black mayor. In this political 

melodrama several means of peaceful as wel as violent actions, like 

rent-boycot, white shop- boycot, how to determine who is a traitor 

and how to deal with them (necklace-killing) come by. 


Interview Heleen Kamperveen over rondreis Zuid-Afrika / Karel van der Graaf. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

AVRO, 1990. - Video : VHS; 12 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * theatre * townships 

Summary: 

Karel van de Graaf interviewt Heleen Kamperveen die met met 

toneelgroep DNA een tournee door Zuid-Afrika gemaakt heeft(met 

het stuk 'Antigone') en nog steeds onder de indruk is van wat ze in de townships zag. 


Vijf x Zuid-Afrika : 3. De kerk en apartheid / Panorama. - België, Brussel : BRT, 1990 [?]. - Video : VHS; 8 

min. Start: na 234 min. Volledig programma op VZA 235. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Afrikaner culture * Christianity * apartheid (ideology) 

Summary: 

Een anoniem stukje film waarin Afrikaner boeren uitleggen waarom 

christendom en apartheid hand in hand kunnen gaan en waarom het zo 

verschrikkelijk is als een zwarte een blanke kerkdienst bezoekt. 


Arthur Miller meets Mandela / Arena. - UK, London : BBC, 1991. - Video : VHS; 56 min. 

A BBC production in association with The Frame Store. 



Summary: 

Arthur Miller meets Nelson Mandela in Soweto and interviews him 

about his personal history. 


The workshop concept / Thupelo Arts Project. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Dynamic Images, 1991. - 



Keywords: * South Africa * arts education 

Summary: 

An art programme for the Thupelo Arts Project, introducing local 

South African artists in painting, sculpture and drawing skills 

through an informal workshop system. 


Peoples power for a democratic future / VNS. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Video News Service ; [etc.], 

1991. - Video : VHS; 102 m. 

Produced by: Video News Service - Dynamic Images - ANC Video Unit - R.M. Productions 


Keywords: * South Africa * ANC * conferences 

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Summary: 

A record of the historic ANC 48th National Congress, held in Durban 

between 2 and 7 July 1991. It is the first congress that the ANC 

has been able to hold inside South Africa for thirty years. 

Negotiations, violence, strategy and tactics and the emancipation 

of women are some of the debates covered. Also the election of a 

new National Executive Committee and office bereares, including the 

election of O.R. Tambo as the National Chairperson. 


Nuus om 8 - Agenda - News at eight. - South Africa, Johannesburg : SABC, 1991. - Video : VHS; 12, 28 & 

47 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * literature * politics * Afrikaans (language) 

Summary: 

Different newsitems from the SABC, in Afrikaans and English. In 

Agenda attention is payed to Elisabeth Eybers, South African poet 

who lives in Holland and just won the P.C. Hooftprijs, and to 

Alexander Strachan, the new Chairman of the Skrywersgilde, who 

talks about literature and politics and about the future of Afrikaans. 


Dark City / dir. Chris Curling. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1991. - Video : VHS; 100 min. 

Original produced by: BBC Films & Celestia Fox & Filmafrica & CSL, 1990 

Also on VZA xx11. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * townships * political violence * local government * local government employees * 

corruption * apartheid system * anti-apartheid resistance 

Summary: 

A feature video about the struggle for power in a black township 

between the ANC and a corrupt black mayor. In this political 

melodrama several means of peaceful as wel as violent actions, like 

rent-boycot, white shop- boycot, how to determine who is a traitor 

and how to deal with them (necklace-killing) come by. 


Tamboville - one city from below / dir. Shelly Wells. – South Africa, Johannesburg : Video News Services, 

1991. - Video : VHS; 42 min. + see: filmalfabet Video News Services in association with WRCR & Planact. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Tamboville * civic associations 

Summary: 

In July 1990, Wattville residents, desperate and angry about the 

housing crisis, invaded a long-vacant piece of land seen by the 

Benoni Town Council as a buffer between the township and Boksburg's 

"white"suburbs. United community action ('civics') triumphs, 

signalling the end of the 'apartheid city'. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 304 * For Dutch version see: VZA 315 

Afrika voor de komst van de Europeanen Mandela in Nederland in 1994 - nieuwsitems / Boulevard, 

Ontbijt TV, NOS Journaal. - België, Brussel ; Nederland, Hilversum : TV1 ; KRO ; NOS, 1994. - Video : VHS; 

21 & 7 min. Start: na 146 min. Na 21 min. afgebroken. Deel 1 van een serie over Afrika. Start: na 167 min. 


Keywords: * Africa * history; precolonial * South Africa * Netherlands * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) 

Summary: 

: Geschiedenis van Afrika voor de komst van de Europese kolonisten. 

: Nieuwsflitsen over Mandela's aankomst op Schiphol op 17 

februari 1994. Kort interview met Sietse Bosgra (KZA). 


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Die Farbe des Goldes / dir. Don Edkins, Mike Schlömer. - Deutschland, Hamburg : WDR, 1992. - Video : 

VHS; 44 min. + see: filmalfabet 

Original produced by Medienwerkstatt Freiburg, in Freiburg. German comment and voice-over. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Lesotho * mineworkers * migrant workers 

Summary: 

Ein Film über das Leben der Migrantarbeiter aus Lesotho, die in der 

President Steyn Goldgrube in Südafrika arbeiten. èber die Gefahren 

bei der Arbeit und wie das Leben in 'single-sex hostels' ihr 

Familienleben zerstört. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 305 * Also on tape VZA 330 and VSA 08, Eng. version on VZA 325, 

Dutch * version on VZA 560 

Living on the land / dir. Robyn Hofmeyr, Mark Newman. – South Africa, Johannesburg : Phakathi Films, 

1991. - Video : VHS; 42 min. + With interactive booklet 

Part 2 of the series "Healing the land", an educational project focussing on environmental issues in South 

Africa. Part 1 is: Living in the city (VZA 308]. Distributed by Film Resource Unit, Johannesburg 


Keywords: * South Africa * environmental degradation * rural areas * rural development 

Summary: 

This film looks at the environmental issues facing the people who 

live in the rural areas of South Africa. It examines the economic, 

historical and technological reasons for the damages occuring there 

and the ways in which people are trying to solve them. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good (with time-code) * VZA 306 

Let the people decide ! / VNS Collective, ANC Video Unit, Dynamic Images. - South Africa, Johannesburg : 

VNS Collective ; [etc.], 1991. - Video : VHS; 82 min. 

Produced by VNS Collective in association withANC Video Unit, Dynamic Images and R M Productions 


Keywords: * South Africa * ANC * conferences 

Summary: 

The ANC National Consultative Conference, held in Johannesburg from 

14-16 December 1990, was the first conference the ANC has been able 

to hold inside South Africa since it was banned about thirty years ago. 


Living in the city / dir. Robyn Hofmeyr, Mark Newman. – South Africa, Johannesburg : Phakathi Films, 

1991. - Video : VHS; 42 min. + With interactive booklet (In film-archive) 

Part 1 of the series "Healing the land", an educational project focussing on environmental issues in South 

Africa. Part 2 is: Living on the land (VZA 306). Distributed by Film Resource Unit 


Keywords: * South Africa * environment * urban areas * urban communities * urban development 

Summary: 

This film looks at the environmental problems of South Africa's 

urban areas, and discusses some solutions to these problems. The 

film highlights the role that trade-unions, community 

organisations, environmental groups and individuals can play in the 

struggle to heal the cities. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good (with time-code) * VZA 308 

First lesbian and gay pride march. - USA, Santa Monica, CA : Direct Cinema, 1991. - Video : VHS; 19 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * homosexual rights 

Summary: 

South Africa's first gay pride march (1990/10/13) takes place in 

the streets of Hillbrow. Activists call for acceptance of gays as 

normal members of society and speak out against discrimination. 


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Nature : environmental reports from around the world. Programme 1. Fair game? / ed. Amanda 

Theunissen ; prod. Grant Mansfield. - UK, London : BBC, 1991. - Video : VHS; 30 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * environment protection * game reserves * forced removals 

Summary: 

Nature conservation in the "new South Africa". Forced removals on 

account of game parks. Interviews with ao Mandela and Buthelezi. 


The seven ages of music / dir. by Jürgen Schadeberg. – South Africa, Johannesburg : Schadeberg Movie 

Company, 1992. - Video : VHS; 56 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * music * history 

Summary: * The Seven Ages of Music is a free-wheeling celebration of the real 

music and the real musicians of South Africa, a high-energy 

testament to a community of men and women who took the best and the 

worst of life in a tormented land and turned it into music. The 

Seven Ages of Music traces the entertaining evolution of Africa's 

music from the rattle of drums by the light of a desert fire to the 

laid-back beat of Hugh Masekela, Dolly Rathebe and the Inkspots. 

It's a wild, wonderful, energetic history that spans centuries and 

draws in whole cultures ... there's the pennywhistlers who blow a 

cheap tin German flageolet and make it as African as Sophiatown ... 

there's a group of miners, fresh from the heat and the dust and the 

danger of the stope face, stamping their feet to the insistent Zulu 

rhythms ... there's the township bands with their improvised 

instruments. And then jazz is born in the shebeens and music halls 

of South Africa which inspires the likes of The Elite Swingsters, 

Jonas Gwangwa, Mike Makhalemele, Ntemi Piliso, Hugh Masekela and 

David Hewitt. A clumsy, staged pseudo documentary. 


Gay life is best / dir. by Zackie Achmat ; VNS. - South Africa, Cape Town : Idol Pictures, 1992. - Video : 

VHS; 25 min. Start: na 33 min. Produced for GLOW (Gay & Lesbian Organisation Witwatersrand) and 

Abigale (Association of bisexuals, gays and lesbians). 


Keywords: * South Africa * homosexuals * homosexual rights * social integration * gender discrimination 

Summary: 

The Rights & PrideMarch in Johannesburg in 1992. Pictures of the 

demonstration and interviews with participants. The main problems 

for gays and lesbians are acceptance by the community and 

exploitation and agression in the name of tradition and religion. 


Linda Ngqobo's funeral / photogr. and ed. by Pearl Dipholo. – South Africa, Johannesburg : GLOW, 1993. - 



Keywords: * South Africa * homosexuals * funerals 

Summary: 

The funeral of Linda Ngqobo, who was an active member of GLOW (Gay 

and Lesbian Organisation Witwatersrand). 


More than a feeling / prod. and dir. by Vusi Ntsoseng. – South Africa, Johannesburg : CVS, 1993. - Video : 

VHS; 10 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * homosexuals * social integration * constitutional change * gender discrimination 

Summary: 

Some gay people tell about non-acceptance in their community of the 

fact they are homosexuals. ANC-representative tells that in the new 

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constitution gays will have the same rights. Also with Zackie 

Achmat, and pictures of a large demonstration of homosexuals. 


Spiders place / dir. Adrian Kohler. - South Africa, [Johannesburg] : Facet Film and Television, 1992. - Video 



Keywords: * South Africa * primary education 

Summary: 

A pilot animation programme from the Handspring trust for puppetry 

in education, with a tale, aimed at primary educaton. We meet 

Frankie, Spider, Ayanda, Mama Bones, Jay and the Cat in Spider's 

place. When the puppet gang runs into a delerict warehouse behind 

Mama Bones' shop to escape the rain they becaome trapped and it's 

dark. Frankie trips up and boxes and beams fall on top of him. The 

warehouse is full of old mirrors which the gang learns how to use 

to reflect the sunlight on to Frankie so that they can see him. 

They find some old wood they use as a lever to free him, and also 

to prise open a trapdoor to the tunnel which lets them out. They 

also learn other facts about light and discover a labatory bench 

and talk about what it is used for. 


Goldwidows / dir. Don Edkins, Ute Holl, Mike Schlömer. - Germany, Freiburg : Medienwerkstatt Freiburg, 

1992. - Video : VHS; 50 min. + see: filmalfabet 


Keywords: * Lesotho * South Africa * labour migration * women-headed households 

Summary: 

Two thirds of all households in Lesotho are run by women, since 

their men live as migrant workers in South Africa. This film depicts 

the life of four Basotho women, whose men work in the goldmines of SA. 


Tamboville: de schepping van een eigen stad / reg. en prod. Hans Pot. - Nederland, Amsterdam : bTV, 

1992. - 2 Video : VHS; 22 min. + see: filmalfabet 

Originallly directed by Shelly Wells and produced by VNS: Tamboville - one city from below (42 min., VZA 

304). Dutch version produced by bTV, for LOTA and KZA. Dutch comment and subtitels. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Tamboville * civic associations 

Summary: 

In July 1990, Wattville residents, desperate and angry about the 

housing crisis, invaded a long-vacant piece of land seen by the 

Benoni Town Council as a buffer between the township and Boksburg's 

"white"suburbs. United community action ('civics') triumphs, 

signalling the end of the 'apartheid city'. 


UCDT. - South Africa, [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1992. - Video : VHS; 180 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * African NGOs (other) * development projects 

Summary: 

The UCDT is a community based development trust whose goal it is to 

develop the capacity of the community to participate in its own 

development, formed in 1991 for carrying out development by 

establishing self-help projects, engaging in leadership training 

projects and promoting the culture of learning among the young and 

old, in Evaton Sharpville, Sebokeng Bophelong and Boipatong. full of 

speeches in a classroom ends with a township tour. 


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A dry white season / dir. by Euzhan Palcy ; prod. by Paula Weinstein. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 

1992. - Video : VHS; 105 min. 

Original a production of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Hollywood, 1989. Door de NCRV uitgezonden in de 

filmcyclus racisme. Also on tape VZA 244. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto uprising (1976-1977) * apartheid system * history; 1970s 

Summary: 

Taking place during the Soweto uprising the story follows a white 

school teacher whose life and values are threatened when his black 

gardener is killed after trying to investigate his son's death. 

Based on the novel of the acclaimed Afrikaaner writer André Brink. 


Ruf nach Freiheit : Südafrika heute im Spiegel des Films / Buch und reg. Jörn Thiel ; Aufnahmeleitung 

Ramolao Makhene. - Deutschland, Köln : ZDF ; Three-A-Productions, 1992. - Video : VHS; 45 min. 

German voice-over. Start: na 105 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * films * film directors 

Summary: 

A documentary about the South African films in relation to the 

environment they are made in. Interviews whith a large section of 

the South African film scene of that time (1992), with as central 

character Keyan Tomaselli, whose ideas about the South African 

cinema have clearly influenced this film. Interviews with David 

Bensusan ('My country, my hat'), Katinka Heyns ('Fiela's child'), 

Ramolao Makhene (black actor), Darell Roodt ('Sarafina'), Manie van 

Rensburg ('Das Vierte Reich', 'Taxi nach Soweto', 'The native who 

caused all the trouble'), Grey Hofmeyr ('Jock of the bushveld','Sweet 

and short') and the inevitable Keyan Tomaselli, who can't show his own 

movies but instead shows the books he has written on the subject. 


COSATU AIDS video : AIDS : ten questions and thousands of answers AIDS : an union issue / 

Congress of South African Trade Unions. - South Africa, Johannesburg : COSATU, 1992. - Video : VHS; 9 & 

25 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * COSATU * HIV/AIDS * health education 

Summary: 

Two union documentaries about HIV/AIDS. 


Interview met Dirk Coetzee & interview met Carl Niehaus Ciskei massacre & / NOS Journaal, AVRO 

Televizier. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS ; AVRO, 1992. - Video : VHS; 7, 8 & 10 min. 

Start : na 64 min. Start : na 82 min. Start : na 108 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * death squads * Coetzee, Dirk * Bisho massacre (1992) 

Summary: 

:NOS Journaal: Interview met Dirk Coetzee, eenZuidafrikaanse 

politieman die berichtte over de Zuidafrikaanse doodseskaders, waar 

hij zelf toe behoorde. Hij vind dat zowel de regering als het ANC 

met hun wandaden naar buiten moeten treden om in het reine te komen 

met hun verleden, voordat het 'nieuwe Zuid-Afrika' van start kan 

gaan. Interview met A.E. Nothnagel, Zuid-Afrika's ambassadeur in 

Nederland, die ontkent dat Coetzee handelde in opdracht van de regering. (7 min.) 

& : twee NOS Journaal items (8 min.) en één AVRO Televizier 

item (10 min) over het bloedbad in Ciskei en wie daarvoor verantwoordelijk is. 


Living in South Africa / dir. by Mark Newman ; prod. by Robyn Hofmeyr. - Nederland, Hilversum : RVU, 

1994. - Video : VHS; 62 min. Dutch comment and subtitles. 

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Keywords: * South Africa * environmental degradation * population policy * fishing industry * energy sector * 

water utilisation * wildlife management 

Summary: 

Documentary about environmental problems the 'new South Africa' 

will have to deal with, mainly due to population growth: 

overfishing and the distribution of fish-quota; the generation and 

distribution of energy; the distribution and use of water; the protection of wildlife. 


Terug naar Transkei / samenst. Toni Boumans ; cam. Hans van Paridon ; Impact. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

VARA, 1992. - Video : VHS; 47 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * exile 

Summary: 

ANC activist Patrick Mtshaulana, in exile in the Netherlands for 6 

years, can return to South Africa to visit his family in Transkei 

for the first time in 16 years. 


National Education Conference / dir. and prod. by Kevin Harris. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Kevin 

Harris Productions, 1992. - Video : VHS; 37 min 


Keywords: * South Africa * education * education policy * conferences 

Summary: 

The National Education Conference in 1992 in South Africa, where 

many different political and civil organisations discussed the 

urgent education crisis and how to deal with it. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good; Sound quality: bad * VZA 324 

The Color of gold / dir. Don Edkins, Mike Schlömer. - Germany, Freiburg : Medienwerkstatt Freiburg, 1992. 

- Video : VHS; 52 min. + see: filmalfabet 


Keywords: * South Africa * Lesotho * mineworkers * migrant workers * working conditions * living conditions 

Summary: 

A film about the life of migrant workers from Lesotho, working in 

the President Steyn Gold Mine. About the dangers at work and how 

the life in single-sex hostels destroys their family life. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 325 * German version on VZA 330, VZA 305, VSA 008, Dutch version 

on VZA * 560 

De derde boerenoorlog ? / Antenne. - Nederland, Hilversum : EO, 1992. - Video : VHS; 28 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * military * political transformation 

Summary: 

Deze video behandelt de vraag of Zuid-Afrika's Special Forces 

(legereenheden) de komende veranderingen (zwarte 

meerderheidsregering) zullen accepteren. Interviews met oa 

onderzoeker Dr. Stephen Ellis (Universiteit van Leiden) en Jan 

Breytenbach (broer van...), een bevelhebber van de Special Forces. 


Education a basic human right / dir. Kevin Harris. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Film Resource Unit, 

1992. - Video : VHS; 45 min. Produced by Kevin Harris 


Keywords: * South Africa * education policy 

Summary: 

This film touches on a wide range of issues relevant to the current 

(1992) education crisis in SA: fundamental lack of facilities in 

the classroom situation, rural environmental deficiencies,etc. 

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Complemented by the prophetic analyses of leading educationists. 


The seven ages of music : the magic of African music / dir. by Jürgen Schadeberg ; prod. by Claudia 

Schadeberg. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Schadeberg Movie Company, 1992. - Video : VHS; 56 min. 



Summary: 

Registration of a theatrical production in which different episodes 

of African music are brought to life by actors, singers and 

musicians,and a lot of typical african instruments are introduced. 

Featuring (ao) are Dolly Rathebe, Ntemi Piliso, Thapelo Mofokeng, 

the Inkspots, Jonas Gwangwa quintet, The Soweto String Quartet, 

Mike Makhalemele quintet, Hugh Masekela, etc. 

Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood (unstable tape) * VZA 328 

South Africa tomorrow : the Nedcor - Old Mutual scenarios. – South Africa, [Johannesburg] : Facet Film 

and Television, 1992. - Video : VHS; 55 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * democratisation * future scenarios 

Summary: 

Different scenarios have been developed and are being discussed, 

concerning the future of the new South Africa. A useful scenario 

should be based on negotiation and agreement. The South African 

situation is compared with foreign successful 

transition-to-democracy processes. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 329 * Also available in bookform: South Africa: prospects for a 

successful transition : Nedcor -Old Mutual scenarios/edited by Bo Tucker and Bruce R.Scott 

Die Farbe des Goldes / dir. Don Edkins, Mike Schlömer. - Deutschland, Freiburg : Medienwerkstatt 

Freiburg, 1992. - Video : VHS; 52 min. + see: filmalfabet 


Keywords: * South Africa * Lesotho * mineworkers * labour migration 

Summary: 



bei der Arbeit und wie das Leben in 'single-sex hostels' ihr Familienleben zerstört. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 330 * Also on VZA 305 and VSA 008, Eng. version on VZA 325, Dutch 

version on VZA 560 

7 Up South Africa / dir. Angus Gibson ; prod. David Wason ; film ed. Charles Alexander. - Nederland, 

Hilversum ; UK, Manchester : VPRO ; Granada TV, 1992. - Video : VHS; 81 min. 

Originally produced by Granada TV Int. Dutch subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * youth 

Summary: 

South African seven year old kids, from different racial and 

economic backgrounds, tell about their lives, their past and their 

ideas about the future. 


The Mont Fleur scenarios. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1992. - Video : VHS; 30 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * development projects * economic cooperation 

Summary: 

In this video the Mont Fleur team identifies four possible pathways 

into South Africa's future. The idea is not to present definitive 

thruths but to stimulate debate about how to shape the next ten years. 


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The long journey of Clement Zulu / dir. Elizabeth Fish. – South Africa, Oranjezicht : Open door and double 

exposure, 1992. - : VHS; 59 min. An Open Door & Double Exposure Production for BBC2 


Keywords: * South Africa * Robben Island * political prisoners * history; 1980s * history; 1990s 

Summary: 

This film traces the first year of freedom for three comrades, 

Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim, Clement Zulu and James Mange, released from 

South Africa's maximum security political prison. From the first 

euphoria of freedom through sobering journeys into the 

disappointing "new South Africa". 


Phola Park / music by Ladysmith Black Mambazo. - Nederland, Amsterdam : [s.n.], 1992. - Video : VHS; 19 

min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Phola Park * parliamentarians * bilateral aid 

Summary: 

Pictures of Phola Park, with music of Lady Smith Black Mambazo. 

Boris Dittrich, Dutch parliamentarian, is shown around and promises 

that, when back in Amsterdam he will arrange funds for building a 

community-house in Phola Park. Last few minutes only music, no images. 


Bisho massacre. - South Africa, [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1992. - Video : VHS; 106 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Ciskei * political violence * Bisho massacre (1992) * Gqozo, Oupa 

Summary: 

Report on the Bisho massacre on 7 September 1992, when a small 

group split from a greater and peacefull march towards a stadium 

near Bisho, to protest against the regime of Gqozo, and went over 

the gates towards the town itself. This drew the fire of waiting 

Ciskeian troops, who killed 29 marchers and wounded some 200. It 

starts with the occupation of the Ciskei Embassy by ANC comrades 

(after the massacre?), followed by footage of the massacre itself, 

of the medical first aid at the scene, and interviews with ao Pik Botha and Chris Hani. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough. Sound quality: notsogood * VZA 335 

Het gesprek: Matsemela Manaka / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1993. - Video : 




Summary: 

The South African theater director Matsemela Manaka talks about the 

situation in South Africa and the role of theatre as a unifying 

force and a forum of dialogue. 


Een aparte staat. Zuid-Afrika 1948-1978 / eindred. en scenario Jan Neckers ; Boulevard. - België, Brussel : 

TV1, 1993. - Video : VHS; 30 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * history; 1945-1960 * history; 1960s * history; 1970s * apartheid (ideology) * 

apartheid system 

Summary: 

Geschiedenis van apartheid in Zuid-Afrika, vanaf het moment dat de 

Nationale Partij in 1948 aan de macht kwam tot aan de opvolging van 

Vorster door Botha als president van Zuid-Afrika in 1978. Het 

Treason trial en het Rivonia proces worden wel door elkaar gehaald. 


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Mujaji in Mohlakeng / prod., mont., en reg Marc Radomsky. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON ; Free Film 

Makers ; Dreamstone Productions, 1992. - Video : VHS; 30 min. Start: na 187 min. Also on VZA 284 


Keywords: * South Africa * youth * violence * theatre * secondary schools * ethnic relations 

Summary: 

Moving documentary about South Africa's youth: how they feel about 

their country, the other ethnic groups, the violence, about falling 

in love, and about theatre (a group of white students is going to 

perform a theater production on a black school in a township). 


Portret van Beyers Naudé / interv. en samenst. Hans van Gerven ; eindred. Geerten van Empel. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1993. - Video : VHS; 55 min. Start: na 67 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Naudé, Christiaan F. Beyers (1915 - 2004) * apartheid (ideology) * Afrikaners 

(people) * history; 20th century * interviews (form) 

Summary: 

Interview met Beyers Naudé over zijn persoonlijke geschiedenis en 

de geschiedenis van de Afrikaners en apartheid in Zuid-Afrika. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good. Vergelijk VZA 362 (kortere versie van 30 * min.) * VZA 338 

De vliegende brigade van Soweto / samenst. Joanna Head ; bew. Michiel Linders ; eindred. Hans Emans ; 

Tweede Lijn. - Nederland, Hilversum : VOO, 1993. - Video : VHS; 48 min. Start: na 138 min. Dutch subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto * police * policing 

Summary: 

Friendly documentary about the police in Soweto. Usual young kids, 

because when they get married their wives start to complain about 

them working in Soweto. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good. Also on: VZA 359 * VZA 338 

Zuid-Afrika's atoombommen / TV1 nieuws. - België, Brussel : TV1, 1993. - Video : VHS; 2 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * nuclear weapons 

Summary: 

De Klerk geeft toe dat Zuid-Afrika - alleen voor afschrikking en 

natuurlijk ivb met het communisme - zes atoombommen heeft 

ontwikkeld en inmiddels ook weer ontmanteld. 


NAFCOC corporate presentation / Public affairs dept.. – South Africa, Johannesburg : Tiger oats ltd., 1993. 



Keywords: * South Africa * chambers of commerce* * black business 

Summary: 

Promo video of NAFCOC, the National African Federated Chamber of 

Commerce and industry. They present themselves as leader in the 

struggle for black business equality, offering expertise and 

finance for small enterprises. About the hsitory and structure of 

the organisation, and a long list of objectives and goals. 


Zuid-Afrika : alle stemmen gelden : een aparte geschiedenis / reg. en prod. Rob Prass ; research Bart 

Luirink ; comment. Karel Roskam. - Nederland, Hilversum : ABOO/NOT, 1993. - Video : VHS; 25 min. 

Dit programma kwam tot stand in samenwerking met de Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland en met 

financiële bijdragen van het ministerie van O&W, de Europese Gemeenschap, Stichting Doen/Nationale 

Postcode Loterij en de gemeente Rotterdam. 


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Keywords: * South Africa * history; 17th century * history; 19th century * history; 20th century * apartheid 

(ideology) * apartheid system 

Summary: 

Een geschiedenis van Zuid-Afrika vanaf de komst van Jan van 

Riebeeck(1652) tot heden (1993), met veel aandacht voor het 

ontstaan van het apartheidssysteem.Veel historische filmbeelden, 

die soms uit speelfilms afkomstig zijn, terwijl ze documentair gepresenteerd worden. 


Zuid-Afrika : alle stemmen gelden : een gezamelijke toekomst / reg. en prod. Rob Prass ; research Bart 

Luirink ; comment. Karel Roskam. - Nederland, Hilversum : ABOO/NOT, 1993. - Video : VHS; 25 min. 

Dit programma kwam tot stand in samenwerking met de Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland en met 

financiële bijdragen van het Ministerie van O&W, de Europese Gemeenschap, Stichting Doen/Nationale 

Postcode Loterij en de gemeente Rotterdam. Start: na 25 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * school children * secondary education 

Summary: 

Deze film toont het Zuid-Afrika van 1993, aan de hand van het leven 

van drie scholieren, blank en zwart, die in Soweto of de witte 

voorsteden van Johannesburg leven. Aandacht voor oa de education 

crisis (examengelden) en hun toekomstverwachtingen. 


In darkest Hollywood : cinema and apartheid / written and dir. by Peter Davis, Daniel Riesenfeld. - South 

Africa, Johannesburg : Nightingale/Villon, 1993. - Video : VHS; 120 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * film art * film industry * films * cultural identity 

Summary: 

The documentary chronicles the artistic and political impact of 

cinema on black South Africa and documents its ambivalent role in 

the struggle against apartheid. Throughout most of South Africa's 

history, the only way an African could participate in the art of 

cinema was as spectator. There were few role models with whom they 

could identify. On the other hand, the gangsterism from the 

Hollywood films was suggestive of an alternative, however limited, 

to the structure of power under apartheid. Paradoxically, the first 

decade of apartheid saw the first stirrings of black cinema with 

African Jim. The Hollywood anti-apartheids movies are criticized 

because they placed whites at the centre of apartheid agony.This 

was changed with the South African picture Mapantsula, 1988, a 

co-operation between a white and a black director that depicts the 

lives of black South Africans. Also attention for the role of 

cinema in the liberation struggle. 


Albertina Sisulu / eindred. Dolf Reijmers ; research and prod. Ingrid Gavshon. - Nederland, Hilversum ; 

South Africa, Johannesburg : KRO/RKK ; Free Film Makers, 1993. - Video : VHS; 50 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * Sisulu, Albertina Nontsikelelo (1918 -) * ANC Women's 

League 

Summary: 

Albertina Sisulu tells about her life under the apartheid system 

and about the work she's doing for the ANC Women's League. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 344 * Also on: VZA 577 

Tiny Rowland: the rebel tycoon / dir. Archie Baron ; film ed. John Wilkinson ; Inside Story. - UK, London : 

BBC, 1993. - Video : VHS; 50 min. 


Keywords: * UK * Southern Africa * transnational corporations * foreign investment * mining industry 

Summary: 

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Film about Tiny Rowland, for long the leading man of Lonrho, a 

company that invested in mines in Southern Africa. The film depicts 

him as a top-crook, completely unreliable and only interested in 

making his own fortune. 


Coming to terms / ed. Bob Hayward, James Woods ; producer David Harrison ; Panorama, Frontline. - UK, 

London ; USA, Boston : BBC ; WGBH, 1993. - Video : VHS; 39 min. 

A co-production of BBC/Panorama and WGBH/Frontline. Also on VZA 357. Start: na 22 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * De Klerk, Frederik Willem (1936-) * Mandela, 

Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * Buthelezi Mangosuthu Gatsha (1928-) * politics 

Summary: 

Documentary in which David Dimbleby interviews De Klerk, Mandela 

and Buthelezi about their views with regard to the question how to 

share power (or not) in the near future. 


The cutting edge of progress / ed. Jill Huxley ; prod. Eleanor Morris ; Developing World. - UK, London : 

Open University ; BBC, 1992. - Video : VHS; 25 min. Start: na 105 min. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * Zambezi river * Tonga (people, Zimbabwe) * Kariba Dam * resettlement 

Summary: 

Documentary about the Tonga people, who were forced to move when 

the Lake Kariba was created by building the Kariba Dam in the 

Zambezi river in the fifties. They have been settled in areas that 

can't support agriculture at all, due to the infertillity of the 

soil. Hunting and fishing has also become impossible for them, 

since they cannot afford the expensive hunting and fishing permits. 


Geweld en onderhandelingen over een overdrachtsregering / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

IKON/KRO/RKK, 1993. - Video : VHS; 15 min. Start: na 212 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * political violence * ANC * IFP * AWB * political scenarios* 

Summary: 

Reportage over het politieke geweld tussen ANC en IFP dat de 

besprekingen over een overdrachtsregering in gevaar brengt. Ook 

aandacht voor de toenadering tussen IFP en extreem-rechts in hun 

streven naar een federale staatsvorm. 


Groáwildjacht am Sambesi / Bericht: Helmut Grosse ; 15 min international. - Deutschland, Köln : WDR, 

1993. - Video : VHS; 15 min. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * Zambezi river * safaris 

Summary: 

Ein Programm über Groáwildjagdsafaris am Sambesi Fluá. 


Onderwijs Zuid-Afrika in Rotterdam / Schoolse zaken. - Nederland, Hilversum : [s.n.], 1993. - Video : VHS; 



Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * Durban * Rotterdam * education 

Summary: 

Rotterdam en Durban hebben een stedenband. Het Nationaal Onderwijs 

Centrum te Rotterdam heeft een tentoonstelling over Zuid-Afrika, 

waar sinds de officiële afschaffing van Apartheid in 1990 de 

onderwijssituatie nog niet is verbeterd. Op de expositie is een 

schoolklas uit Durban nagebouwd, waar leerlingen in Rotterdam 

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kunnen ervaren hoe het is om in Zuid-Afrika op school te zitten. 

Ook met telefonisch interview met Erik van Ees, correspondent in 

Zuid-Afrika, over de onderwijssituatie daar. 


SAP / Hier en Nu. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 1993. - Video : VHS; 9 min. Start: na 160 min. 

Dutch subtitles and comment. 


Keywords: * South Africa * police * torture * violence 

Summary: 

Item over de Zuidafrikaanse politie, die nog steeds mensen martelt 

en vermoordt, aldus patholoog-anatoom Jonathan Gluckman. Het 

grootste probleem is dat de politie de gewone mensen in de 

townships nog steeds als vijand ziet, volgens Janine Rausch, lid 

van de regeringscommissie voor politie. Door middel van extra 

trainingen probeert men de mentaliteit van de politie te veranderen, 

want ook het 'nieuwe Zuid-Afrika' zal het met deze politie moeten doen. 


South Africa for tourists / Holliday. - UK, London : BBC, 1993. - Video : VHS; 9 min. Start: na 192 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * tourism 

Summary: 

A superficial tourist program about South Africa, where nowadays 

even the ANC welcomes you as tourist. Shots from Johannesburg, 

Durban, Cape Town and game reserves. 


W.F. Hermans terug in Amsterdam / AVRO Televizier. - Nederland, Hilversum : AVRO, 1993. - Video : 



Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * writers * cultural boycott 

Summary: 

Interview met de Nederlandse schrijver W.F. Hermans, naar 

aanleiding van de beëindigingvan de boycot tegen hem door 

Amsterdam, vanwege zijn reis naar Zuid-Afrika begin tachtiger 

jaren, waarmee hij de VN boycot tegen dat land negeerde. 


The meeting at Middlefontein / dir. by Adam Low ; Development Action Group. - South Africa, Cape Town : 

DAG, 1993. - Video : VHS; 35 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Western Cape * civic associations * civic education * local government * political 

negotiations * empowerment* * living conditions 

Summary: 

A video shot by the Development Action Group (DAG), a South African 

civic. DAG's primary objective is providing and facilitating the 

delivery of housing to marginalised communities in the Western 

Cape. The organisation has developed a systematic approach to 

housing delivery which integrates social and technical development 

processes. This approach aims to meet people's housing needs, as 

well as to develop and train a community so that once the project 

has been completed, the community has developed the leadership 

capacity and self confidence to continue improving their living 

conditions and become involved in other development initiatives, 

such as acquiring and lobbying for other resources and amenities. 

This dramatised documentary gives an insight in their work. 


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In tijden van geweld = In a time of violence / dir. by Brian Tilley ; prod. by Jeremy Nathan. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : NOS, 1994. - Video : VHS; 3 x 52 min. * In a time of violence. An Afravision production in 

association with International Broadcasting Trust; for Channel Four Television and SABC, CCV, ZDF/ARTE, 

NOS TV3, YLE TV2, NBC (Namibia) and Stichting Doen & NCO (Netherlands). Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * townships * political violence * housing expenditure * history; 1980s * history; 

1990s 

Summary: 

A three episode feature series about the township violence between 

ANC and Inkatha in Soweto and housing problems in Hillbrow. Episode 

1: The line, Episode 2: All on edge, Episode 3: Fire with fire. 


Sibikwe Players : Isizwe sethu = our nation / devised and dir. Phyllis Klotz, Smal Ndaba. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], 

1993 [?]. - Video : VHS; 10 min. Benoni thanks the Royal Netherlands Embassy for making this possible. 


Keywords: * South Africa * dance 

Summary: 

A promo video for Sibikwe players, a theatrical dance group 


Perspectives on violence / prod. and dir. Seton Bailey, Mary Bailey ; Centre for the Study of Violence and 

Reconciliation. – South Africa, Johannesburg : Bailey and Associates, 1994. - Video : VHS; 88 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Alexandra * theatre * youth * violence 

Summary: 

A youth community theatre group in Alexandra, the Victory Sonqoba 

Theatre Company, explores different kinds of violence and make 

video's about it, which are later on discussed (family violence, 

political violence, violence against women, youth gang violence, violence in schools). 


A personal appeal / African National Congress. - South Africa, Johannesburg : ANC, 1993. - Video : VHS; 

11 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * election campaigns * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * ANC * Mandela, Nelson 

Rolihlahla (1918- ) 

Summary: 

Nelson Mandela calls in a rather dramatic fashion for support for 

the coming elections. The ANC has estimated that they will need $ 

100 million to prepare for the elections. 


Lujtenant Erik / Lasse Berg, Anders Ribbsjo ; Dokumentär. - Sverige, Stockholm : Sveriges Television AB, 

1993. - Video : VHS; 14 min. With time-code. Swedish voice over and subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * AWB * Terre'Blanche, Eugene Ney (1941-) * mercenaries 

Summary: 

A documentary about extreme right wing movments in South Africa, 

mainly the AWB, that wants a separate state for the white 

Afrikaners. Long interview with Terre'Blanche, leader of the AWB, 

and with "Erik" a swedish boy that has become member of the AWB. 


Die duiwel maakt mijn hart so seer / dir. Zackie Achmat ; prod. Jack Lewis. - South Africa, Vlaeberg : Idol 

Pictures, 1993. - : VHS; 55 min. English subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * child care * mothers * education 

Summary: 

This film is both a joyful tribute to the resourcefulness of 

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children and their mothers left to their own devices in radically 

deprived conditions and a call for the development of a properly 

funded integrated strategy for the provision of early childhood 

education and care. The children talk about things that affect 

their lives - food, play, care, punishment, violence. Their mothers 

talk of the difficulty of providing these necessitiesand of the 

impact of violence on the lives of their children. 


Angola burgeroorlog / 2 vandaag. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1993. - Video : VHS; 8 min 



Keywords: * Angola * Cuito * civil war 

Summary: 

Beelden van Cuito, dat net zes maanden door UNITA belegerd is 

geweest. Interview met Paul Staal over de oorzaken van het opnieuw 

oplaaien van de burgeroorlog na de voor Savimbi (UNITA) slecht 

verlopen verkiezingen in 1992. 


Engel uit Mamelodi : Vusi Mahlasela / dir. by Ingrid Gavshon. - Nederland, Hilversum ; South Africa, 

Johannesburg : IKON ; Free Film Makers, 1993. - Video : VHS; 20 min. Start: na 119 min. Dutch subtitled 


Keywords: * South Africa * townships * music * youth * Christians 

Summary: 

Documentaire over de Zuid-Afrikaanse muzikant Vusi Mahlasela, die 

erg christelijk is en van oude blikken gitaren bouwt voor kinderen uit de buurt. 


Nieuwe grondwet Zuid-Afrika / De Wereld Vandaag. - Nederland, Hilversum : EO, 1993. - Video : VHS; 6 



Keywords: * South Africa * constitutional change * Inkatha 

Summary: 

Commentator Ad Kamsteeg bespreekt in hoeverre de nieuwe (interim) 

grondwet het einde van apartheid betekent, en meldt dat het volgens 

hem beter is om Kwazulu-Natal een meer zelfstandige status te geven 

om Inkatha bij het verkiezingsproces te betrekken. 


Nobelprijs Mandela en De Klerk / NOS Journaal. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1993. - Video : VHS; 4 

min 


Keywords: * South Africa * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * De Klerk, Frederik Willem (1936-) * Nobel 

prize 

Summary: 

Journaalfragmenten over de beslissing om de nobelprijs voor de 

vrede aan Nelson Mandela en FW De Klerk toe te kennen. 


Samen in Zuid-Afrika / Rondom 10. - Nederland, Hilversum ; Zuid-Afrika, Kaapstad : NCRV, 1993. - Video : 



Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * remigration * violence 

Summary: 

Programma, grotendeels vanuit Kaapstad, over Nederlanders die in 

Zuid-Afrika wonen, maar terug willen naar Nederland uit angst voor 

het steeds toenemende geweld in Zuid-Afrika. Ook met beelden van 

mensen die zich al in Nederland gevestigd hebben. 


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The transformation of the SABC / presented by Donald Woods ; Assignment. - UK, London : BBC, 1993. - 

Video : VHS; 43 min. Start: na 55 min. Also on VZA 288. 


Keywords: * South Africa * SABC * propaganda * journalists * documentaries 

Summary: 

A documentary about the changes the SABC is going through: from 

apartheid-propaganda machine to a pluralistic Media concern, were 

for the first time in their history is place for independent 

documentaries about everyday life in South Africa (the series 

'Ordinary People'). Interviews with SABC presenters and independent 

documentary makers like Clifford Bestall and Harriet Gavshon. 


Vriend en vijand 3. - Nederland, Hilversum : [s.n.], 1993. - : VHS; 20 min. Start: na 53 min. Dutch subtitled. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Mozambique * Afrikaners (people) 

Summary: 

Film over Afrikaner boeren die de komende veranderingen in 

Zuid-Afrika niet willen afwachten en een nieuw bestaan in Mozambique opbouwen. 


Ulibambe Lingashoni = Hold up the sun : The ANC and popular power in the making. Episode 2: 

Enter the masses 1949 - 1958 / dir. Brian Tilley. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Film Resource Unit, 1993. - 

Video : VHS; 52 min. + see: filmalfabet ¸ 1993 Toron/Thebe 

Episode 2 out of a five part series. Episode 4 is on tape VZA 356. 


Keywords: * South Africa * anti-apartheid resistance * history; 1945-1960 

Summary: 

In this period we see the transformation of the ANC into a 

mass-based and militant movement. Women come in the foreground as 

determined force in the struggle against passes. New social 

movements, culture and music take root in the townships. The ANC 

and it's allies put forward their vision of the future - "That 

South Africa belongs to all that live in it" and that "the people 

shall govern" - in the Freedom Charter. 


Ulibambe Lingashoni = Hold up the sun : The ANC and popular power in the making. Episode 4: The 

new generation 1968 - 1983 / dir. Clarence Hamilton. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Film Resource Unit, 

1993. - Video : VHS; 52 min. + see: filmalfabet ¸ 1993 Toron/Thebe 

Episode 4 out of a five part series. Episode 2 is on tape VZA 355. 


Keywords: * South Africa * anti-apartheid resistance * UDF (South Africa) * history; 1970s * history; 1980s 

Summary: 

In this episode the role of the students and youth comes to the 

fore, leading to the student uprising of 1976, a watershed in 

resistance. Also the growth of democratic structures in the factories, 

communities and schools, leading to the formation of the UDF in 1983. 


Coming to terms / ed. Bob Hayward, James Woods ; producer David Harrison ; Panorama, Frontline. - UK, 

London ; USA, Boston : BBC ; WGBH, 1993. - Video : VHS; 39 min. 

A co-production of BBC/Panorama and WGBH/Frontline. 


Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * De Klerk, Frederik Willem (1936-) * Mandela, 

Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * Buthelezi Mangosuthu Gatsha (1928-) 

Summary: 

Documentary in which David Dimbleby interviews De Klerk, Mandela 

and Buthelezi about their views with regard to the question how to 

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share power (or not) in the near future. 


Unit Five / ed. Keith Bowers ; Assignment. - UK, London : BBC ; Crux, 1993. - Video : VHS; 45 min. 

A Crux production for BBC Television. 



Summary: 

This film shows the changes the South African security forces had 

to go through after the 1994 elections. 


Dood en begrafenis Chris Hani - 3 items / Hier en Nu, NOVA, BBC news. - Nederland, Hilversum ; UK, 

London : NCRV ; VARA ; NPS ; BBC, 1993. - Video : VHS; 31 min. Start: na 89 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Hani, Martin Thembisile (Chris) (1942-93) * political violence 

Summary: 

Drie nieuwsitems over de dood en begrafenis en betekenis van Chris Hani. 


De vliegende brigade van Soweto / samenst. Joanna Head ; bew. Michiel Linders ; eindred. Hans Emans ; 

Tweede Lijn. - Nederland, Hilversum : VOO, 1993. - Video : VHS; 48 min. Dutch subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto * police 

Summary: 

Friendly documentary about the police in Soweto. Usually young kids, 

because when they get married their wives start to complain about them working in Soweto. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good. Also on: VZA 338. * VZA 359 

A tough tale / dir. Sean Fitzpatrick. - [s.l.] : Granito Film, 1993. - Video : VHS; 6 min. Pilot Version 


Keywords: * South Africa * poetry * music 

Summary: 

A poem of Mongane Wally Serote read by Joseph Mosikili on music of Tribal Countdown. 



Start: na 19 min. Also on VZA 288. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Hillbrow * drugs * prostitution * housing * police * health care 

Summary: 

A series about Hillbrow, a racialy mixed neighbourhood in the 

centre of Johannesburg. Part 1, about the violence, drugs, 

prostitution, health care, streetchildren, bad housing and high rents. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 362 * Part 2 & 4 also on this tape 


Start: na 165 min. Dutch comment and subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Hillbrow * drug addiction * drugs traffic * crime * prostitution 

Summary: 

Part 2 of the series about Hillbrow, with special attention for the 

nightlife: drugs, crime and prostitution. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 362 * Part 1 & 4 also on this tape 


Start: na 176 min. Dutch comment and subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Hillbrow * housing * living conditions 

Summary: 

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Part 4 of the series about Hillbrow, with special attention for the 

bad housing situation. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 362 * Part 1 & 2 also on this tape. 

Portet van Beyers Naudé / interviewer Hans van Gerven. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1993. - Video : 

VHS; 30 min. Start: na 93 min. Vergelijk VZA 338 (langere versie van 55 min.). 


Keywords: * South Africa * Naudé, Christiaan F. Beyers (1915 - 2004) * Afrikaners (people) 

* apartheid (ideology) * history; 20th century * interviews (form) 

Summary: 

Interview met Beyers Naudéover zijn persoonlijke geschiedenis en 

die van de Afrikaners en apartheid. 


Van Kenia naar Kaapstad: Malawi / reg. Anette Kentie ; samenst. en eindred. Aad van den Heuvel. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : KRO, 1993. - Video : VHS; 26 min. Start: na 183 min. 



Keywords: * Malawi * political transformation * HIV/AIDS * refugee policy * democratisation 

Summary: 

Documentary about Malawi, ruled by dictator Hastings Banda, called 

Kamuza. Political opposition is growing and there are signs of an 

emerging democracy. Also about aids and Mozambican refugees. 


Vreemdelingen in eigen land / NOVA. - Nederland, Hilversum : NPS ; VARA, 1993. - Video : VHS; 8 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * Afrikaners (people) * Netherlanders 

Summary: 

Twee extreem-rechtse Nederlanders willen naar Zuid-Afrika om steun 

te verlenen aan Afrikaners die een blanke boerenrepubliek (herstel 

van Oranje Vrijstaat en Transkei) willen oprichten. Fons Geerlings 

van de AABN vindt het maar niks. 


Moving into dance : education dance programme. - South Africa, Johannesburg : [s.n.], 1993. - Video : 

VHS; 8 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * dance * education 

Summary: 

Film about Moving into dance, an educational dance programme. 


Funeral Chris Hani. - USA, Atlanta ; UK, London ; Netherlands, [Hilversum] : CNN ; BBC, 1993. - Video : 

VHS; 97 min. CNN en BBC newsitems on death and funeral Hani. One anonymous Dutch item. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Hani, Martin Thembisile (Chris) (1942-93) * political violence 

Summary: 

Newsitems, mainly from CNN, about the death and funeral of Chris 

Hani. Ao interviews with De Klerk and Mandela. In the Dutch item (7 

min.) Fons Geerlings is interviewed about Hani. 


Kulturele groepen Durban / comp. Wim Wiegman, Hans Bom. – South Africa, Durban : Natal Cultural 

Congress, 1993. - Video : VHS; 7 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Durban * arts and culture 

Summary: 

A short compilation of videoshots from Durban cultural groups, of 

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which the members are living in the black townships of Durban. Ao 

children sing & dance performance, rappers in a black township, a 

plea for more cultural centres in townships, a play by jobless 

juveniles, Isicathamya - an a-capella choir, and a speech on the 

importance of culture in the 'New South Africa'. 


When love hurts / dir. Lucie Page. - South Africa, Cape Town : NICRO ; Page, Lucie, 1993. - Video : VHS; 

26 min. + booklet with guidelines for discussion 

This video was made possible through the financial support of the Canadian Government, Kagiso Trust/ 

Médécins du Monde, Liberty Life, the Swedish and Norwegian Trade Union Organisations. 


Keywords: * South Africa * domestic violence * women * gender relations 

Summary: 

A video that tries to analyse the hidden crime of battering 

housewifes and girlfriends in South Africa, where one of the most 

violent social settings is the home. 


SANCO Uitenhage Local - 2nd annual general meeting. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1993. - Video : VHS; 245 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * SANCO 

Summary: 

A report of the 2nd annual meeting of SANCO Uitenhage. Speeches 

about community policy and the election of the new committee. 


Nobelprijsuitreiking Mandela. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1993. - Video : VHS; 103 min. 

English speeches with Dutch subtitles, commentaries in Dutch. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Norway * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * De Klerk, Frederik Willem (1936-) 

* peace * Nobel prize 

Summary: 

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Mandela & De Klerk, with speech of Mandela. 


Geweld in Ruanda Zuid-Afrika stemt / Televizier. - Nederland, Hilversum : AVRO, 1994. - Video : VHS; 2 

x 10 min. Start: na 150 min., na 170 min. 


Keywords: * Rwanda * Rwandan genocide (1994) * South Africa * Magubane, Peter (1932- ) 

Summary: 

Nederlanders die terugkeren uit Rwanda vertellen over de 

massaslachtingen en chaos in Rwanda. 

Portret van de zwarte fotograaf Peter Magubane, die de 

verschrikkingen van de apartheid gedurende vele decennia fotografeerde. 


Mandela's promised land / reporter Michael Buerk ; cam. Clifford Bestall ; film ed. Bob Hayward ; 

Panorama. - UK, London ; USA, Boston : BBC ; WGBH, 1994. - Video : VHS; 39 min. Start: na 111 min. 

A co-production of BBC Panorama and WGBH Boston. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * election campaigns * elections April 1994 

(South Africa) 

Summary: 

Michael Buerk travels with Mandela on one of his election tours. 

Interviews with Mandela and with a great number of South Africans, 

from blacks of his native village Qunu in Transkei to his rich 

white neighbours in Houghton Estate, the Beverly Hills of 

Johannesburg, about how they see the future after the elections. 


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Wild boer / dir. and prod. Christopher Terrill ; ass. prod. Brenda Goldblatt ; film ed. Andrew Willsmore ; 

Beloved country. - UK, London : BBC, 1994. - Video : VHS; 58 min. 

A BBC production in association with the National Geographic Society. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Afrikaners (people) * informal settlements * squatters 

Summary: 

Film about awhite extreme-right Afrikaner squatter camp, filled 

with 'Boeren' who are fearfull of the future and nostalgic about the past. 


Zuid-Afrika stemt / eindred. Cees Labeur ; Hier en Nu. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 1994. - Video : 

VHS; 10 min. Start: na 95 min. Dutch subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Afrikaners (people) * elections April 1994 (South Africa) 

Summary: 

Portret van Manie Maritz, extreem rechtse Boer, die een eigen, blanke, volksstaat wil. 


After apartheid / Michael Buerk ; Assignment. - UK, London : BBC, 1994. - Video : VHS; 36 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid (ideology) * apartheid system * elections April 1994 (South Africa) 

Summary: 

Michael Buerk leads a discussion with Desmond Tutu, Rian Malan, 

professor Terreblanche and Sibongile MKhabela (in 1976 one of the 

student upraising leaders) about their experiences with Apartheid 

and what they think will happen after the coming elections. 


Voices from the island / written and dir. by Adam Low ; prod. by Jürgen Schadeberg ; cam. Michael 

Hammon ; Arena. - UK, London : BBC, 1994. - Video : VHS; 90 min. 

Start: na 43 min. A Schadeberg Movie Co. production for BBC. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Robben Island * history * prison conditions * political prisoners * penal institutions 

Summary: 

A history of Robbenisland from the 17th century onward, with most 

attention given to the second half of the 20th century. Lots of short interviews 

with ex-ANC-prisoners, like Nelson Mandela, Gowan Mbeki, Walter Sisulu, 

Ahmed Kathrada, Neville Alexander, Eddie Daniels, Andrew Mlangeni, etc. 


Zuid-Afrika na de verkiezingen / reg. Ron Nieuwenhuys ; eindred. Peter van Asseldonk ; Het Capitool. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1994. - Video : VHS; 28 min. Start: na 154 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * youth * political violence * economic 

scenarios* 

Summary: 

Maartje van Weegen leidt de discussie over wat er na de 

verkiezingen (over een week) in Zuid-Afrika te gebeuren staat. 

Gesprekspartners zijn Jan Pronk, minister van 

ontwikkelingssamenwerking, en Stephen Ellis, directeur van het 

Afrika Studiecentrum. Men hoopt op minder geweld nu het duidelijk 

is dat de IFP ook deelneemt aan de verkiezingen. De verwachtingen 

van de zwarten zijn te hoog gespannen, er is een overgangsperiode 

van minstens tien jaar te voorzien waarin de veranderingen 

geleidelijk zullen plaatsvinden. Hoe groter de groei van werkgelegenheid 

onder jonge zwarten, hoe vreedzamer het proces zal zijn. 


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De grote verandering / reg. en prod. Rob Hof ; NOS Documentaire. - Nederland, Hilversum : Hof 

Filmprodukties ; NOS, 1994. - Video : VHS; 50 min. Start : na 9 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * emigration * remigration * violence 

Summary: 

Documentaire over Nederlandse emigranten in Zuid-Afrika net na de 

verkiezingen. Sommigen keren terug naar Nederland; sommigen zijn 

alleen tijdens de verkiezingen naar Nederland teruggekeerd; en 

sommigen zijn gebleven. De grootste reden om terugkeer naar 

Nederland te overwegen zijn het toegenomen geweld en de als maar 

groeiende criminaliteit. Met archiefbeelden van het schip de 

'Zuiderkruis', waarmee in de jaren '50 Nederlandse emigranten op 

kosten van de staat naar Zuid-Afrika konden emigreren. 


Mensen, mijnen en misère / Tijdsein. - Nederland, Hilversum : EO, 1994. - Video : VHS; 9 min. 


Keywords: * landmines * Mozambique * Netherlands * Cambodia 

Summary: 

Doc. over landmijnen. Nederlandse militairen worden opgeleid om in 

Cambodja en Mozambiek lokale mensen op te leiden om mijnen te ruimen. 


De wereldboot 5 : kinderen van Goede Hoop - video magazine voor het basisonderwijs / research en 

reg. Rob Hof. - Nederland, Den Haag : Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, DV Ontwikkelingssamenwerking, 

1994 ¸. - Video : VHS; 28 min. Dutch subtitles and comment. 


Keywords: * South Africa * school children * Robben Island * educational materials (form) 

Summary: 

Schoolchildren from group seven from the school De Goede Hoop in 

Cape Town go for a trip to Robben Island, where the history of the 

island is told to them by a former political prisoner. 


Goodmorning democracy. / dir. by Adrian Pennink ; prod. by Jeremy Harding ; cam. Giulio Biccari. - UK, 

London : BBC, 1994. - Video : VHS; 38 min. Start: na 16 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * SABC * elections April 1994 (South Africa) 

Summary: 

A documentary about the changing role of the SABC: from 

Apartheid-propaganda machine in the 1970-ies to a modern 

broadcasting company in the "new South Africa". 


Mandela for president ! / Hier en Nu. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 1994. - Video : VHS; 4 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * 

presidential elections 

Summary: 

Een kort item over de verkiezing van Nelson Mandela tot president. 


The new South Africa. - UK, London : BBC, 1994. - Video : VHS; 57 min. Start: na 102 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * electoral system 

Summary: 

Interview with South Africans, ao Nelson Mandela, about the meaning 

of the elections and how they see the near future. The counting of the votes 

is still proceeding very slowly. Explanation of the electoral system in South Africa. 

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The South African vote. - UK, London : BBC, 1994. - Video ; 29 min. Start: na 59 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) 

Summary: 

From a studio in Johannesburg the counting of the votes is being 

followed and South Africans like Johann Kriegler (of the election 

committee), professor Robert Schrire (of the university of Cape 

Town), Thabo Mbeki (from the ANC) and Roelf Meyer (National Party) 

are discussing the near feature. A government of national unity 

seems the best solution to all of them. The new constitution is 

constructed for reconciliation, but that must also be the goal of 

those who will enter the new government. The greatest immediate 

danger is Buthelezi: will he accept the outcome of the elections. 


Uitslag verkiezingen 1994 / NOVA. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA ; NOS, 1994. - Video : VHS; 9 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * Western Cape * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * NP 

Summary: 

Michael Buerk leads a discussion with Desmond Tutu, Rian Malan, 

professor Terreblanche and Sibongile MKhabela (in 1976 one of the 

student upraising leaders) about their experiences with Apartheid 

and what they think will happen after the coming elections. 


Verkiezingen Zuid-Afrika: eerste dag / Tijdsein. - Nederland, Hilversum : EO, 1994. - Video : VHS; 12 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * Afrikaners (people) 

Summary: 

Twee Afrikaners van Nederlandse afkomst die veschillend over de 

verkiezingen denken worden gevolgd op de eerste verkiezingsdag. 


Jacob and the headhunter / film ed. Tony Heaven ; photogr. Lawrence Gardner, ... [et al.] ; Beloved 

country. - UK, London : BBC, 1994. - Video : VHS; 48 min. Start: na 155 min. Also on tape VZA 388 


Keywords: * South Africa * employment equity * social differentiation 

Summary: 

Documentary about a black chartered accountant who is followed through 1993. 

He is living in two worlds: the white (because of his job) and the black. 


Reporter / prod. en studioreg. Gerda Ottervanger. - Nederland, Hilversum : KRO, 1994. - Video : VHS; 33 



Keywords: * South Africa * Cape Town * elections April 1994 (South Africa) 

Summary: 

Drie weken voor de verkiezingen reist journalist Cees Overgaauw 

door Zuid-Afrika, vooral rond Kaapstad. Hij peilt de sfeer en praat 

oa met Allan Boesak, die de ANC lijstaanvoerder voor de Kaapprovincie 

is, en met Hannes Myburgh, liberale blanke eigenaar van wijngaarde Meerlust. 


The team they wouldn't play / Reporter Jonathan Agnew. - UK, London : BBC, 1994. - Video : VHS; 50 



Keywords: * South Africa * sport boycotts * cricket 

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Summary: 

Documentary about the sport boycott of the South African Cricket 

team, from 1965 till 1994. 


ANC-Inkatha geweld, één maand voor de verkiezingen / NOVA. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA ; NPS, 

1994. - Video : VHS; 7 min. Dutch comment and subtitles. Start: na 40 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * ANC * Inkatha * political violence 

Summary: 

Verslag van het geweld tussen Inkatha en ANC, een maand voor de 

verkiezingen in 1994. Ook met interview met Nothnagel, ambassadeur 

voor Zuid-Afrika in Nederland, die stelt niet verrast te zijn door het geweld. 

Ook ziet hij niets in uitstel van de verkiezingen vanwege het geweld. 


Bericht / Andreas Cichowicz ; Tagesthemen. - Deutschland, Hamburg : ARD, 1994. - Video : VHS; 4 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * Afrikaners (people) * politics * radical right 

Summary: 

Ein Bericht über die Afrikaaner Boeren und ihre Pläne für eine 

eigene Volksstaat, unabhängig von Süd-Afrika. 


HIVOS campagne : een man van de wereld : Jan Pronk / Hivos. - Nederland, Hilversum : Humanistisch 

Verbond, 1994. - Video : VHS; 6 min. Start: na 62 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * politicians 

Summary: 

In het kader van de HIVOS-campagne een portret van Jan Pronk, 

Nederlands minister van ontwikkelingssamenwerking. 


HIVOS campagne: verkiezingen in Zuid-Afrika. / Hivos. - Nederland, Hilversum : Humanistisch Verbond, 

1994. - Video : VHS; 11 min. Start: na 68 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * voter education * theatre * elections April 1994 (South Africa) 

Summary: 

In het kader van de HIVOS campagne een item over de aanstaande 

verkiezingen in Zuid-Afrika, en hoe de zwarte bevolking wordt 

gemotiveerd en geïnstrueerd om mee te doen aan de verkiezingen, dmv 

theater en training. Met de Zuidafrikaanse regiseur Matsemala 

Manaka, die een toneelstuk maakte om de democratie uit te leggen. 

Hij bedankt ook HIVOS voor hun onmisbare steun bij dit soort aktiviteiten. 


South African 1994 elections - 3 items / ed. Bob Hayward ; CNN News, BBC news, Panorama, Frontline. - 

USA, Atlanta ; UK, London ; USA, Boston : CNN ; BBC ; WGBH, 1994. - Video : VHS; 44 min. 

CNN News is Corp. auteur. BBC News is Corp. auteur. Co-production of BBC/Panorama and 

WGBH/Frontline. Bob Hayward is the film editor. 


Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * IFP * ANC 

Summary: 

Peter Arnett reports that the IFP will join the elections. 5 min. 

BBC News reports that though the IFP will join the elections, 

the violence between ANC and IFP in Tokaza township still 

continues. 4 min. 

Film about the election tour of Mandela. With interviews with 

black and white (ao Mandela's neighbours) South Africans about how 

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they see the future and interviews with Mandela. 35 min. (zie ook VZA 483) 


Radio activity (part) / dir. by Gerard Bueters. - Netherlands, Hilversum ; USA, Studio City : RVU ; MWP, 

1995. - Video : VHS; 16 min. Een MWP/RVU produktie 


Keywords: * South Africa * SABC * community radio * commercial radio * censorship * journalists * social 

issues 

Summary: 

Documentary about the changing radio landscape in the 'new South 

Africa'.About the changes at SABC; Radio Freedom, the voice of 

Umkhonte we Sizwe; community stations likeRadio Bush, Radio 

Pretoria - the station of radical Afrikaners, Radio Zibonele, and 

Radio Metro; and new commercial stations like Radio702:that just 

got their licences from the Independent Broadcast Authority. About 

their - often social - items, their journalists, and the changes in 

South Africa after 1990 and especially after 1994. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough. Complete versions on on VZA 418 and VZA 596. * VZA 377 

Violence in Kwazulu-Natal / 2 vandaag. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1994. - Video : VHS; 16 min 

Dutch comment and subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * KwaZulu-Natal * IFP * political violence 

Summary: 

Item about the violence In KwaZulu-Natal, by the Inkatha Freedom 

Party of Buthelezi, who hopes that he will get an independent Zulu-state. 


Women and the vote / Women's Development Foundation. - Zimbabwe, Harare : Talent Consortium, 1994. 



Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * women * voter education * political 

participation 

Summary: 

Promo and instuction video for South African women aimed at 

securing their participation in the coming elections . 


The she - chief / dir. by Christopher Terrill ; Beloved country. - UK, London : BBC, 1994. - Video : VHS; 50 

min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Zulu culture * gender * political violence * traditional leaders 

Summary: 

Film about a 30-year old woman who becomes Zulu - chief and has to 

deal with the ANC - IFP violence one year before the first democratic elections. 


300 jaar Islam in Zuid-Afrika / reg. en samenst. Zaid Abdoelrahman. - Nederland, Hilversum : NMO, 1994. - 

Video : VHS; 59 min. Dutch comment and subtitles. NMO = Nederlandse Moslim Omroep 


Keywords: * South Africa * Islam * history 

Summary: 

Film over de geschiedenis van de Islam in Zuid-Afrika, vanaf de grondlegger 

Al - A'rif Billah Quadi Abous - Salaam (ook bekend als Tuan Guru) tot nu. 


South Africa - the new investment horizon. - South Africa, Johannesburg : SABC, 1994?. - Video : VHS; 

14 min. Produced for Randfontein city council by SABC functional training tv. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Randfontein * foreign investment 

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Summary: 

Promo video about South Africa and Randfontein, meant for foreign investors. 


Portret van Mandela / dir. Chris Bryer, Mark Galloway ; Tweede Lijn. - Nederland, Hilversum : Veronica, 

1994. - Video : VHS; 50 min. Hans Emans is responsible for the dutch version. Dutch comment and subtitles. 



Summary: 

Desmond Tutu, Cheryl Carolus, Zinzi Mandela, Winnie Mandela, 

Neville Alexander, Jay Naidoo en Nelson Mandela over Nelson 

Mandela. Met veel aandacht voor de scheiding van zijn vrouw. 

(Winnie:"we houden nog net zoveel van elkaar als daarvoor). 


"Geef Zuid-Afrika een eerlijke kans". - Nederland, Amsterdam : [s.n.], 1994. - Video : VHS; 1 min. 

Screentexts in Dutch, Mandela's call without subtitles. 



Summary: 

Fundraising electionspot in which Nelson Mandela asks the public for financial support. 


A history lesson / dir. by Clifford Bestall ; prod. by Harriet Gavshon. - South Africa, Johannesburg : SABC, 

1993/94. - Video : VHS; 26 min. Start: after 55 min. Commissioned by the SABC from Weekly Mail 

Television, a joint venture of The Weekly Mail and Free Film Makers. 


Keywords: * South Africa * World War II (1939-1945) * anti-apartheid resistance * ethnic discrimination 

Summary: * In Johannesburg there are two exhibitions next to each other: one 

about Anne Frank and the holocaust and one about the history of the 

struggle against apartheid. Seen by one survivor of the Nazi 

concentrationcamps, by a jewish (white) and a black schoolgirl. The 

situation of the Jews under the Nazi regime and of the blacks under 

the apartheid regime is compared. 


Civil servants of the former Bantustans / dir. & prod. by Harriet Gavshon ; Ordinary people. - South Africa, 

Johannesburg : SABC, 1993/94. - Video : VHS; 26 min. Start: na 90 min. Commissioned by the SABC from 

Weekly Mail Television, a joint venture of The Weekly Mail and Free Film Makers. 


Keywords: * South Africa * civil servants * unemployment * Bantustans 

Summary: * North-west Transvaal has a problem with its civil servants: due to 

the former Bantustans system there are far to many of them and they now risk unemployment. 


Gay life in South Africa. - South Africa, Johannesburg : SABC, 1993/94. - Video : VHS; 9 min. 

Start: after 81 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * homosexuals 

Summary: 

The last part of a documentary about gay life in South Africa. 


History of Umkhonto we Sizwe / dir. & ed. Laurence Dworkin ; prod. Jeremy Nathan. - UK, London : 

Afravision Ltd, 1993. - Video : VHS Start: after 121 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Umkhonto we Sizwe * ANC * political violence 

Summary: 

A history of Umkhonto we Sizwe, with many interviews with ao Walter 

Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Nelson Mandela, Joe Slovo, Ahmed Kathadra and Chris Hani. 

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The new generation / dir. by Clifford Bestall ; prod. by Harriet Gavshon ; Ordinary people. - South Africa, 

Johannesburg : SABC, 1993/94. - Video : VHS; 26 min. Start: after 157 min. Commissioned by the SABC 

from Weekly Mail Television, a joint venture of The Weekly Mail and Free Film Makers. 


Keywords: * South Africa * children * ethnic groups 

Summary: 

A film about the children of South Africa who will built its 

future. One white AWB kid and one black 'young lions' kid are 

followed on the day that the AWB and Umkhonto we Sizwe both hold 

rallies in the same town. 


The maiden speech / dir. Nicholas Hofmeyr ; prod. Harriet Gavshon ; Ordinary people. - South Africa, 

Johannesburg : SABC, 1993/94. - Video : VHS; 26 min. Start: after 29 min. Commissioned by the SABC 

from Weekly Mail Television, a joint venture of The Weekly Mail and Free Film Makers. 


Keywords: * South Africa * parliamentarians 

Summary: 

The South African parliament after the 1994 elections, seen through 

the eyes of a cleaner, a parliamentary messenger, a journalist and 

a new MP (for the ANC). 


Violence in the Vaal-triangle & TRC about to start / Agenda. - South Africa, Johannesburg : SABC, 1994. 



Keywords: * South Africa * Lekoa Vaal * political violence * Truth and Reconciliation Commission * crime 

victims 

Summary: 

A film about the violence in the Vaal triangle (mainly from the 

Kwamadala hostel) and interviews with victims, about the question 

if they can forgive the perpetrators. John Bishop interviews a 

number of people about the TRC, which is to start in a month. 

Dullah Omar (minister of justice), general Constand Viljoen, Dr. 

Alex Boraine (Justice in Transition), Frank Chikane and Jorge Heine 

(ambassador of Chile) give their opinion. 


Violence in the Vaal compilation tape / NOS Journaal, SABC Opinion. - Nederland, Hilversum ; South 

Africa, Johannesburg : NOS ; SABC, 1994. - Video : VHS; 87 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Vaal Triangle * police * violence 

Summary: 

A compilation of: a) NOS Journaal (5 min.); b) Footage Vaal 

Triangle 1994: material used by Dutch TV journalists (74 min.); c) 

SABC Opinion: Suid-Afrika se martelkamers (8 min.); all items 

concentrate on violence in the Vaal and the reports 'Violence in 

the Vaal' and 'Shocking Morals' from the Dutch Violence Observation 

Mission of the Vaal Triangle in South Africa. Interviews with ao 

Fons Geerlings and Hans van Manen (mission members). 

Remarks: Picture quality: good; bad sound * VZA 385 

Confessions of a Yeoville rapist / dir. by Ian Kerkhof. - Netherlands, Amsterdam : VPRO ; Stichting 

Zapruder, 1994. - Video : VHS; 70 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * sexual violence 

Summary: 

A movie about the psychotic rape-culture in South Africa, filmed on 

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location in Yeoville, Johannesburg, april 24 - 28 1994. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 386 * zie ook VSA 2 

Voices from Robben Island / dir. Adam Low. - South Africa, Johannesburg, Pinegowrie ; UK, London : 

Schadeberg Movie Company ; BBC, 1994. - Video : VHS; 90 min. + see: filmalfabet 


Keywords: * South Africa * Robben Island * political prisoners * prison staff * prison conditions * history 

Summary: 

This movie looks at the 400 year history of Robben Island, 

emphasizing the developments since the 1960s, when it was turned 

into a high security prison for political prisoners who opposed the 

apartheid regime. It is in the first-hand accounts of such as 

Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada, Govan Mbeki, Kwedie Mkalipi, Andrew 

Mlangeni, Walter Sisulu, Patrick Lekota, Andrew Mapheto, Neville 

Alexander, Steve Yshwete, Mac Maharaj, Eddie Daniels, Stiso 

Buthelezi, Seth Mazibuko, Tokyo Sexwale and some of the men who 

guarded them, that the film really excels. 


President van Robbeneiland / dir. Adam Low ; Panorama. - België, Brussel : TV1, 1994. - Video : VHS; 90 

min. + see: filmalfabet Start: na 109 min. Tape MC 1515 

Original produced by The Schadeberg Movie Company, South Africa for BBC 



Keywords: * South Africa * Robben Island * political prisoners * prison staff * prison conditions * history 

Summary: 

This movie looks at the 400 year history of Robben Island, 

emphasizing the developments since the 1960s, when it was turned 

into a high security prison for political prisoners who opposed the 

apartheid regime. It is in the first-hand accounts of such as 

Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada, Govan Mbeki, Kwedie Mkalipi, Andrew 

Mlangeni, Walter Sisulu, Patrick Lekota, Andrew Mapheto, Neville 

Alexander, Steve Yshwete, Mac Maharaj, Eddie Daniels, Stiso 

Buthelezi, Seth Mazibuko, Tokyo Sexwale and some of the men who 

guarded them, that the film really excels. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 387a * Original version on VZA 387 

Auf den Spuren der Trekker / dir. by Michael Hammon. - Deutschland, Mainz : ZDF, 1993. - Video : VHS; 

90 min. Start: na 63 min. German subtitles (!!) 


Keywords: * South Africa * Afrikaners (people) 

Summary: 

A film about the descendants of the Boers who made 'The Great 

Trek', and how they see the future in the 'New South Africa'. 


Buthelezi boyot verkiezingen / NOS Journaal. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1994. - Video : VHS; 8 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * IFP 

Summary: 

Nieuwsitem over Buthelezi die aankondigt de komende verkiezingen te zullen boycotten. 


Cape Town to the Lost City with Rian Malan / prod. and dir. by Gerry Troyna ; Great Railway Journey's. - 

UK, London : BBC, 1994. - Video : VHS; 55 min. 



Summary: 

Rian Malan, South African journalist and descendant of Daniel 

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François Malan, South Africa's first nationalist Prime Minister, 

travels by train through South Africa a few months before the first 

free and fair democratic elections will come about. He talks with 

all kinds of South Africans who tell him their hopes and fears with 

regard to the "new South Africa". 


Inkatha joins elections / NOVA. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1994. - Video : VHS; 10 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * IFP * elections April 1994 (South Africa) 

Summary: 

Item over Inkatha dat besluit om toch aan de verkiezingen deel te nemen. 


Jacob and the headhunter / film ed. Tony Heaven ; photogr. Lawrence Gardner, ... [et al.] ; Beloved 

country. - UK, London : BBC, 1994. - Video : VHS; 50 min. Start: na 155 min. Also on tape VZA 374. 


Keywords: * South Africa * employment equity 

Summary: 

Documentary about a black chartered accountant who is followed through 

1993. He is living in two worlds: the white (because of his job) and the black. 


Zuid-Afrika: een geloof apart / Antenne. - Nederland, Hilversum : EO, 1994. - Video : VHS; 30 min. 

Start: na 214 min. Nederlands ondertiteld. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Afrikaners (people) * apartheid (ideology) * church and society 

Summary: 

Documentaire over extreem-rechtse christenen in Zuid-Afrika die 

denken dat Apartheid volgens Gods wil is. 


Shield them from the wind : women of Machudi / dir. & prod. Bridget Pickering. - Namibia, Windhoek : On 

Land Productions ; UNICEF/Botswana, 1994¸. - Video : VHS; 30 min. 


Keywords: * Botswana * women * traditional culture * gender discrimination * women's empowerment 

Summary: 

A video about tradition and change in the role and position of the 

women of Mochudi in Botswana. 


Gevaarlijke stilte - Zuid-Afrikaans video-dagboek : veel verzoening, weinig rechtspraak / reg. en prod. 

Rob Hof. - België, Brussel : Lichtpunt, 1998. - Video : VHS; 37 min. Start: na 130 min. 

Ned. ondertitels waar nodig. Prod.: Hof Filmprodukties in opdracht van Lichtpunt 


Keywords: * South Africa * townships * violence * truth and reconciliation 

Summary: 

De bevolking in Tokaza, een township bij Johannesburg, is verdeeld 

tussen ANC en Inkatha. Het Media Vredescentrum in Johannesburg 

probeert deze rivaliserende partijen met elkaar te verzoenen door 

hun leiders elk een video-dagboek te laten maken over het geweld in 

de afgelopen jaren en hun rol daarin. 


Piet Piryns praat met Connie Braam / samenst. en prod. Wim van Rompaey ; Tijdgenoten. - België, 

Brussel : Lichtpunt, 1997. - : VHS; 30 min. Start: na 167 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * AABN * Braam, Conny (1948- ) * anti-apartheid resistance * 

literature 

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Summary: 

Interview van Piryns met Connie Braam over operatie VULA en haar carrière als schrijfster. 


The tribal mind / co-dir. en ed. Torben Schioler. - België, Brussel : Lichtpunt, 1994. - Video : VHS; 50 min. 

Start: na 197 min. Oorspronkelijk geproduceerd door: Green Lion productions in association with the 

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 


Keywords: * South Africa * journalism * ethnic relations 

Summary: 

Documentary about the violence in South Africa, less than a year 

before the elections. Most violence is due to an artificial 

constructed, tribal identity. The film shows the journalists of 

'Het vrije weekblad', a critical magazine, who have taken distance 

from their own tribe (Afrikaner or Zulu). The film stresses the 

importance of a new South African identity, not determined by tribal instincts. 


De waarheidscommissie deel 1 & 2 / reg. André van In ; prod. Dennis Freyd. - België, Brussel : Lichtpunt, 

1999. - Video : VHS; 130 min. Nederlandse ondertitels waar nodig. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Truth and Reconciliation Commission * truth and reconciliation * history; 1990s 

Summary: 

Twee reportages van de vrijzinnige omroep Lichtpunt over het functioneren 

van de waarheid- en verzoeningscommissie, met aandacht voor daders en slachtoffers. 


Geef Zuid-Afrika een eerlijke kans / dir. by Jos Budie. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 1994. - Video : 

VHS; 80 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * elections April 1994 (South 

Africa) 

Summary: 

Big tv show on Dutch tv with special guest Nelson Mandela, to raise 

money for the coming elections. 


Violence just before the 1994 elections: 5 newsitems. / RTL4 nieuws, BBC news, NOS Journaal, 

Newsnight, NOS Jeugdjournaal. - Nederland, Hilversum ; UK, London : RTL4 ; BBC ; NOS, 1994. - : VHS; 5, 

2, 3, 11 & 4 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * ANC * IFP * violence * Zwelithini, King 

Goodwill (1948- ) 

Summary: 

A compilation of 5 news-items about the IFP - ANC violence during 

the weeks before the elections, and about the position of the IFP 

with regard to the elections. Newsnight has an item on king Goodwill Zwelithini. 


Bomaanslagen Zuid-Afrika, vlak voor de 1994 verkiezingen / NOVA. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA ; 

NPS, 1994. - Video : VHS; 8 min. Start: na 177 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * bomb attacks * radical right 

Summary: 

Item over de bomaanslagen in de dagen voor de verkiezingen, en 

speculaties over de (on)mogelijkheid om de 9000 stembureaus 

afdoende te beveiligen. Ook interview met een slachtoffer, en 

Mandela die de bevolking oproept om zich niet door deze 

gebeurtenissen het land uit te laten jagen. 


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Bomb attacks before the 1994 elections and prognoses for Western Cape / BBC news. - UK, London : 

BBC, 1994. - Video : VHS; 11 min Start: na 166 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * Western Cape * bomb attacks * radical right 

Summary: 

Newsitem about the (car)bomb attacks, ao in Germiston, in the two 

days preceding the elections. In general it is assumed that radical 

right-wing whites are responsible. The elections are explained in 

detail. Also an item about the coloureds in Western Cape, and how 

likely it is that Boesak, who is the ANC candidate there, looses 

the elections. Boesak is very bitter about his predicted loss. 


Expeditionen ins Tierreich : die Grosse Dürre : èberlebungskampf am Wasserloch / Jürgen 

Jozefowicz, Tarina Jozefowicz. - Deutschland, Hamburg : NDR ; Tauana Film ; TVNZ, 1994. - Video : VHS; 



Keywords: * South Africa * drought * game reserves 

Summary: 

Ein Naturfilm über das Krugerpark. 


Portret van Mandela / dir. Chris Bryer, Mark Galloway ; Tweede Lijn. - Nederland, Hilversum : Veronica, 


Hans Emans is responsible for the dutch version. Dutch comment and subtitles. Also on tape VZA 382 



Summary: 

Desmond Tutu, Cheryl Carolus, Zinzi Mandela, Winnie Mandela, 

Neville Alexander, Jay Naidoo en Nelson Mandela over Nelson 

Mandela. Met veel aandacht voor de scheiding van zijn vrouw. 

(Winnie:"we houden nog net zoveel van elkaar als daarvoor). 


The she - chief / dir. by Christopher Terrill ; Beloved country. - UK, London : BBC, 1994. - Video : VHS; 50 

min. Also on tape VZA 379. Start na 13 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Zulu culture * gender * political violence * traditional leaders 

Summary: 

Film about a 30-year old woman who becomes Zulu - chief and has to 

deal with the ANC - IFP violence one year before the first democratic elections. 


Zuid-Afrika stemt : Calvinia / Marijke Vreeburg ; Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1994. 

- Video : VHS; 13 min. Dutch subtitles and comment 


Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * Coloureds * Afrikaners (people) 

Summary: 

Marijke Vreeburg bezoekt vlak voor de verkiezingen het dorpje 

Calvinia, bastion van blanke boeren, waar de kleurlingen de 

doorslag kunnen geven bij de aanstaande verkiezingen. Zelfs de NP 

kandidaat beseft dat er over herverdeling van de grond gepraat moet 

gaan worden, al was het alleen maar om Zimbabwaanse toestanden te 

voorkomen. De kleurlingen klagen erover dat de blanken ze als 'Hottentotten' zien. 


Zuid-Afrika stemt : de Kaapprovincie / Hier en Nu. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 1994. - Video : VHS; 



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Keywords: * South Africa * Western Cape * elections April 1994 (South Africa) 

Summary: 

In de Kaapprovincie lijkt het erop dat de NP het van de ANC 

kandidaat Boesak gaat winnen bij de verkiezingen. 


Zuidafrikaanse verkiezingen 1994 - 2 items. - Nederland, Hilversum : RTL ; NOS, 1994. - Video : VHS; 5 & 

13 min. 



Summary: 

Reportages van RTL nieuws (5 min.) en NOS (13 min.) over het 

verloop van de verkiezingen. In de tweede reportage een interview 

met Peter Hermes (de latere NiZA-directeur) die als waarnemer aanwezig is. 


From apartheid to democracy. - Netherlands, Amsterdam : [s.n.], 1994. - Video : VHS; 43 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) 

Summary: 

Filmbeelden van de manifestatie 'From apartheid to democracy', 

gehouden in De Rode Hoed te Amsterdam op de laatste verkiezingsdag 

van de eerste vrije en democratische verkiezingen in Zuid-Afrika. 

Muziek van oa Tribal Countdown en het CASA koor en interviews (oa 

met Bart Luirink vanuit Zuid-Afrika) die vanwege de belabberde 

geluidskwaliteit niet te verstaan zijn. 

Remarks: Picture & sound quality: bad * VZA 395 

South African 1994 elections- 3 items / BBC news, NOS Journaal. - UK, London ; Nederland, Hilversum : 

BBC ; NOS, 1994. - Video : VHS; 50 min. 



Summary: 

BBC: interviews with ao John Kriegler (Chairman IEC), Thabo Mbeki 

(ANC) and Roelf Meyer (NP), all stating that a government of 

national unity that is seeking consensus is necessary (29 min.); ; 

NOS: Tutu verwelkomt Mandela voor het parlement, één dag voor de 

inauguratie & interview mevr. T. Ravell,ANC-exile in Holland (9 min.) 

BBC: swearing in parliament (12 min.) 


Inauguration Nelson Mandela 1. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1994. - Video : VHS; 81 min. 

Dutch commentary voice and subtitles. 



Summary: 

The fist part of the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as President of 

South Africa on May 10, 1994. 


Inauguration Nelson Mandela 2. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1994. - Video : VHS; 65 min. 

Dutch commentary voice and subtitles. 



Summary: 

The second part of the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as President 

of South Africa on May 10, 1994. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 397a 

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Verkiezingen Zuid-Afrika 1994 / Televizier, ... [et al.]. - Nederland, Hilversum ; [etc.] : AVRO ; [etc.], 1994. - 

Video : VHS; 10,10,12,32,7,16,10,10 min 


Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) 

Summary: 

Acht items over de verkiezingen in Zuid-Afrika in april 1994 en 

Nelson Mandela, van Nederlandse, Duitse en Engelse omroepen. 


South African 1994 elections - 2 items / BBC news, CNN News. - UK, London ; USA, Atlanta : BBC ; CNN, 

1994. - Video : VHS; 2 & 15 min. 



Summary: 

BBC News shows voters waiting for their chance to vote and the 

voting of Mandela, De Klerk and Tutu and comments of Tokyo Sexwale 

(ANC-Secretary-General), Terreblanche and Buthelezi (2 min.). 

CNN talks about the extended voting deathline (with a fourth day) (15 min.) 


Amsterdam 1994 - the end of the struggle : the anti-apartheid movement and culture in the "other" 

South Africa . Interview with Dennis Goldberg / Opinion. - South Africa, Johannesburg : SABC, 1994. - 

Video : VHS; 10 min. 4 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * AABN * society and culture * history; 1980s * history; 1990s 

Summary: 

Interviews with Fons Geerlings and Bart Luirink about the role 

of culture in the Dutch anti-apartheidsmovement. 

Opinion: ao Interview with Dennis Goldberg about the 'new' South Africa. 


Newton Film and Television school presents : four student drama films 1992-1995 / Newton Film and 

Television School. – South Africa, Johannesburg : NFTS, 1995. - Video : VHS; 80 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * arts education * television * films 

Summary: 

Four student films of the Newton Film & Television School: 1) Every 

road leads to her/directed by Clive Marimbe [16 min.]; 2) God will 

answer/written, directed and edited by Thomas Dingan Kapa [18 

min.]; 3) The devil wears his rosebud/ written and directed by Vusi 

Ntsoseng [26 min.]; 4) Who 's to judge/written and directed by Fikile Ntanzi [20 min.] 


Hillbrow 2001 / dir. and prod.. Ulf Krautmacher. - Germany, Hamburg : Ulf Krautmacher, 1995. - Video : 

VHS; 58 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Hillbrow * homosexuals 

Summary: 

Customers of the Skyline bar talk about how it is to be gay in 

Hillbrow, Johannesburg. 


Donker donker land [Carolina] / reg. en research Tjaart Theron ; reg.& cam. Hans Fels. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : VPRO, 1997. - : VHS; 36 min. Start: na 28 min. Eerste 22 minuten ontbreken 

Nederlandse ondertitels 


Keywords: * South Africa * Afrikaner culture * murders 

Summary: 

Een gedramatiseerde documentaire over het benauwende leven van de 

Afrikaners in het kleine Afrikaner dorpje Carolina na het 

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apartheidsbewind, waar er soms weinig verandert lijkt. 


Township tours. - South Africa, Johannesburg : [s.n.], 1995?. - Video : VHS; 29 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto * community based tourism 

Summary: 

A township tour through Soweto and Orlando West. The video starts 

with instructions how to use the camera, and it soon becomes clear 

that filming isn't that easy at all. Sights of ao the Chris Hani Baragwanath 

hospital, the house of Nelson Mandela, and hostels being transformed into 

family units in an attempt to lessen the black-black violence. 

Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood * VZA 403 * Sound: very bad. 

My vote is my secret : South African chronicles april 1994 / dir. by Julie Henderson, Thulani Mokoena, 

Donné Rundle. - France, Paris : JBA Production ; La Sept/Arte, 1995. - Video : VHS; 95 min. 

English subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * voter education 

Summary: 

A beautiful documentary about the coming first free and fair 

elections in South Africa: what it will mean for the different 

groups of blacks, and coloureds. We see voters education given to 

landsquatters in Hammanskraal, Bophutatswana ('when the day comes, 

vote well for the party which you love in the secret of your 

heart'), to Zulu's in their hostels, and to children of domestics 

and farmworkers, and their parents, around Pretoria, where there is 

much support among the white employers for the AWB. We follow the 

discussions in a sewing factory and a metal pipeline factory. The 

first electionday, when most people dress up at their best before 

leaving for the polling stations, and how they react the next day, 

when they really have voted for the first time. Small, personal stories 

filmed in such a way that the camera creates hardly any distance at all. 


FCW -- Foundation for Community Work / M-Net cares. - South Africa, Johannesburg : M-Net ; Gumba 

Guumba, 1995?. - Video : VHS; 6 min. Produced for M-Net by Gumba Guumba. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Western Cape * Foundation for Community Work * women's empowerment 

Summary: 

Item about the Western Cape Foundation for Community Work, and 

their programmes for educare and women's empowerment. 


Communitties can deliver! / camera-sound-light John Pretorius, Romeo de Langa ; eds. Akida Mohamed, 

Poppy Tsira. - South Africa, Cape Town : CVET, 1995. - Video : VHS; 13 min. English comment voice 


Keywords: * South Africa * civic associations * housing 

Summary: 

The story of two communities, Eritjaville and Cassablanca, that by 

working together succeeded in realising their own housing projects. 

Participants tell their stories. 


The witching tree / ed. David Hope ; Under the sun. - UK, London : BBC, 1995. - Video : VHS; 49 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * traditional healers 

Summary: 

A documentary about wichcraft practices in South Africa, shown by 

the example of the Mpapane family and the cases they treat. 

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Dangerous silence : European conference on conflict prevention / dir. by Rob Hof. - Netherlands, 

Amersfoort : Hof Filmproductions, 1995 [?]. - Video : VHS 

Hof Filmproductions was commissioned by Dutch National Committee for International Cooperation and 

Sustainable Development (NCDO). 


Keywords: * South Africa * world * conflict prevention * townships * Inkatha * ANC 

Summary: 

In countries where conflicts are imminent, silence reigns often. 

The silence of the media, of the politicians, of the public. How to 

prevent conflicts is becoming a subject of international 

reflection. There are humanitarian and more pragmatic reasons: the 

costs of outbreak of a conflict are higher than finding a way to 

prevention. Interview with Max van der Stoel, mediator in conflicts 

all over the world. As examples ao Vukovar (Yugoslavia); Burundi, 

with attention for the role of the radio in conflicts; and Tokoza (township 

near Johannesburg), where the war between ANC and Inkatha took many lifes. 


Human resource development in the Reconstruction and Development Program / ETC. - [s.l.] : ETC 

Video Productions, 1995?. - Video : VHS; 11 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * RDP * Eastern Cape * adult education * employment * black business 

Summary: 

A video About the work of the East Cape Training Centre, which 

plays a leading role in the implementation of the RDP in rural (eg 

Lingelihle) as wel as urban areas (eg Addo), by offering training 

courses that will lead to skilled employable workers, improved 

infrastructure, increased economic activity, boosting small 

business, and increased employment. 


Death of apartheid: the prisoner; the third force; the whites' last stand / ed. Dan Carter, Lynda J. 

Fowke, Victoria Price. - UK, London ; Nederland, Hilversum : BBC ; VPRO, 1995. - Video : VHS; 145 min. 

Start: na 18 min. Also in three parts on VZA 529, VZA 536 and VZA 544 

Produced by Brian Lapping associates, in association with VPRO Television, SABC & NHK for BBC and 

Discovery Channel. Dutch subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * ANC * political negotiations 

Summary: 

Een film over de afbraak van apartheid als overheidssysteem in de 

laatste 10 jaar van het blanke minderheidsbewind, met aandacht voor 

de (in het begin geheime) onderhandelingen tussen Mandela en de 

regering; voor de 'derde macht'; voor extreem rechts en voor 

Inkatha. Veel interviewfragmenten met de direkt betrokkenen. 


Verzoening of gerechtigheid / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1995?. - Video : VHS; 

16 min. Begin en eind ontbreken. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * Argentina * South Africa * Roman Catholic Church * Truth and Reconciliation Commission * 

truth and reconciliation 

Summary: 

Reportage over het dilemma verzoening of gerechtigheid: in 

Argentinië mbt tot de rol die leden van de katholieke kerk tijdens 

de junta speelden, en of de kerk om vergeving moet vragen ("alleen 

aan God"); in Zuid-Afrika mbt de waarheid- en verzoeningscommissie, 

die op het punt staat te beginnen. Politici zijn vóór, slachtoffers tegen. 


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Miriam Makeba: het verhaal van Mama Afrika / reg. en prod. Melissa Raimes. - UK, London : RM Arts ; 

LWT ; WDR ; NPS, 1995. - Video : VHS; 50 min. Een co-produktie van RM Arts, London Weekend 

Television productions in samenwerking met WDR en NPS. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Makeba, Zenzile Miriam (1932- ) * Sophiatown * jazz * history; 1945-1960 

Summary: 

Het verhaal van Miriam Makeba, dat wil zeggen veel jazz, jaren '50 

in Zuid-Afrika, Sophiatown, en apartheid. Met veel collega's die herinneringen ophalen. 


Amandla Ezolimo - Greening spirit / Outreach Project. – South Africa, Cape Town : CVET, 1995 [?]. - 

Video : VHS; 22 min. English subtitles 

This programme is made possible by the Outreach Project: a joint venture between the Khayelitsha 

Environment Action Group (KEAG) and Eco-Programme 


Keywords: * South Africa * Khayelitsha * environmental pollution * climate * recycling * waste management * 

glasshouse effect * educational materials (form) * feature films (form) 

Summary: 

An educational video of and about the Khayelitsha Environment 

Action Group (KEAG). In this acted film their activities in 

creatingenvironmental awareness under the people of Khayelitsha. 

Topics like creating a compost heap (how and why), growing your own 

herbs, the separation and re-use of waste, the greenhouse effect, 

industrial polution, are treated. 


Askari: Joe Mamasela. - South Africa, [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1995. - Video : VHS; 73 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * askari * truth and reconciliation * interviews (form) 

Summary: 

An interview with Joe Mamasela, one of the most notorious askari's 

who served under de Cock and Coetsee at Vlakplaats. He is 

testifying about the horrible assassinations performed by the 

police and the security forces, where he took part in. He is 

claiming that he won't ask the TRC for indemnity, since he feels 

himself a double victim of the political circumstances. 


Het Achterhuis op Robbeneiland / research and dir. Ger van Westing ; Impact. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

VARA, 1995. - Video : VHS; 44 min. 

Met een bijdrage van: ordinary people: a history lesson. (zie VZA 384). Dutch subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Robben Island * political prisoners * Frank, Anne 

Summary: 

Film about the ispiration of Anne Frank's diary in the struggle 

against apartheid, especially for the prisoners of Robben Island. 

Interviews with ao Govan Mbeki, Ahmed Kathrada and Nelson Mandela. 


Dood van Joe Slovo / NOVA. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS ; VARA, 1995. - Video : VHS; 5 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Slovo, Joe (1926-1995) 

Summary: 

Item over de dood van Joe Slovo, leider van de Zuidafrikaanse communistische 

partij en deel uitmakend van de ANC-top. Interview met Peter Hermes. 


Out in Africa : festival leader andworkshops final cuts / Pierre de Vos, ... [et al.] ; Community Video 

Education Trust. – South Africa, Cape Town : VULA UCANGO, 1995. - Video : VHS; 6 min. 

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Written directed, produced and shot by Pierre de Vos, Cooksie Grant, Lerato Khathi, Thierry Lüscher, 

Prudence Mabela Thulani Phungula and James Asquith Taylor. 


Keywords: * South Africa * constitutional change * homosexual rights 

Summary: 

Two video clips calling for support of the Equality Clause in the Interim Constitution. 


Gamma Showreel. - UK, London : Gamma London ltd., 1995. - Video : VHS; 103 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * performing arts 

Summary: 

Promo video for a number of international dance/music groups, ao 

Vuka Uzibuse from South Africa. 


De geschiedenis van KZA / NOVA. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS ; VARA, 1996. - Video : VHS; 9 min. 



Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * KZA * history; 1970s * history; 1980s * history; 1990s 

Summary: 

Item over de geschiedenis van KZA (dat op het punt staat om met 

anderen te fuseren tot IZA), naar aanleiding van het verschijnen 

van het boek: "De vinger op de zere plek". Interview met oa Sietse 

Bosgra en echtpaar van Twillert, dat betrokken was bij 

wapentransporten voor het ANC in Zimbabwe. 


En niets dan de waarheid / reg. Kees de Groot van Embden ; prod. en research Lauren Segal ; cam. Erik 

van Empel ; Diogenes. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 1996. - Video : VHS; 48 min. Start: na 72 min. 

Dutch subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * truth and reconciliation * Truth and Reconciliation Commission * history; 1980s * 

history; 1990s 

Summary: 

Documentary about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, with 

interviews with ao Tutu and Borraine (Chairman and Vice-chairman of 

the commission), the parents of Sicelo Dlomo, a Sowetan student 

activist, killed in 1988, general Johan van der Merwe, member of 

the security forces for 17 years, etc.; about how they feel about 

the TRC and how they see their own responsabilities. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good. - Also on VZA 428 * VZA 418 

Help Mandela bouwen / Postcodeloterij Journaal. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1995. - Video : VHS; 3 

min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * KZA * housing construction * private aid 

Summary: 

Afgebroken item over de aktie van KZA om geld in te zamelen voor 

het bouwen van huizen in Zuid-Afrika. 


Landmijnen / Roelf van Til ; Televizier. - Nederland, Hilversum : AVRO, 1995. - Video : VHS; 12 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * landmines * government policy 

Summary: 

Item over landmijnen en het leed dat ze vooral aan burgers 

berokkenen. Voorhoeve (minister van defensie) vertelt wat hij op 

een conferentie in Wenen gemeld heeft (alleen nog 'veilige' mijnen gebruiken). 


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Radio activity / dir. by Gerard Bueters. - Netherlands, Hilversum ; USA, Studio City : RVU ; MWP, 1995. - 

Video : VHS; 30 min. Een MWP/RVU produktie 



issues 

Summary: 









Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough. Also on VZA 377 (partly) and VZA 596 * VZA 418 

Soul City II eps 4 / dir. by Bobby Heaney. - South Africa, Johannesburg : SABC ; Bobby Heaney 

productions, 1996. - Video : VHS; 26 min. eps 4 from a 13 eps TV-drama 


Keywords: * South Africa * health education 

Summary: 

Educational soap about the dangers of smoking cigarettes and aids. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 419 * Soul City is a South African NGO that has been internationally 

recognized for the way in which it harnesses the power of the mass media for health promotion and 

development. 

Soul City promo / dir. by Bobby Heaney. - South Africa, Johannesburg : SABC ; Bobby Heaney 

productions, 1996. - Video : VHS; 8 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * domestic violence * civic education 

Summary: 

Promotion tape for an educational TV drama concerning domestic 

violence and what the community can do about it. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 420 * Soul City is a South African NGO that has been internationall 

recognized for the way in which it harnesses the power of the mass media for health promotion and 

development. 

Khulumani : speak out / dir. and ed.. Henion Han. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Free Film Makers, 1996?. 

- Video : VHS; 29 min. This film was commissioned by the centre for the study of violence and reconciliation. 




Summary: 

The next of kin of victims of apartheid talk about how they lost 

their loved-ones and what they think of the TRC. They find it hard 

to forgive people who even refuse to admit their crimes. 


The story I am about to tell. - South Africa, [S.l.] : Khulumani Support Group, 1996. - Video : VHS; 65 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * theatre * truth and reconciliation * Truth and Reconciliation Commission 

Summary: 

In this theatre production by the Khulumani Support Group, three 

victims of the apartheid regime and three professional actors play 

passengers in a minibus taxi who are telling their true stories. 

The stories are told in the context of the Truth and 

Reconcilliation Commission, so that questions about truth, 

reconcilliation and justice keep on cropping up. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good. Sound quality: bad * VZA 422 

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Voetbal redt Zuid-Afrika / dir. by Henk Spaan ; Hard gras. - Nederland, Hilversum : Veronica, 1996. - Video 

: VHS; 50 min. Dutch comment and subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa 

Summary: 

On 3-2-1996 South Africa won the Africa cup in a soccermatch 

against Tunesia played in the FNB stadium in Johannesburg. Four 

months later Simon Cooper travels to Johannesburg to see what the 

victory meant for society. He talks with players of the South 

African team and visitors of the match. In general, soccer (and the 

winning of the Africa cup) is seen as a unifying force in a still divided country. 


Zuidafrikaanse TV-reclames. - South Africa, Johannesburg : [s.n.], 1996?. - Video : VHS; 42 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * television 

Summary: 

42 minutes South African TV commercials. 


Child abuse. Community concern. Family concern. - South Africa, Johannesburg : MFD/ZBC, 1996. - 



Keywords: * South Africa * domestic violence * child abuse 

Summary: 

Three spots about domestic violence and child abuse. 


Rhythm and rights / dir. Oliver Schmitz, Khalo Matabane. – South Africa, Johannesburg : CDC ; SABC 

Education Directorate, 1996. - Video : VHS; 200 min. Distributed by: Film Resource Unit. 


Keywords: * South Africa * community radio * human rights 

Summary: 

In a dramatic 13 part television series, Rhythm & Rights explores 

the complexity of human rights issues as they unfold in a transitional 

democracy. This series whitch is set within a community radio station 

(Lok'shini FM) encourages debate within a framework of participatory 

democracy. It promotes the creation of a human rights culture. 


Zwart zijn in Zuid-Afrika / reg. Dirk Dumon ; montage Guido Paredis ; Document. - België, Brussel : BRTN, 

1996. - Video : VHS; 51 min. Zwart/wit film. Nederlands commentaar en ondertitels 


Keywords: * South Africa * arts and culture * social issues 

Summary: 

Een documentaire over (voornamelijk) zwarte beeldend kunstenaars in 

Zuid-Afrika, en hoe ze zich laten inspireren door de maatschappij 

waarin ze leven. Kunstenaars uit de townships rond Kaapstad en 

Johannesburg, traditionele christelijke beeldhouwers uit Venda, 

muurschilderingen van de Ndebele (Betty Mahlangu) en Tswana (Helen 

Sibidi), en Zulu kunst. Veel aandacht voor de rol van de kunst in 

de strijd tegen Apartheid, en hoe die strijd ook nu nog als 

inspiratiebron functioneert. Kunstenaars die voorbijkomen zijn oa: 

Willie Bester, Abraham Le Roux, Billy Mandidi, Azwi Magoro, Paul 

Thavhana, Owen Ndou, Freddy Ramabulana, Phillip Rikhotso, Lionel 

Davis, Sophie Peters, Stephen Khoza, Thomas Kgope, Patrick Ngcobo. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 427 * Also on tape VZA 579 (in color) 

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En niets dan de waarheid / reg. Kees de Groot van Embden ; prod. en research Lauren Segal ; cam. Erik 

van Empel ; Diogenes. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 1996. - Video : VHS; 48 min. Dutch subtitles. 




Summary: 

Documentary about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, with 

interviews with ao Tutu and Borraine (Chairman and Vice-chairman of 

the commission), the parents of Sicelo Dlomo, a Sowetan student 

activist, killed in 1988, general Johan van der Merwe, member of 

the security forces for 17 years, etc.; about how they feel about 

the TRC and how they see their own responsabilities. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good. -Also on VZA 418. * VZA 428 

Audiovisual; MS / dir. Stephen Hobbs. - South Africa, Johannesburg : [s.n.], 1996. - Video : VHS; 26 & 10 

min. Dedicated to Larry Jacobson 



Summary: 

Two short 'art films' that easily could have been even much shorter! 


Witness : Valkenberg / dir. Adam Low ; Dokument. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 1996. - Video : VHS; 42 

min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * trauma therapies 

Summary: 

Trauma treatment in South Africa. A study of the main mental 

hospital in Cape Town, Valkenberg, and the changes it went through 

after Apartheid ended. A clash between western and traditional views upon madness. 


The foreigner / written and dir. Zola Maseko ; prod. by Jeremy Nathan ; dir. of phot. Giulio Biccari ; ed. by 

Henion Han. – South Africa, Johannesburg : La Sept/Arte ; Primedia Filmed Entertainment ; Raphael Films ; 

Dominant 7, 1997. - 3 Video : VHS; 17 min. Distributed by Film Resource Unit 


Keywords: * South Africa * Hillbrow * migrants * xenophobia 

Summary: 

The story of a ghanaian fruit seller in Hillbrow and his relation 

with a homeless streetboy, picturing the xenophobia of South 

Africans towards migrants. 


Unselected rushes - documentary in progress : The wound that does not bleed. / Other-Wise (media 

with youth). - South Africa, Cape Town : [s.n.], 1996/97. - Video : VHS; 54 min 

See also: VZA 433a for more unselected rushes and VZA 434 for the final documentary. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Cape Town * street children * juvenile justice system * Pollsmoor Prison * 

detention 

Summary: 

Rushes for a documentary about children living on the streetsof 

Cape Town and in section B4 in Pollsmoor prison. The final documentary, 

Iduma Elingopiyo - die wond wat nie bloei nie, is on tape VZA 434. 

Remarks: Picture quality: bad * VZA 433 * b/w picture 

Unselected rushes - documentary in progress : The wound that does not bleed / Other-Wise (media 

with youth). - South Africa, Cape Town : [s.n.], 1996/97. - Video : VHS; 35 min. [+ 8 min.] 

See also: VZA 433 for more unselected rushes and VZA 434 for the final documentary 


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Keywords: * South Africa * Cape Town * juvenile justice system * street children * Pollsmoor Prison * 

detention 

Summary: 

Rushes for a documentary about children living on the streetsof 

Cape Town and in section B4 in Pollsmoor prison. (followed by eight 

minutes Alpträume, rushes about nothing). The final documentary, 

Iduma Elingopiyo - die wond wat nie bloei nie, is on tape VZA 434. 

Remarks: Picture quality: bad * VZA 433a 

Iduma Elingopiyo = die wond wat nie bloei nie = the wound that does not bleed / Other-Wise (media 

with youth). - South Africa, Cape Town : Other-Wise (media with youth), 1998 ¸. - Video : VHS; 60 min. 

English subtitled See also VZA 433a & VZA 433b for the unselected rushes. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Cape Town * street children * living conditions * juvenile justice system * 

Pollsmoor Prison * detention 

Summary: 

Filmed on and off over a period of two years, this documentary 

explores the world of children and youth living on the streets of 

Cape Town. Many choose the street because their home lives were not 

bearable any more, the result of poverty, physical abuse, 

alcoholism and neglect. Forced to survive on handouts and petty 

crime, they are subject to the vagaries of weather, disease, 

substance abuse, harassment by officialdom, rape and various forms 

of exploitation by older gangsters. What street life offers them is 

some sort of companionship, with many forming substitute families, 

even though the violence amongst themselves is high. The camera is 

intimate with the children and youth and accompanies them on their 

daily routes to various locations. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VZA 434 * See also photobook ZA 01.4-2000-02 

SABC 1 avondje / SABC. - South Africa, Johannesburg : SABC, 1997. - Video : VHS; 240 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * television * Biko, Stephen Bantu (Steve) (1946-1977) * Truth and Reconciliation 

Commission * SABC * journalism * history; 1960s * history; 1970s * history; 1980s * history; 1990s 

Summary: 

An evening of South African tv, with ao: : Steve Biko : Journey 

of the Spirit/ directed by Matsemela Manaka. - 58 min. - 1997, an 

ekhaya/tent production for SABC 1. - A portrait of Steve Biko by 

short interviews with many people that knew him (mainly artists). 

: An armor of lies/Truth Commission Special Report. - 26 min. – 

About the role of SABC journalists during apartheid. 


De val van Winnie Mandela / dir. Nicholas Claxton ; Zembla. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA ; NPS, 1997. - 

Video : VHS; 55 min. Originally a BBC production: Winnie Mandela and the missing witness. This version 

before Dutch subtitles were added. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Madikizela-Mandela, Winnie (1934-) * Cebekhulu, Katiza (1970-) 

Summary: 

The story of Katiza Cebekhulu, former member of Mandela's united 

footballclub and witness to the murder of Stompei Maketsi, about 

the role of Winnie Mandela in the drama and about what happened to himself. 


Woyzeck in Johannesburg promo. - South Africa, Johannesburg : [s.n.], 1997?. - Video : VHS; 13 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * popular culture * theatre * television 

Summary: 

A promotional video for a fifty-two minute television special: 

Woyzeck in Johannesburg (theatre performance). 

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Terug naar die Kaap / dir. Shareef Cullis. - Nederland, Amsterdam : AT5, 1997. - Video : VHS; 9 min. 

Dit is een AT 5 - E produktie ism het Nederlands instituut voor Zuidelijk Afrika en Stonehouse 

Communications. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Cape Town * local government employees * educational projects * educational 

aid 

Summary: 

The city of Amsterdam and NiZA financially support a course for new 

towncouncillors in Cape Town. The councillors tell about the importance 

of local democracy and about what they 've learned in the course. 


Portret van en interview met De Klerk / Netwerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 1997. - Video : VHS; 10 

min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * De Klerk, Frederik Willem (1936-) * history; 1990s 

Summary: 

Item over de betekenis van De Klerk als (vice-) president van 

Zuid-Afrika, een interview op het moment dat hij alle politieke 

functies uit handen heeft gegeven. 


Winnie Mandela and the missing witness / dir. and prod. Nicholas Claxton ; photogr. Clifford Bestall ; ed. 

Joe Frost ; Inside Story. - UK, London : BBC, 1997. - Video : VHS; 52 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Madikizela-Mandela, Winnie (1934-) * Cebekhulu, Katiza (1970-) 

Summary: 

The story of Katiza Cebekhulu, former member of Mandela's united 

footballclub and witness to the murder of Stompei Maketsi, about 

the role of Winnie Mandela in the drama and what happened to himself. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good. Also on VZA 436. * VZA 439 

Winnie Mandela voor de Waarheidscommissie / Netwerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 1997. - Video : 

VHS; 7 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Truth and Reconciliation Commission * Madikizela-Mandela, Winnie (1934-) 

Summary: 

Peter Hermes, directeur van het Nederlands instituut voor Zuidelijk 

Afrika, en Connie Braam, voormalig voorzitter van de Anti 

Apartheids Beweging Nederland, geven commentaar op de positie van 

Winnie Mandela, één dag voordat ze voor de waarheidscommissie in 

Zuid Afrika moet verschijnen in verband met de moord op Stompei Matsekela. 


"Give me hope Johanna" / Laat op de avond na een korte wandeling. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 

1997. - Video : VHS; 54 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Johannesburg * arts and culture * violent crime 

Summary: * Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars praten over hun werk, hun land en 

vooral over het geweld en de criminaliteit in Johannesburg, waar ze 

bijeen zijn voor de biënale van 1997. 


NiZA TV programma's 1997 -98 / Middageditie, Buitenhof, Ontbijt TV, TV Show, Reportage. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : NPS ; KRO ; TROS ; SBS6, 1998. - Video : VHS 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * NiZA * Truth and Reconciliation Commission * Botha, Pieter Willem 

(1916-2006) * De Klerk, Frederik Willem (1936-) * Madikizela-Mandela, Winnie (1934-) * youth 

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Summary: 

1. Middageditie Ned.3: Klaas de Jonge over zijn onderzoek voor de 

TRC. 21/11/1997 (14 min.)2. Buitenhof Ned.3: Connie Braam over 

Winnie Mandela's getuigenis voor de TRC. 7/12/1997 (0.39-0.55 

min..)3. KRO Ontbijt TV Ned.1: Peter Hermes over P.W. Botha's 

weigering voor de TRC te verschijnen 23/1/1998 (1.11-1.18 min.)4. 

KRO Ontbijt TV Ned.1: Peter Hermes over P.W. Botha's weigering voor 

de TRC te verschijnen 14/4/1998 (1.29-1.35 min.) 5. TV Show Ivo 

Niehe over F.W. De Klerk, net gescheiden van Marike (advies door 

NiZA, zie aftiteling) 28/5/1998 (1.53-2.28 min.)6. Reportage SBS 

6:'Away with the violence', documentaire over getraumatiseerde 

criminele jongeren in de townships in Zuid-Afrika, die een 

therapeutische trektocht door de Drakensbergen olv een psycholoog 

maken 8/7/1998 (2.56-3.29 min.) 


Waarheidscommissie Zuid-Afrika [a] Clinton in Afrika [b] / 2 vandaag, Ontbijt TV. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : NOS ; KRO, 1998. - Video : VHS; 9 min. (a)6 min. (b) 


Keywords: * Africa * South Africa * Truth and Reconciliation Commission * international political cooperation 

Summary: 

[a] Peter Hermes, directeur van het Nederlands instituut voor 

Zuidelijk Afrika, geïnterviewed over de Waarheidscommissie [b] 

Peter Hermes geïnterviewed over Clinton's trip naar Afrika, de 

eerste keer dat een Amerikaanse president het continent bezoekt. 

Remarks: Picture quality: bad (a)good (b) * VZA 443 

Chikin Biznis : the whole story / dir. by Ntshavheni Wa Luruli. - South Africa, Randburg : Richard Green 

and Associates, 1998. – 2 Video : VHS; 96 min. 

A Richard Green and Associates production for M-Net New Directions Film. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto * informal sector 

Summary: 

In this comedy Sipho (Fats Bookholane), a newly retired stock 

exchange employee who looks forward to making some cash by selling 

live chickins on the black market of Soweto, in order to return to 

the exchange as an investor. After an initially flourishing start, 

he gets into all kinds of trouble due to his womanizing and the 

agressive competition. He discovers that going into businesss in an 

increasingly competitive economic environment can be very hard. The 

film was entirely shot in Soweto, with only a black cast. It's a 

product of the pay-television station M-Met, which initiated the 

"New Directions" project that aims at giving talented first-time 

filmmakers from (South) Africa a break into the film industry. 


NiZA TV programma's 1997-98 (II) / Netwerk, Middageditie, Zembla, NOVA, Ontbijt TV, Waskracht. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV ; VARA ; NPS ; KRO ; VPRO, 1998. - Video : VHS 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * NiZA * Madikizela-Mandela, Winnie (1934-) * Cebekhulu, Katiza 

(1970-) * Mbeki, Thabo Mvuyelwa (1942- ) * Botha, Pieter Willem (1916-2006) 

Summary: 

1. NCRV Netwerk Ned.1: Peter Hermes over Winnie Mandela voor de 

TRC. 24/9/1997(8 min.) 2. VARA Middageditie Ned.3: Peter Hermes 

over Winnie Mandela. 25/9/1997 (0.48-1.00 min.) 3. Vara/NPS Zembla 

Ned.3: Documentaire 'De val van Winnie Mandela', over Katiza 

Cebekhulu. 25/9/1997 (1.01-1.58 min) 4. NOVA Ned.3: Antjie Krog 

over Winnie Mandela voor de TRC. 25/9/1998 (1.58-2.06 min) 5. VARA 

Middageditie Ned.3: Peter Hermes over het ANC congres en over Thabo 

Mbeki als mogelijke opvolger van Mandela. 16/12/1988 (2.19-2.29) 

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6. KRO Ontbijt TV Ned.1: Peter Hermes over P.W. Botha en de TRC. 

19/12/1998 (3.11-3.17min.) 7. VPRO Waskracht Ned.3: Faits divers 

uit het nieuwe Zuid-Afrika, gepresenteerd door Winnie Job. 1988 (3.21-3.46 min.) 


Newtown / project manager Christopher Till. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Penguin Films, 1998?. - Video : 

VHS; 9 min. 

Christopher Till is director of Culture of the Greater Johannesburg Transitional Metropolitan Council (CJTMC) 

and project manager 


Keywords: * South Africa * Newtown 

Summary: 

Promovideo about Newtown, an area in the centre of Johannesburg 

that is being developed into a cultural centre. The history and the future plans. 


South African TV-soaps. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Vodacom, 1999. - Video : VHS; 54 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * television 

Summary: 

Two soaps, broadcasted on South African TV: Generations and Egoli. 


Gay sangoma's / dir. by Mpumi Njinge, Paulo Alberton ; GALA. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Ruth 

Morgan, 1999 [?]. - Video : VHS; 23 min. English subtitles for African indigenous language when necessary. 


Keywords: * South Africa * traditional healers * homosexuals * ancestors 

Summary: 

A film about three lesbian Sangoma's around Johannesburg and how 

their choice for a female partner was influenced by an ancestor. 


My son the bride / dir. by Mpumi Njinge ; M-Net. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Jill Kruger ; Richard Green, 

1999 [?]. - Video : VHS; 24 min. English subtitles by indigenous African language when necessary. 


Keywords: * South Africa * homosexuals * homosexuality * homosexual rights activists 

Summary: 

Dramatized documentary about Hompi, a homosexual who marries his 

friend Charles after a lot of trouble with mainly his mother and other family 


Anonymous Fragments. - South Africa, [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1999?. - Video : VHS; 21 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * elections 

Summary: 

Various b/w fragments about the goodbye speech of Mandela as 

president, the election campaign for the 1999 elections, the 

inauguration of Mbeki as successor. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good, b/w * VZA 449 

A letter to my cousin in China / Henion Han. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Spookasem, 1999. - Video : 

VHS; 54 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * China * migrants * migrants' children 

Summary: 

A wonderful poetic film about a Chinese immigrant from Heinan 

(Henion's father) in first South Africa andlater America. About identity, family and home. 


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The unfolding of sky / dir. by Antjie Krog, Ronelle Loots. – South Africa, Johannesburg : Day Zero Film and 

Video, 1999. - 2 Video : VHS; 26 min. . - (Landscape of Memory / Don Edkins) 

Part of the SACOD series 'Landscape of memory', produced by Don Edkins. 


Keywords: * South Africa * torture * reconciliation 

Summary: 

Black female activist Deborah Matshoba, a victim of apartheidwho 

was heard by the TRC, talks to Antjie Krog about her personal 

history and the possibility/impossibility of reconcilliation. 

According to her, reconcilliation means forgiveness. 


Isidingo - the need / comp. by Collin Oliphant ; supervisor Ula van Wijk. - [s.l.] : Endemol entertainment, 

1999. - Video : VHS; 47 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * popular culture * television 

Summary: 

A promo-video for a South African soap series produced by Endemol. 


Who's news? Women and the media / dir. Marianne Gysae, Gabrielle Le Roux, Kali Van der Merwe. - 

South Africa, Cape Town : Women's Media Watch, 1999. - Video : VHS; 26 min 


Keywords: * South Africa * media * women * gender relations * gender discrimination 

Summary: 

A film about how women feel about the way they are portrayed in the 

South African media at the end of the 20th century. 


Josi the queer tour / dir. Paulo Alberton. - South Africa, Johannesburg : GALA, 1999. - Video : VHS; 29 

min. Presented by GALA; produced by Alberton, P. & Reid, G . 


Keywords: * South Africa * Johannesburg * International Lesbian and Gay Association 

Summary: 

This short documentary gives an unique insight into the history of 

lesbians and gay cultural identity in Johannesburg. This tour was 

put together to serve tourists and participants of the ILGA 

conference in Johannesburg, September 1999. 


Mandela in Nederland. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1999. - Video : VHS; 60 min. 

English fragments with Dutch subtitles. Ook op DVD: DZA 009 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) 

Summary: 

Talkshow with guests anticipating the arrival of Mandela in the 

Netherlands the next day, and interviews with Mandela himself from 

South Africa. Among the guests are: C. Niehaus (SA Ambasador), Jan 

Pronk (minister), Peter Hermes (director NiZA), Sietse Bosgra 

(NiZA), Coen Stork (former Dutch diplomat in SA), Connie Braam 

(former chairperson of the anti - apartheidsmovement). Mandela is 

doing his goodbye tour as state president in 1999. Also with old 

film fragments from scenes in SA. 


Eredoctoraat Nelson Mandela in Leiden / dir. Martin de Graaf, Rudolf Spoor ; NOS Actueel. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : NOS, 1999. - Video : VHS; 75 min. Speeches in English, with Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * Universiteit van Leiden 

Summary: 

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The awarding of a Honory Doctorate of the University of Leiden. 

Also interviews with ao Peter Hermes, director of NiZA. 


Uitreiking NiZA scriptieprijs 1999 / BV De Wereld. - Nederland, Hilversum : KRO, 1999. - Video : VHS; 5 



Keywords: * Netherlands * NiZA 

Summary: 

Het uitreiken van de NiZA scriptieprijs in 1999 


Insignificant and others. - South Africa, [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2000. - Video : VHS; 55 min. 



Summary: 

Fragments of South African theatre productions (?) 


Mediaworks community media 2000 / Mediaworks. - South Africa, Cape Town : Mediaworks, 2000 [?]. - 



Keywords: * South Africa * civic education * courses 

Summary: 

Presentation video of Mediaworks, in which they tell what they have 

to offer. Keywords are democratic education and social 

communication. They offer media trainingen with a 

social/developmental aspect to it and concentrate on issues 

like: health and HIV/Aids; land reform; para-legals; violence 

against women; children; gender issues; rural media education 

projects; youth-in-prison project. 


Leven na de doodstraf / dir. by Ingrid Gavshon. - Nederland, Hilversum : Humanistische Omroep, 2000. - 

Video : VHS; 54 min. English version "Facing death...facing life" op VZA 524. Dutch subtitles 

Produced by Ingrid Gavshon and Sharon Cort, in co-production with E-TV (South Africa), Humanistische 

Omroep (The Netherlands); in association with YLE/TV1 co-productions (Finland), SBS Televison (Australia); 

supported by a grant of Soros Documentary Fund of the Open Society Institute, The Jan Vrijman Fund, 

Amnesty International - Dutch Section, the Dept. of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology (South Africa); 

with the support of the delegation of the European Commission in South Africa through the CWCI Fund to 

promote better understanding of development issues in South Africa and the SADC Region. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Sharpeville * death penalty * anti-apartheid resistance * Khulumani Support 

Group * Kumalo, Duma * history; 1980s 

Summary: 

Documentary about Duma Kumalo and the other five that became known 

as the 'Sharpeville six': Ja Ja Sefatsa, Malebo Reid Mokoena, Oupa 

Diniso, Theresa Ramashamola and Frances Don Mokhesi, who were 

sentenced to death in 1984 after riots that accompagnied a 

rent-boycott in Sharpeville in wich a black councelor, Dlamini, got 

killed. About their actions, their proces, the imprisonment (death 

row) and the difficulties they expierienced after they were 

released after the end of apartheid and they had to face life 

again. The role of Khulumani, a supportgroup for victims of 

apartheid violence, in this proces. 


Lovelife world aids day special: sexual mentality / creative dir. Palesa Letlaka-Nkosi ; lovelife. - South 

Africa, Johannesburg, Parklands : loveLife, 2001. - Video : VHS; 50 min. 


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Keywords: * South Africa * HIV/AIDS * health education * sex education 

Summary: 

This video contains three stories of young adults about how they 

deal with sex and relations in their lives, what mistakes they made 

and what they learned from that. 


Yo! Kaapstad / samenst. en reg. Harm-Jan Kinkhorst ; eindred. Anne-Jean van Grinsven ; research Bart 

Luirink ; Dubbelklik. - Nederland, Hilversum : AVRO, 2001. - Video : VHS; 25 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * Cape Town * hiphop * Bush Radio 

Summary: 

In samenwerking met NiZA gaan de Amsterdamse hiphoppers Paul en 

Pamela voor het programma 'Dubbelklik' naar Kaapstad, waar ze een 

week lang optrekken met Khalil en Stee.l Ze duiken in de rapscene 

van dit duo. Ze treden op in een township, volgen een workshop over 

hiphop, treden op voor Bush Radio en zien welke doelen hun 

Zuidafrikaanse collega's met hun hiphop nastreven. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good - B/W * VZA 462 

The architecture of fear / dir. by Nicky Newman ; script Nicole Turner. - South Africa, Johannesburg : See 

Thru Media, 2001. - Video : VHS; 53 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Johannesburg * violent crime * private security industry * architecture 

Summary: 

A documentary about fear of violence and crime in Johannesburg and 

how that fear influences the lives, actions and surroundings of its inhabitants. 


Guilty / dir. by François Verster ; Steps for the future. – South Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, Tampere : Day 

Zero Film and Video ; YLE, 2001. - Video : VHS; 15 min. 

Copyrights by Steps for the future, a HIV/AIDS awareness initiative for Southern Africa: see their website. 

English subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * HIV/AIDS * sexual relationships 

Summary: 

A short experimental film that looks at issues of blame, fidelity, 

denial and guilt within the aids context. Starting with one HIV+ 

couple, it follows the path of sexual encounters branching ever 

outward. In this maze of relationships the inevitable question of 

responsibility becomes blurred. 


The moment / dir. by Siyabonga Makhatini ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, 

Tampere : Day Zero Film and Video ; YLE, 2001. - Video : VHS; 8 min. 





Summary: 

It is the moment just before penetration... People from different 

backgrounds share their most personal thoughts about courtship and 

sexual behaviour in this funny and honest film. 


A red ribbon around my house / dir. by Portia Rankoane, Simon Wilkie ; Steps for the future. - South 

Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, Tampere : Day Zero Film and Video ; YLE, 2001. - Video : VHS; 26 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * HIV/AIDS * mothers * girls 

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Summary: 

A mother and a daughter are in crisis because of their different 

responses to AIDS. Pinky, flamboyant and loud, lets everyone know 

that she is HIV positive. But her daughter, Ntombi, is batting to 

be just like everyone else. Her mother's courageous and touching 

refusal to be quiet or passive in the face of AIDS, sets them 

apart. Pinky acknowledges the difficulties her openness poses for 

her daughter, but makes no apology. Throughout it all, her sense of 

humour and life are apparent. We leave the film with Pinky doing 

what she does best - living. 


A luta continua / dir. and prod. by Jack Lewis ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, 





Keywords: * South Africa * Cape Town * Khayelitsha * HIV/AIDS * films 

Summary: 

"HIV is not a death sentence"sais the HIV+ group from Khayelitsa. 

They tell their stories in a series of short films which are then 

screened at taxi ranks and shopping malls in Cape Town's townships. 

This powerfull film about courage in the face of death includes footage 

of the group proces, the short films themselves and their public screenings. 


Love in a time of sickness / dir. by Khalo Matabane ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape Town ; 

Finland, Tampere : Day Zero Film and Video ; YLE, 2001. - Video : VHS; 26 min. 


English subtitles 



Summary: 

At a boisterous and urbane dinner party, Khalo Matabane recounts to 

his friends an apparently innocent story about how he met a 

beautiful woman, chatted her up and started agoing out with her on 

dates. When the woman discloses her HIV status Khalo does not see 

her again. he story is intercut with Khalo's examination of his own 

sexual history, Brought up in a household of women. The film is an 

honest account of how the already complex nature of relating takes 

on new meaning in a time of sickness. 


Het verhaal van Klaas de Jonge / prod. en reg. Merel de Geus ; Andere Tijden. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

VPRO ; NPS, 2001. - Video : VHS; 25 min. Dutch subtitles when needed 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * Jonge, Klaas de (1937- ) * diplomatic relations 

Summary: 

Het verhaal van de arrestatie van Klaas de Jonge (die wapens had 

gesmokkeld voor het ANC) in Zuid-Afrika, zijn ontsnapping naar de 

Nederlandse ambassade en de diplomatieke onderhandelingen die twee 

jaar zouden duren. Naast Klaas de Jonge ook Pik Botha, H. Wijnaendts 

en H. Bentinck van Schoonheten, en zijn advocaat Satchwell. 


My friends look like me / Agneta Lundgren, ... [et al.]. - South 

Africa, Cape Town : Mediaworks ; CVET, 2001. - Video : VHS; 20 min. 

A joint project of Mediaworks/CVET with the Swedish Red Cross Folk 

College. 


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Keywords: * South Africa * students * youth * ethnic relations * ethnic groups * ethnic integration 

Summary: 

A documentary about a white schoolboy, a coloured and a black 

schoolgirl, who normally don't meet with people outside their own 

ethnic community, but for the video agreed to meet each other. It 

appears to be far less frightening than they expected. 


Dreams of a good life / dir. by Bridget Pickering ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, 




Keywords: * South Africa * HIV/AIDS * women 

Summary: 

A film of laughter, fear, and the solace of sharing. Five women 

talk about life, love and how their dreams for the future have 

changed since finding out they are HIV positive. The women now 

examine their relationships with men more openly than ever before. 

A film withand about HIV+ women. 


Gotta give / dir. by Eddie Edwards ; Steps for the future. – South Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, Tampere : 

Day Zero Film and Video ; YLE, 2001. - Video : VHS; 5 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * HIV/AIDS * women's empowerment * gender * music 

Summary: 

A music video featuring Moodphase 5ive and Godessa with a message 

for young women: take control and use your power to negotiate your 

relationships. This upbeat film uses a popular form to promote the 

empowerment of female identity. 


Dispel your attitudes / dir. by Lizo Kalipa ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, 





Keywords: * South Africa * HIV/AIDS 

Summary: 

Philiswa is an HIV positive woman and an activist within HIV/AIDS 

awareness initiatives. She fearlessly discusses the virus in a taxi 

ride to meet Mr. X, an HIV positive man afraid to disclose his 

status. He starts to explore his fears when the two meet. 


Let's talk about it / dir. by Sithunyiwe Gece ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, 

Tampere : Day Zero Film and Video ; YLE, 2001. - Video : VHS; 8 min 

Copyrights by Steps for the future: see their website. English subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Cape Town * townships * HIV/AIDS * youth 

Summary: 

The film reflects prevailing attitudes towards HIV/AIDS in the 

townships of Cape Town by a filmmaker who lives there. It looks at 

young peoples'perceptions of HIV/AIDS and the challenges they face 

in practising safer sex. 


De eerste keer / Diogenes. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 1994. - Video : VHS; 25 min. 

Start: na 148 min. Dutch subtitles 

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Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * rural areas 

* Eastern Transvaal * commercial farmers * farm workers 

Summary: 

Deze documentaire geeft een beeld van de gevoelens die de naderende 

verkiezingen oproepen in Oost-Transvaal, zowel bij de blanke 

bananenplantagehouders, die een soort burgerwacht hebben opgezet 

tegen de "kleine criminaliteit", en zich zorgen maken over de 

opkomende vakbonden, als bij hun zwarte werknemers, die zich nog 

steeds zeer voorzichtig uitlaten over de toekomst ("ik zou het 

liefst op God stemmen"). Ook met huishoudster die er niet in slaagt 

haar vreugde over de vrijlating van Mandela te verbergen. 


Vuma - working inside . Raak wijs ja / written and dir. by Richard September. - South Africa, Cape Town : 

Other-Wise (media with youth) ; CRED, 2000. - Video : VHS; 17 & 6 min 

This video was made possible by a grant from the Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA). With 

special thanks to ao B. van den Winden. Richard September is writer/director of . 


Keywords: * South Africa * juvenile justice system * radio 

Summary: 

:This video tells the story of "Goodshadow", a radio play 

developed with a group of sentenced juveniles at Brandvlei prison. 

Over a period of three months a course in script writing and radio 

production techniques was facilitated by two professional writers 

and a radio producer. The course was part of a pilot project called 

'Basic Radio', initiated by the Institute of Criminology (UCT) in 

partnership with the Department of Correctional services. 

: This is the story of a young man who was senteced to four 

years in prison. The ideas were developed by a group of youth 

during a five-hour workshop at Hawequa Juvenile center. This was produced in partnership with the 

Education Dept. of Hawqua Juvenile Center (Wellington) and CRED (creative education with youth). 

Remarks: Picture quality: good. is in b/w. * VZA 472 

Dark and lovely, soft and free / Paulo Alberton, Graeme Reid. - Brazil, SÃo Paulo : GALA, 2000. - 2 Video : 

VHS; 52 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * homosexual rights * homosexuals * constitutional change * rural areas 

Summary: 

A documentary based on research done by GALA on the effect of the 

new constitution on the life of gay and lesbian people in small rural towns. 


Mother to child / dir. by Jane Thandi Lipman ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, 




Keywords: * South Africa * HIV/AIDS * mothers * infants 

Summary: 

The prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV - the 

statistics, the people - come vividly to life in this astounding 

documentary, which follows the lives of two pregnant and HIV 

positive women lucky enough to be on a drug trial at the Chris Hani 

Baragwanath hospital in Soweto. The film charts the lives of Pinkie 

and Patience as they approach the delivery of their babies. It 

reveals their exeptions, hopes and inevitable fears concerning not 

only the health of their babies, but the trauma around the 

disclosure of their status to their families and partners as well. 


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Our story / lovelife. - South Africa, Johannesburg, Parklands : loveLife, 2001?. - Video : VHS; 11 min. 



Summary: 

A video about love life and their campaign of sex education and std 

prevention in South Africa. 


Body and soul / dir. by Melody Emmett ; cam. Edwin Wes ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape Town ; 




Keywords: * South Africa * HIV/AIDS * church and society 

Summary: 

HIV/AIDS is forcing religious leaders to reassess their traditional 

attitudes to sexuality in a country where 90% of the population 

claim one sort of religious affilation or another. During the 

struggle against apartheid the churches played a leading role in 

the fight for freedom. Today millions of people are in a desperate 

situation because of HIV/AIDS. What role do the clergy play in this 

new struggle for human rights? Body & soul looks at the attitudes 

of three main religions in South Africa through people on the ground 

who have to interpret and practise religion in terms of today's realities. 


Looking for Busi / dir. by Robyn Hofmeyr ; cam. Jennifer Fox ; ed. Erez Laufer ; Steps for the future. - 

South Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, Tampere : Day Zero Film and Video ; YLE, 2001. - Video : VHS; 55 min. 




Keywords: * South Africa * HIV/AIDS * teenage pregnancy * television 

Summary: 

Here is the incredible story of a fifteen-years-old's journey to 

take control of her life. Abandoned by her mother when she falls 

pregnant, even before testing positive for HIV, she must depend on 

the help of extended family and friends. Life starts to look up 

when Busi is choosen both for a mother -to-child drug trial and to 

be the subject of a TV documentary. But after the tv programme is 

aired on South AfricanTV exposing her HIV status to the world, she 

disappears. Desperately worried, the filmmaker and her best friend 

go looking for her. 


Simon and I / dir. by Beverly Palesa Ditsie, Nicky Newman ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape Town 

; Finland, Tampere : Day Zero Film and Video ; YLE, 2001. - Video : VHS; 52 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * HIV/AIDS * homosexual rights activists 

Summary: 

Simon and I recounts the lives of two giants in the South African 

gay and lesbian liberation movement, Simon Nkoli and the filmmaker 

herself, Bev Ditsie. The story is narrated by Bev, both as a 

personal statement and a political history. Through good times and 

bad, their relationship is viewed against a backdrop of intense 

political activism and the HIV/AIDS crisis. Their converging and 

diverging lives, culminating in Simon's death, are revealed in this 

heartfelt testament using a mixed format of interviews and archive footage. 


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It's my life / dir. by Brian Tilley ; cam. Giulio Biccari ; ed. Ronelle Loots ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, 

Cape Town ; Finland, Tampere : Day Zero Film and Video ; YLE, 2001. - Video : VHS; 74 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * HIV/AIDS * Achmat, Zackie (1962-03-21- ) * HIV/AIDS medicines * health policy 

Summary: 

Zackie Achmat is an AIDS activist who refuses to take 

anti-retrovirals until they are made freely available. After 

defeating the multi-national drug companies, he takes on the South 

African government for its confusing policies around HIV/AIDS. When 

Zackie gets ill, his provocative position is not one all his 

friends and colleagues support. Everyone wants to know why he 

refuses to take the medicines that would let him lead a healthier 

life. Shot over five months, personal and public images are 

interwoven to provide an intimate look at an internationally 

profiled defiance campaign and the complexities of its leading figure. 


Heavy traffic / dir. by Kgomotso Matsunyane ; cam. Brian Green ; ed. Catherine Meyburgh ; Steps for the 

future. - South Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, Tampere : Day Zero Film and Video ; YLE, 2001. - Video : VHS; 

28 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto * HIV/AIDS * death rituals 

Summary: 

Shot in Soweto, HeavyTraffic shows the lives of two very different 

funeral parlour operators and the people who work for them. We meet 

Caps Pooney, who has been in the businessfor 50 years, and Lulu 

Somthumsi-Mabusela, the boss of one of the many small operations 

which have proliferated in the wake of the AIDS pandemic. Uncle 

Caps, Lulu and their employees experience a busy week of cleaning 

bodies and looking for more business. Then comes Saturday and at 

the cemetery traffic is heavy. After each funeral, both our parties 

move fast. There is another body to fetch and bury. 


Wa 'N Wina / dir. by Dumisani Phakathi ; cam. Dumisani Phakathi, Matthys Mocke ; Steps for the future. - 

South Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, Tampere : Day Zero Film and Video ; YLE, 2001. - Video : VHS; 52 min. 




Keywords: * South Africa * HIV/AIDS * sex education 

Summary: 

Filmmaker Dumisani Phakathi returns to his old neighbourhood. With 

a camera on his shoulder, he engages with friends to discuss 

relationships, sex and love. Strong characters like Phumla and 

Timothy expose their emotions as they talk intimately about the 

realities of their street and the choises they have been forced to 

make. It's a rock and roll journey that reveals the gap between 

everyday life and the AIDS campaigns that often talk past the very 

people they are supposed to address. It is the recognition of the 

people's will to survive in the age of AIDS. 


In commemoration of dr. Govan Mbeki 1910-2001 / Nederlands instituut voor Zuidelijk Afrika. - 

Netherlands, Amsterdam : NiZA, 2001. - Video : VHS; 50 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * Mbeki, Govan Mvunyelina (1910-2001) * Universiteit van 

Amsterdam 

Summary: 

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Speeches in commemoration of Govan Mbeki at the Agnietenkapel of 

the University of Amsterdam (that awarded him a doctorate in 1978). 

Speakers are: prof. Jaap Franse, rector of the UvA; ms. Priscilla 

Jana, ambassador of South Africa;prof. Gerd Junne, of the UvA; 

and Fons Geerlings, director of Africaserver on behalf of NiZA. 


Korreltjie niks is my dood : een verdicht leven - Ingrid Jonker 1933-1965 / samenst. Saskia van Schaik ; 

cam. Hans Fels ; scenario Henk van Woerden ; Het uur van de wolf. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 2001. - 

Video : VHS; 53 min. + DOK 20.1 - 20/10/2001 en artikel in: Zuid Afrika (2002) 79: 3 

Start: na 7 min. Nederlands ondertiteld en/of commentaarstem waar nodig. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Jonker, Ingrid (1933-1965) * poetry * biographies (form) 

Summary: 

Een documentaire over de Zuidafrikaanse dichteres Ingrid Jonker, 

die in 1965 een eind aan haar leven maakte. In zijn eerste 

toespraak in het parlement in 1994 haalde Nelson Mandela een 

gedicht van haar aan, waardoor ze aan de vergetelheid werd ontrukt. 

Veel interviews met familieleden en collega-schrijvers zoals Breyten Breytenbach en André Brink (ex-lover). 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 483 * Tevens CD-rom aanwezig met een selectie van haar gedichten, 

voorgedragen door haarzelf, haar dochter Simone Venter, André Brink, Antjie Krog en Marjon Brandsma; en 

het gedicht Retoer, over Ingrid Jonker, geschreven en voorgedragen door Breyten Breytenbach. 

Trickle-down Development / Avi Lewis. - South Africa, Durban : [s.n.], 2002. - Video : VHS; 6 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * water utilisation * water supply 

Summary: 

In early August 2002, Durban Metro Water Services began installing 

"tricklers" in residential water pipes in the poorest townships. 

Without warning or explanation from the government, people suddenly 

find themselves waiting for hours for enough water to wash, cook 

and clean. Zakhele explains the strategy behind it: 'the 

constitution does not allow them to cut the water [in case people 

don't pay their bill], so they reduce it by placing tricklers in 

the water pipes'. Then it is shown how you can remove these tricklers yourself. 


Lovelife compilation 2002 / lovelife. - [s.l.] : loveLife, 2002. - Video : VHS; 8 min. 



Summary: 

A compilation of TV spots used by Lovelife, an anti-AIDS campaign in South Africa, in 2002. 


Bush kids / dir., cam., ed. by Ilse van Velzen, Femke van Velzen. - [s.l.] : van Velzen Productions, 2002. - 

Video : VHS. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Cape Town * Bush Radio * community radio * children 

Summary: 

Bush Radio is een community radiostation dat zich inzet voor de 

community in de armere wijken in Kaapstad. Sinds 1996 maken ze het 

programma CREW: Children Radio Education Workshop. Elke zaterdag 

maken kinderen en tieners hun eigen 'live' radioprogramma's en 

praten over onderwerpen die hun leeftijdgenoten interesseren. Je 

volgt Nur (8 jaar) in het programma 'Bush Kids' en Springs (16 

jaar) in het programma 'Bush Teens'. 


De geheime safari / dir. by Tom Zubrycki ; prod. David Max Brown, Sally Browning. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

RVU, 2002. - Video : VHS; 52 min. + see: filmalfabet 

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Origineel: The secret safari. Produced by AFFC, Emerald Films (Sydney) & Maxi-D TV Productions 

(Johannesburg), 2001, on VZA 523. Dutch subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * UK * Umkhonto we Sizwe * weapons * international solidarity 

Summary: 

Between 1986 and 1993 a travel company called Africa Hinterland was 

created In london by the ANC to smuggle weapons into South Africa 

for MK. This film features actual footage, re-enactments of the 

safaris and interviews with the organisers, drivers and tourists. 


The lion sleeps tonight / reg., prod. en cam. François Verster ; geluid Tony Bensusan ; montage Peter Neal 

; Het uur van de wolf. - Nederland, Hilversum : NPS, 2003. - Video : VHS; 52 min. Dutch subtitles. Produced 

by BBC, SABC3 & A Lion's Trail, in co-production with NPS, CBC, SBS-TV, YLE/TV1, IDC/SA, RTBF. 


Keywords: * South Africa * music * civil law 

Summary: 

Documentary about the greatest hit of the twentieth century: 'The 

lion sleeps tonight', originally called 'Mbube'.The story of its 

maker, Solomon Linda, and his band The evening birds, and the way 

Gallo Records in Johannesburg got the copyrights of that song. 

Solomon Linda died in poverty in 1962, his family having no money 

for a tombstone. With the Manhattan Brothers; Jay Siegel, singer of 

The Tokens; Joseph Shabola, singer of Lady Smith Black Mambasso; 

George David Weiss, an American songtextwriter, who made a lot of 

of money with the few english lines he added to the song; Pete 

Seeger, American singer/songwriter, who heard the song in 1949 and 

took it on his repetoire; the daughters of Solomon; and Rian Malan, 

who tried to settle the copyrights issue with Gallo Records in 

favor of Linda's family, in the end with some succes, it seems. 


Sowetan funerals / Five weddings and a couple of funerals. - UK, London : National Geographic Television 

and Film, 2003. - Video : VHS; 30 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto * funerals * graves 

Summary: 

Black dude visits Soweto to look at the funeral culture. Visits the 

Avalon graveyard in the midst of Soweto, an undertaker and some 

burials and church ceremonies. 


Escape from Westbury / reg. en samenst. Raymond Bouwman ; In de ban van sport. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : RTL5, 2003 ¸. - Video : VHS; 40 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * Ajax * Johannesburg * townships 

Summary: 

Ajax-speler Steven Pienaar keert terug naar de township Westbury, 

bij Johannesburg, waar hij opgroeide. Veel van zijn vrienden hebben 

het niet gered of zitten jarenlange gevangenisstraffen uit. Steven 

hoopt als rolmodel te kunnen fungeren voor de jongens van Westbury. 


Real men don't rape / reg. Karin de Bok ; Tegenlicht. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 2003 ¸. - Video : 

VHS; 53 min. Dutch subtiteld 


Keywords: * South Africa * gender relations * men * sexual violence * unemployed people 

Summary: 

Ten years after the end of apartheid, the social-economic 

conditions in South Africa have worsened, with more unemployment 

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then ever. For self-assurance frustrated men turn to (sexual) 

violence. Almost half of the rapists is HIV-positive. More and more 

little children are raped because itis believed to be a cure for 

HIV/AIDS.The Men's Movement is trying to change the attitude of men 

towards women, by working with convicted rapists as well as 

potential ones. One group, lead by Mbuyisela Botha, is called South 

African Men's Forum, and organises workshops, lectures, 

demonstrations and shebeen visits to talk with the men gathered 

there. Another group is Men for Change, that helds therapeutic 

sessions for rapists. These approaches are still exceptions, but 

their impact is growing. 


Cosmetisch toerisme / reg. Frans van Erkel ; Nieuw Economisch Peil. - Nederland, Hilversum : RVU ; 

Teleac/NOT, 2003. - Video : VHS; 25 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * tourism * health services 

Summary: 

Een programma over een Nederlands bedrijf dat mensen naar 

Zuid-Afrika stuurt om daar tijdens een vakantie 

cosmetisch-chirurgische ingrepen te ondergaan; in een land waar de 

medische basisvoorzieningen nog lang niet voor iedereen bereikbaar zijn. 


Mandela the living legend / written and pres. by David Dimbleby ; prod. and dir. by Dominic Allan. - UK, 

London ; South Africa, Johannesburg : BBC ; SABC, 2003. - Video : VHS; 2 x 60 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * biographical facts * aged people 

Summary: 

This is a slightly hagiographic film, showing Nelson Mandela in his 

post-presidency period, being hugged and shaking hands with the 

other celebreties of the world in his unrelenting quest for money 

for his charities, mainly to do with children or/and HIV/Aids. Also 

with some old footage to illustrate his personal history. 

Throughout the film you get a fairly representative look on his 

famous collection of shirts. 


Staying alive : meeting Nelson Mandela / dir. and prod. by Niall MacCormick. - UK, London : MTV 

Networks Europe, 2003. - Video : VHS; 58 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * youth 

Summary: 

An MTV documentary about Mandela, because of his 85th birthday. A 

beautiful old Mandela meets four youngsters who have their own 

problems and come looking for inspiration from Mandela's experiences: 

Henry, a HIV/AIDS activist from Uganda; Min Zin, a political exile from 

Birma; and Jumana and Guy, a Palestinian girl and an Israelian boy. 

With old fragments documenting Mandela's personal history. 


Bannings and banishment 1985 : selected archival footage. – South Africa, Johannesburg : [s.n.], 2003. 


Footage selected for the multi-media exhibition Kwere Kwere/Journeys into strangeness, by Rory Bester 


Keywords: * South Africa * history; 1980s * apartheid system * banning orders* * exhibitions* 

Summary: 

Footage from the house of Winnie Mandela in Brandfort, where she 

stayed on account of a banning order, just after a petrol-bombing 

ordered by the Security Branch in August 1985. 

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Lindela Repatriation Centre, Krugersdorp 1999 : selected archival footage. - South Africa, 

Johannesburg : [s.n.], 2003. - Video : VHS; 4 min. 

Footage selected for the multi-media exhibition Kwere Kwere/Journeys into strangeness, by Rory Bester 


Keywords: * South Africa * migrants * forcible repatriation 

Summary: 

Selected footage of the Lindela repatriation centre in Krugersdorp, 

1999. The footage shows different groups of migrants (from Mozambique, 

Zimbabwe, Malawi and Lesotho) being transported by van or train. 


Love games / reg. en samenst. Raymond Bouwman. - Nederland, Hilversum : RTL5, 2003. - Video : VHS; 

30 min 


Keywords: * South Africa * northern NGOs * HIV/AIDS * sports and society 

Summary: 

De Nederlandse tennissers Paul Haarhuis en Jacco Eltingh bezoeken 

een aantal Memisa projecten in Zuid-Afrika, die betrekking hebben 

op de HIV/AIDS problematiek(klinieken, aids-awareness-program). 

Interview met oa Hugo Tempelman, Nederlandse arts in Zuid-Afrika, 

en over het belang van sport in het schoolcurriculum. 


The mystery of Zulu Dawn / prod. and dir. Mark Lewis. - UK, Middlesex : National Geographic Television 

and Film, 2003. - : VHS; 55 min. Originally produced for Channel Four, 2001. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Zulu (people) * Isandlwana, battle at (Jan. 1879) * history; 19th century 

Summary: 

Some British are still not over the shock caused by the fact that a 

whole British regiment (the 24th) was massacred by a Zulu army at 

the battle of Isandlwana in 1879. Was it because of the special 

cannabis, with an extreme high THC content, and containing almost 

no CMD, or was the British Henry-Martini rifle not as good as it 

was supposed to be? Something like that, anyway. 


Kimberly Process meeting Johannesburg, 28 - 30 April 2003 / RTL Z. - Nederland, Hilversum : RTL5, 

2003. - Video : VHS; 3 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * kimberley process * conferences * conflict diamonds 

Summary: 

Verslag van de Kimberley Process meeting in Johannesburg, 28 -30 

april 2003, waar werd afgesproken dat deelnemende landen moeten 

worden goedgekeurd door een toelatingscommissie. De Beers blij, 

liberia niet (kunnen geen certificaten uitgeven). Met quote van 

Judith Sargentini, coördinator Fatal Transactions. 


Emakhishini = In the kitchen / dir. by Tale Motsepe. - Netherlands, Utrecht : SADWU, 1993. - Video : VHS; 

55 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * domestic workers * SADWU * theatre 

Summary: 

A performance of the SADWU theater in RASA, Utrecht, in October 

1993, about the plight of the domestic workers in South Africa. 


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SANCO Uitenhage - South African Feeding Project / South African National Civic Organisation. - South 

Africa, Cape Town : SANCO, 1993. - Video : VHS 


Keywords: * South Africa * Cape Town * feeding schemes * SANCO * empowerment* 

Summary: 

A report about SANCO that is giving food aid to unemployed blacks 

in Langa, a township near Cape Town. A voice-over tells also about 

plans for empowerment of the local community by vocational 

training, as to increase self reliance. 


VEETU Video. - South Africa, [Johannesburg?] : Source Communications ; VEETU, 1993. - Video : VHS; 20 

min. English subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * voter education 

Summary: 

Street interviews with enthusiastic people about the forthcoming 

first democratic elections, and elaborate explanations about what a 

democratic election is and how it works. 


The Guguletu seven / Lindy Wilson. - South Africa, Rondebosch : Lindy Wilson Productions, 2000. - Video : 

VHS; 107 min. Also a copy of 82 min., 2001 Lindy Wilson, broadcasted by the BBC in 2004 (VZA 503a): 

picture quality good. 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * police * extrajudicial killing * anti-apartheid resistance * Truth 

and Reconciliation Commission 

Summary: 

This is the story of an ambush. At 5am on 3rd March 1986, police 

surrounded Crossroads in Guguletu, Cape Town, as 'terrorists' 

planned to attack the 7.25am police bus. However, the bus safely 

passes, the terrorists' are sighted and, in as many minutes, seven 

young men lie dead. Ten years later the tale is unraveled by a team 

of young investigators for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 

their findings lie at the core of the film. The genre is a 

detective story. Lies are uncovered, cover-ups identified, 

encrypted codes are broken. The means by which the real truth is 

uncovered is the journey of this film - the true story of seven 

South Africans. Its exposure affirms a culture where, yet again, 

truth is more compelling than fiction. 

Remarks: Picture quality: badatthestart * VZA 503 

The Guguletu seven / Lindy Wilson. - UK, London : BBC, 2004. - Video : VHS; 82 min. 

Also a copy of 107 min., ¸ 2000 Lindy Wilson Productions, (VZA 503): picture quality badatthestart. 

Original: 2001 Lindy Wilson 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * police * extrajudicial killing * anti-apartheid resistance * Truth 

and Reconciliation Commission 

Summary: 

This is the story of an ambush. At 5am on 3rd March 1986, police 

surrounded Crossroads in Guguletu, Cape Town, as 'terrorists' 

planned to attack the 7.25am police bus. However, the bus safely 

passes, the terrorists' are sighted and, in as many minutes, seven 

young men lie dead. Ten years later the tale is unraveled by a team 

of young investigators for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 

their findings lie at the core of the film. The genre is a 

detective story. Lies are uncovered, cover-ups identified, 

encrypted codes are broken. The means by which the real truth is 

uncovered is the journey of this film - the true story of seven 

South Africans. Its exposure affirms a culture where, yet again, 

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truth is more compelling than fiction. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 503a 

What happened to Mbuyisa? / dir. by Feizel Mamdoo. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Endemol Productions 

South Africa, 1998 ¸. - Video : VHS; 65 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto uprising (1976-1977) * Nzima, Sam 

Summary: 

A film about Mbuyisa Makhubu, the heroic figure who carried the 

dying Hector Peterson on the worldfamous photograph that became 

symbol of the Soweto uprising. Interviews with his mother and 

sister, the sister of Hector Peterson, the photographer Sam Nzima, 

who shot the picture, the girl who bore him a son, and the son 

himself, who has never seen his father, but feels he is still 

alive. After his teacher education, he wants to go to Nigeria 

(where Mbuyisa supposedly was seen the last time) to find him. 

Remarks: Picture quality: 10 min. bad: after that goodenough * VZA 504 

Antjie Krog / Edith Ruyg ; RAM. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 2004. - Video : VHS; 25 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * languages * literature * gender * Krog, Antjie (1952- ) 

Summary: 

Een interview met de Zuid-Afrikaanse schrijfster Antji Krog, over 

de veranderingen in het Afrikaans na de afschaffing van het 

apartheidsregime in Zuid-Afrika en door het proces van 

reconciliation, de verschillen tussen Afrikaans en Engels, en de 

genderverschillen in taalgebruik. 


Rob Nairn : a Tibetan Buddhist in South Africa. - Nederland, Hilversum : BOS, 2004. - Video : VHS; 14 

min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * North-West province (South Africa) * Buddhism * social issues 

Summary: 

Documentary about the South African writer Rob Nairn, a buddhist 

who is working in a poor area of North-West province, where he 

bought a farm and is making a health centre and AIDS-information 

service for the farmworkers and squatters. There is a lot of 

alcoholism, child-abuse and poverty in the area, so the Buddhist 

rule of charity can be obeyed to its full extent. It appears that 

only whites are attracted by the Buddhist religion. 


Bezoek Beatrix aan Zuid-Afrika, 30 juni 1996 / NOS Journaal. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1996. - 



Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * Beatrix, Queen * visits * bilateral relations 

Summary: 

Vier items over het bezoek van koningin Beatrix aan Zuid-Afrika in de zomer van 1996. 


De donkere kamer van Eli Weinberg / reg. Rudi Boon ; cam. Hans Fels ; Dokwerk. - Nederland, Hilversum 

: VPRO, 2004. - Video : VHS; 60 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary 

Also English version available on VZA 512 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * photography * Weinberg, Eli (1908-1981) * anti-apartheid 

resistance * ANC 

Summary: 

De foto's van Eli Weinberg (1908 - 1982) geven een haarscherp beeld 

van Zuid-Afrika in de hoogtijdagen van de apartheid. Weinberg wordt 

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niet voor niets omschreven als 'de hoffotograaf van het ANC', want 

hij moet vele honderden foto's geschoten hebben voor de beweging. 

In de documentaire passeren veel van deze foto's de revue, in het 

vroegere woonhuis van Weinberg. Weinberg was een uit de Baltische 

staten gevluchte jood, die vol hoop aankwam in Vrijheid, waar zijn 

oom woonde. Daar werd hij geconfronteerd met de dagelijkse praktijk 

van racisme en armoede. Hij sloot zich aan bij de communistische 

partij en werd aktief in een vakbond, waardoor hij een 

beroepsverbod kreeg. Hij begon een fotostudio in Johannesburg en 

werd al snel dé societyfotograaf van die stad. Maar via de 

achterdeur kwam de ANC top binnen om zich te laten fotograferen. 

Zijn werk bleef niet tot de studio beperkt: talloze straatscenes 

waarin de praktijk van apartheid pijnlijk zichtbaar werd zijn door 

hem vereeuwigd. Het accent van de documentaire ligt op zijn werk, 

de fotograaf zelf blijft goeddeels buiten beeld. 


Orphans of Nkandla / dir. by Brian Woods. - UK, London : BBC ; True Vision Productions, 2003. - Video : 

VHS; 44 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * KwaZulu-Natal * rural areas * rural communities * HIV/AIDS * children * social 

conditions * children-headed households 

Summary: 

HIV/AIDS has orphaned around 750.000 children in South Africa. This 

documentary follows three families in Kwazulu-Natal and looks how 

the children have reacted to the huge changes in their lives caused 

by HIV/AIDS. In this area of Zululand, there is high unemployment, 

no running water or electricity and limited access to medical 

treatment. In one family, the children have been living on their 

own after being orphaned. In another, a young girl is learning to 

look after her sick mother and other family members after the death 

of her father. In the third, the children are sent to live with 

their aunts family following their father's death, placing 

additional pressure on already poor relatives.Woods has taken care 

to present events as much as possible from the point of view of the children. 


Mainline : a heroin traffic route / written and dir. by Jacques Pauw ; Special Assignment. - South Africa, 

Johannesburg : SABC, 2003. - Video : VHS; 60 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Mozambique * Tanzania * drugs * drugs traffic 

Summary: 

A former South African policeman thinks he has discovered a major 

heroin traffic route from Dar es Salam through Pemba and Maputo to 

Johannesburg. A bit sensational in its approach, this documentary 

nonetheless won Jacques Pauw the John Manyarara award 2004. 


De donkere kamer van Eli Weinberg / reg. Rudi Boon ; cam. en eindred. Hans Fels ; Dokwerk. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 2004. - Video : VHS; 52 min. English subtitles when necessary. 

Also Dutch version (Dutch subtitles when necessary) available on VZA 508 


Keywords: * South Africa * anti-apartheid resistance * white South Africans * Jews (people) * Weinberg, Eli 

(1908-1981) * photography * history; 1945-1960 * history; 1960s 

Summary: 

Weinberg was als joodse revolutionair zijn geboorteland Letland in 

1929 ontvlucht om in Zuid-Afrika een nieuw leven op te bouwen. 

Eenmaal in Zuid-Afrika moet hij vaststellen dat ook daar 

rassenongelijkheid de dagelijkse realiteit bepaalt, zij het dat het 

racisme ditmaal niet in de eerste plaats tegen de joodse minderheid 

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is gericht, maar tegen de zwarte meerderheid. De film speelt zich 

grotendeels af in het vroegere huis van Weinberg in Johannesburg, 

waar zich zijn donkere kamer en portretstudio bevonden. Met 

tijdgenoten en nabestaanden, zoals Nelson Mandela, rechter Albie 

Sachs en dochter Sheila Weinberg, wordt het leven gereconstrueerd 

van een man die door zijn ervaringen met anti-semitisme en 

rassenwaan in Oost-Europa zijn ogen niet kon sluiten voor de 

dagelijkse realiteit in Zuid-Afrika. Weinberg ontwikkelt zich tot 

dé societyfotograaf van Johannesburg, een perfecte camouflage voor 

de andere kant van zijn fotografiepraktijk. Want door de achterdeur 

betreedt een heel andere elite zijn studio. Met vooruitziende blik 

documenteert Weinberg de nieuwe generatie ANC-leiders voordat ze 

decennialang zullen worden opgesloten of in ballingsschap gedreven. 

De meeste foto's die van Nelson Mandela zijn gemaakt vóór hij tot 

levenslang word veroordeeld en die 27 jaar lang, tot aan zijn 

vrijlating in 1990, wereldwijd op posters, T-shirts en 

protestborden worden gedrukt, zijn van de hand van Eli Weinberg. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VZA 512 * Ook op DVD beschikbaar. 

De donkere kamer van Eli Weinberg / reg. Rudi Boon ; cam. en eindred. Hans Fels ; Dokwerk. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 2004. - 2 Video : VHS; 52 min. English subtitles when necessary. 

Also Dutch version (Dutch subtitles when necessary) available on VZA 508 


Keywords: * South Africa * anti-apartheid resistance * white South Africans * Jews (people) * Weinberg, Eli 

(1908-1981) * photography * history; 1945-1960 * history; 1960s 

Summary: 

Weinberg was als joodse revolutionair zijn geboorteland Letland in 

1929 ontvlucht om in Zuid-Afrika een nieuw leven op te bouwen. 

Eenmaal in Zuid-Afrika moet hij vaststellen dat ook daar 

rassenongelijkheid de dagelijkse realiteit bepaalt, zij het dat het 

racisme ditmaal niet in de eerste plaats tegen de joodse minderheid 

is gericht, maar tegen de zwarte meerderheid. De film speelt zich 

grotendeels af in het vroegere huis van Weinberg in Johannesburg, 

waar zich zijn donkere kamer en portretstudio bevonden. Met 

tijdgenoten en nabestaanden, zoals Nelson Mandela, rechter Albie 

Sachs en dochter Sheila Weinberg, wordt het leven gereconstrueerd 

van een man die door zijn ervaringen met anti-semitisme en 

rassenwaan in Oost-Europa zijn ogen niet kon sluiten voor de 

dagelijkse realiteit in Zuid-Afrika. Weinberg ontwikkelt zich tot 

dé societyfotograaf van Johannesburg, een perfecte camouflage voor 

de andere kant van zijn fotografiepraktijk. Want door de achterdeur 

betreedt een heel andere elite zijn studio. Met vooruitziende blik 

documenteert Weinberg de nieuwe generatie ANC-leiders voordat ze 

decennialang zullen worden opgesloten of in ballingsschap gedreven. 

De meeste foto's die van Nelson Mandela zijn gemaakt vóór hij tot 

levenslang word veroordeeld en die 27 jaar lang, tot aan zijn 

vrijlating in 1990, wereldwijd op posters, T-shirts en 

protestborden worden gedrukt, zijn van de hand van Eli Weinberg. 


Op de rand van de wereld. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 2004. - Video : VHS; 39 min 

Start na 4 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * KwaZulu-Natal * Zwelithini, King Goodwill (1948- ) * traditional healers 

Summary: 

Een paar Deense journalisten reizen door KwaZulu-Natal naar 

aanleiding van de oprichting van de tv-zender TV2 Zulu in 

Denemarken. Ze spreken Mali Gumede, medicijnman (waar opvalt dat 

één van zijn zwarte patienten terugverlangt naar apartheid, want 

toen was er tenminste werk), en de koning, die vertelt dat hij 

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ezorgd is over de Aids-epidemie en zelf hard moet werken. 


Cape Town : tales of a colour'd city / dir. by Thulani Mokoena. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Sethu Film 

& Television, 2000. - : VHS; 52 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Cape Town * Coloureds * Khoi (people) * history; precolonial * history; colonial * 

history; 20th century * slavery * slaves * slave trade * cultural identity * ethnic discrimination * apartheid 

system 

Summary: 

Documentary about the Coloureds of Cape Town: their history, their 

roots, the tendency to identify with the whites during and after 

apartheid, the insecurety about their cultural identitiy, and the 

positive role of Cape Jazz in crossing the colourline. 


The life and times of Sara Baartman / Zola Maseko. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Dominant 7 ; Mail and 

Guardian Television, 1998. - Video : VHS; 52 min. English subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * South Africa * indigenous peoples * Khoi (people) * colonialism * history; 18th century * history; 

19th century * cultural identity * Baartman, Saartje (d.1815) 

Summary: 

Documentary about Sara Baartman, a Khoi women that went to Europe 

in 1810 at the age of twenty, with her master/impressario Hendric 

Cesar, to be exhibitioned at freak shows in London and Paris, where 

she died in 1816. Her body was disected by the famous naturalist 

Cuvier, because science wondered if the Khoi could be classified as 

human, and because of century-old rumours about the speciality of 

female Khoi genitals. Her skeleton and plaster copy are still kept 

in the Musée de l'Homme in Paris, and the question is if these will return to South Afica. 


Angel / dir. by Barry Berk. - South Africa, Johannesburg : M-Net, 1996. - Video : VHS; 26 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * feature films (form) * homeless people * living conditions 

Summary: 

A short feature production , starring Sylvia Esau and Daniel Samrai 

as the elderly homeless couple Soentji and Amen. 


Ikrisimesi nomakhulu = Christmas with granny / dir. by Dumisani Phakathi. - South Africa, Johannesburg 

: M-Net, 1999. - Video : VHS; 28 min. A M-Net New Directions film. English subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * South Africa * feature films (form) * youth * families 

Summary: 

Short film abouth a black boy who has to go to his grandmother to 

be baptized. Screenplay adapted from the book "Deliver us from 

evil: Scenes from a rural Transvaal upbringing", by Johnny Masikela. 


Cry me a baby / dir. by Tamsin MacCarthy. - South Africa, Johannesburg : M-Net, 1998. - Video : VHS; 26 

min. A M-Net New Directions Film 


Keywords: * South Africa * feature films (form) * women * children * social-economic conditions 

Summary: 

A feature film about a black woman who wants a child, but finds it 

hard to find a suitable father. 


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Long nights journey into day : South Africa's search for truth and reconciliation / dir. by Frances Reid, 

Deborah Hoffmann. – South Africa, Johannesburg : Iris Films, 2000. - Video : VHS; 90 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * repression * apartheid system * police * Truth and Reconciliation Commission * 

anti-apartheid activists * military * crime victims 

Summary: 

Documentary that follows several TRC cases over a two-year period. 

The stories in the film underscore the universal themes of 

conflict, forgiveness and renewal. A white special forces officer, 

deeply remorseful for the crimes he comitted, struggles to reach 

peace with the embittered black wife of a black activist he killed 

14 years ago. A group of mothers, after enduring years of 

misinformation and denials by the authorities, learns the truth 

abouth how their sons were set up, betrayed and killed in a vicious 

police conspiracy. A young black activist comes to recognise the 

the anguish he caused by killing a white American student during a 

mob riot, while her parents see past their pain to embrace a new, 

multi-racial South Africa. 


Nergens thuis / dir. by Minky Schlesinger, Kethiwe Ngcobo ; De Donderdag Documentaire. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : IKON, 2004. - Video : VHS; 52 min. 

Original: Belonging - Fuzebox Productions, 2004(= VZA 521). This film is part of the series 'Project 10 - real 

stories of a free South Africa' . Ten years after the abrogation of the apartheid administation this project was 

started in remembrance of this event under the auspices of SABC1, NFVF, and the Maurits Binger Film 

Institute in the Netherlands, where also the Ministries of Education, Culture & Science and that of Foreign 

Affairs offered support, along with NiZA. The project resulted in a number of documentaries that provide 

often very personal portrayals of life in present-day South Africa. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * UK * exile * political refugees * cultural identity * traditional culture * remigration 

Summary: 

Documentary about Kethiwe Ngcobo, born in Manzini, Swaziland, who 

grew up in London as child of PAC-exiles, returned to South Africa 

in 1994 and has been living there since. About her feeling of not 

belonging to either of both societies. 


Belonging / dir. by Minky Schlesinger, Kethiwe Ngcobo ; De Donderdag Documentaire. - South Africa, 

Johannesburg : Fuzebox Productions ; SABC, 2004. - Video : VHS; 52 min. 

This film is part of the series 'Project 10 - real stories of a free South Africa' . Ten years after the abrogation 

of the apartheid administation this project was started in remembrance of this event under the auspices of 

SABC1, NFVF, and the Maurits Binger Film Institute in the Netherlands, where also the Ministries of 

Education, Culture & Science and that of Foreign Affairs offered support, along with NiZA. The project 

resulted in a number of documentaries that provide often very personal portrayals of life in present-day South 

Africa. (Dutch version "Nergens Thuis" on VZA 520). English subtitles. Also on VZA 547 



Summary: 






Halfje wit of bruin / reg. Adelheid Kapteijn ; Het andere gezicht. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 2002. - 

Video : VHS; 23 min. Dutch subtitles. Start: na 13 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * clinics * food safety * crime and society * crime prevention * social-economic 

conditions * robberies * rural development * unemployment 

Summary: 

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Documentaire over de Nederlandse arts Hugo Tempelman, die in 

Elandsdoorn een kliniek heeft opgezet. Daarnaast heeft hij een 

bakkerij opgezet, omdat gezonde voeding de basis is voor 

ziektepreventie. Nadat het zwarte management de boel had belazerd, 

is er toch weer een blanke manager aangetrokken (die erg 

pessimistisch is over de toekomst van Zuid-Afrika, mede dankzij het 

feit dat hij bij een gewapende overval door zijn borst is 

geschoten). De criminaliteit is een groot probleem, waarbij je je 

kunt afvragen hoever je kunt gaan met beveiliging zonder het gevoel 

te krijgen in een gevangenis te leven. Tempelman blijft 

optimistisch en denkt aan uitbreiding. 


The secret safari / dir. by Tom Zubrycki ; prod. David Max Brown, Sally Browning. - Australia, Sydney ; 

South Africa, Johannesburg : Emerald Films ; Maxi-D TV Productions, 2001. - Video : VHS; 52 min. 

+ see: filmalfabet. Dutch version "De geheime safari" on VZA 487 


Keywords: * South Africa * UK * Umkhonto we Sizwe * weapons * international solidarity 

Summary: 

Between 1986 and 1993 a travel company called Africa Hinterland was 

created In London by the ANC to smuggle weapons into South Africa 

for MK. This film features actual footage, re-enactments of the 

safaris and interviews with the organisers, drivers and tourists. 


Facing death...facing life / dir. by Ingrid Gavshon. – South Africa, Johannesburg : Ingrid Gavshon, 2000. - 

Video : VHS; 54 min. Dutch version "Leven na de doodstraf" is on VZA 460 

Produced by Ingrid Gavshon and Sharon Cort, in co-production with E-TV (South Africa), Humanistische 

Omroep (The Netherlands); in association with YLE/TV1 co-productions (Finland), SBS Televison (Australia); 

supported by a grant of Soros Documentary Fund of the Open Society Institute, The Jan Vrijman Fund, 

Amnesty International - Dutch Section, the Dept. of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology (South Africa); 

with the support of the delegation of the European Commission in South Africa through the CWCI Fund to 

promote better understanding of development issues in South Africa and the SADC Region. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Sharpeville * death penalty * anti-apartheid resistance * Khulumani Support 

Group * Kumalo, Duma * history; 1980s 

Summary: 

Documentary about Duma Kumalo and the other five that became known 

as the 'Sharpeville six': Ja Ja Sefatsa, Malebo Reid Mokoena, Oupa 

Diniso, Theresa Ramashamola and Frances Don Mokhesi, who were 

sentenced to death in 1984 after riots that accompagnied a 

rent-boycott in Sharpeville in wich a black councelor, Dlamini, got 

killed. About their actions, their proces, the imprisonment (death 

row) and the difficulties they expierienced after they were 

released after the end of apartheid and they had to face life 

again. Also the role of Khulumani, a supportgroup for victims of 

apartheid violence, in this proces. 


A drink in the passage / screenplay and dir. Zola Maseko. – South Africa, Johannesburg : M-Net, 2002. - 



Keywords: * South Africa * feature films (form) * artists * exhibitions* * politics * ethnic discrimination 

Summary: 

A screen adaptation of an Alan Paton story, this short gem tells of 

a celebrated black sculptor who recalls the curious events which 

led him to share a drink of brandy with a white family during the 

height of apartheid. A complex meditation on the personal dimensions 

of enforced segregation and the power of art to transcend the divide. 


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We never give up / dir. by Cahal McLaughlin. - South Africa, Cape Town : Human Rights Media Centre ; 

Khulumani Western Cape Executive, 2002. - Video : VHS; 70 min. English subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * political violence * violent crime * torture * unlawful detention * 

prison conditions * disappearance * anti-apartheid resistance * Truth and Reconciliation Commission * 

reparation * Khulumani Support Group 

Summary: 

We Never Give Up is a tapestry of stories told by ten survivors of 

apartheid violence, all of whom are still struggling today. These 

stories represent the harsh experiences of thousands of ordinary 

South Africans who participated in or who were excluded from the 

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The storytellers are all 

members the Khulumani Support Group, Western Cape. They are 

involved in a protracted battle to hold the South African 

government accountable to its promise to pay final reparations. The 

difficulties experienced by the storytellers raise pertinent 

questions about the TRC achieving its objectives. 


Accused: Nelson Mandela / dir. by Pascale Lamche ; Import. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 2004. - 


A Little Bird Production in association with Ochre Media Produced in association with BBC, ZDF/ARTE, 

TV2/Danmark, Radio Telefis ireann, YLE TV2 Finland , CBC Radio Canada, Lichtpunt Belgien, History 

Television Canada and the IDC South Africa. International sales: TV2 Danmark. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * history; 1960s * Rivonia Trial (1963-1964) * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * 

anti-apartheid resistance * ANC * Umkhonto we Sizwe 

Summary: 

Beautiful documentary about the Rivonia-trial of 1963-64, one of 

the most important political trials of the 20th century, where the 

top of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the ANC,was convicted 

to lifetime sentences. Rare footage and interviews with 

participants of both sides give an unparalleled insight in this 

crucial episode of the resistance against apartheid. 


Globalisation and Africa : which side are we on? / prod. and dir. by Ben Cashdan. - South Africa, 

Johannesburg : Seipone Productions, 2001. - Video : VHS; 50 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * international economic relations * international political relations * socialeconomic 

conditions * globalisation 

Summary: 

This is a guerrilla-cinema style compilation of clips, constantly 

evolving and presented interactively by the filmmaker. With clips 

of local struggles in the townships of South Africa and material 

from the Durban Anti-Racism Conference in September 2001 and the 

World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The film raises 

questions about the impact of globalisation on ordinary South 

Africans.It also looks at the stance taken by ANC politicians - 

increasingly a part of those elite global institutions targetet by 

anti-globalisation activists. 


Death of apartheid: the prisoner / ed. Dan Carter, Lynda J. Fowke, Victoria Price. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

VPRO, 2004. - Video : VHS; 55 min. Part of the145 min. version that is on VZA 410 

Originally produced by Brian Lapping associates in 1995, in association with VPRO Television, SABC & NHK 

for BBC and Discovery Channel. Dutch subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * ANC * NP * political negotiations 

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Summary: 



de (in het begin geheime) onderhandelingen tussen Mandela en de 

regering. Veel interviewfragmenten met de direkt betrokkenen. 


Two Trevors go to Washington / prod. and dir. by Ben Cashdan. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Seipone 



Keywords: * South Africa * USA * World Bank * IMF * international economic relations * civil society * 

Ngwane, Trevor (1960- ) * globalisation 

Summary: 

A report on the IMF/World Bank meetings in April 2000 in 

Washington, and the protests of the anti-globalisation movement 

against it. From South Africa Finance minister Trevor Manuel, chair 

of the IMF/World Bank Board, on the inside, and Trevor Ngwane, 

local councillor from Soweto, on the streets. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 530 * Also on DVD: DZA 011 

Apartheid gold and reparations / prod.&dir. by Ben Cashdan. – South Africa, Johannesburg : Seipone 

Productions, 2001. - Video : VHS; 22+12+7 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Switzerland * banks * gold mining * apartheid system * gold trade * apartheid debt 

* reparation 

Summary: 

The apartheid system was financed for a great deal by the gold 

trade. Most South African gold was bought by Swiss banks. Many in 

South Africa feel that the former investors in apartheidshould do 

some kind of reparation to cancell the apartheid debt the 

government of Mandela inherited from the apartheid regime, like 

Njongonkulu Ndungane, Archbishop of Cape Town. The video ends with 

a short interview with Anton A. Schrafl, a Swiss businessman, 

president of the Swiss - South Africa Business Federation, made 

honorary consul by Thabo Mbeki in 2000, who thinks that the 

investors in Apartheid (like himself) helped to end it 'peacefully'. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 531 * See also DVD DZA 013 

The meaning of the buffalo / dir. by Karin Slater. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Mafisa Media ; SABC, 

2004. - Video : VHS; 62 min. 




Education, Culture and Science and that of Foreign Affairs offered support, along with NiZA. The project 


Africa. English subtitles when necessary. Also on VZA 551 


Keywords: * South Africa * rural areas * rural communities * traditional culture * indigenous knowledge 

Summary: 

The people of the rural village Lekgophung call themselves Baletes, 

people of the buffalo. This film tries to find out what the meaning 

of this totem is for the Baletes, but they don't seem to know, and 

haven't ever seen one buffalo alive. Still, it resulted in a 

beautiful film about rural life in South Africa. 


The devil breaks my heart - 10 years later / dir. by Lederle Bosch. - South Africa, Cape Town : Idol 

Pictures, 2004. - Video : VHS; 48 min. . - (Project 10) 



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Africa. Also on VZA 550. English subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * South Africa * democratisation * social-economic conditions * youth 

Summary: 

In 1993, on the eve of South Africa's transition to democracy, 

Zackie Achmat and Jack Lewis made "Die Duiwel Maak My Hart So 

Seer". The title came from a song sung by the children of Dammert 

Street, Bellville South. Despite the joy of the singing, the song 

reflected children's understanding that things were far from 

perfect in the world as they experienced it. In the 52 minute 

video, children from four different communities - Bellville South, 

Ysterplaat, Khayelitsha (all in Cape Town) and Willows in present 

day North West Province - talk about things that affect their 

lives: food, play, care, punishment, violence . and they dream 

about what they want to be one day. 10 years later, we go back to 

discover what has happened in their lives. The Devil Breaks My 

Heart - Ten Years Later is a unique opportunity to take four 

families from very different backgrounds - urban coloured; informal 

settlement African; urban white working class and rural African, 

and in a very personal way, investigate the impact of democracy on 

South Africa's children. We want to follow up on key children who 

appeared in the 1993 programme and explore how they have grown up 

in the new South Africa. The Devil Breaks My Heart - Ten Years 

Later, provides a unique opportunity to create a video snapshot of 

how a diverse group of ordinary young South Africans have experienced 

the journey from the eve of first democratic election in 1994 to today. 


Through the eyes of my daughter / dir. by Zulfah Otto-Sallies. - South Africa, Cape Town : O'dacity Films, 

2004. - Video : VHS; 50 min. . - (Project 10) 








Keywords: * South Africa * Cape Town * Coloureds * mothers * girls * social conditions * muslims 

Summary: 

Although they grew up in the same Muslim community of the Bo-Kaap,their political and financial realities are 

different. Filmmaker 

Zulfah Otto-Sallies is intrigued by her thoroughly modern, teenage 

daughter and what she feels about her family, community and the New South Africa. 


Ikhaya / dir. by Omelga Hlengiwe Mthiyane. - South Africa, Cape Town : Fine Line Productions, 2004. - 







Africa. Start: na 53 min. English subtitles. Also on VZA 547 


Keywords: * South Africa * KwaZulu-Natal * Zulu (people) * Zulu culture * traditional culture * political 

violence * traditional health care * housing * women-headed households 

Summary: 

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"The idea of the film came about after many years of watching my 

aunt, Zimbili Kamanga, agonise over the loss of her house - a place 

that for many years was home to her. This was a forced displacement 

due to violence that, for almost a decade, engulfed Bhambayi, the 

village she lived in. It tore me apart to hear her lament about the 

loss. Therefore, when an opportunity arose to work on the 'Project 

10' project, the idea crossed my mind. I wanted my aunt to find 

closure, healing and to be able to move on with life. Fortunately, 

this was possible because Bhambayi, which had gained notoriety for 

being a war zone ten years ago, has found its own closure. It is 

now a vibrant and peaceful place." 


Death of apartheid: the third force / ed. Dan Carter, Lynda J. Fowke, Victoria Price. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : VPRO, 2004. - : VHS; 50 min. Part of the 145 min. version that is on VZA 410 




Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * ANC * NP * IFP * politically motivated crime * political violence 

* political negotiations * mass killings * De Kock, Eugene (1949-) * army * police 

Summary: 



de 'derde macht': de relatie met de regering en met Inkatha; het 

Kagiso hostel van waaruit een aantal bloedbaden georganiseerd 

werden; het Goldstone onderzoek, dat veel bewijzen boven water 

bracht over relaties tussen regering, leger en politie en de 

inlichtingendiensten enerzijds en het geweld tussen IFP en ANC in 

de townships; en de repercussies die het geweld had op de 

onderhandelingen voor een nieuwe grondwet tussen regering en ANC. 

Veel interviewfragmenten met de direkt betrokkenen, zoals Mandela, 

Cyril Ramaphosa, zijn tegenspeler Roelf Meyer, De Klerk en Adriaan 

Vlok (voormalig Minister of Law & Order), die beiden ontkennen dat 

er zoiets bestond als een derde macht, en deputy ministers Johan 

Scheepers (Law & Order) en Leon Wessels (Foreign Affairs). 


Being Pavarotti / dir. by Odette Geldenhuys. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Angel Films, 2004. - Video : 

VHS; 53 min. 






Africa. Alo on VZA 548. English subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Hermanus * children * classical music * social-economic conditions 

* arts education 

Summary: 

Elton Nkanunu is a black boy of 13 who sings opera in Hermanus, 

Western Cape, popular with tourists for whale sightings. His love 

of opera music begins after a cousin gives him a casssette by 

Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, and his passion leads him from 

performing solo stints at open-air festivals to opening acts for 

established opera singers from nearby Cape Town and singing for 

council officials and academics in the city. But he is black, poor, 

one of six children, with an unemployed mother who is often absent. 

Elton's quest to become an acclaimed opera singer is set against 

the backdrop of his life as a teenager, being harrassed by the 

authorities (who think it 's just noise) and beaten by police, who 

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prefer to retain foreign tourists at the expense of local black 

busters. He jumps at the chance to get voice-training lessons from 

a music professor, and then from Mthunzi, a professional opera 

singer from Cape Town, who encourages his protégé to find his own voice. 


Hillbrow kids / dir. by Michael Hammon, Jaqueline Gorgen. - Germany, Freiburg : Quinte Film ; ZDF/Arte, 

1999. - Video : VHS; 94 min. Co-production by Quinte Film and ZDF/Arte. English subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * South Africa * Hillbrow * street children * drug addiction * social issues 

Summary: 

In HILLBROW KIDS, a gripping, disturbing, and unconventional 

biography, German filmmakers Michael Hammon and Jacqueline Gorgen 

follow a fictitious South African storyteller (Regina Ndlovu) as 

she wanders the byways of Johannesburg on the streets of Hillbrow. 

Young, homeless black South African children live on the streets of 

this impoverished neighborhood, inhabiting its dismal shantytowns 

and begging white South Africans for loose change. Some have run 

away from poor, neglectful homes, while others say they have grown 

restless with life in the dusty townships and crave the excitement 

of the streets. All of them have grown up to face the harsh 

realities of hunger and the struggle to survive long before their 

time. Adding to their problems, many of the children are also 

addicted to sniffing glue. Alone, totally dependent on their own 

rescources, they and many others like them fight against all odds 

for the fulfilment of their modest little dreams. But in their search for 

a happier life, they are in the process of losing what is left of their future. 


En Garde Mamelodi / samenst. en reg. Martin Maat ; eindred. Anne-Jean van Grinsven ; research Bart 

Luirink ; Dubbelklik. - Nederland, Hilversum : AVRO, 2003. - Video : VHS Dutch subtitels 


Keywords: * South Africa * Mamelodi * fencing * living conditions * youth 

Summary: 

Bas en Vincent, twee 16-jarige Nederlandse schermers uit Delft, 

gaan een week lang naar Mamelodi, een township vlakbij Pretoria. 

Hier is de eerste zwarte schermschool van Zuid-Afrika opgericht. 

Het Nederlandse duo trekt op met hun Zuid-Afrikaanse 

leeftijdgenoten: logeren bij hun, gaan met hen mee naar school, 

gaan met hen uit, wonen een begrafenisvan een familielid bij en 

gaan met ze mee naar de schermtrainingen. De week wordt afgesloten 

met een toernooi, waar de Nederlanders het opnemen tegen hun 

Zuid-Afrikaanse vrienden. De schermschool is opgericht door 

Ephrahim een van de oudere bewoners van de township, in een 

voormalige bierhal. Vroeger was dit de plek waar werkloze mannen 

passief hun problemen wegdronken. Nu werken jongeren actief aan een 

betere toekomst. Mamelodi is er in geslaagd topschermers af te 

leveren. Voor de leerlingen is schermen meer dan een passie. Het is 

de vlucht uit het harde bestaan van Mamelodi en een kans op een betere toekomst 


Mix / dir. by Rudzani Dzuguda. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Dzuguda Productions, 2004. - Video : VHS; 

54 min. English subtitles 






Africa. Also on VZA 551 


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Keywords: * South Africa * girls * hiphop * parents 

Summary: 

Freedom in South Africa after 1994 means the freedom for Tumelo and 

Dominique to express themselves in ways that genuinely baffle their 

parents. For these two female, hip-hop disc jockeys from rather 

conservative backgrounds, 1994 signalled the beginning of a journey 

to personal freedom. On the other hand, Tumelo's endearingly 

nostalgic father sees this as the point at which the youth became 

aware of their rights, causing society's values to crumble. In Mix, 

the tension between attaining personal freedom and satisfying 

family obligations is played out as an almost total communication 

breakdown between parents and daughter, between young and old, and 

between siblings. The tension is most palpable between parents' 

expectations and the young women's own values and ideals 


Hot wax / dir. by Andy Spitz. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Left Eye Productions, 2004. - Video : VHS; 50 

min. This film is part of the series 'Project 10 - real stories of a free South Africa' . Ten years after the 

abrogation of the apartheid administation this project was started in remembrance of this event under the 

auspices of SABC1, NFVF, and the Maurits Binger Film Institute in the Netherlands, where also the 

Ministries of Education, Culture & Science and that of Foreign Affairs offered support, along with NiZA. The 

project resulted in a number of documentaries that provide often very personal portrayals of life in presentday 

South Africa. Also on VZA 549. English subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Johannesburg * black business * black economic empowerment * women 

Summary: 

Ivy Lekaje is a beautician. She runs her own business and is highly 

successful. Year in, year out, she makes the rich 'ladies' in 

Johannesburg look and feel great. She started her career when it 

was illegal for black women in South Africa to work as beauticians 

for this sector of society. Today she has had a solid and regular 

client base for years. She knows and shares with them the most 

intimate details of their lives. She laughs with them and cries 

with them. She gossips with them, cares about them, and gives them 

sound advice. She even puts them into their car and starts the 

engine so that their manicured nails don't get scuffed. To her clients, 

she is the best therapist around: rejuvenating both body and spirit. 


Nabantwa Bam = With my children / dir. by Victor Khulile Nxumalo. - South Africa, Johannesburg : SABC, 

2004. - Video : VHS; 42 min. 








Keywords: * South Africa * mothers * children * social differentiation 

Summary: 

The film explores the lives of Miles, the articulate, 

well-travelled and still upwardly mobile younger brother, and 

Nhlanhla, the older, more township-savvy brother who is unemployed 

and homebound. But what distinguishes Miles and Nhlanhla is more 

than just the fact that one is seemingly successful and the other a 

victim of circumstances. They were born of a formidable matriarch 

whose extended family loves her dearly. In Mama Beatrice there is a 

life clearly overflowing, with evidence of a freedom claimed and 

lived long before she was 'allowed to'. Her values shape her 

children and their children's attitudes to life. The brothers are 

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aware that they are two sides of the same spinning coin - 

ultimately, one person's freedom is possible because of another's sacrifice. 


Solly's story / dir. by Asivhanzi Mathaba. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Luna Films ; Asi-B Films, 2004. - 







Africa. Also on VZA 548. English subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * social-economic conditions * Venda (geogr.) * rural communities * families 

Summary: 

Solly Luvhengo, a young man from deep rural Venda in the Northern 

Province, has defied the odds to survive poverty and 

marginalisation, and seems poised for even greater things. The only 

child of a single mother in rural Venda, sickly Solly was brought 

up by his grandparents and nurses with a vision of becoming a 

soccer star. He turned his hand to coaching when a regular coach 

couldn't make a game, and found his niche coaching youngsters. When 

freedom came for South Africa in 1994, Solly reaped the benefits. 

The new football dispensation now searches for talent beyond the 

boundaries of the big cities, and black footballers' skills are 

finally being recognised. Solly is appointed assistant national 

coach for two South African teams and begins construction in his 

home village on a new house for his girlfriend and extended family. 

The dream appears complete but reality intrudes. 


Death of apartheid: the whites' last stand / ed. Dan Carter, Lynda J. Fowke, Victoria Price. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : VPRO, 2004. - Video : VHS; 50 min. Part of the 145 min. version that is on VZA 410 




Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * ANC * NP * IFP * AWB * Terre'Blanche, Eugene Ney (1941-) * 

Viljoen, Constand (1933-) * Bophuthatswana * politically motivated crime * political violence * political 

negotiations * army * police * radical right 

Summary: 


laatste paar jaar voor de eerste vrije verkiezingen. Deze 

aflevering gaat over de laatste moeizame onderhandelingen tussen 

ANC en NP, over "government by consensus" (NP) or "government by 

majority" (ANC). Speciaal 'bosberaad' tussen ANC en NP was nodig 

(met Roelf Meyer en Cyril Ramaphosa in de Roelf & Cyril show, zoals 

hun groeiende verstandhouding en intensief overleg werd genoemd), 

voordat de multiparty (27) conference in het World Trade Centre kon 

starten. Ook aandacht voor de laatste oprispingen van extreem 

rechts en nog extremer rechts, in de personen van Constant Viljoen 

van het Afrikaner Volksfront en Eugene Terre'Blanche van de AWB, en 

de allianties die zij probeerden te smeden, teneinde een eigen 

boerenstaat te verkrijgen, met Buthelezi, leider van de IFP en 

Mangope, president van het thuisland Bophuthatswana, dat na de 

verkiezingen zou worden opgeheven. Veel interviewfragmenten met de hoofdrolspelers. 


Interview met ex-askari [descript. title]. - South Africa, Johannesburg : [s.n.], 1990 [?]. - Video : VHS; 

31min. 


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Keywords: * South Africa * intelligence services * military * covert operations * askari * violent crime * political 

violence * Southern Africa 

Summary: 

An anonymous film with an interview with an ex-askari who talks 

about his recrutement, training and actions. 


Cedric Mayson [descript. title] / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1983 [?]. - Video : VHS; 8 min. 

Start: na 44 min. Dutch comment and subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * political prisoners * political refugees * Christians 

* police officers * torture * white South Africans 

Summary: 

Interview met de net uit Zuid-Afrika gevluchte blanke dominee 

Cedric Mayson, die op borgtocht vrij was voor zijn proces wegens 

hoogverraad. Over de wijze waarop de politie in Zuid-Afrika met 

politieke gevangenen omgaat (marteling). 


Belonging / dir. by Minky Schlesinger, Kethiwe Ngcobo ; De Donderdag Documentaire. - South Africa, 

Johannesburg : Fuzebox Productions ; SABC, 2004. - Video : VHS; 52 min. 






Africa. (Dutch version "Nergens Thuis" on VZA 520). English subtitles. Also on VZA 521 



Summary: 






Ikhaya / dir. by Omelga Hlengiwe Mthiyane. - South Africa, Cape Town : Fine Line Productions, 2004. - 







Africa. Start: na 53 min. English subtitles. Also on VZA 535 


Keywords: * South Africa * KwaZulu-Natal * Zulu (people) * Zulu culture * traditional culture * political 

violence * traditional health care * housing * women-headed households 

Summary: 

"The idea of the film came about after many years of watching my 

aunt, Zimbili Kamanga, agonise over the loss of her house - a place 

that for many years was home to her. This was a forced displacement 

due to violence that, for almost a decade, engulfed Bhambayi, the 

village she lived in. It tore me apart to hear her lament about the 

loss. Therefore, when an opportunity arose to work on the 'Project 

10' project, the idea crossed my mind. I wanted my aunt to find 

closure, healing and to be able to move on with life. Fortunately, 

this was possible because Bhambayi, which had gained notoriety for 

being a war zone ten years ago, has found its own closure. It is 

now a vibrant and peaceful place." 


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My Yeoville / dir. by Sello Molefe. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Fuzebox Productions ; SABC, 2004. - 

Video : VHS; 53 min Start: na 103 min. This film is part of the series 'Project 10 - real stories of a free South 

Africa' . Ten years after the abrogation of the apartheid administation this project was started in 

remembrance of this event under the auspices of SABC1, NFVF, and the Maurits Binger Film Institute in the 

Netherlands, where also the Ministries of Education, Culture & Science and that of Foreign Affairs offered 

support, along with NiZA. The project resulted in a number of documentaries that provide often very personal 

portrayals of life in present-day South Africa. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Yeoville 

Summary: 

"My main challenge in making this film was to keep on trying to 

stay out of the film visually, so I decided that I will not appear 

in this film. Only my family and my voice will be present in the 

film ", says Sello Molefe, director. He succeeded. 


Being Pavarotti / dir. by Odette Geldenhuys. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Angel Films, 2004. - Video : 







Africa. Alo on VZA 537. English subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Hermanus * children * classical music * social-economic conditions * arts 

education 

Summary: 

Elton Nkanunu is a black boy of 13 who sings opera in Hermanus, 

Western Cape, popular with tourists for whale sightings. His love 

of opera music begins after a cousin gives him a casssette by 

Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, and his passion leads him from 

performing solo stints at open-air festivals to opening acts for 

established opera singers from nearby Cape Town and singing for 

council officials and academics in the city. But he is black, poor, 

one of six children, with an unemployed mother who is often absent. 

Elton's quest to become an acclaimed opera singer is set against 

the backdrop of his life as a teenager, being harrassed by the 

authorities (who think it 's just noise) and beaten by police, who 

prefer to retain foreign tourists at the expense of local black 

busters. He jumps at the chance to get voice-training lessons from 

a music professor, and then from Mthunzi, a professional opera 

singer from Cape Town, who encourages his protégé to find his own voice. 


Nabantwa Bam = With my children / dir. by Victor Khulile Nxumalo. - South Africa, Johannesburg : SABC, 









Keywords: * South Africa * mothers * children * social differentiation 

Summary: 

The film explores the lives of Miles, the articulate, 

well-travelled and still upwardly mobile younger brother, and 

Nhlanhla, the older, more township-savvy brother who is unemployed 

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and homebound. But what distinguishes Miles and Nhlanhla is more 

than just the fact that one is seemingly successful and the other a 

victim of circumstances. They were born of a formidable matriarch 

whose extended family loves her dearly. In Mama Beatrice there is a 

life clearly overflowing, with evidence of a freedom claimed and 

lived long before she was 'allowed to'. Her values shape her 

children and their children's attitudes to life. The brothers are 

aware that they are two sides of the same spinning coin - ultimately, 

one person's freedom is possible because of another's sacrifice. 


Solly's story / dir. by Asivhanzi Mathaba. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Luna Films ; Asi-B Films, 2004. - 









Keywords: * South Africa * social-economic conditions * Venda (geogr.) * rural communities * families 

Summary: 

Solly Luvhengo, a young man from deep rural Venda in the Northern 

Province, has defied the odds to survive poverty and 

marginalisation, and seems poised for even greater things. The only 

child of a single mother in rural Venda, sickly Solly was brought 

up by his grandparents and nurses with a vision of becoming a 

soccer star. He turned his hand to coaching when a regular coach 

couldn't make a game, and found his niche coaching youngsters. When 

freedom came for South Africa in 1994, Solly reaped the benefits. 

The new football dispensation now searches for talent beyond the 

boundaries of the big cities, and black footballers' skills are 

finally being recognised. Solly is appointed assistant national 

coach for two South African teams and begins construction in his 

home village on a new house for his girlfriend and extended family. 

The dream appears complete but reality intrudes. 


Cinderella of the Cape Flats : the desire to be queen for a day / dir. by Jane Kennedy. - South Africa, 

Johannesburg : Penny Gaines, 2004. - Video : VHS; 56 min. English subtitles. This film is part of the series 

'Project 10 - real stories of a free South Africa' . Ten years after the abrogation of the apartheid administation 

this project was started in remembrance of this event under the auspices of SABC1, NFVF, and the Maurits 

Binger Film Institute in the Netherlands, where also the Ministries of Education, Culture & Science and that of 

Foreign Affairs offered support, along with NiZA. The project resulted in a number of documentaries that 

provide often very personal portrayals of life in present-day South Africa. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Western Cape * textile industry * factory workers * women * social-economic 

conditions * beauty contests 

Summary: 

The textile industry in Cape Town is driven by 86,000 people, 

mostly women who are often the sole wage earner in their families. 

Daily, they toil to make high quality garments that dress and 

uplift others. For one small part of the year, they get a chance to 

forget about their daily drudgery and celebrate their own beauty 

and elegant femininity by taking part in the annual Spring Queen 

pageant. Sponsored by the trade union, excitement grows as each 

contestant competes against colleagues from within the same 

company. We follow several contestants, including Beverley, from 

one of Cape Town's biggest companies as they learn to shimmy down 

the catwalk, lose their inhibitions, and to hold their own first, 

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in front of their home crowd, and then before the whole industry. 

This uplifting documentary takes us through all aspects of the 

contestant's lives. We are completely caught up in the growing 

excitement, see their expectations, hear what their colleagues have 

to say, and share their disappointments and successes. We go to 

Beverley's home, meet her family, witness the company's 

indifference, see the pride of the worker's skill, and hear 

worker's growing concern about the uncertainty of the textile 

industry. Offset against the serious socio-economic reality of the 

worker's lives - made especially insecure since 1994, and the 

opening of international trade markets that has meant an influx of 

low quality import - Cinderella of the Cape Flats is a kaleidoscope 

of fun and frivolity, masking a new economic reality in silk and sequins. 


Hot wax / dir. by Andy Spitz. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Left Eye Productions, 2004. - Video : VHS; 50 









Keywords: * South Africa * Johannesburg * black business * black economic empowerment * women 

Summary: 

Ivy Lekaje is a beautician. She runs her own business and is highly 

successful. Year in, year out, she makes the rich 'ladies' in 

Johannesburg look and feel great. She started her career when it 

was illegal for black women in South Africa to work as beauticians 

for this sector of society. Today she has had a solid and regular 

client base for years. She knows and shares with them the most 

intimate details of their lives. She laughs with them and cries 

with them. She gossips with them, cares about them, and gives them 

sound advice. She even puts them into their car and starts the 

engine so that their manicured nails don't get scuffed. To her clients, 

she is the best therapist around: rejuvenating both body and spirit. 


The devil breaks my heart - 10 years later / dir. by Lederle Bosch. - South Africa, Cape Town : Idol 

Pictures, 2004. - Video : VHS; 48 min. . - (Project 10). Start: na 74 min. 






Africa. Also on VZA 533. English subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * South Africa * democratisation * social-economic conditions * youth 

Summary: 

In 1993, on the eve of South Africa's transition to democracy, 

Zackie Achmat and Jack Lewis made "Die Duiwel Maak My Hart So 

Seer". The title came from a song sung by the children of Dammert 

Street, Bellville South. Despite the joy of the singing, the song 

reflected children's understanding that things were far from 

perfect in the world as they experienced it. In the 52 minute 

video, children from four different communities - Bellville South, 

Ysterplaat, Khayelitsha (all in Cape Town) and Willows in present 

day North West Province - talk about things that affect their 

lives: food, play, care, punishment, violence . and they dream 

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about what they want to be one day. 10 years later, we go back to 

discover what has happened in their lives. The Devil Breaks My 

Heart - Ten Years Later is a unique opportunity to take four 

families from very different backgrounds - urban coloured; informal 

settlement African; urban white working class and rural African, 

and in a very personal way, investigate the impact of democracy on 

South Africa's children. We want to follow up on key children who 

appeared in the 1993 programme and explore how they have grown up 

in the new South Africa. The Devil Breaks My Heart - Ten Years 

Later, provides a unique opportunity to create a video snapshot of 

how a diverse group of ordinary young South Africans have experienced 

the journey from the eve of first democratic election in 1994 to today. 


Umgidi = The celebration / prod. and dir. by Gillian Schütte, Sipho Singiswa. - South Africa, Johannesburg : 

[s.n.], 2004. - Video : VHS; 74 min. . - (Project 10) 






Africa. English subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * South Africa * traditional culture * circumcision * adoption * western world * rituals 

Summary: 

When Sipho, a former Robben Islander of 5 years, gets a call from 

his father to help convince his brother to get circumcised, he 

procrastinates. Then he gets an anguished letter from his brother 

Vuyo, informing him that he finally discovered that he was adopted 

at birth. Vuya is in crisis and is convinced that Sipho knows the 

truth about his biological parents. Sipho returns to Cape Town to 

help his brother. Simultaneously Sipho decides that it's time to 

perform the ceremony that announces to his clan his own 

circumcision. Sipho was circumcised on Robben Island, but has 

subsequently failed to perform the ceremony - a fact that has been 

plaguing him for years. Directed by Sipho's wife, this is an 

intimate journey into the heart of a traditional family being 

challenged by the contradictions of modernity and tradition. While 

Sipho struggles to help his brother to accept his roots, his 

brother desperately wants to escape tradition. 


The meaning of the buffalo / dir. by Karin Slater. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Mafisa Media ; SABC, 

2004. - Video : VHS; 62 min. 




Education, Culture and Science and that of Foreign Affairs offered support, along with NiZA. The project 




Keywords: * South Africa * rural areas * rural communities * traditional culture * indigenous knowledge 

Summary: 

The people of the rural village Lekgophung call themselves Baletes, 

people of the buffalo. This film tries to find out what the meaning 

of this totem is for the Baletes, but they don't seem to know, and 

haven't ever seen a buffalo alive. Still, it resulted in a 

beautiful film about rural life in South Africa. 


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Mix / dir. by Rudzani Dzuguda. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Dzuguda Productions, 2004. - Video : VHS; 

54 min. Start: na 110 min. English subtitles 








Keywords: * South Africa * girls * hiphop * parents 

Summary: 

Freedom in South Africa after 1994 means the freedom for Tumelo and 

Dominique to express themselves in ways that genuinely baffle their 

parents. For these two female, hip-hop disc jockeys from rather 

conservative backgrounds, 1994 signalled the beginning of a journey 

to personal freedom. On the other hand, Tumelo's endearingly 

nostalgic father sees this as the point at which the youth became 

aware of their rights, causing society's values to crumble. In Mix, 

the tension between attaining personal freedom and satisfying 

family obligations is played out as an almost total communication 

breakdown between parents and daughter, between young and old, and 

between siblings. The tension is most palpable between parents' 

expectations and the young women's own values and ideals 


Through the eyes of my daughter / dir. by Zulfah Otto-Sallies. - South Africa, Cape Town : O'dacity Films, 

2004. - Video : VHS; 50 min. . - (Project 10). Start: na 62 min. 








Keywords: * South Africa * Cape Town * Coloureds * mothers * girls * social conditions * muslims 

Summary: 

Although they grew up in the same Muslim community of the Bo-Kaap, 

their political and financial realities are different. Filmmaker 

Zulfah Otto-Sallies is intrigued by her thoroughly modern, teenage 

daughter and what she feels about her family, community and the New South Africa. 


Dying to breath / Directed by Gillian Schütte, Sipho Singiswa. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Hands On 



Keywords: * South Africa * Durban * transnational corporations * Sasolburg * environmental pollution * 

environmental activists * Shell * Sasol * Engen * BP * asthma * cancer * skin allergies * codes of conduct* * 

civil society * environmental policy 

Summary: 

Documentary about evironmental pollution in Durban and Sasolburg by 

oil companies like Shell, BP, SAPREF, Engen and Sasol. Mainly about 

air pollution and pipe leaks. Views and comments from ao Bobby 

Peek, director of groundWork, an environmental ngo, who critisizes 

the government for lack of action, like monitoring the emission 

levels of the oil industry; Trevor Ngwane of New Social Movement, 

who critisizes the multinationals for their double standards (how 

they operate in Europe and Africa); Richard Parkes, managing 

director of SAPREF, who claims they produce safe enough; Narend 

Singh, minister of Agriculture and Environmental Affairs, KZN, who 

states that government has a "broad responsibility" and that new 

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environmental legislation which will provide government with a 

framework to act upon is on its way. 


Hartseer land : extreem rechts in Zuid-Afrika / reg. Saskia Vredeveld ; montage Leo de Boer ; cam. Deen 

van der Zaken. - Nederland, Amsterdam ; Nederland, Hilversum : CinéTé Filmproduktie ; NOS, 1991. - Video 

: VHS; 48 min. Start: na 50 min. Nederlandse ondertitels. 

CinéTé Filmproduktie b.v. in co-produktie met NOS-televisie. Tape MC 1329. Also on VZA 297 


Keywords: * South Africa * AWB * Afrikaners (people) 

Summary: 

Documentaire over blank extreem rechts in Zuid-Afrika en hoe ze 

reageren op de veranderingen in hun land. Aan bod komen de 

Afrikaner Weerstand Beweging (AWB) van Eugene TerreBlanche, De 

Boerenstaatpartij van Robert van Tonder, met als gewapende tak de 

Boerenweerstand beweging (BWB), Carel Boshoff en André Putter, die 

een blanke Afrikaner Volksstaat, Orandeë, willen oprichten in het 

noord-oosten van Zuid-Afrika (volgens Putter staan er 75.000 Urkers 

klaar om naar die nieuwe staat te emigreren). Verder beelden over 

de fascinatie met wapens, die alle Boeren kenmerkt. 


Een zwarte toekomst / reg. Saskia Vredeveld. - Nederland, Amsterdam ; Nederland, Hilversum : CinéTé 

Filmproduktie ; NOS, 1992 ¸. - Video : VHS; 11 min. Start: na 98 min. Dutch subtitles. 

Tape MC 1329. Also onVZA 297 


Keywords: * South Africa * whites * suicide * murders 

Summary: 

Documentaire over de zelf- en gezinsmoorden die door blanke 

Zuid-Afrikaners gepleegd worden omdat ze onzeker zijn over de 

toekomst in het 'nieuwe' Zuid-Afrika. 


Je weet nooit of je morgen weer wakker word / samenst. Dolf Reijmers ; prod. en research Ingrid 

Gavshon ; cam. Peter Tischhauser. - Nederland, Hilversum : KRO/RKK, 1992. - Video : VHS; 47 min. Start: 

na 137 min. Dutch comment and subtitles when needed. Tape MC 1378. Also on VZA 319 


Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto * women * police * housing * unemployment * violence * living conditions 

Summary: 

Documentaire over het dagelijks leven in Soweto van twee zwarte 

vrouwen. Aan bod komen oa de huisvesting, het geweld (van politie, 

hostels, in treinen), werkeloosheid, onderwijs. 


Van Kenia naar Kaapstad: Zambia / reg. Anette Kentie ; samenst. en eindred. Aad van den Heuvel. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : KRO, 1993. - Video : VHS; 29 min. Start: na 163 min. 

Dutch subtitles when necessary. Tape MC 1325 


Keywords: * Zambia * political transformation * HIV/AIDS * orphans * development aid * rural-urban relations 

* rural development * rural poverty * multi-party politics * freedom of the press * aid programmes * agriculture 

Summary: 

Since the introduction of multi-party politics in Zambia, the press 

freedom has improved a great deal. Dutch journalist Aad van den 

Heuvel is traveling throug Zambia and visits a number of (Dutch) 

development projects in areas concerning education, HIV/AIDS, 

orphanages, agricultural development. 


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Afrika : Kolwane Mantu - portret van een zwarte Zuidafrikaanse musicus / reg. en prod. door Ingrid 

Gavshon. - Nederland, Hilversum ; South Africa, Johannesburg : IKON ; Free Film Makers, 1992. - Video : 

VHS; 11 min. Start: na 140 min. Dutch subtitles. Also on VZA 287. Tape MC 1352 


Keywords: * South Africa * classical music * Soweto * youth * vocational education 

Summary: 

Portrait of the black violin player/conductor Kolwane Mantu, who 

also teaches music to children in Soweto, the African Youth Ensemble. 


Mord und Totschlag in Südafrika : Christen und Apartheid heute / ein Film von Kevin Harris. - South 

Africa, Johannesburg ; Germany, München : ZDF ; Kevin Harris Productions, 1993. - Video : VHS; 43 min. 

Start: na 57 min. Tape MC 1372. German voice over and comment 


Keywords: * South Africa * townships * church and society * blacks * violent crime * political violence * 

national security 

Summary: 

Ein Dokümentarfilm über die Ursachen des Gewalts unter der schwarzen 

Bevölkerung in den Townships Südafrikas, von deren doch viele christlich sind. 


Verbeteringe in wording / samenst. en reg. Hans Bosscher. - Nederland, Amsterdam : VPRO ; Hans 

Bosscher Produkties, 1992 ¸. - Video : VHS; 43 min. Start: na 140 min.. Also on VZA 285. Tape MC 1345 

Een co-productie van VPRO en Hans Bosscher Produkties 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * festivals * cultural cooperation 

Summary: 

Op uitnodiging van Het Vrije Weekblad, Komittee Zuidelijk Afrika en 

ANC reisden een aantal Nederlandse artiesten, waaronder toneelgroep 

DNA en Freek de Jonge, naar Johannesburg en Kaapstad, om deel te 

nemen aan de culturele manifestatie 'Breaking the Barriers' die als 

doel had de culturele banden tussen Zuid-Afrika en Nederland aan te 

halen. De film geeft een impressie van het bezoek tegen de 

achtergrond van het net gehouden referendum van De Klerk, met 

beelden van een rondleiding door Soweto, een ontmoeting met Wally 

Serote, een interviewtje met Boesak over de consequenties van de 

uitslag van het referendum, en fragmenten van optredens van Freek de Jonge. 


De goudslaven / dir. Don Edkins, Mike Schlömer ; Ned. bewerking Marcel Quartel. - Germany, Freiburg : 

Medienwerkstatt Freiburg, 1992. - Video : VHS; 52 min. + see: filmalfabet 

Start: na 127 min. Tape MC 1374. Dutch subtitled 



Summary: 

A film about the life of migrant workers from Lesotho, working in 

the President Steyn Gold Mine. About the dangers at work and how 

the life in single-sex hostels destroys their family life. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 560 * German version on VZA 330, VZA 305, VSA 008, Eng. versie op 

VZA 325. 

Sturm über Südafrika: der blutige Weg in die Freiheit / dir. Alexander von Sobeck, Rolf Pflücke. - 

Deutschland, Mainz : ZDF, 1993. - Video : VHS; 45 min. Start: na 103 min. Tape MC 1394 


Keywords: * South Africa * KwaZulu-Natal * Boipatong massacre (1992) * Bisho massacre (1992) * political 

violence * military * Inkatha * ANC * army 

Summary: 

Ein Film über das Gewalt zwischen Inkatha und ANC in der Townships 

rund Johannesburg, in Kwazulu-Natal und in Boipatong und Ciskei 

(Bisho), und über die Rolle der Sicherheitskräfte Südafrikas in der Streit. 

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Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 561 * Also on VZA 360 

Moord op Chris Hani / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1993. - Video : VHS; 8 min. 

Dutch subtitles when necessary Tape MC 1395 


Keywords: * South Africa * Hani, Martin Thembisile (Chris) (1942-93) * extrajudicial killing * political violence 

* civil unrest 

Summary: 

Item over de moord op Chris Hani en de onlusten die daarna 

losbarsten. De regering wil de leger- en politiemacht met 3000 man 

uitbreiden, maar het ANC wil eerst een gezamelijke leiding over het 

veiligheidsapparaat realiseren, omdat ze onderdeel van het probleem 

vormt. Ook met oude interviewfragmenten met Hani zelf, naar 

aanleiding van het Bisho massacre. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 562 * Ook op VZA 342 

Snapshots van een sluipmoordenaar / Warzone. - Netherlands, Hilversum : BNN, 2005. - Video : VHS; 45 

min. Dutch subtitles and comment. Also on VZA 589 


Keywords: * South Africa * HIV/AIDS * HIV/AIDS medicines * Hillbrow * Cape Flats * prison conditions * 

common prisoners * health policy * juvenile justice system * gangs 

Summary: 

"Snapshots van een sluipmoordenaar" volgt de Nederlandse fotograaf 

Adriaan Backer in zijn stijd tegen HIV/AIDS, nu in Zuid-Afrika: 

Ivory Park en Hillbrow bij Jo'burg, waar hij de thuiszorg van AIDS 

patienten, en het werk van Twilight Children, een locale ngo die 

AIDS wezen helpt, bekijkten Cape Flats en de Hawequa 

jeugdgevangenis in Wellington bij Cape Town, waar hij met gangs in 

en buiten de gevangenis praat. De gebruikelijke verhalen, nu met 

extra aandacht voor de gevangenisgangs die vaak van nieuwkomers sex 

eisen zodat eigenlijk iedereen de doodstraf krijgt. Met kritiek op 

het AIDS beleid van Mbeki, die te weinig AIDS-remmers beschikbaar stelt. 


Vijf x Zuid-Afrika / Panorama. - België, Brussel : BRT, 1991. - Video : VHS; 31 min. Start: na 33 min. 

Een bewerking van een reportage van Roel van Broekhoven voor de VPRO. Also on VZA 235 


Keywords: * South Africa * history * Blood River, battle of (1838) * land claims * church and society * church 

and state * political prisoners * tourism 

Summary: 

Dit programma geeft een overzicht van de Zuid-Afrikaanse 

maatschappij in 5 hoofdstukken aan de vooravond van De Klerks 

referendum voor blanken of hij door moet gaan met hervormingen: 1) 

de geschiedenis; 2) de grond; 3) de kerk; 4) de haat; 5) de toekomst. 


Afrika : Fee en Bonnie - portret van twee vrouwelijke kunstenaars in Zuid-Afrika / prod. and dir. by 

Ingrid Gavshon. - Nederland, Hilversum ; South Africa, Johannesburg : IKON ; Free Film Makers, 1992 ¸. - 

Video : VHS; 7 min. Start: na 79 min. Tape MC 1347. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * artists * women 

Summary: 

Fee is a white female and Bonnie black; the latter used to be the 

servant of the former, but now they are both artists (ceramics) and 

they won a price together. 


Video-brief aan Major : alles wat u over het 'nieuwe'Zuid-Afrika wilde weten maar niet durfde te vragen / 

reg. en prod. Francis Gerard ; uitvoering Pieter-Dirk Uys, ... [et al.]. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1991 ¸. - 

Video : VHS; 49 min. Tape MC 1347. Originally a Totem production for BBC, ¸1991. Dutch subtitles 

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Keywords: * South Africa * Uys, Pieter-Dirk (1945- ) * theatre 

Summary: 

A cabaret production with Pieter-Dirk Uys as Evita Bezuidenhout, 

together with Lizz Meiring and Ramaloe Makene. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VZA 565 * Also on VZA 285 

Mandela over sancties, interim-regering en PAC / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 

1992. - Video : VHS; 5 min. Start: na 35 min. Dutch subtitles. Tape MC 1314 


Keywords: * South Africa * political negotiations * transitional government * international sanctions * PAC 

Summary: 

Item waarin Mandela het heeft over wanneer welke sancties kunnen 

worden opgeheven, en over het PAC dat zich uit de onderhandelingen 

heeft teruggetrokken, iets waar Mandela niet al te zwaar aan lijkt te tillen. 


Mixed feelings / reg. Karin Junger. - Nederland, Hilversum : Humanistisch Verbond, 1992. - Video : VHS; 55 

min. Start: na 41 min. Tape MC 1314. Also on VSA 010 


Keywords: * South Africa * ethnicity * ethnic relations * gender relations * apartheid system 

Summary: 

Een Nederlands gemengd stel (zwarte man, blanke vrouw) gaat in 

Zuid-Afrika op zoek naar een gemengd stel daar dat drie jaar eerder 

(1988) veel opzien baarde in Zuid-Afrika toen het blanke meisje bij 

haar zwarte vriendje introk. Ze onderzoeken hoe de twee naar hun 

leven kijken en wat ze moeten inleveren om bij elkaar te blijven, 

en hoe daar door hun omgeving op gereageerd werd. Door het 

meewerken aan het maken van de documentaire kwamen de hoofdpersonen 

erachter dat ze beter weer uit elkaar konden gaan. 


Portret van Eugene Terre'Blanche / Nick Broomfield ; Reporter. - Nederland, Hilversum : KRO, 1994. - 

Video : VHS; 30 min. Dutch subtitled. Tape MC1484 


Keywords: * South Africa * AWB * Terre'Blanche, Eugene Ney (1941-) 

Summary: 

Documentary about journalist Nick Broomfield who tries to arrange 

an interview with AWB leader Terre'Blanche, two months before the 

first democratic elections in South Africa will take place. 

Remarks: Picture quality : goodenough * VZA 556 

Van Kaapstad tot Cairo : Krijgers en medicijnmannen / Filmed and dir. by Michael Davie. - Netherlands, 

Hilversum : RVU/ educatieve omroep, 1999. - Video : Originallyproduced in 1998 by Africa Odyssey 

Productions; 26 min. Dutch subtitled. Tape MC 1711 


Keywords: * South Africa * Cape Town * Johannesburg * police * violence 

Summary: 

In deel één van de serie 'Afrika: van Kaapstad tot Caïro' reist 

Michael Davie door Zuid-Afrika. Het voornaamste thema is de 

politie, en het vele geweld in Zuid-Afrika. De 'vliegende brigade' 

(een politie-eenheid in Johannesburg) wordt gevolgd en mag 

uitleggen dat in het nieuwe Zuid-Afrika de politie niet langer 

racistisch is, maar dat ze zoveel geweld gebruiken omdat er ook 

veel geweld tegen hun wordt gebruikt. 


Een videodagboek : Nontombi Baswana / samenst. Tinus Kramer ; eindred. Lioni Schrederhof ; 

Wereldmeiden. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1997. - Video : VHS; 23 min. 

Start: na 30 min. Dutch subtitled 

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Keywords: * South Africa * Cape Town * girls * secondary schools * apartheid system * ethnic discrimination 

* gender equality 

Summary: 

Video dagboek van Nontombi Baswana, een zestienjarig meisje dat in 

Makhaya, Cape Town woont. Ze laat zien hoe ze woont, waar ze op 

school zit, wie haar beste vriendinnnen zijn, met wie ze eindeloos 

kan rondhangen in kledings- en sierraadzaken, dat ze in het 

buurthuis aan toneel doet en als vrijwilliger kinderen gymles 

geeft. Ze vertelt ook dat apartheid nog niet voorbij is, er zijn 

nog steeds plekken waar alleen blanken komen en als zij er met haar 

vriendinnen loopt worden ze voor kaffer of baviaan uitgescholden. 

Later wil ze electrotechnisch ingenieur worden, ook al denken veel 

mensen in Zuid-Afrika dat dat alleen voor mannen is. 


De discussie : referendum Zuid-Afrika / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1992. - 

Video : VHS; 13 min. Start: na 99 min. Tape MC 1316 


Keywords: * South Africa * constitutional change * constitutional assemblies * political negotiations * 

referendums * political violence * police 

Summary: 

Discussie in Kenmerk tussen Nothnagel (ambassadeur Zuid-Afrika) en 

Carl Niehaus, (perswoordvoerder van het ANC), over de openingsrede 

van het parlementaire jaar door de Klerk. Hij roept op niet langer 

de politie de schuld te geven voor het geweld in de zwarte 

townships, maar ze juist dankbaar te zijn voor hun inzet. Tevens 

kondigt hij het referendum aan waarin blanken kunnen aangeven of ze 

het eens zijn met de hervormingen. Betekent dit nu een veto voor de 

blanke minderheid van 5 % of niet? 


Nadine Gordimer : een leven tussen woord en daad / Directed by Martin Coenen. - België, Brussel : TV2 ; 

N&D, 1991. - Video : VHS; 45 min. Start: na 52 min. Tape MC 1315. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * literature * Gordimer, Nadine (1923- ) * memoirs (form) * interviews (form) 

* apartheid system * Nobel prize 

Summary: 

Winnares van de Nobelprijs voor literatuur Nadine Gordimer vertelt 

over haar leven en werken. 


Kapa Kunjani / cam., reg. & samenst Saskia Vredeveld. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 1994. - Video : 

VHS; 25 min. Start: na 105 min. Tape MC 1509. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * national parks * San (people) * community 

based tourism * whites * Coloureds * blacks * ethnic discrimination * ethnic integration * townships * informal 

sector * unemployment * pornography * housing * informal settlements * squatters 

Summary: 

Een rondblik door het 'Nieuwe Zuid-Afrika', waar men een 

belangrijke rol ziet weggelegd voor het toerisme als economische 

motor. Andacht voor Township tours in Langa, een township bij 

Kaapstad. Gekeken wordt naar de slechte woonomstandigheden voor 

zwarten in hostels, waar drie gezinnen in één kamer moeten wonen. 

Voor wie de townships nog te gevaarlijk wordt wordt er door blanke 

ondernemers een namaak-shebeen gebouwd in het centrum van Kaapstad. 

Ook de San zijn een toeristische trekpleister in het Kalahari 

Gemsbokpark, waar toeristen met camera's door hun huizen banjeren 

om de 'bijna uitgestorven San' (zoals ze aangeprezen worden) op 

foto of video vast te leggen. Er is ook meer ruimte voor de 

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sex-industrie in het nieuwe Zuid-Afrika, al is nog niet altijd 

duidelijk wat wel en niet wordt toegestaan. Verder aandacht voor de 

etnische vooroordelen die de diverse ethnische groepen over elkaar 

koesteren; en aandacht voor informal settlements, waar ook twee 

blanke jongens hun intrek hebben genomen (goedkoop), wat door veel 

blanken niet geaccepteerd wordt. 


Kapa Kunjani / cam., reg. & samenst Saskia Vredeveld. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 1994. - Video : 

VHS; 26 min. Start: na 156 min. Tape MC 1510. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * land rights * Nama (people) * Richtersveld * 

national parks * community based tourism * whites * unemployment * affirmative action * job reservation 

Summary: 

Na de euforie van de verkiezingen terug naar de problemen van alle 

dag: de landkwestie en werkeloosheid. Het eerste wordt 

geïllustreerd aan de hand van de Nama, die bang zijn dat het 

Richtersveld National Park hun land zal afnemen. Maar het park is 

veranderd in een community-based development project, dat de lokale 

bevolking bij het beheer wil betrekken en in de inkomsten wil laten 

delen, en ook de landrechten van de Nama erkent. Het tweede item 

wordt getoond door blanken aan het woord te laten die door de 

affirmative action, waar ze zelf soms actie voor hebben gevoerd, 

niet aan werk kunnen komen. 


Samen apart / Walter Zinzen ; Panorama. - België, Brussel : TV1, 1994. - Video : VHS; 33 min. 

Start: na 138 min. Tape MC 1493. Dutch subtitles & comment 


Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * ethnic integration * ethnic discrimination * 

local government * police * civil society 

Summary: 

Eén week voor de eerste vrije en democratische verkiezingen in 

Zuid-Afrika reist Walter Zinzen rond om te kijken hoe de integratie 

van blank en zwart op lokaal nivo erbij staat. In Pietersburg denkt 

burgemeester Pretorius dat hij op de goede weg is, er wordt al 

vergadert samen met zwarten uit de township, en die vergaderingen 

verlopen heel ordelijk. Wel denkt hij dat de beelden/schilderijen 

van Verwoerd, Vorster, Botha en de Klerk die nu nog het 

gemeentehuis sieren naar een museum moeten tegen de tijd dat er een 

zwarte burgemeester komt. Michael Mushwana, zwarte townshipbewoner 

en toekomstig raadslid vindt dat er wat betreft racisme nog niets 

veranderd is. In Franschhoek zetelt de eerste gekleurde 

burgemeester van Zuid-Afrika, Frankie Arendse, sinds 1993. Hij 

heeft het wel zwaar gehad en zou het een goed idee vinden als de 

conservatiefste blanken die niet aan het nieuwe Zuid-Afrika willen 

meewerken na de verkiezingen emigreren. In Johannesburg is een 

blank joods echtpaar de koffers aan het pakken: vanwege het geweld 

en vanwege wantrouwen in een zwarte meerderheidsregering. Van Zyl 

Slabbert, voorzitter van de Metropolitaanse kamer in Johannesburg, 

waar blank en zwart al drie jaar overleggen hoe Soweto 

administratief geïntegreerd moet worden met Johannesburg, benadrukt 

dat de integratie op lokaal niveau gestalte moet krijgen: dr 

worden de waterkranen en toiletten aangelegd en merken de mensen 

het eerste iets van veranderende levensomstandigheden. Ook nog 

aandacht voor de politie en vredessecretariaten die de burgers zelf 

oprichten om aan het geweld een einde te maken. 


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Cry freedom / prod.& dir. by Richard Attenborough. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 1994. - Video : VHS; 

150 min. Tape MC 1463. Dutch subtitlled. Originally released in 1987 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * Biko, Stephen Bantu (Steve) (1946-1977) * Woods, Donald 

(1934-2001) * feature films (form) 

Summary: 

Denzel Washington plays Biko, a former student leader who founded 

the Black Consciousness Movement in 1969 and gave up medical 

training to devote himself to the struggle. Biko's message inspired 

a generation. He is portrayed in the film is as a charismatic 

leader in the model of Martin Luther King. But though the film does 

tell Biko's story, it is essentially aimed at white audiences and 

as such concerns itself more with the story of Donald Woods. Woods, 

played by Kevin Kline, was part of a group of progressive South 

African journalists which helped establish truthful and objective 

press, exposing the crimes of apartheid. Cry Freedom tells the 

story of how Woods' friendship with Biko roused his political 

consciousness. Woods eventually had to flee to Lesotho on New 

Year's Eve 1977, dressed as a priest, after Biko's death. Biko died 

from brain injuries after 21 days in police detention.The movie 

divided South Africa commentators. Some said that Woods, portrayed 

in the film as a prominent member of the white liberal 

establishment, would have been a target for Biko's campaigns. 

Others wondered why a film that was supposed to tell the story of a 

black civil rights leader focused so much on his white friend. But 

most agreed that the film, particularly the scenes of schoolchildren 

uprising in Soweto, packed a powerful emotional punch. 


White extremists / Ingrid Gavshon, Marijke Vreeburg ; Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 

1994. - Video : VHS; 23 min. Start: na 106 min. Dutch comment and subtitles. Tape MC 1466 


Keywords: * South Africa * AWB * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * political violence * Afrikaners (people) 

* radical right 

Summary: 

Item over de angsten van extreem rechts nu de verkiezingen beginnen 

te naderen. De zwarten zijn op hun beurt weer bang voor wat extreem 

rechts qua geweld nog zal uithalen tot aan de verkiezinjgen. 


Daan de Wet: Boer en Afrikaner / samenst. Dolf Reijmers ; prod. en research Ingrid Gavshon ; cam. Peter 

Tischhauser. - Nederland, Hilversum : KRO/RKK, 1992. - Video : VHS; 44 min. 

Start: na 110 min. Dutch subtitles. Tape MC 1382 


Keywords: * South Africa * Afrikaners (people) * Free State 

Summary: 

Film over het leven van een Afrikaner familie in Lindley in Oranje Vrijstaat, 

en hun angsten voor de toekomst nu de regering met het ANC onderhandelt. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 576 * Also on tape VSA 009 

Albertina Sisulu / eindred. Dolf Reijmers ; research and prod. Ingrid Gavshon. - Nederland, Hilversum ; 

South Africa, Johannesburg : KRO/RKK ; Free Film Makers, 1993. - Video : VHS; 50 min. 

Start: na 115 min. Dutch subtitles. Tape MC 1415 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * Sisulu, Albertina Nontsikelelo (1918 -) * ANC Women's 

League 

Summary: 

Albertina Sisulu tells about her life under the apartheid system 

and about the work she's doing for the ANC Women's League. 


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Desmond Tutu en de TRC / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1996. - Video : VHS; 23 min. 

Start: na 162 min. Tape MC 1633. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Tutu, Desmond Mpilo (1931- ) * Truth and Reconciliation Commission * 

extrajudicial killing * apartheid system * anti-apartheid resistance * Biko, Stephen Bantu (Steve) (1946-1977) 

Summary: 

Item over Desmond Tutu, voorzitter van de Truth and Reconcilciation 

Commission (TRC), en het werk van de TRC, aan de hand van twee 

cases: de 'Gugulethu seven' en de moord op Steve Biko. 


Zwart zijn in Zuid-Afrika / reg. Dirk Dumon ; montage Guido Paredis ; Document. - België, Brussel : BRTN, 

1996. - Video : VHS; 51 min. Start: na 125 min..Tape MC 1631. Nederlands commentaar en ondertitels 


Keywords: * South Africa * arts and culture * social issues 

Summary: 

Een documentaire over (voornamelijk) zwarte beeldend kunstenaars in 

Zuid-Afrika, en hoe ze zich laten inspireren door de maatschappij 

waarin ze leven. Kunstenaars uit de townships rond Kaapstad en 

Johannesburg, traditionele christelijke beeldhouwers uit Venda, 

muurschilderingen van de Ndebele (Betty Mahlangu) en Tswana (Helen 

Sibidi), en Zulu kunst. Veel aandacht voor de rol van de kunst in 

de strijd tegen Apartheid, en hoe die strijd ook nu nog als 

inspiratiebron functioneert. Kunstenaars die voorbijkomen zijn oa: 

Willie Bester, Abraham Le Roux, Billy Mandidi, Azwi Magoro, Paul 

Thavhana, Owen Ndou, Freddy Ramabulana, Phillip Rikhotso, Lionel 

Davis, Sophie Peters, Stephen Khoza, Thomas Kgope, Patrick Ngcobo. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 579 * Also on: VZA 427 (in black/white) 

Vergeten of vergeven / reg. Robert Jongbloed ; Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : KRO ; IKON ; RKK, 

1994. - Video : VHS; 30 min. Start: na 152 min. Tape MC 1404. Dutch subtitles and comment 


Keywords: * South Africa * Ethiopia * Chile * Argentina * Cambodia * Chile * Yugoslavia * truth and 

reconciliation * war crimes * crimes against humanity * human rights violations * impunity* * truth and 

reconciliation * amnesty * prosecution 

Summary: 

Een Kenmerk uitzending gewijd aan het omgaan met het pijnlijke 

verleden in landen waar een geweldadig regime oorlogsmisdaden, 

misdaden tegem de mensheid, en mensenrechtenschendingen heeft 

gepleegd. Als voorbeelden worden Zuid-Afrika, Ethiopië, Chili, 

Argentinië, Cambodja en Nieuw Guinea aangehaald. Slachtoffers en 

deskundigen komen aan het woord. Bisschop Tutu legt uit waarom 

Zuid-Afrika voor de strategie van waarheid en verzoening (= amnestie) 

kiest. Pierre Sané, directeur-generaal van Amnesty International, legt 

uit waarom het belangrijk is dat de daders worden berecht. 


The Swenkas / dir. by Jeppe Ronde. - London : National Geographic Television and Film, 2005. - Video : 

VHS; 87 min. Cosmo Film, 2004. Dutch subtitled 


Keywords: * South Africa * Zulu (people) * fashion * competitions* * working class 

Summary: 

Sfeervolle documentaire over de Swenkas, een groep Zulu-arbeiders 

die zowel in Johannesburg, waar ze werken, als in KwazuluNatal, 

waar hun families wonen, op zaterdag wedstrijden houden wie het 

best gekleed gaat en het meest stijlvol is. Schitterende pakken, 

met alle regalia als manchetknopen, dasspelden en horloges. Soms 

alleen om de eer, soms om geld, een koe of een horloge. 


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A town in Africa / Filmed by Michael Maclear. - UK, London : National Geographic Channel, 2006. - Video : 

VHS; 120 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Eastern Cape * ethnic relations * housing * poverty * unemployment * secondary 

education * townships * families * social differentiation * land policy 

Summary: 

Michael Maclear travels trough South Africa, where he worked as a 

journalist in the 1950s and 1960s, to visit his family (white 

english-speaking), and see how the country is doing in it's second 

decade under majority rule. In his opinion the most suprising 

change is the widening class division among the blacks. Though 

there is a growing black middle class, the poorest have only got 

poorer. Still 75% of the population is living in township-ghetto's 

or worse.Maclear is also shocked by the fact that there is still 

no contact between the different ethnic groups. Most whites claim 

they are optimistic about the future, but among the farmers the 

greatest fear is land expropriation. 


Zaterdag is voor de doden / Lies Niezen, Lee-Ann Cotton ; Tegenlicht. - Nederland, Amsterdam : VPRO ; 

Selfmadefilms, 2006. - Video : VHS; 50 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto * HIV/AIDS * HIV/AIDS medicines * poverty * funerals * graves * black 

economic empowerment * youth * sex education 

Summary: 

Zuid-Afrika telt ca. 46 miljoen inwoners. Aangenomen wordt dat op 

dit moment 6.3 miljoen Zuid-Afrikanen HIV-besmet zijn, in 2003 

bedroeg dat aantal nog 5.3 miljoen. Jaarlijks sterven ca. 350.000 

Zuid-Afrikanen aan de gevolgen van Aids. Hierdoor floreert de 

begrafenisindustrie en barsten de begraafplaatsen uit hun voegen. 

Verreweg de meeste begrafenissen vinden op zaterdag plaats omdat de 

familie het zich niet kan veroorloven op een werkdag vrijaf te 

nemen. Alleen al op Avalon, de oudste en grootste begraafplaats van 

Soweto, gaan er iedere zaterdag zo'n 800 doden de grond in. 

Duizenden mensen trekken dan door de poort en er spelen zich 

steevast chaotische taferelen af. Insiders zeggen dat Avalon eind 

2006 vol zal zijn. Alleen in Soweto zijn er al meer dan honderd 

begrafenisondernemers. Met twee van hen maken we in de film nader 

kennis: Elizabeth Molefe is eigenares van Rebafeti Funeral Parlour, 

een klein bedrijf dat slechts vier begrafenissen per week 

afhandelt. Bafana Sihlali is manager van Kay Vee Funeral Home, zijn 

zaak loopt als een trein. Op een normale zaterdag verzorgt hij zo'n 

80 uitvaarten. Met hulp van goede relaties sloot Sihali bovendien 

een lucratief contract met de overheid af om de talrijke naamloze 

Aids-doden te begraven. Deze paupers zijn veelal verstoten vanwege 

het Aids stigma of werden door familieleden niet geclaimd omdat die 

de begrafenis niet kunnen betalen. De lijken worden door Sihlali 

opgehaald bij de mortuaria van ziekenhuizen en politiebureaus. Hij 

verdient 395 Rand (ca. 50 Euro) per overledene. Niet slecht voor 

een begrafenis die in feite niet meer behelst dan het graven en 

vullen van een gat in de grond. De Zoeloe-meisjes Minky (16) en 

Peaches (17) belichamen in de film de jonge generatie van Soweto. 

Het lijkt onvermijdelijk dat zij gezien hun riskante leefwijze en 

de gebrekkige voorlichting op termijn aanleiding zullen zijn tot 

weer een begrafenis op Avalon. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 583 * English version on DZA 008 

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The spirit of Malombo / dir. by David Max Brown. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Maxi-D TV Productions, 

1999. - Video : VHS; 54 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * jazz * history; 1960s * Mamelodi 

Summary: 

Come on a journey to the root of Malombo music, and to the 

emergence in 1964 of The Malombo Jazz Men, who are now in their 

late sixties but still producing music and challenging the public 

to listen up. Abbey Cindi, Julian Bahula and Philip Tabane, by 

creating the Malombo sound, established Africa once again as the 

seed core of international jazz, and inspired a generation of 

musicians to follow in their footsteps. Vusi Mahlasela, now an 

international star in his own right, makes a personal performance 

and talks freely of his influence from Malombo music, "we must 

touch the past to connect to the present so we can make love to the 

future." Witness the rise to international fame of Philip Tabane, 

who reaches new acclaim as each new decade dawns. In 1998, he 

became known as 'Dr Malombo', after being awarded an honorary 

doctorate in the philosophy of music, and in the same year won the 

prize for best single at the South African Music Awards. Follow the 

journey of Julian Bahula, to a life of exile in England, and the 

formation of 'Jabula ' a band that fused the African spirit of 

Malombo music with the London jazz scene. Visit the township of 

Mamelodi, to find Abbey Cindi, battling to pay his rent, but still 

playing with a deep down soul that typifies the spirit of Malombo 

music. "There is no comfort for musicians," says Abbey, "especially 

Jazz musicians." Venture into the garages and halls of townships 

around Pretoria to see young musicians groomed by Abbey Cindi and 

by frequent visitor Julian Bahula. Share the moment as Philip 

Tabane, plays with his son Thabang, and as Doctor Malombo enthralls 

the audience at the Freedom Park in Mamelodi on a stage set alight 

by Moss Mogale, a guitarist who has followed in Tabane's footsteps 

and created his own inimitable jazz sound. 


The secret history of the South African Communist Party / dir. by David Max Brown. - South Africa, 

Johannesburg : SABC ; Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa ; AfricanRenaissance Media & 

Entertainment. - Video : VHS; 100 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * SACP * history; 20th century 

Summary: 

A history of the South African Communist Party, in two parts: 1] 

The red revolt; 2] Bound to strike back (starting with Umkhonto we Sizwe, 1961). 


Beautiful in Beaufort-Wes / regie Walter Stokman ; muziek&gedichten Gert Vlok Nel ; Het uur van de wolf. 

- Nederland, Amsterdam : VPRO, 2006. - Video : VHS; 54 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Karoo * rural communities 

Summary: 

Liefdevol portret van een klein dorpje, Beaufort-Wes, in de Karoo. 


Today's choices : talking about sexuality and HIV-AIDS. - 2nd ed. - South Africa, Stellenbosch : 

University of Stellenbosch, 2004. - Video : CD-rom; 42 min 


Keywords: * South Africa * youth * students * school children * HIV/AIDS * sex education 

Summary: 

A number of videoclips with situations school children might 

encounter, related to sexual behaviour. There are Afrikaner and 

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English versions of each clip. Intended for use in Life Orientation, Grades 10-11. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZA 587 * Also on CD: CZA 002 

Zulu loveletter = Ein Liebesbrief auf Zulu / prod. & dir. by Ramadan Suleman. - Germany, Baden-Baden : 

ARTE, 2006. - Video : VHS; 95 min. 

A co-production of JBA Productions (Fra), Natives At Large (SA), Hollybell (SA), FMB2 Films (Fra), ZDF 

ARTE (Ger). Original released in 2004. German subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * extrajudicial killing * Truth and Reconciliation Commission * post-traumatic stress 

disorder * death rituals * women 

Summary: 

It is ten years since the last vestiges of apartheid's political 

regime were dismantled. For the average South African, the notion 

of struggle has been all too quickly relegated to the question of 

which cellular network is better than the next. But for Thandi 

(Pamela Nomvete Marimbe), a journalist suffering from writer's 

block, a more profound struggle continues to rage within. Living in 

a nation that seems too eager to forget its past, Thandi cannot 

shake the gnawing sense of guilt that continues to alienate her 

from her own family. Her estranged thirteen-year-old daughter 

Mangi, who is deaf and dumb as a result of the beatings Thandi 

received while in police captivity during her pregnancy, remains 

closest to Thandi's mother and ex-husband. Thandi's colleague Mike 

was killed after they were both imprisoned by the police for 

witnessing the murder of a young female activist named Dineo, and 

the images of Dineo's clenched fist, Mike's gruesome death and her 

own torture still haunt her. As frustration mounts and 

communication between Thandi and Mangi breaks down, the ghosts 

begin to surface. When Dineo's mother appears, asking for Thandi's 

help in locating her daughter's body so that she can lay it to 

rest, Thandi must revisit her own past in order to bury it at last. 

This means tracing the three policemen responsible for her death 

and the disposal of her remains. Me'Tau has already found one who 

runs a rural shop and denies any involvement. Meanwhile the three 

begin a campaign of intimidation to stop her search. First they 

leave a picture of Dineo at Me'Tau's home as a warning. Then they 

run a car carrying Moola (Mangi's father) and Mangi off the road 

killing Moola while Mangi escapes uninjured. The film ends with the 

bodies of freedom fighters recovered from shallow graves receiving 

formal rites. There is no final settling of scores, but there is 

the beginning of recognition of the sacrifice made by so many. 

Meanwhile, Mangi is hoping to knit the family back together through 

the traditional collage or "Zulu love letter" she painstakingly - 

and secretly - stitches for her mother. 


Snapshots van een sluipmoordenaar / Warzone. - Netherlands, Hilversum : BNN, 2005. - Video : VHS; 45 

min. Start: na 35 min. Also on VZA 563. Dutch subtitles and comment 


Keywords: * South Africa * HIV/AIDS * HIV/AIDS medicines * Hillbrow * Cape Flats * prison conditions * 

common prisoners * health policy * juvenile justice system * gangs 

Summary: 

"Snapshots van een sluipmoordenaar" volgt de Nederlandse fotograaf 

Adriaan Backer in zijn stijd tegen HIV/AIDS, nu in Zuid-Afrika: 

Ivory Park en Hillbrow bij Jo'burg, waar hij de thuiszorg van AIDS 

patienten, en het werk van Twilight Children, een locale ngo die 

AIDS wezen helpt, bekijkten Cape Flats en de Hawequa 

jeugdgevangenis in Wellington bij Cape Town, waar hij met gangs in 

en buiten de gevangenis praat. De gebruikelijke verhalen, nu met 

extra aandacht voor de gevangenisgangs die vaak van nieuwkomers sex 

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eisen zodat eigenlijk iedereen de doodstraf krijgt. Met kritiek op 

het AIDS beleid van Mbeki, die te weinig AIDS-remmers beschikbaar stelt. 


Vlucht SA 0260 - Zuid-Afrika. - Nederland, Hilversum : LLink, 2006. - Video : VHS; 28 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * community based tourism * safaris * Soweto * heritage * Orania * Afrikaners 

(people) * Durban * KwaZulu-Natal * poverty * unemployment * HIV/AIDS 

Summary: 

Toeristenfilmpje over het 'nieuwe Zuid-Afrika'. 


Kaapstad vs Velp / red. & reg. Mildred Roethof, Sylvana Terlage ; Puberruil Xtra. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

KRO, 2006. - Video : VHS; 34 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * girls * student exchange * families * HIV/AIDS 

Summary: 

Middelbaar scholiere Kiki uit Velp, deelneemster aan Dance 4 Life, 

een HIV/AIDS programma, ruilt een week met Melissa uit Kaapstad. 


100 Millionen Karat : die Diamanten-Dynasty Oppenheimer / Wolfgang Landgraeber, Friedriech W. 

Zimmermann. - Deutschland, Köln : WDR, 2006. - Video : VHS; 58 min. German comment and voice-over 


Keywords: * South Africa * Oppenheimer, Ernest (1880-1957) * Oppenheimer, Harry (1908-2000) * 

Oppenheimer, Nicholas (Nicky) (1945- ) * Oppenheimer, Jonathan (1970?- ) * De Beers * Anglo-American * 

diamond mining * diamond trade 

Summary: 

Als der junge Ernst Oppenheimer aus dem hessischen Friedberg sich 

im Jahr 1890 entschlieát, nach England auszuwandern, ahnt er nicht, 

dass er 30 Jahre später an der Spitze eines der mächtigsten 

Kartelle der Welt stehen wird: des Diamantenkonzerns De Beers in 

Südafrika. Mit enormem Fleiá, einem genialischen Gespür für die 

Marktmacht edler Steine und einer Portion deutsch-jüdischer Chuzpe 

gelingt es ihm, seine britischen und burischen Konkurrenten, die im 

südlichen Afrika nach Diamanten schürfen, auszustechen. Seitdem 

beherrscht der Familienclan der Oppenheimers den weltweiten 

Diamantenmarkt bereits in der vierten Generation, auáerdem ist die 

Familie am Gold- und Edelmetallkonzern Anglo American maágeblich 

beteiligt. Schätzungen über ihr Privatvermögen schwanken zwischen 

vier und sechs Milliarden Dollar. Der Film beschreibt den 

sagenhaften Aufstieg Ernst Oppenheimers, der Brite wurde und sich 

fortan Ernest nannte, und seines Sohns Harry, der den Konzern zu 

seiner heutigen Gröáe und Macht ausbaute. Er zeigt, mit welch 

ausgefeilter Strategie Vater und Sohn ihr Edelsteinkartell gegen 

mächtige Widerstände verteidigten und ideologische Bollwerke 

überwanden. Mit dem kommunistischen Todfeind des Apartheid-Staates, 

der UdSSR, machten sie auf dem Höhepunkt des Kalten Krieges 

einträgliche Geschäfte. Die USA eroberte De Beers mit dem Slogan "A 

Diamond is Forever" und mit Marilyn Monroes Auftritt in dem Film 

"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". Die Wende zur Anti-Apartheid-Politik 

schaffte der Konzern mühelos, weil sich Harry Oppenheimer stets 

öffentlich gegen die Apartheid ausgesprochen und sich in einer 

Partei dagegen engagiert hatte. Die rassistischen Machthaber wagten 

nicht, ihn und den Konzern deswegen anzugreifen. Nach der Wende in 

Südafrika verzichtete Nelson Mandela trotz Drängens durch den ANC 

darauf, DeBeers zu verstaatlichen. Heute führen Enkel Nicky und 

Urenkel Jonathan Oppenheimer gemeinsam den Konzern und dirigieren 

über ihr Londoner Verkaufsbüro DTC (Diamond Trading Corporation, 

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vorher CSO) den weltweiten Handelsstrom der edlen Steine. Die 

Oppenheimers leben zurückgezogen in ihrem schlossähnlichen 

Familiensitz Brenthurst in Johannesburg. 


Auf Spurensuche in der Kalahari / reg. Craig Foster, Damon Foster ; Wunderwelten. - Deutschland, 

Baden-Baden : ARTE, 2007. - Video : VHS; 50 min. German comment and subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Kalahari desert * San (people) * protected areas * land reform 

Summary: 

Die wohl berühmtesten Spurensucher der Welt sind die in Südafrika 

lebenden San, besser bekannt unter dem Namen Bushmen. Seit 

tausenden von Jahren leben sie in der Kalahariwüste und kennen 

alles, was sich dort bewegt und lebt. Ihren Fundus an Wissen, der 

mündlich an die folgenden Generationen weitergegeben wird, droht 

jedoch in der modernen Welt in Vergessenheit zu geraten. Ein neues 

Projekt könnte die Erfahrung der versierten Spurensucher bewahren: 

Mit Unterstützung des Nationalen Verbandes für den Schutz von Flora 

und Fauna "Paula del Giudice" erfassen die San-Spurensucher in 

einer Datenbank Anzahl und Art der in der Kalahari lebenden Tiere. 

Diese ist mit einem GPS-Satellitensystem verbunden. Die Daten 

werden ausgewertet und im Rahmen von neuen Tierschutzmaánahmen in 

der Region genutzt. Durch ihre enge Zusammenarbeit mit den 

Umweltschützern in der Kalahari wollen die San sicherstellen, dass 

auch nachfolgende Generationen die Tiere Afrikas auf freier 

Wildbahn erleben und ihnen nachspüren können. 


Ajax, missie Kaapstad / eindred. Jaap de Groot. - Nederland, Hilversum : TROS, 2007. - Video : VHS; 47 

min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * Cape Town * Ajax * soccer * Robben Island * safaris 

Summary: 

Ajax Amsterdam reist af naar Kaapstad om een trainingskamp te doen; 

de eerste steen te leggen (Jaap Stam) voor het nieuwe stadion van 

Ajax Cape Town, in de township Phillipi; een wedstrijdje te spelen 

(en te verliezen) tegen Ajax Cape Town; en wat toeristische 

uitstapjes te maken in Kaapstad, naar Robbeneiland, en op safari. 


A new way of life / prod. by John Tindall. - South Africa, Cape Town : CVET, 1996 (?). - Video : VHS; 54 

min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * constitutional change * civil and political rights * social and economic rights * 

gender equality 

Summary: 

Feature educational video to inform the people what difference the 

new South African Constitution makes. 


World Refugee Day, 20 June 2003 / Coordinating Body for the Refugee Community. - South Africa,. 

Johannesburg : CBRC, 2003. - Video : VHS; 180 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Africa * refugees * migrants * migrants' children * xenophobia * NEPAD * Ministry 

of Home Affairs * Ministry of Education * UNHCR * HIV/AIDS * NGOs 

Summary: 

On accord of the World Refugee Day 203 the Coordinating Body for 

the Refugee Community in Johannesburg organised a meeting to 

discuss the problems and opportunities refugees from other African 

countries have to deal with when they seek asylum in South Africa. 

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Lots of speeches from NGOs representatives and representatives of 

the Ministries of Home Afairs and Education, ending with lots of dance performances. 

Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood; sound quality: bad * VZA 595 

Radio activity / dir. by Gerard Bueters. - Netherlands, Hilversum ; USA, Studio City : RVU ; MWP, 1995. - 

Video : VHS; 28 min. Een MWP/RVU produktie 



issues 

Summary: 









Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough. Also on VZA 377 (partly) and VZA 418 * VZA 596 

Het vermoeden : Allan Boesak / reg. Han Budding ; interview Annemiek Schrijver. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

IKON, 2007. - Video : VHS; 28 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Boesak, Allan (1946-) * anti-apartheid resistance * church and society 

Summary: 

Dominee Boesak, een voormalig icoon van de anti-apartheidsstrijd en 

oprichter van de UDF, is zijn heldenstatus en zijn vrienden 

kwijtgeraakt toen hij in de gevangenis belande op beschuldiging van 

financiële malversaties. Hij herkent zich tegenwoordig helemaal in 

de profeet Jeremia.Boesak heeft er vooral spijt van dat hij zijn 

predikantschap ooit opgaf om helemaal de politiek in te gaan: "Ik 

had nóóit de partijpolitiek moeten ingaan. Ik heb de rollen 

verward. In de jaren van de apartheid was ik met het Verenigd 

Democratisch Front vooral politiek bezig, maar het was toch wat 

anders om een soort partijmannetje te worden. Dat ben ik niet en 

dat vonden zij achteraf ook. Ik had in de kerk moeten blijven. Mijn 

roeping is toch nadrukkelijk bedoeld voor de kerk en niet voor de politiek." 


Angola : Africa's hidden war / Gwynne Roberts ; Panorama. - UK, London : BBC, 1982. - Video : VHS; 25 

min. 


Keywords: * Angola * South Africa * MPLA * UNITA * Savimbi, Jonas Malheiro (1934-2002) * civil war * 

peace agreements * international political relations 

Summary: 

Film about UNITA that is growing stronger, according to its own 

propaganda, but faces a possible agreement between South Africa and 

Angola, ending South Africa's support for UNITA. Savimbi, here 

introduced as "friend of the late Che Guevara", fears that his 

supply routes (South Africa is supplying petrol and weapons through 

Namibia to UNITA) will be cut off. 

Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood * VAO 001 

The agony of Angola / World in Action. - UK, Manchester : Granada TV, 1981. - Video : VHS; 26 min. 


Keywords: * Angola * South Africa * civil war * USA * UNITA * Savimbi, Jonas Malheiro (1934-2002) * 

railways * sabotage * internally displaced persons * refugee camps * Cassinga massacre (1978) * 

international political relations * military interventions 

Summary: 

About the civil war in Angola: how strong UNITA really is (not 

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30.000 soldiers as Savimbi claims, but 300, as estimated by an 

American spokesman); what tactics they use (sabotage of 

infrastructure; making agriculture impossible); the increase of 

South African raids in the country, with South African soldiers 

wearing different uniforms and weapons, to give the impression that 

they are Savimbi's troops, with as worst case the Cassinga massacre 

of 1978, of which surviving witnesses give testimony in Cuanza Sul; 

the problem of internal refugees and problems of starvation in UNITA- 

controlled areas; and why US president Reagan wants to support UNITA so much. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VAO 002 

Angola : South Africa's dirty war / dir. by Jenny Morgan. - UK, London ; Angola, Luanda : Bandung 

Productions ; TPA ; Channel 4 Television, 1987. - Video : VHS; 34 min. 


Keywords: * Angola * South Africa * USA * civil war * UNITA * landmines * women * international political 

relations * sabotage * military interventions 

Summary: 

Film about the role of South Africa in the civil war of Angola, 

where they are supporting UNITA, and the devastations their actions 

bring about. Anti-UNITA, -South Africa and -USA, and pro-MPLA. 

Interviews with politicians, soldiers, mine-victims, women. 


Seca. - Angola, Luanda : [s.n.], 1990. - Video : VHS; 185 min. Shotlist in portuguese available 


Keywords: * Angola * Huíla * drought * famine * food security* * famine relief * water resources * water 

supply * cattle management * rural areas 

Summary: 

Drie uur footage over de droogte in Zuid Angola, in Quipunjo en 

Chianje in de provincie Huila, in januari 1990. Veel beelden van 

dode koeien, stervende koeien, lege waterputten, kaal land en de 

indringende videocursus 'hoe slacht ik zelf een koe'. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VAO 004a 

Seca (II). - Angola, Luanda : [s.n.], 1990. - Video : VHS; 20 min. Shotlist in portuguese available 


Keywords: * Angola * Huíla * drought * famine * food security* * water resources * water supply * cattle 

management * rural areas 

Summary: 

Vervolg van tape VAO 004a over de droogte in Zuid Angola, in 

Chianje in de provincie Huila, in januari 1990. Veel beelden van 

dode koeien, stervende koeien, lege waterputten, kaal land en 

interviews met de getroffen plantelandsbevolking. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VAO 004b 

Cinco tiros de mauser : crónica de guerra no sul de Angola. / fot. João Costa. - Angola, Luanda : 

Instituto Nacional de Cinema, 1981. - Video : VHS; 25 min. B/W picture. 


Keywords: * Angola * Huíla * South Africa * civil war * military interventions * MPLA * health care * soldiers 

Summary: 

Film about the devasttions brought about by the South African army 

in the south of Angola, in the Huíla province, the courageous MPLA 

soldiers show they have tanks too, and how a health care system is 

maintained under severe circumstances to cure the victims of South 

Africa's racists' agression. 


Wenn es dem bösen Nachtbarn nicht gefällt / Rep. Dieter Grossherr ; Red. Hans Albert ; Die Reportage. - 

BRD, Mainz : ZDF, 1987. - : VHS; 40 min. German voice over when needed. 


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Keywords: * Angola * South Africa * USA * military interventions * civil war * UNITA * MPLA * armed civilians 

* oil industry * international political relations * railways * farmers * internally displaced persons * refugee 

camps * international assistance * arms trade * Cuba 

Summary: 

A german documentary about the consequences of the war of UNITA and 

South Africa in Angola, in 1987. The role of the 'civilian 

brigades', the Cubans, the oil production, the farmers who are for 

the greater part displaced,the Benguela railways, the origin of 

the arms used, the landmine victims, the role of the USA, the 

NGO's, the refugee camps. 

Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood * VAO 006 

UNITA / The world this week. - UK, London : LWT, 1989. - Video : VHS; 15 min. 


Keywords: * Angola * USA * UNITA * Savimbi, Jonas Malheiro (1934-2002) * witchcraft violence * 


Summary: 

Two former UNITA members, Dinho Chingunji and Sousa Jamba, who are 

now trying to get political asylum in the UK, are accusing Savimbi, 

leader of UNITA, of witchcraft violence and political motivated 

murders in the UNITA-top. This news comes at the moment that in the 

american congress there is mounting support to increase military 

aid for Savimbi, who was officially received in the US last year. 

Remarks: Picture quality: bad * VAO 007 

N'gola / dir. e prod de Michele Giulini. - Angola, Luanda ; Italia, Milano : Laboratorio Nacional de Cinema ; 

TTV, 1994. - Video : VHS; 60 min. 


Keywords: * Angola * children * music * statistics (form) 

Summary: 

A very beautiful documentary on Angola, focussing mainly on the 

beautiful colors, patterns, music and children of Angola. But over 

screen are projected some statistics of the country, that show a 

much harsher reality. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VAO 008 

Angola é a nossa terra = Angola is our country / dir. by Jenny Morgan. - UK, London : Team Video 

Productions, 1987. - Video : VHS; 45 min. English subtitles and voice-over 


Keywords: * Angola * South Africa * UNITA * MPLA * military * OMA * women's empowerment * women's 

struggle* * civil war * military interventions 

Summary: 

The film focusses on the contribution women are making to the 

reconstruction opf Angola, in the face of a war that consumes half 

the national budget and has produced at least a million internal 

refugees. The film talks to commanders in FAPLA about the 

background of the struggle and the role played by UNITA, the 

'contra'-movement wich South Africa (and the USA) supports. The 

film also talks to women workers in a textile factory; to displaced 

peasants in a resettlement project co-ordinated by OMA; to 

health-workers, lawyers, OMA activists, and others about the impact 

of South Africa's war , and the problems and successes of women's 

other war, against the double legacy of colonialism and "machismo". 


Cinzas e esperança (Parte 1-3) / real. J.M. Barata-Feyo ; Sinais do tempo. - Portugal, Lisboa : RTP, 1992. - 



Keywords: * Angola * civil war * UNITA * mine-clearance * economic development * military personnel * 

Savimbi, Jonas Malheiro (1934-2002) * Santos, Jose Eduardo dos (1942- ) * vocational education * sabotage 

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* infrastructure * agriculture * South Africa * Cabinda (prov.) * oil production * secession* * diamonds * 

internally displaced persons * water management * election campaigns 

Summary: 

Uitgebreide documentaire over de situatie in Angola: mijnopruiming; 

carnaval; interviews met Dos Santos en Savimbi; opleiding van de 

soldaten; de invloed van de oorlog op de economische ontwikkeling; 

de landbouw; de olie en diamand industrie; interne vluchtelingen; 

watervoorziening; verkiezingscampagne. 


In het mijnenveld / eindred. Bertus Tichelaar ; Tijdsein. - Nederland, Hilversum : EO, 1997. - Video : VHS; 

25 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * Angola * civil war * landmines * mine-clearance * Nobel prize * UNITA * conflict diamonds * 

UNAVEM * international assistance * diamond trade * diamond mining * ICRC * health care * donor-recipient 

relation 

Summary: 

Treurig verhaal over de landmijnensituatie in Angola. Enerzijds is 

er dit jaar meer aandacht voor landmijnen dan ooit tevoren: de 

akties van Lady Diana zijn aangeslagen, de nobelprijs voor de vrede 

is naar een anti-landmijnencampagne gegaan en er is een 

internationaal verdrag tegen landmijnen ondertekend. Toch is de 

praktijk in het mijnenveld van Angola wat cynischer: de directeur 

van het Rode Kruis in Angola, François de la Roche, heeft bij het 

bezoek van Diana aan een kliniek in Angola bewust een éénbenig 

meisje als mijn-slachtoffer gepresenteerd, terwijl het meisje door 

andere oorzaken haar been was kwijtgeraakt. Maar, goed voor de 

donorgelden.... Ook de generaal die het Angolese mijnenprogramma 

leidt, Helder Cruz, is zelf vóór het leggen van mijnen om UNITA te 

bestrijden. Nederland vertrouwt hem niet en heeft de belofte van 37 

DAF-Trucks voor het mijnopruimingsprogramma weer teruggedraaid. Ook 

het Nederlandse bedrijf IDAS, eigenlijk een commercieel 

mijnopruimingsbedrijf, heeft als side-job een van de grootste 

buitenlandse diamantmijnconcessies losgekregen, in het gebied van 

UNITA, waar ze de boel door een PMC van 250 man laten bewaken. Het 

VN mijnopruimingsprogramma heeft in al de jaren dat het bezig is 

reeds drie (DRIE) vierkante kilometer Angolees grondgebied 

schoongemaakt (de leider van die VN missie heeft dan ook liever dat 

men zich in vierkante meters uitdrukt). 


Fatal Transactions / 2 vandaag. - Nederland, Hilversum : EO, 1999. - Video : VHS; 9 min. 


Keywords: * Angola * conflict diamonds * NiZA 

Summary: 

Item over de rol die bloeddiamanten in de burgeroorlog in Angola 

spelen. Joost Hartog van het NiZA legt uit wat de actie Fatal 

Transactions die door het NiZA gevoerd wordt beoogt. 


Radio Ecclésia Promo / Ilse van Velzen, Femke van Velzen ; Nederlands instituut voor Zuidelijk Afrika. - 

Netherlands, Amsterdam : NiZA ; IF Productions, 2004. - Video : VHS; 8 min. 


Keywords: * Angola * Netherlands * R dio Ecclésia * freedom of the press * NiZA 

Summary: 

Kort filmpje over r dio ecclésia, het enige onafhankelijke 

radiostation in Angola, dat een partner is van NiZA's media 

programma. Ze mogen alleen in de hoofdstad Luanda uitzenden. Een 

poging om een lokale zender in M'banza Congo, in het noorden van 

het land, op te zetten mislukt: na twee weken wordt de apparatuur 

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door de politie in beslag genomen. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VAO 014 * Ook Portugeestalige versie met Nederlandse ondertitels en 

foute tussentitel van 9 min. aanwezig: VAO 014 A 

Radio Ecclésia Promo / Ilse van Velzen, Femke van Velzen ; Nederlands instituut voor Zuidelijk Afrika. - 

Netherlands, Amsterdam : NiZA ; IF Productions, 2004. - Video : VHS; 8 min. 


Keywords: * Angola * Netherlands * R dio Ecclésia * freedom of the press * NiZA 

Summary: 

Kort filmpje over r dio ecclésia, het enige onafhankelijke 

radiostation in Angola, dat een partner is van NiZA's media 

programma. Ze mogen alleen in de hoofdstad Luanda uitzenden. Een 

poging om een lokale zender in M'banza Congo, in het noorden van 

het land, op te zetten mislukt: na twee weken wordt de apparatuur 

door de politie in beslag genomen. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VAO 014A * Portugeestalige versie met Nederlandse ondertitels en foute 

tussentitel van 9 min. 

Les oubliés / samenst. en reg. Anne Laure Folly ; Vergezicht. - France, Paris ; Netherlands, Hilversum : 

Amanou Productions ; RVU, 1997. - Video : VHS; 57 min. Start: na 76 min. Eerste 7 min. ontbreken. 

Dutch subtitled. Tape MC 1681 


Keywords: * Angola * independence struggle * civil war * MPLA * UNITA * women * social effects * socialeconomic 

conditions * mine-clearance * violence * UNAVEM * veteran soldiers * internally displaced persons 

* child soldiers * street children * informal sector * inflation * female soldiers 

Summary: 

Prachtige documentaire over het Angola van 1997, met vooral 

aandacht voor de rol en positie van vrouwen en kinderen. Het gaat 

over hun rol in de bevrijdingsstrijd en burgeroorlog, over de 

slechte sociaal-economische situatie en de lage levensverwachting 

en extreem hoge kindersterfte, over de rol die grondstoffen spelen 

in het financieren van de oorlog, over de situatie in Kuito, in 

tegenstelling tot Luanda geheel verwoest door de oorlog, en in 

handen van de MPLA, in een verder door UNITA gedomineerde streek, 

over de 10 miljoen landmijnen en pogingen tot ontmijning, over de 

pogingen van straatverkopers ('de nieuwe armen', die vaak ver onder 

het bestaansminimum moeten rondkomen), om ondanks de gierende 

inflatie (1996: 3000%) het hoofd boven water te houden, over de 

stagnerende integratie van oorlogsveteranen in de maatschappij, en 

over het vele geweld waar al decennia lang geen eind aan lijkt te 

komen, nu weer gestimuleerd door hoge werkeloosheid (door de oorlog 

wordt er niets geproduceerd) en overvloedig wapenbezit, maar ook 

tot uiting komend in huiselijk geweld, waardoor veel kinderen 

liever op straat leven ("het geweld zit nu in ons"), en over de hoop, die, 

ondanks alles, het enige is wat de mensen nog op de been houdt. 


Angola - burgeroorlog / Azimuths. - België, Brussel : TV2, 1993. - Video : VHS; 10 min. 

Start: na 166 min. Tape MC 1455 


Keywords: * Angola * civil war * road transport * peace agreements * infrastructure * drought * famine * 

famine relief * UN * child soldiers * child mortality * disabled people * internally displaced persons 

Summary: 

Film over de situatie in Angola, nu er weer even een wapenstilstand 

is tussen MPLA en UNITA. Een VN konvooi met voedsel en medicijnen 

reist van Lobito naar Huambo. Door droogte en oorlog heerst er 

hongersnood. Grote delen zijn van voedselhulp afhankelijk. 


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Das lange Sterben : Angolas Tragödie nimmt kein Ende / Andreas Cichowicz. - Deutschland, Köln : ARD, 

1993. - Video : VHS; 30 min. Start: na 96 min. Tape MC 1440. German comment and voice-over 


Keywords: * Angola * civil war * MPLA * UNITA * war crimes * UNAVEM * elections * internally displaced 

persons * famine * orphans * Huambo (city) * famine relief * mercenaries 

Summary: 

Documentary about the civil war in Angola, that erupted once more 

after the refusal of Savimbi to acknowledge the 1992 election 

results (UNITA lost the elections). Attention for the internally 

displaced people; for the famine and the problems of getting the 

food aid where it is needed because of the landmines; for the 

orphans; for the mass killings of UNITA; and for the failure of 

UNAVEM II. Followed by an interview by Andreas Cichowicz with 

Margaret Anstee, the UN special representative for Angola and head of UNAVEM II. 


UNITA kampen in Angola / Netwerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : AVRO, 2002. - Video : VHS; 8 min. 



Keywords: * Angola * MPLA * UNITA * refugee camps * famine * international NGOs * UN * transparency * 

oil 

Summary: 

Interview met E. Adams van Artsen zonder grenzen en C. de Wit van 

SNV Angola over de situatie in de UNITA kampen waar UNITA soldaten 

en hun familie honger lijden in afwachting van een officieel staakt 

het vuren na de dood van Savimbi. De UN is nog niet om steun 

gevraagd omdat de MPLA vreest verantwoording te moeten afleggen 

over de olie-inkomsten. 


Le prince du tantale / réal. Elisabeth Ceiriog Jones ; Temps present. - Suisse, Genève : TSR, 2002. - Video 

: VHS; 18 mins. 


Keywords: * DRC * coltan * civil war * trade 

Summary: 

Quel lien y a-t-il entre notre téléphone portable et la guerre 

civile au Congo ? Comme notre ordinateur ou notre walkman, le 

téléphone contient du tantale, un métal qu'on trouve en abondance 

dans ce pays. Le prince Mishiki aura-t-il sa part de ce trésor 

convoité par d'innombrables chefs de guerre aussi bien congolais 

que rwandais ? Temps Présent révèle un aspect méconnu de cette 

industrie : une guerre financée grâce au commerce du tantale, 

élément indispensable dans la confection des téléphones portables. 

Remarks: Picture & sound quality: very bad * VDRC 002 

Oorlog in de DRC / Terzake. - België, Brussel : Canvas, 2003. - Video : VHS; 7 min. Start: na 36 min. 


Keywords: * DRC * Bunia * Hema (people) * armed conflicts * gold mining * weapons 

Summary: 

Een Belgische reportageploeg wordt door een UPC commandant 

rondgereden door het gebied rond Bunia, wat momenteel in handen van 

de door vrnl Hema-milities gevormde UPC is. Beelden van een 

'ambachtelijke' goudmijn en van de lokale goudhandelaren. Het goud 

wordt naar Ruanda en Uganda gesmokkeld, in ruil voor wapens, 

waardoor de burgeroorlog door kan blijven gaan. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VDRC 003 

Lumumba / Raoul Peck. - France, Paris : TV5 Europe, 2003. - Video : VHS; 110 min 

JBA Produtions (France), Entre Chien et Loup (Belgique), Essential Filmproduktions (Allemange), Velvet 

S.A. (Haïti), Arte, RTBF Canal+, VRT, Cofimage 10 

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Keywords: * DRC * Lumumba, Patrice (1925-1961) * political transformation * decolonisation * feature films 

(form) 

Summary: 

A 30-06-1960 Patrice Lumumba devient … 36 ans le premier chef de 

gouvernement du nouvel état independant. Son pouvoir durerait deux mois. 


Blanke koning, rood rubber, zwarte dood, deel 1 / dir. by Peter Bate ; Histories. - België, Brussel : Canvas 

; Periscope Productions, 2004. - Video : VHS; 45 min. Dutch subtitles 

Hierna volgt op deze band de documentaire in één deel (verkorte versie) zoals uitgezonden door de IKON. 

Een BBC-ZDF/ARTE-IKON-RTBF-YLE co-produktie. 


Keywords: * Congo * Leopold II (1835-1909) * colonialism * human rights violations * rubber 

Summary: 

Of the Europeans who scrambled for control of Africa at the end of 

the 19th century, Belgium's King Leopold II left arguably the 

largest and most horrid legacy of all. While the Great Powers 

competed for territory elsewhere, the king of one of Europe's 

smallest countries carved his own private colony out of 2,300.000 

km2 of Central African rainforest. 

He claimed he was doing it to protect the "natives" from Arab 

slavers, and to open the heart of Africa to Christian missionaries, 

and Western capitalists. Instead the king unleashed new horrors on 

the African continent. He turned his "Congo Free State" into a 

massive labour camp, made a fortune for himself from the harvest of 

its wild rubber, and contributed in a large way to the death of 

perhaps 10 million innocent people. What is now called the 

Democratic Republic of Congo has clearly never recovered. 

"Legalized robbery enforced by violence", as Leopold's reign was 

described at the time, has remained, more or less, the template by 

which Congo's rulers have governed ever since. 

Meanwhile Congo's soldiers have never moved away from the role 

allocated to them by Leopold - as a force to coerce, torment and 

rape an unarmed civilian population. However Leopold did leave, 

albeit unwittingly, one positive legacy - the birth of modern 

humanitarianism.The campaign to reveal the truth behind Leopold's 

"secret society of murderers," led by diplomat Roger Casement, and 

a former shipping clerk ED Morel, became the first mass human 

rights movement. 


Witte koning, zwarte dood / dir. by Peter Bate ; Histories. - Nederland, Hilversum ; België, Brussel : IKON ; 

Periscope Productions, 2004. - Video : VHS; 52 min. Dutch subtitles. Start: na 47 min. 

Vooraf gaat deel één van de Belgische versie van de documentaire, die iets uitgebreider is (deel II op VDRC 

05a). Een BBC-ZDF/ARTE-IKON-RTBF-YLE co-produktie 


Keywords: * Congo * Leopold II (1835-1909) * colonialism * human rights violations * rubber 

Summary: 





smallest countries carved his own private colony out of 2,300.000 

km2 of Central African rainforest. 






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"secret society of murderers," led by diplomat Roger Casement, and 

a former shipping clerk ED Morel, became the first mass human rights movement. 


Blanke koning, rood rubber, zwarte dood, deel 2 / dir. by Peter Bate ; Histories. - België, Brussel : Canvas 

; Periscope Productions, 2004. - Video : VHS; 45 min. Dutch subtitles 

Zie voor deel 1 VDRC 05. Daar ook een ééndelige (iets verkorte) versie van de documentaire. 

Een BBC-ZDF/ARTE-IKON-RTBF-YLE co-produktie. 


Keywords: * Congo * Leopold II (1835-1909) * colonialism * human rights violations * rubber * human rights 

advocacy 

Summary: 





smallest countries carved his own private colony out in the heart 

of the Central African rainforest. 

















"secret society of murderers," led by British consul Roger 

Casement, and a former shipping clerk ED Morel - whose book "Red 

rubber" (1906) and newspaper "West-African Mail" made Leopold's 

atrocities public - became the first mass human rights movement. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VDRC 005a 

Terug naar af / samenst. en reg. Annemarie van Zweeden ; Factor. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 2004. - 

Video : VHS; 24 min. Dutch subtitels whwen necessary 


Keywords: * DRC * Netherlands * returnees * forced removals 

Summary: 

Factor onderzoekt hoe het Congolese asielzoekers vergaat die 

Nederland zijn uitgezet en teruggekeerd zijn naar de DRC. De 

immigratiedienst DGM is ook een veiligheidsdienst, die terugkerende 

asielzoekers een boete oplegd en ze opsluit totdat die betaald is. 

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Volgens de ambassadeur is dat heel gewoon in de Congo en geen reden 

het uitzettingsbeleid te wijzigen. 


Mobutu - roi du Zaïre : tragédie africaine / scénario et réal. Thierry Michel ; dir. de prod. Christine Pireaux. 

- Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 2004. - Video : VHS; 65 min. Dutch subtitled. Original year of release: 1999 


Keywords: * Zaïre * DRC * Mobutu Sese Seko, Joseph-Désiré (1930-1997) * international political relations * 

dictatorship * history; 1960s * history; 1970s * history; 1980s * history; 1990s 

Summary: 

Documentaire over het bewind van Mobutu in Zaïre. Wat vooral opvalt 

is het gemak waarmee hij westerse staatshoofden om zijn vinger wond. 


Congo : heart of Africa / written and dir. by Jerry O'Callaghan ; Prime Time. - Ireland, Dublin : RTÉ, 2003. - 

Video : VHS; 34 min. Eng. subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * DRC * Uganda * Rwanda * armed conflicts * civil war * conflict timber * conflict diamonds * gold 

* coltan * light weapons * insurgents * ethnic groups * child soldiers * mass killings * informal sector * 

transitional government * government and public administration * MONUC 

Summary: 

Comprehensive documentary about the "forgotten war" in the DRC, 

where between 1998 and 2004 more than 4 milion people died. About 

the hatred, the rapes and spreading of aids, the out-of-controll 

gun culture, the conflict resources (gold , diamonds, coltan, 

timber, ivory, etc), that form one of the main reasons for Congo's 

bloody history, the tribal conflicts (eg. between Lendu and Hema), 

the reports of cannibalism, the greed of Congo's African neighbours 

and western companies, the different militias, the child soldiers, 

the mass killings, the absence of a functional government and 

formal economy, the role of MONUC, the UN peacekeeping operation in 

the DRC, and the peace deal of 2002 that led to the formation of a 

transitional government, 'consisting of warlords' . 


Non in Afrika / Scen.&reg. Cecilia Marichal ; Projectleiding Bea Materne ; Dokument. - België, Brussel : 

TV2, 1997. - Video : VHS; 53 min. Start: na 73 min. Tape MC 1642. Dutch subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * Congo * DRC * Zaïre * Roman Catholic Church * church and society * religious officials 

(specific) * health care * vocational education * secondary education * women's empowerment * gender 

relations * polygamy * colonialism * independence struggle 

Summary: 

Film over het werk dat de Belgische nonnen in de twintigste eeuw in 

Congo deden, voornamelijk op het gebied van kerstening, 

gezondheidszorg en onderwijs. Opvallend is dat de koloniale houding 

en blank superioriteitsgevoel langzaam plaats maken voor 

ontwikkelingswerk en politieke bewustwording, vooral onder vrouwen. 


Geldof in Africa : Apocalypse still - DRC. - Nederland, Hilversum : LLink, 2006. - Video : VHS; 30 min. 



Keywords: * DRC * Geldof, Robert Frederick Xenon (1951- ) 

Summary: 

Bob Geldof krijgt een halfuur om zijn stompzinnige clichés over de 

DRC de ether in te spuien. 


Frère Kether / regie Filip Lenaerts ; De wereld van Tarantino. - Belgë, Brussel : Canvas, 2005 ¸. - Video : 

VHS; 60 min. Dutch comment and subtitles 

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Keywords: * DRC * University of Kinshasa * police * religion * music * informal sector 

Summary: 

In 1954 werd de Unikin, de universiteit van Kinshasa, opgericht. 

Een schitterende campus in Expo '58-stijl, waar de elite van Congo 

zou gevormd worden. Een halve eeuw later gaat Philippe Niclaes 

kijken hoe de Unikin er nu aan toe is. Hij ontmoet er Kether 

Kabasele, een agent van het universitaire politiekorps dat onder 

leiding van commandant Kay Kay de veiligheid en orde moet handhaven 

op de campus. 'Frère Kether' droomt ervan een muziekster te worden. 

Een tragikomisch relaas, symbolisch voor de toestand van heel 

Congo. Met op de achtergrond de falsetstem van Frère Kether. Maria 

Tarantino trekt met de CD van Frère Kether naar Tomas De Soete, dj 

van Studio Brussel. Of hij hitkansen ziet in de gospels van Kether? 

En wat denken de Congolezen van FM Brussel ervan? Is Kether voor 

hen de revelatie uit Afrika, de nieuwe Papa Wemba? Het oordeel is aan de kijker... 


Stemmen in de jungle / reg. Philippe Dutilleul ; Tegenlicht. - Nederland, Hilversum ; België, Brussel : VPRO 

; RTBF, 2006. - : VHS; 50 min. With Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * DRC * elections * Independent Electoral Commission * voter registration * Belgium * UN * 

infrastructure * corruption * theft 

Summary: 

Vijfenveertig jaar heeft Kongo moeten wachten op vrije 

verkiezingen. Dit jaar was het eindelijk zover: er konden 

verkiezingen georganiseerd worden. Maar voordat er gestemd kan 

worden, moeten er kiezers geregistreerd en stemcomputers 

geïnstalleerd worden en moet alles naar de verste uithoeken van het 

land gebracht worden. Met hulp van de VN, de EU en België wordt met 

frisse moed begonnen. Een Belgisch bedrijf verscheept de computers, 

de printers, de fotoapparatuur en de knowhow vanuit Oostende naar 

Kinshasa. Daar wordt alles uitgeladen en... daar beginnen ook de 

moeilijkheden. Digitale verkiezingen blijken een stuk lastiger te 

organiseren in Kongo dan de Belgen (nb !) verwachtten. Computers en 

laptops hebben de meeste mensen nog nooit gezien, laat staan dat ze 

er mee hebben leren omgaan. Corruptie is alom tegenwoordig, bijna 

alle apparatuur wordt misbruikt en gestolen en de infrastructuur 

hapert aan alle kanten of ontbreekt volledig. Budgetten moeten 

verdrievoudigd worden en iedereen moet improviseren. En er moet 

niet alleen in de hoofdstad gestemd kunnen worden, maar ook in de 

binnenlanden van Kongo. Dus moet het hele verkiezingsapparaat en 

het circus dat erbij hoort vervolgens over kapotte, hobbelige wegen 

naar plekken worden gebracht waar zelfs het voedsel ontbreekt voor 

de installateurs en de verkiezingsbegeleiders. In Tegenlicht een 

portret van de poging om verkiezingen en digitaal stemmen mogelijk 

te maken in Kongo. Een land waar de democratische wil groot is, 

maar de dagelijkse praktijk een stuk weerbarstiger blijkt. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VDRC 013 

Moord op missionarissen / samenst. & regie Godfried van Run. - Nederland, Hilversum : NPS ; VPRO, 

2006. - Video : VHS; 32 min. 


Keywords: * Congo * missionaries * insurgents * mass killings * history; 1960s 

Summary: 

In 1964 ontstaan in heel Congo opstanden tegen het centraal gezag. 

De rebellen in het noord-oosten noemen zich Simba (leeuwen), en 

zijn erg tegen blanken. In Bondo worden zo'n 50 missionarissen 

gegijzeld, waaronder een aantal Nederlanders. In december worden ze 

naar Buta overgebracht. Als in 1965 het Congolese leger met wat 

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lanke huurlingen Buta nadert, raken de Simba's in paniek en 

vermoorden 31 missionarissen, waaronder 14 Nederlanders. Interviews 

met overlevenden, met Etienne Davignon, in die jaren kabinetschef 

van de Belgische minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Henry Spaak en 

belast met Congo (verantwoordelijk voor de Belgische militaire 

actie in Stanleystad waarbij 500 blanken gered werden; Bondo was te 

ver weg voor een verassingsaanval). 


The real world of John le Carré / interview Chris Kijne ; regie Roel van Broekhoven ; Tegenlicht. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 2006. - Video : VHS; 50 min. Dutch subtiitles 


Keywords: * DRC * USA * UK * western world * developing countries * democratisation * neo-colonialism * 

corporate social responsibility * transnational corporations * foreign investment * natural resources * 

corruption * terrorism * migrants * social integration * good governance 

Summary: 

Naar aanleiding van zijn nieuwste boek "The mission song' (Ned. 

vert. 'De luistervink'), dat in de DRC speelt, een interessant 

interview van Chris Kijne met auteur John le Carré over de situatie 

in de DRC, de grondstoffenroof, de rol en verantwoordelijkheid van 

het westen (met name de UK en de USA) daarin, de rol van 

multinationals, die helemaal geen democratie willen, de 'war on 

terrorism', het westerse Midden Oosten beleid, het mislukken van de 

integratie van immigranten in westerse landen, het falen van 

politici en de rol van de burger. 


Radio Congo / Man bijt hond. - België, Brussels : BRT, 2006. - Video : VHS;5 min. 

Dutch subtitles and comment 


Keywords: * DRC * cell phone 

Summary: 

Het Belgische TV programma 'Man bijt hond' zend een serie korte 

programma's over de DRC uit. Deze keer over de toegenomen 

communicatie door mobiele telefoons, zelfs in het afgelegen Kilako. 


Pastoren, Heiler und falsche Propheten = Marchands de miracles / scen. & réalisation Gilles Remiche. - 

Germany, Baden-Baden ; Belgium, Liège : ARTE ; Les Films de la Passerelle, 2006. - Video : VHS; 54 min. 

German subtitles. 


Keywords: * DRC * Kinshasa (city) * church and society * African independent churches * poverty 

Summary: 

Was kann man vom Leben erwarten, wenn man in einem Land geboren 

wird, das an Krieg, Krankheiten, Korruption und dem Egoismus der 

Machthaber zugrunde geht? Allenfalls ein Wunder! Die Demokratische 

Republik Kongo ist solch ein Land. Und Wunder werden täglich von so 

genannten Heilungskirchen in Aussicht gestellt. Diese neuen 

Kirchen, auch Erweckungskirchen genannt, sind eine Mischung aus 

christlicher Erweckungsbewegung und traditionellem afrikanischen 

Volksglauben. Nur in Kinshasa gibt es schon 8000 verschiedene. Sie 

werden von Pastoren, Propheten oder messianischen Aposteln mit 

uneingeschränkter Autorität geleitet. Die Mehrheit der Kongolesen 

gehört einer dieser Kirchen an, die unter anderem Genesung von 

unheilbaren Krankheiten, Visa für Europa oder sofortigen Wohlstand 

versprechen. Die gröáten dieser Glaubensgemeinschaften verfügen 

sogar über eigene Fernsehsender, die sich wachsender Beliebtheit 

erfreuen. Der Dokumentarfilm führt nach Kinshasa in die 

unglaubliche Welt dieser Kirchen, deren Zulauf ebenso groá ist wie 

das Elend der Bevölkerung. Auf die Naivität und Verzweiflung der 

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Gläubigen antworten die Fernsehevangelisten in tragikomischen Reden 

mit einer Mischung aus Zynismus, Gröáenwahn und Realitätsferne. 

Auch der Einfluss auf der Politik wird sichtbar gemacht; so ist zB 

Vice-Präsident Ruwerba als 'Prophet' zu bewundern. 


Women in science / dir. by George Eustice. - Botswana, Gaberone : Red Stone Film and Television ; 

University of Botswana, 2003. - Video : VHS; 27 min. 

Produced by Red Stone Film and Television for University of Botswana, EDDI-Project 


Keywords: * Botswana * women * science and technology * gender discrimination * gender equality * 

women's empowerment * cultural identity 

Summary: 

Nonofo Keabaitse, Metallurgist at the Jwaneng Diamond Mine; Tjonga 

Selaolo, Information Technology Consultant in the government 

sector; Rosaline Panzirah, Instructor in Animal Health at the 

Botswana College of Agriculture; Helen Adams, Junior Laboratory 

Technician at the Mmamashia Treatment Plant - Water Utilities; 

Barbara Braithwaite, Pilot at the Maun Airport. Examples of 

ambitious women who took a career in science, often combined with 

the role of mother and housewife. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VBW 001 

The great dance : a hunter's story / dir. and phot. by Craig Foster, Damon Foster ; writer Jeremy Evans. - 

South Africa, Johannesburg ; South Africa, Cape Town ; Netherlands, Amsterdam : Aardvark Pictures ; [etc.], 

2000. - Video : VHS; 60 min. Dutch subtitles 

Based on the original field recordings of !Nquate Xqamxebe. Co-production of Aardvark Pictures, Earthrise, 

Liquid Pictures and Off the Fence. Last five minutes are missing 


Keywords: * Botswana * San (people) * Kalahari desert * hunter-gatherers * hunting and gathering * 

traditional culture * traditional religions 

Summary: 

The documentary feature follows a group of !Xo San in the central 

Kalahari, focusing on the unique relationship between their 

lifestyle, the land and the animals they hunt. Hunting is 

fundamental to their culture, and in the film we develop this 

issue, culminating in "the chasing hunt" where they have to "take 

over" the animal's mind in this ancient battle of human-animal 

endurance. This is the first time that anyone has photographed, 

filmed and documented in such detail, firsthand, this process where 

the "hunter becomes the hunted". Innovative mini-cam techniques, 

where cameras are mounted on animals, were specially developed for 

the film, giving the viewer unique points-of-view of both the 

hunter and the hunted in an effort to understand their ancient 

relationship. Our eyes are opened to their mastery of tracking and 

their holistic way of assessing so many different signs that are 

invisible to the outsider. Through the three central characters, 

!Nqate, Karoha and Xlhoase, the harshness and beauty of the world's 

largest expanse of sand, the Kalahari, is exposed. Moreover, we 

show how the poverty of their material existence stands in stark 

contrast to the wealth of their indigenous knowledge. 


Van Kenia naar Kaapstad : Botswana / reg. Anette Kentie ; samenst. en eindred. Aad van den Heuvel. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : KRO, 1993. - Video : VHS; 32 min. Dutch comment and subtitles when necessary 

Tape MC 1447 


Keywords: * Botswana * Great Zimbabwe * San (people) * ethnic discrimination * San art * alcoholism * 

unemployment * job creation * traditional medicines * rock paintings * Khama, Seretse M. (1921-1980) 

Summary: 

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Een documentaire over Botswana, die begint met Great Zimbabwe, 

alvorens de grens over te steken. In Botswana concentreert de film 

zich op de San in de Kalahari woestijn. Over de discriminatie die 

ze nog steeds ondervinden, de werkeloosheid, het alcoholisme, de 

pelegano dorpsbedrijven die tot doel hebben werkgelegenheid voor de 

dorpsbewoners te creeren, de traditionele medicijnen, waar ook in 

het westen steeds meer belangstelling voor bestaat, en de kunst van 

de San vroeger (rotstekeningen) en nu. 


President in Afrika : Botswana / eindred. & samenst. Aad van den Heuvel. - Nederland, Hilversum : KRO ; 

Mediaat, 1998. - Video : VHS; 30 min. Start: na 100 min. Tape MC 1682. Dutch comment and subtitles 


Keywords: * Botswana * heads of state * cattle industry * diamonds * ecotourism * Okavango delta * 

environment protection * De Beers * Debswana * HIV/AIDS * unemployment * health care * education * 

community service 

Summary: 

Aflevering over Botswana, waar Festus Mogae de derde president 

sinds de onafhankelijkheid is. Economisch gaat het goed dankzij de 

diamantmijnen, die door een joint-venture tussen de regering en De 

Beers gewonnen worden. Verder is er ook een veeteelt industrie, en 

wat ecotoerisme in de Okavango delta, maar dan is het snel gedaan 

met de werkgelegenheid. Werkeloosheid is een groot probleem in dit 

land, dat als een van de weinige landen zonder buitenlandse schuld 

geldt. Het andere probleem is HIV/AIDS: hoewel de gezondheidszorg 

(net als het onderwijs) gratis is, is er geen geld voor Aids-remmers, 

en concentreert de regeing zich op preventieve zorg en thuiszorg. 


The Gods must be crazy / prod. & dir. by Jamie Uys. - België, Brussel : TV1, 1994. - Video : VHS; 105 min 

Start: na 46 min. Dutch subtitled. Originally produced by C.A.T. Films, South Africa, 1980 


Keywords: * Botswana * San (people) * indigenous knowledge * feature films (form) 

Summary: 

A hilarious slapstick comedy about life in Africa. Much criticized 

because of political incorrectness, it shows the adventures of a San bushman 

in Botswana who for the first time is confronted with western civilisation. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VBW 005 

Geen koninkrijk voor de vrouw = Women under the royal thumb : polygamy and Aids in Swaziland / 

dir. by Remy Vlek ; cam. Chris Relleke, David Brown. - Netherlands, Amsterdam : Filmwerk Remy Vlek, 

2002. - 2 Video : VHS; 50 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * Swaziland * polygamy * HIV/AIDS * gender discrimination * traditional culture 

Summary: 

Documentary about traditional gender-relations in Swaziland 

(polygamy; women as asset of their husband (due to lobola)), and 

the relation with HIV/AIDS (25% of the Swazis are infected with 

HIV). Interviews with queen Sibonello, the first wife of king Mswati, 

and with two union activists: Siphiwe Hope (female) and Simo (male). 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VSZ 001 * Also on tape VSZ 002: English version without subtitles 

Geen koninkrijk voor de vrouw = Women under the royal thumb : polygamy and Aids in Swaziland / 

dir. by Remy Vlek ; cam. Chris Relleke, David Brown. - Netherlands, Amsterdam : Filmwerk Remy Vlek, 

2002. - Video : VHS; 50 min. 


Keywords: * Swaziland * polygamy * HIV/AIDS * gender discrimination * traditional culture 

Summary: 

Documentary about traditional gender-relations in Swaziland 

(polygamy; women as asset of their husband (due to lobola)), and 

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the relation with HIV/AIDS (25% of the Swazis are infected with 

HIV). Interviews with queen Sibonello, the first wife of king Mswati, 

and with two union activists: Siphiwe Hope (female) and Simo (male). 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VSZ 002 * Also on tape VSZ 001: with Dutch subtitles 

Swaziland / Antenne. - Nederland, Hilversum : EO, 1994. - Video : VHS. Dutch subtitles and comment 


Keywords: * Swaziland * Christianity * church and state * King Mswati III 

Summary: 

Documentary about 'the peacefull country' in Southern Africa and 

the positive influence of christianity on the king, Mswati III, and his people. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VSZ 003 

Yini nga le AIDS = what is this with this AIDS? / Eye to Eye Productions. - Swaziland, Mbabane ; 

Netherlands, Arnhem : Eye to Eye Productions ; Stug, 1992. - Video : VHS; 22 min. 

English voice-over and comments 


Keywords: * Swaziland * HIV/AIDS * condoms * church and society * traditional healers * sexual 

relationships * sex education * health education 

Summary: 

An Aids education video of Swaziland, which discusses condom use, 

abstinence, monogamy, christian morality, the role of traditional 

healers, the way the virus is transmitted, and the way you should 

treat patients. The one patient in the film is filmed anonymously. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VSZ 004 

Insayeya = it's a challenge / Directed by David Brown. - Swaziland, Mbabane ; Netherlands, Arnhem : Eye 

to Eye Productions ; Stug, 1992. - Video : VHS; 24 min. English voice-over and comments 


Keywords: * Swaziland * disabled people * children * social integration * health care * rural communities 

Summary: 

A documentary about the Community Based Rehabilitation program in 

Swaziland, that focusses on reintegrating disabled people in their 

communities, especially children. In remote rural areas even a 

small injury can cause disability. The 'challenge' in the title 

refers to the challenge for the community to embrace their disabled 

and the challenge for the disabled to recognise their own potential. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VSZ 005 

Khuluma Sissie = speak up, sister / Directed by Joke Stephan. - Netherlands, Arnhem : Stug, 1993. - 



Keywords: * Swaziland * women * women's empowerment * traditional culture * cultural identity * spouses * 

children * living conditions 

Summary: 

The story of Elizabeth Mazibuko laShongwe, a Swazi woman who mixes 

traditional views (the importance of marriage) with modern ones 

(she is the boss at home). She generates most of the income ("my 

man is a bit slow in the head"), and teaches her sons to clean, cook and wash. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VSZ 006 

Zuid-Afrikaanse Hiphoppers in Nederland / Special Report. - Nederland, Amsterdam : AT5, 2001. - Video 

: VHS; 11 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * Netherlands * Amsterdam (Netherlands) * Cape Town * hiphop 

Summary: 

Zuidafrikaanse hiphoppers Shaheen, Mr. Devious en Shamiel bezoeken 

Nederland en ontmoeten Amsterdamse hiphoppers en praten over wat ze 

met hun muziek willen bereiken: "...to try to develop and stimulate people...(Shamiel)". 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VNL 001 

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Meegaan als partner / reg. en cam. Rita van Biesbergen, Huub Ruygrok. - Nederland, Wageningen : 

Stichting de Mug, 1990. - : VHS; 60 min. Stichting TKO (tropencursus voor kader in ontwikkelingswerk). 


Keywords: * Netherlands * Zimbabwe * KZA * SNV * international cooperation * personnel assistance 

Summary: 

Verhalen van Nederlanders die met hun partner meegaan als die een 

contract in Zimbabwe krijgen. Als ze zelf geen contract of anderzins werk 

hebben, is het zwaar; als het ze lukt om ook een baan te krijgen is het leuk. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good. * VNL 002 

Apartheid and Southern Africa / NOS Journaal. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1985. - Video : VHS; 17 

min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * Southern Africa * conferences 

Summary: 

In het journaal een verslag van de drie-daagse conferentie in het 

Amsterdamse gemeentehuis, getiteld: Apartheid and Southern Africa. 

The West European response. Onder andere een interview met J.N. Scholten. 


Bedrijfsleven en apartheid / Achter het Nieuws. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 1985. - Video : VHS; 13 



Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * ANC * Anglo-American 

Summary: 

Naar aanleiding van de besprekingen tussen ANC en 

vertegenwoordigers van het Zuidafrikaanse bedrijfsleven in Lusaka 

een schets van de positie van het Nederlandse bedrijfsleven in 

Zuid-Afrika (blijven zitten waar je zit), en interviews met Gordon 

Waddel, directeur van Anglo-American - die vindt dat de 

Zuidafrikaanse regering het roer radicaal moet omgooien - en Johnny 

Makatini, buitenlandsecretaris van het ANC, die op dit moment in Nederland is. 


Spotje Bevrijdingsfonds KZA / Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika. - Nederland, Amsterdam : KZA, 1985. - Video : 

VHS; 1 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * KZA 

Summary: 

Een spotje voor het Bevrijdingsfonds van het Komitee Zuidelijk 

Afrika waarin Oliver Tambo oproept tot steun in de strijd tegen Apartheid. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VNL 003 

Stop Apartheid Festival. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 1985. - Video : VHS; 38 min. Start: na 1 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * KZA * festivals 

Summary: 

Een verslag van het door KZA georganiseerde "Stop Apartheid 

Festival", in het Oosterpark in Amsterdam. Met muziek en toespraken 

(oa Den Uyl), en interviews met oa Sietse Bosgra. 


Face to Face instruction video / written and dir. by Dennis Hooftman ; Sweelinck College Amsterdam. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : MMO, 1994. - Video : VHS; 13 min. Engelse ondertitels bij Nederlandse tekst 


Keywords: * Netherlands * secondary schools * video* 

Summary: 

An instruction video made by pupils of the Sweelinck College in 

Amsterdam about how to make a video-letter. 

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Afscheid NiZA / Nederlands instituut voor Zuidelijk Afrika. - Nederland, Amsterdam : NiZA, 2000. - Video : 

VHS; 94 min. 



Summary: 

Verslag van het afscheidsfeestje in februari 2000, waar men bij het NiZA afscheid 

nam van zeven medewerkers: Hans, Ruud, Joost, Frank, Bert, Jacinta en Liesbeth. 


face to face : a compilation of the first videoletters / face to face. - Netherlands, [Amsterdam?] : [s.n.], 

1994?. - Video : VHS; 12 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * secondary schools * video* 

Summary: 

A compilation of videoletters made and exchanged by pupils of 

different secondary schools in different countries, one of them the 

Sweelinck College in Amsterdam. 

Remarks: Picture quality: bad * VNL 006 

Het is mooi geweest / samenst. Marco Legemaate, Maarten Rens, Fons Geerlings. - Nederland, 

Amsterdam : AABN ; Maarten Rens Producties, 1994. - Video : VHS; 185 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * AABN 

Summary: 

De AABN werd op 15 oktober 1994 feestelijk opgeheven met het "Gala 

van de Goede Hoop" in Amsterdam. Deze video geeft een overzicht van 

de politieke en culturele hoogtepunten vanaf 1971 tot en met het afsluitende Gala in Paradiso. 

Remarks: Picture quality: varying * VNL 007 

Levend Jaarboek 2001 / Nederlands instituut voor Zuidelijk Afrika. - Nederland, Haarlem : Barn, 2001. - 

Video : VHS 



Summary: 

Video impressie van de jaarlijkse NiZA publiekspresentatie "Het 

levend jaarboek". Beelden van een rondvaart door Amsterdam met NiZA 

medewerkers en hun gasten, gevolgd door beelden van de activiteiten in de Balie. 

Remarks: Picture quality: bad * VNL 008 

Ontwikkelingszaken / samenst. IJsbrand van Veelen ; DNW. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 2001. - Video 



Keywords: * Netherlands * development policy * development aid policy 

Summary: 

Er is een nieuwe trend te bespeuren bij het Ministerie van 

Economische Zaken en ook bij Ontrwikkelingssamenwerking, gekenmerkt 

door de kreten "van aid naar trade" en "ondernemen tegen armoede"; 

hierbij wordt het beleid aangeduid dat gericht is op het betrekken 

van de particuliere sector bij armoedebestrijding. Als voorbeeld 

een Nederlandse zakenman die koning van Somay in Ghana is geworden. 

Verder interviews met oa Dick Bruinsma, D.G. van economische zaken, 

en Evelien Herfkens van ontwikkelingssamenwerking. 


Kadir van Lohuizen / Hollands zicht. - Nederland, Hilversum : AVRO, 2003. - Video : VHS; 18 min. 

Begin ontbreekt (ca. 6 min.) 


Keywords: * Netherlands * photography * Lohuizen, Kadir van (1963-) 

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Summary: 

Programma over de Nederlandse fotograaf Kadir van Lohuizen, die ook 

veel in Afrika gefotografeerd heeft. 


Faranini / reg. Paul van Koelen ; NOS Actueel. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS ; Xsaga, 2002. - Video : VHS; 

109 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) 

Summary: 

A tribute evening with Nelson Mandela in Carré, Amsterdam, partly 

because the next day he is to receive the Four Freedoms Award in 

Middelburg (an American award), and partly because of the 350th 

birthday of the relation between Holland and South Africa. Speeches 

of Wim Kok (former Dutch prime minister), Priscilla Jana (South 

African ambassador in the Netherlands), and of Nelson Mandela 

himself. Performances of She got game, Abaqondisi Brothers, Jackï 

Job, Jimmy DluDlu, Denise Jannah, Ballet Theatre Africain, Stef Bos & Sibongile Khumalo. 


Terug naar Angola : persoonlijk verhaal van drie jonge Angolese asielzoekers / Femke van Velzen, Ilse 

van Velzen, Noa Lodeizen ; De Donderdag Documentaire. - Netherlands, Hilversum ; Netherlands, 

Amsterdam : IKON ; IF Productions, 2005. - Video : VHS; 54 min. Duch subtitled 


Keywords: * Netherlands * Angola * asylum-seekers * youth * migration policy * refugee policy * returnees 

Summary: 

Documentaire over drie minderjarige Angolese asielzoekers in 

Nederland, Helio, Albertina en Kelson, die door een veranderd 

vreemdelingenbeleid als ze achttien zijn terug moeten naar Angola 

wanneer ze hier zijn uitgeprocedeerd. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VNL 013 * Zie ook projectplan voor documentaire:: NL 2003-07-00 

Congolese asielzoekers voorlopig niet teruggestuurd / Netwerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : EO, 2005 (juni 

23). - Video : VHS; 11 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * DRC * asylum-seekers * returnees * forcible repatriation * refugee policy 

Summary: 

In een eerdere uitzending van het TV-actualiteitenprogramma Netwerk 

bleek dat de Congolese autoriteiten beschikten over officiële 

Nederlandse documenten waaruit viel op te maken dat uit Nederland 

teruggekeerdeCongolezen tevergeefs asiel hadden aangevraagd in 

Nederland. Hierdoor wordt minister Verdonk, die tot dan toe altijd 

ontkende dat er informatie aan de Congolezen werd toegespeeld, door 

de tweede kamer gedwongen de uitzetting van uitgeprocedeerde 

Congoleze asielzoekers te staken tot een door haar aangekondigd 

onderzoek naar de gang van zaken is afgerond. 


Tony and the chocolate factory / regie Maurice Dekkers ; Keuringsdienst van waarde. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : RVU ; Dahl TV, 2005. - Video : VHS; 25 min. Dutch comment and subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * Netherlands * Côte d'Ivoire * Burkina Faso * cacao * Nestlé * slavery * child labour * human 

rights violations * trials 

Summary: 

Nederlandse journalist Teun van der Keuken wil iets doen om de 

kindslavernij in de cacaoproductie op de plantages in Ivoorkust te 

stoppen, waar volgens een schatting van de VN 200.000 slaven 

werken. Hij spant een proces aan tegen zichzelf wegens 

medeplichtigheid aan slavernij, doodat hij chocola koopt terwijl 

hij weet dat de grondstof door slaven geproduceerd wordt, maar de 

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officier van justitie verklaart de rechtbank niet ontvankelijk; hij 

wil samen met de weduwe van Roald Dahl een aktie opzetten bij de 

première van de film 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', maar haar 

woordvoerder is ook de woordvoerder van chocoladegigant Nestlé, dus 

dat gaat niet door; en hij probeert in de show van Oprah Winfrey te 

komen, maar ook daar krijgt hij een afhoudend antwoord van. Dan 

vertrekt hij naar Burkina Faso, waar hij in een grensplaatsje met 

Ivoorkust getuigenverklaringen laat opstellen van kinderen die 

geronseld zijn om als slaaf op de plantages te werken, en praat hij 

met de minister van mensenrechten Monique Ilboudo, die de nadruk 

legt op de industrie die haar leveranciers onder druk moet zetten 

en betere prijzen moet betalen. 





Keywords: * Netherlands * USA * cacao * Nestlé * slavery * child labour * human rights violations * codes of 

conduct* * retail trade* * cacao industry 

Summary: 

Nederlandse journalist Teun van der Keuken wil een aktie opzetten 

bij de première van de film 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' in 

juli 2005, om de kindslavernij in de cacaoproductie op de plantages 

in Ivoorkust te stoppen, waar volgens een schatting van de VN 

200.000 slaven werken. Het doel is om een 100% slaafvrije reep bij 

de filmpremière aan te bieden. Hij gaat onderhandelen met Max 

Havelaar en Fair Trade, die in eerste instantie toezeggen om mee te 

doen en de reep ook in de supermarkt te krijgen. Hij reist naar de 

USA om met congressman Eliot Engel te praten, die de 

chocoladereuzen in 2001 dwong het Harkin-Engelprotocol te tekenen, 

waarin ze beloven dat in juni 2005 hun plantages slaafvrij zullen 

zijn. Engel gelooft niet dat de industrie zich heeft ingespannen om 

de deadline te halen. Ook spreekt hij met ijsfabrikant Ben & 

Jerry's, die bekend staan om hun sociale invalshoek, en weet ze te 

enthousiasmeren om een 100% slavefree chocloadeijsje te produceren 

voor de filmpremière. Als vervolgens Max havelaar, Fair Trade en 

Ben & Jerry's afhaken, besluit hij zelf in België 1000 kilo repen 

te bestellen bij een leverancier die zegt slaafvrij geproduceerde 

cacao te gebruiken. Maar als hij dat wil checken bij de firma Barry 

Callebaut, die de vloeibare cacao levert, doen die heel verdacht en 

weigeren met hem te praten. 


Zuid-Afrikaanse arbeidsmigranten in Nederland / Samenstelling Lisanne Faddegon ; Buitenkans. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : RVU, 2001. - Video : VHS; 48 min. Start: na 90 min. Tape MC 1776 

Geproduceerd door TV DITS voor RVU. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * nurses * labour migration * labour disputes 

Summary: 

Deel 2 van een reportage over zeventien Zuid-Afrikaanse verplegers 

die door Randstad Uitzendburo geworven zijn en in het VU ziekenhuis 

konden gaan werken. Na twee maanden vallen tien van de zeventien af 

wegens onvoldoende kwalificaties. De verpleegkundigen snappen niet 

waarom en spannen een rechtzaak aan. De rechter bepaalt dat Randstad 

ze een schadevergoeding en een ticket naar Johannesburg moet betalen. 


Thomas uit Zuid-Afrika / Grenzeloos verlangen. - Nederland, Hilversum : EO, 2005. - Video : VHS; 36 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * adoption * infants * Christians 

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Summary: 

Zeeuwse EO-christelijken importeren hun zonen uit Zuid-Afrika. 




Voor deel één en twee zie VNL 015 en VNL 016 


Keywords: * Netherlands * cacao * Nestlé * slavery * codes of conduct* * retail trade* * cacao industry * 

cotton * working conditions * chemical contamination 

Summary: 

Nederlandse journalist Teun van der Keuken is er eindelijk in 

geslaagd een slaafvrije chocoladereep te produceren: Tony 

Chocolonely. Nu de merchandising nog: T-shirts! Maar... hoe zit het 

eigenlijk met de katoenproduktie? Hier blijken slechte 

arbeidsomstandigheden hand in hand te gaan met milieuvervuilende 

teelt en verwerkingsprocessen (verven). Dan maar van brandnetels, 

wat ook nog niet eenvoudig is... 


Dag tegen racisme [sel.titel] / Drive. - Nederland, Amsterdam : NMO, 2006. - Video : VHS; 28 min. 

Turkish and Arabic subtitles 


Keywords: * Netherlands * Sharpeville massacre (1960) * ethnic discrimination * youth * students 

Summary: 

Programma over de Dag tegen racisme op 21 maart, door de VN 

ingesteld ter nagedachtenis aan het bloedbad van Sharpeville op 21 

maart 1960 in Zuid Afrika. Connie Braam en Maarten Rens vertellen 

over het apartheidsysteem in Zuid-Afrika en allochtone en 

autochtone leerlingen en studenten over discriminatie in Nederland. 

Ook beelden van protestacties tegen het Nederlanse 

vreemdelingenbeleid. Met veel posters en artikelen uit Het NiZA archief. 


Playing history : Solidarity against apartheid based on the Dutch archives 1970 to 1990 / dir. & prod. 

by Maarten Rens, Shane Mohabier. - Netherlands, Amsterdam ; South Africa, Johannesburg : Maarten Rens 

Produkties ; Afrikan Connection Productions, 2005. - Video : VHS; 106 min. 

Also on DVD: DNL 002 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * AABN * anti-apartheid activists * history; 1970s * history; 1980s * 

society and culture 

Summary: 

TV documentary about the Dutch anti-apartheidsmovement AABN in the 

1970s and 1980s, presented by Tessel Braam (daughter of AABN 

chairlady Conny) and Jona Rens (daughter of AABN filmer Maarten), 

who visit South Africa to speak with ANC members about their 

memories of the struggle (Pallo Jordan, Denis Goldberg, Ronny 

Kasrils, Jonas Gwangwa, John Matshikiza, Maina Langa); and Keitu 

and Malose Gwangwa (children of Jonas Gwangwa, leader of the 

Amandla Cultural Ensemble), who visit Holand to interview Conny 

Braam. Interspersed with footage of AABN actions in the 1970s and 

'80s. The hearings about the agression of the apartheidsregime, the 

actions for Radio Freedom, the cultural events The doors of culture 

shall be opened. The cultural voice of resistance (1982) and CASA 

(Culture in another South Africa, 1987). 

Remarks: picture quality: good * VNL 021 

History Book: Part 1: A flickering light in the darkness Part 2: At dawn, overcoming all difficulties 

Part 3: A bright future... for some Part 4: Bloody schemes Part 5: Triumphant symphony Part 6: 

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Makeshift solutions Part 7: Coming of darkness Part 8: The night is sinister Part 9: A new dawn. - 

Cuba, Havana : Tricontinental film centre, 1974. - Video : VHS; 143 min. 

Originally produced by Film Front, English version by Tricontinental film centre (Cuba), this video 

distributedby The Other Cinema, which is incorporated by Metro Pictures Ltd., London. 


Keywords: * Europe * Africa * history * explorers * colonialism * imperialism * capitalism* * socialism 

Summary: 

An animated history in nine parts: Pt.1: Europe emerges from the 

Dark Ages as a feudal maze of dukedoms and bishoprics. The merchant 

class emerges and pushes for a sea route to the east. Pt.2: On his 

second expedition to india, Vasco da Gama attempts to secure a base 

on the African coast. Pt.3: Overseas trade prospers. Merchants ally 

themselves with the Kings to repress landowners who charge taxes 

for trade routes accross their land. Pt.4: John Hawkins begins the 

slave trade from Africa to America in 1562. Pt.5: The industrial 

revolution begins in England and spreads to Europe. Mass migration 

to the city takes place. Pt.6: Capitalists develop Africa as 

colonies with cheap labour in response to the power of European 

workers. Pt.7: The race for empires leads to World War I. The first 

socialist revolution takes place in Russia. The great depression is 

followed by another World War and another socialist revolution 

takes place in China. Pt.8: Many colonies gain independence but are 

still financially dependent on capitalist countries. Pt.9: The 

Portuguese colony of Guinea Bisseau gains independence in 1973. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VAA 001 

Blutiger Preis / dir. by Piet Eekman. - Deutschland, Köln : ZDF ; ARTE, 2002. - Video : VHS; 29 min. 

Start: na 102 min. Produktion der Bitcom International im Auftrag des ZDF in Zusammenarbeit mit ARTE. 


Keywords: * Angola * civil war * kimberley process * diamonds 

Summary: 

A documentary about the role of diamonds in the civil war in Angola 

between MPLA and UNITA. The latter is financing the bloody war by 

the illegal trade in diamonds. The Kimberley process is trying to 

stop this illegal trade by demanding government certification of 

the rough stones. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VAA 002 

Diamanten in Kinderhand / reg., Script,etc Norbert Busè. - Deutschland, Köln : ZDF, 2002. - Video : VHS; 


Produced by Busè Film, Berlin, in Auftrag des ZDF in Zusammenarbeit mit ARTE. 


Keywords: * Belgium * Antwerp (city) * India * Surat * Brazil * Diamantina * diamond trade * diamond mining * 

child labour * diamonds 

Summary: 

The smaller diamonds go from Antwerp to Surat, India, because the 

wages in Antwerp for cutting and polishing them are too high. In 

Surat the job is done by children who often work for twelve hours a 

day. Also a look in Diamantina, Brazil, where children are working 

in the rivermining diamond industry. 


Diamantenfieber : im Land der glitzernden Steine / Reg. und Skript Christian Twente ; Skript Uwe 

Kersken. - Deutschland, Köln : ZDF, 2002. - Video : VHS; 43 min. Start: na 7 min. 

Eine Produktion der Gruppe 5 Filmproduktion im Auftrag des ZDF im Zusammenarbeit mit ARTE. 


Keywords: * South Africa * diamond mining * Rhodes, Cecil John (1853-1902) * Barnato, Barney (1852-97) * 

history; 19th century * diamonds 

Summary: 

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A dramatised documentary about the beginning of the diamond mining 

industry in South Africa, with special attention for Cecil Rhodes 

and Barney Barnato, two of the main characters of that period. 

Having started out as competitors they ended up as business 

partners in De Beers Mining Company. Barnato was only in it for the 

money and social status, for Rhodes the money was only a means to 

an end: political power. Film intercut with rushes of the modern diamond business. 


Afrikaanse kapers op de kust / script&regie Thorsteinn Helgason ; prod. Hjalmtyr Heiddal ; Close up. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : AVRO, 2003. - Video : VHS; 52 min. 

Nederlandse ondertitels waar nodig. Een Seylan Film Production (IJsland) in co-productie met AVRO, RUV 

Icelandic Public Broadcast Service en TG4, Public Broadcast Service, Ireland. 


Keywords: * Algeria * Iceland * Denmark * Ireland * slave trade * history; 17th century 

Summary: 

Documentaire over Moorse kapers die in de 17e eeuw kaperstochten 

hielden op de kusten van IJsland (1627), Faröer eilanden (1629) en 

Ierland (1631), waar ze ook inwoners gevangen namen en als slaaf 

verkochten in Noord-Afrika, of voor losgeld probeerden te ruilen. 

de leider van deze kapers was overigens een tot de islam bekeerde 

Nederlander, Jan Jansen. 


Riddles of the death : plague survivors / prod. and dir. by Emma Whitlock. - UK, London : National 

Geographic Channel, 2003. - : VHS; 57 min. Dutch subtitles. 

Original a Tigress Productions production for Channel Four, 2001. 


Keywords: * world * diseases * infections * HIV/AIDS 

Summary: 

Documentary that states that the gene delta-32, that had protected 

people in England against the plague in the Middle Ages, is also 

protecting its bearers from an HIV/Aids infection. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VAA 004 

Aids : the woman's story / dir. by Walther Grotenhuis, Cinta Forger. - Netherlands, Amsterdam : IdtV-DITS, 

2004. - Video : VHS; 60 min. Dutch subtitled 


Keywords: * Kenya * Thailand * Brazil * women * HIV/AIDS * Global Fund * health patients * health education 

* health care * sex education * gender discrimination 

Summary: 

Beautiful documentary about women with HIV/AIDS in Kenya, Brazil 

and Thailand. About their strength, how they are trying to cope 

with the disease and how their social environment is reacting, and 

what their governments are doing in fighting this pandemic. In 

Kenya you meet Pater Ngugi, who states that 'if you start trusting 

condoms, you stop trusting God', in Thailand a MP is passing 

condoms in night clubs, claiming 'condoms are a girls best friend', 

and in Brazil they join the carnaval, dressed up like condoms. Bill 

Clinton also appears still to be alive. 


War babies, nés de la haine / dir. de prod. Marcel Fraser. - France, Paris : TV5 Europe ; Macumba 

Intetrnational, 2002. - : VHS; 60 min. French subtitels/voice over when necessary 


Keywords: * world * Bangladesh * Rwanda * Somalia * Nicaragua * armed conflicts * sexual violence * 

women * children * orphans 

Summary: 

A film about rape as weapon in the war. Stories from women in 

Bangladesh, Rwanda, Somalia and Nicaragua. 

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Eerste vrije verkiezingen in Angola / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1992. - Video : VHS; 13 

min. Start: na 127 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary. Tape MC 1369 


Keywords: * Angola * elections * UNITA * Angola * war crimes * army 

Summary: 

BBC reportage over de aankomende eerste vrije verkiezingen in 

Angola. Slachtoffers van oorlogsmisdaden van zowel UNITA als MPLA 

vertellen dat ze weinig hoop hebben op de waarheid over hun 

vermisten. Interviews met Dos Santos en Savimbi, die beiden zeggen 

vertrouwen te hebben. Ook met soldaten uit het nieuw te vormen 

leger waarin MPLA en UNITA troepen moeten samengaan. De IKON 

verslaggeefster is weinig hoopvol gestemd over een snellle vrede. 


Kindersterfte ten gevolge van flesvoeding / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1992. - Video : 

VHS; 8 min. Start: na 119 min. Tape MC 1369 


Keywords: * Netherlands * dairy industry * child mortality * corporate social responsibility * codes of conduct* 

Summary: 

UNICEF heeft becijferd dat er jaarlijks een miljoen kinderen 

sterven door het onjuiste gebruik van melkpoeder (vuil water, vuile 

flessen, te sterk verdund vanwege de hoge prijs). In Nederland is 

er in 1981 een gedragscode voor de industrie pgesteld, die dit 

soort neveneffecten moet tegengaan. Uit een rapport van WEMOS en 

SOMO blijkt dat de melkindustrie zich ruim tien jaar later niet aan 

de gedragscodes houdt. 


Noreena's agenda / reg. IJsbrand van Velen ; montage Paul Delput ; Tegenlicht. - Amsterdam : VPRO, 

2005. - Video : VHS; 50 min. Dutch subtitled 


Keywords: * poverty alleviation * globalisation * development aid * debt relief * poverty * rock'n'roll * Bono 

(Paul Hewson) (1960- ) * Geldof, Robert Frederick Xenon (1951- ) * enterprises 

Summary: 

Tegenlicht volgt Noreena Hertz (1967), die midden in de strijd 

tegen de armoede staat. Met haar boeken 'De Stille Overname' en 

'IOU, het gevaar van de internationale schuldenlast' werd ze een 

spreekbuis van de internationale protestbeweging. In een permanente 

lobby voor een eerlijkere mondiale verdeling van de rijkdom is haar 

doel niet alleen om als wetenschapper oplossingen te vinden, maar 

ook om het onderwerp op de publieke en politieke agenda te houden. 

In 'Noreena's Agenda' zien we Noreena Hertz in gesprek met Bono, 

Bob Geldof, President Benjamin Mkapa van Tanzania, de Finse 

minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Tuomioja en met TNT topman Peter 

Bakker. In haar zoektocht naar een oplossing voor het armoedeprobleem 

tast ze alle partijen af, waarbij ze fungeert als bemiddelaar en raadgever. 

In Tegenlicht een blik in de arena van de armoedebestrijding, waar popsterren 

politici blijken te zijn, activisten onderhandelaars, academici beroemdheden, 

en waar verrassend genoeg er ook voor het bedrijfsleven een grote rol blijkt te zijn weggelegd. 


Honderd procent voor kinderen : net4kids en het nieuwe geven / Eveline van Dijck ; De Donderdag 

Documentaire. - Nederland, Hilversum : Humanistische Omroep, 2005. - Video : VHS; 50 min. 



Keywords: * Netherlands * Asia * Africa * private aid * internet * development projects * children * donorrecipient 

relation * donor agencies 

Summary: 

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Documentaire over de Nederlandse donororganisatie "net4kids", die 

claimt een nieuwe vorm van fondsenwerving te hebben uitgevonden, om 

het wantrouwen bij potentiële donoren over wat er allemaal 'aan de 

strijkstok blijft hangen' weg te nemen, en een persoonlijke 

verbondenheid tussen donor en doel tot stand te brengen. Dit wordt 

gedaan via hun website, waar mensen specifieke doelen kunnen 

uitzoeken om te ondersteunen, en waar gevers de gevolgen van hun 

giften kunnen volgen. Voor de overhead worden speciale sponsors 

gezocht, zodat mensen die een bepaald doel wilen ondersteunen ervan 

opaan kunnen dat hun geld voor 100 % bij het project terecht komt. 

Als voorbeeld het straatkinderen/weeshuis project Matri Griha in Nepal. 

Remarks: Picture quality : good * VAA 009 

An introduction to African cinema. - UK, London : BBC 2, 2005. - Video : VHS; 28 min. Start: na 113 min. 


Keywords: * Africa * Senegal * Burkina Faso * Mali * Nigeria * films * cultural identity 

Summary: 

Documentary about African films, in the former French colonies and 

Nigeria. The goal of most filmmakers is to decolonise the African 

image, and to show the world an 'other' Africa. Interviews with ao 

director Ousmane Sembene from Senegal; director Gaston Kabore from 

Burkina Faso; Souleymane Cisse from Mali, director of probably 

still the best known African film 'Yeelen'; Jeta Amata, director/actor from 

Nigeria, the greatest film producing country in the world (bigger than 

Hollywood or Bollywood, calling themselves 'Nollywood'), who claims 

that Nigerian productions are more independent than tose of the former 

French colonies, who look to Europe (France) for funding. 


TV Africa / writ.&presented by Ekow Eshun ; prod.& dir.by Moise Shewa. - UK, London : BBC 2, 2005. - 



Keywords: * Africa * South Africa * Kenya * Ghana * television * social issues * church and society * hiphop * 

Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication 

Summary: 

Documentary about the role of television in Africa. Ekow Eshun 

travels to South Africa, Kenya and Ghana to look at the role 

television plays in Africa. In South Africa he talks to the winner 

of Big Brother Africa, to some of the cast of the educational soap 

series Soul City, and to a succesfull presenter of a talkshow. TV 

programms can change lives in South Africa by leading the fights 

against social ills. In Kenya, political change (multi-party 

politics, freedom of expression) is fought out on television, for 

instance in Agenda Kenya, where viewers can ask questions to 

politicians directly. Also much attention for criminality, seen by 

most Kenyans as the main social problem. In Ghana attention for 

music on tv (Ghana rap, the so-called hip-life), the production of 

commercials, and tv preachers, a booming business in Ghana. 


On dangerous ground : Norwegian people's aid demining activities / manus og regi Arun Ghosh. - 

Norway, Oslo : Norwegian People's Aid, 1997. - Video : VHS; 16 min. English subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * Norway * mine-clearance 

Summary: 

Norwegian People's Aid is one of the worlds largest humanitarian 

demining organisations. It has demining activities in Cambodia, 

Laos, Mozambique, Angola, Northern Iraq and in Bosnia- Hercegovina. 

This video gives an introduction to the problem, an impression of 

the suffering of the victims and the work of Norwegian People's Aid 

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to search for a solution of the problem. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VEA 001 

TV-Aksjonen '94 : "Miner" Lang versjon + kortversjon / Regi Erik Poppe. - Norge, Oslo : JBR Film, 1994. 



Keywords: * Norway * mine-clearance 

Summary: 

Twee TV spotjes over de Noorse groep Norsk Folkehjelp (Norwegian's 

People's Aid), een humanitaire mijnopruimings groep. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VEA 002 

Cry Freetown / cam. and pres. by Sorious Samura ; dir. by Ron McCullagh ; prod. by Elizabeth Ground. - 

UK, London : Insight News Television, 2000. - Video : VHS; 27 min. 


Keywords: * Sierra Leone * Freetown * civil war * conflict diamonds * ECOMOG * child soldiers 

Summary: 

A film made of hardcore footage of a conflict financed by diamonds, 

in Sierra Leone, where in Januari 1999 the rebel forces of the 

RUF/AFRC attacked Freetown. In the following days thousands of 

civilians were killed. Sorious Samura filmed on the streets of the 

city throughout. ECOMOG, an armed intervention force sponsored by 

ECOWAS, consisting mainly of Nigerian soldiers, is using the same 

insane violence as the rebel forces. Special attention for the 

child soldiers, being abducted by the rebels. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VAW 001 

Schwarz weiá Malerei / Reg. und Schnitt Sophie Kotanyi. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1988 [?]. - Video : VHS; 38 min. 

German voice-over 


Keywords: * Cape Verde * Germany * women * migrants * cultural identity 

Summary: 

Ein Dokumentarfilm über eine Frau aus Cabo Verde die nach Berlin 

emigriert ist weil sie einem Deutschen Mann geheiratet hat. Sie 

vergleicht ihr Leben in Deutschland mit das Leben in Cabo Verde. 

Remarks: Picture quality: ? * VAW 004 

Coming soon : de Nigeriaanse homevideo / samenst. en reg. Alexander van der Meer. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : VPRO, 2005. - Video : VHS; 55 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * Nigeria * video* * society and culture * cultural identity * film industry 

Summary: 

Een prachtige documentaire over de homevideo-industrie zoals die 

bloeit in Nigeria. Er worden 50 … 60 films per week geproduceerd, 

direct voor gebruik in de huiskamer, aangezien het land geen 

bioscopen heeft, in een oplage van 50.000 kopieën per film. Met 

veel fantasie en weinig middelen worden films gemaakt die stijf 

staan van horroreffecten, geweld en bloed, maar die volgens de 

makers sociale kritieken zijn op de situatie in hun land. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VAW 005 

Mortu Nega / Cenario de Flora Gomes ; Reg. Marcos Tom s Lopes. - Guine-Bissau, Praia : Instituto 

Nacional de Cinema, 1988. - Video : VHS; 65 min. French subtitles 


Keywords: * Guinea-Bissau * independence struggle * guerrilla war * drought * women 

Summary: 

A feature film about the last phase of the liberation struggle in 

Guinea-Bissau and the role of the women in the struggle. After 

independence the struggle continues, now against the drought. Main 

Character played by Bia Gomes. 

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Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood * VAW 006 

Is love a tender thing? / eindred. Anne-Jean van Grinsven ; Dubbelklik. - Nederland, Hilversum : AVRO. - 

Video : VHS; 25 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * Ghana * Netherlands * children * theatre * HIV/AIDS * sex education 

Summary: 

Twee Nederlandse kinderen, Juul en Helmer, gaan een week naar Ghana 

om daar met leeftijdgenoten te acteren en te praten over HIV/AIDS 

Remarks: Picture quality: ? * VAW 007 

African ways : views of African journalists on ethics / interv. and cam. Martijn Gouman ; Scherpenzeel 

Media Foundation. - Nederland, Hilversum : Scherpenzeel Media Foundation, 2000. - Video : VHS; 19 min. 


Keywords: * Africa * freedom of the press * corruption * censorship 

Summary: 

African journalists are facing a lot of changes. There are ethical 

dilemma's like dealing with traditional values, respect for elders 

and authorities, being paid for publications ('brown envelop 

journalism') and so on. Press Freedom is in many countries 

uncertain, lack of presscodes makes ethical choices for journalists 

difficult. Journalists have to find answers for complicated 

questions about news selection and news sources, accountability and 

responsability. Journalists and communication experts give their 

opinion on ethical problems in african press. The interviews were 

made at a seminar about ethics, media code of practise and 

journalism training in Africa - which was held in Ghana September 1999. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VAF 001 

The road is still very long : opinions of African journalists about their profession / Scherpenzeel Media 

Foundation. - Netherlands, Utrecht : Scherpenzeel Media Foundation ; School of Journalism and 

Communication, 1996. - Video : VHS; 24 min. 


Keywords: * Africa * journalism * journalists * freedom of the press * censorship * civil society 

Summary: 

African journalists are being interviewed abouth the role of 

journalists in African societies, about the main problems they are 

facing, about the amount of press freedom and the problems and 

possibilities they encounter with that and about what goals they 

want to reach as journalists. 


From protocol journalism towards press freedom - an educational programme on liberalisation and 

its effects on press and press freedom : a portrait of two papers in Tanzania and Malawi / written and 

dir. by Martin Meulenberg ; Scherpenzeel Media Foundation. - Netherlands, Utrecht : Scherpenzeel Media 

Foundation ; School of Journalism and Communication, 1995. - Video : VHS; 41 min. 


Keywords: * Africa * journalism * freedom of the press * multi-party politics * one-party systems * journalists 

Summary: 

In recent years several African countries have experienced a change 

from a single-party system to a multi-party system. For the media 

this has far reaching consequences. During single-party regimes 

there were only a few media, owned and controlled by the state. 

Freedom of expression was practically non-existent. Liberalisation 

however changed things drastically. Journalists, officials and the 

audience will have to get used to a new press situation. This gives 

two examples: that of Tanzania, with Uhuru newspaper, and Malawi, with The Nation. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VAF 003 

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Armoedebestrijding in Zuid-Afrika en Rotterdam [descript. title] / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

IKON, 1995 [?]. - Video : VHS; 13 min. Start: na 14 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * East London * Rotterdam * urban poverty * poverty alleviation * 

civic associations * living conditions * housing 

Summary: 

Desmond Halley en Rinnie Klaassen, twee buurtwerkers uit East 

London, bezoeken Rotterdam om te kijken hoe de stad omgaat met haar 

dak-en thuislozen. Doorsneden met beelden over de situatie in East 

London, waar de townshipbewoners gestimuleerd worden om zich te 

organiseren en zelf hun situatie te verbeteren. 


Exodus / Horizon. - Nederland, Hilversum : EO, 1995 [?]. - Video : VHS; 48 min. 



Keywords: * Tanzania * refugee camps * air pollution * environmental degradation * water supply * water 

management * wood 

Summary: 

Program about the refugeecamp Banako in Tanzania, where hundreds of 

thousends of Rwandan refugees are concentrated. An international 

environmental impact assessment team was set up, which had as goal 

to formulate recommendations to reduce the environmental impact of 

the refugeecamp. They concentrated on the questions of fuelwood 

(deforestation) and water supply. 


Landmijnen / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1995 [?]. - Video : VHS; 14 min. 



Keywords: * Netherlands * landmines 

Summary: 

Item over landmijnen en de schade die ze toebrengen. In de Tweede 

Kamer tekent zich een meerderheid van PvdA, CDA en D'66 af voor een 

productie en export verbod van deze wapens. 


Mbeki bezoekt Nederland [descript. title] / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1995 [?]. - Video : 

VHS; 8 min. Start: na 138 min. Dutch subtitles when needed. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * Mbeki, Thabo Mvuyelwa (1942- ) * Truth and Reconciliation 

Commission 

Summary: 

Item over het bezoek van vice-president Thabo Mbeki aan Nederland, 

waar hij praat over de banden tussen Nederland en Zuid-Afrika en 

over de instelling van de Truth and Reconcilliation Commission. 


Ontslag Winnie Mandela / NOVA. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 1995 [?]. - Video : VHS; 9 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * Madikizela-Mandela, Winnie (1934-) * good 

governance * corruption 

Summary: 

Item over het ontslag van Winnie Mandela als staatsecretaris door Nelson Mandela, 

wegens corruptie en machtsmisbruik. Met commentaar van Connie Braam. 


Kindsoldaten / Warzone. - Nederland, Hilversum : BNN, 2003. - : VHS; 50 min. Dutch subtitles 


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Keywords: * Sierra Leone * child soldiers * RUF * conflict diamonds 

Summary: 

BNN ploeg reist mee met Memisa medewerkster Julie Verhaar door 

Sierra Leone, op zoek naar ex- kindsoldaten die door het RUF 

ontvoerd, gedrogeerd, verkracht en als moordenaar ingezet zijn. Ook 

beelden van ex- RUF rebellenleider en diamantdealer Foday Sankoh, 

die nu wordt aangeklaagd, en zijn opvolger generaal Issa, nog 

steeds vrij man. Een deel van de ex- kindsoldaten wordt geholpen 

via het programma van de NCDDR (National Commission for 

Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reintegration), die ze een 

uitkering geeft zodat ze een beroepsopleiding kunnen volgen en weer 

terug kunnen keren in de maatschappij. Caritas Makeni vangt 

kindsoldaten op en begeleid ze. Het IRC (International Refugee 

Committee) helpt vrouwelijke ex-kindsoldaten om door middel van 

video-brieven weer contact te leggen met hun familie en ze weer te 

herenigen. Een ander deel werkt nogsteeds onder hun oude RUF 

commandanten als een soort slaven in de illegale diamantmijnen in 

de provincie Kono, waar Koidu het centrum van de handel in bloeddiamanten is. 


Leven in Afrika / cam. Hans Fels ; geluid Gys Zevenbergen ; eindred. Hans Keller ; Tegenlicht. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : VPRO, 2003. - Video : VHS; 50 min. Start: na 58 min. Dutch voice- over 


Keywords: * Ethiopia * famine * humanitarian assistance 

Summary: 

Uitzending ontstaan "uit machteloze woede over het motief, dat de 

publieke omroep enige tijd geleden hanteerde om niet in te hoeven 

gaan op het verzoek van de SHO (Samenwerkende Hulp Organisatie) een 

gezamenlijke televisie-actie te ontketenen voor hongerend Afrika. 

Dat motief luidde, dat er in verband met de marketing van zo'n 

actie nog over onvoldoende beelden wordt beschikt". Hans Fels en 

Gys Zevenbergen zetten de camera neer in het dorpje Belo in 

Ethiopië en filmden in één shot van 49 minuten het relaas van de 

dorpsbewoners: droogte, honger, vee dood, kinderenziek en geen 

geld voor de dokter, geen hulp of te weinig, en blanke 

cameraploegen die de ellende fotograferen en filmen en dan 

vertrekken zonder dat het de bewoners ook maar iets oplevert. Men 

is moe, te moe voor wat dan ook maar, zodat er nog maar éen graf 

gegraven wordt voor drie overledenen. 


Afrika : thuis in de savanne / prod.& dir. Graham Booth ; Ned. bew. Corinne Wielinga. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : Teleac/NOT, 2003. - Video : VHS; 53 min. 

Original a co-production between National Geographic Television, Thirteen/WNET New York, Tigress 

Productions and Magic Box Mediaworks, 2001. Start: na 20 min. Dutch subtitles and comment 


Keywords: * Tanzania * Kenya * women * rural-urban relations 

Summary: 

In this program two women, one in Kenya and one in Tanzania, are 

followed when tey return to the savanne, one because she married 

and the other because she wants her child to be born in her native village. 


Afrika museum Berg en Dal / reg. Paul Kramer ; Museumgasten. - Nederland, Hilversum : AVRO, 2003. - 



Keywords: * Netherlands * museums * Africa * arts and culture * society and culture 

Summary: 

Hans Smit en Jeanne Kooimans lopen rond in het Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal. 


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Ethiopia : a journey with Michael Buerk / reporter Michael Buerk. - UK, London : BBC, 2004. - Video : 



Keywords: * Ethiopia * famine * famine relief * feeding schemes * solidarity organisations * international 

assistance * private aid 

Summary: 

Michael Buerk looks back twenty years ago, when he was shooting a 

documentary on the famine in Ethiopia, that suffered from the 

dictatorship of Mengistu, who didn't want his office-jubilee (on 

which he spent over 100 miljon$) being disturbed by reports on 

famine. This led to the action Aid for Africa by the Irish 

popsinger Bob Geldof, who two decades later may once more explain 

how it all came about. With lots of images of starving people. 


Het wilde Afrika van de film / Michel Viotte. - Netherlands, Hilversum : AVRO, 2005. - Video : VHS; 92 min. 

First released in 2003. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * East Africa * western world * films * history * society and culture * environmental conservation * 

cultural identity 

Summary: 

A documentary about how Africa was depicted in film in the West. In 

the 1910s it started with wildlife documentaries, a genre that 

would stay popular throughout. Famous couples spent many years in 

(mainly east-) Africa, like Martin and Osa Johnson in the 1920s and 

Armand Denis & wifein the 1940s. The latter switched to 

television when that era started. On the BBC they broadcasted 105 

documentaries: "On Safari". In the 1960 the emphasis shifted 

towards environmental issues: the risk of extinction becomes 

clearer and clearer, and for filmers like Simon Trevor it becomes 

the main theme. In the mean time Hollywood was exploiting the dark 

image of Africa that was inherited from the 19th century. In 1914 

The lion hunter/ E.A. Martin, and in 1923 Roughest Africa/ Ralph 

Cedar stressed the "exotic" character of the continent, and the 

great game hunting that was possible. In 1929 Trader Horn, by 

W.S.van Dyke was the first feature film shot in Africa by MGM. A 

huge expedition was organised to realise this project. The big, 

strong, white, male hunter, one who was capable of managing the 

dangers of that black continent, stayed a popular character in 

Hollywood movies, of which many also were influenced by Joseph 

Conrad's novel "Heart of darkness". 


Het gesprek : Nadine Gordimer / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1991. - Video : VHS; 

8 min. Tape MC 1327. Start: na 119 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Gordimer, Nadine (1923- ) * apartheid system * apartheid reforms * crime * 

political violence * Buthelezi Mangosuthu Gatsha (1928-) * literature * Nobel prize 

Summary: 

A talk with Nadine Gordimer, last year winner of the Nobel prize 

for literature, about the political changes in South Africa, the 

rising criminality, and the political violence she blames on Buthelezi. 


Van huis uit / Samenstelling en reg Marijke de Val, Bep Vochteloo. - Netherlands, Hilversum : RVU, 1991. - 

Video : VHS; 22 min. Tape MC 1327. Start: na 68 min. 


Keywords: * Zaïre * DRC * Somalia * Netherlands * asylum-seekers 

Summary: 

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Twee vluchtelingenverhalen van jonge Afrikaanse asielzoekers in 

Nederland. Eén van Nadine Musampa, 21-jarige vluchteling uit Zaïre, 

en een van Jacfar Abdi Jama, een 17-jarige vluchteling uit Somalië. 


Boipatong massacre / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1992. - Video : VHS; 12 min. 

Start: na 109 min. Dutch subtitles and comment. Tape MC 1356 


Keywords: * South Africa * Boipatong massacre (1992) * political negotiations * politically motivated crime * 

informal repression 

Summary: 

Drie items over het Boipatong bloedbad, waarbij veertig mensen, 

waaronder vrouwen en kinderen, werden afgeslacht door Zulu's uit 

het nabijgelegen Kwamadala hostel, waarbij de daders geescorteerd 

werden door de politie. Het ANC verweet de regering niets te doen 

tegen het geweld en daar zelfs medeverantwoordelijk voor te zijn, 

en stapte uit CODESA 2, het onderhandelingsforum tussen regering en 

ANC. Commentaar van deskundigen, politici (ANC, IFP en regering), 

en getuigenverslagen van overlevenden. 


En nog is Zaire niet verloren / Walter Zinzen. - België, Brussel : BRT, 1992. - Video : VHS; 47 & 8 min. 

Start: na 42 min. Dutch comment and subtitles when necessary. Tape MC 1356 


Keywords: * Zaïre * DRC * Belgium * gold mining * social-economic conditions * foreign investment * mines * 

neo-colonialism * primary education * primary schools * church and society 

Summary: 

Belgische documentaire over de situatie in Zaïre "in de nadagen van 

het Mobutu regime", zoals optimistisch gesteld wordt. Gekeken wordt 

naar de goudwinning rond Bunia. De staatsmijn Kilomoto, 

overblijfsel uit de koloniale tijd, wordt geleid door generaal 

Bokana, uit de kliek rond Mobutu. De mijn is zwaar verwaarloosd en 

de mijnwerkers hebben al achttien maanden geen loon ontvangen; 

aandacht voor de (vaak illegale) goudwinning door Congolezen, 

waaronder steeds meer vrouwen, vanwege de slechte 

sociaal-economische situatie in het land; de nieuwe particuliere 

goudmijn KIMIN, voor 50% in handen van de Belgen, met de Wereldbank 

en een aantal particuliere investeerders als voornaamste 

geldschieters, maar ook deelname van Kilomoto: de slechte 

betalingen van onderwijzers, leraren en journalisten, die er vaak 

een baan bij moeten hebben, of zelf hun voedsel moeten verbouwen; 

de verbetering van het wegennet, sinds dat door particuliere 

bedrijven (in opdracht van de Wereldbank) wordt gedaan, en het 

verwaarloosde ziekenhuis van Mongbwalu, dat door KIMIN opgeknapt 

moet gaan worden; "succesvol ondernemer" Bemba Saolana, ook uit de 

Mobutu-kliek, mag opscheppen over zijn maatschappij SCIBE-Zaïre (de 

Belgische journalisten zijn telkens erg verbaasd als ze een 

Congolees ontmoeten die eigen initiatief toont); initiatieven van 

ouders die zelf een lagere school voor hun kinderen bouwen en de 

salarissen van directeur en onderwijzers opbrengen; en de rol van 

de katholieke kerk in het land wordt belicht. Gevolgd door een 

interview met de maker, Walter Zinzen, waarin aandacht voor de 

contracten die het Belgische Petrofina met Mobutu heeft afgesloten 

("komen de oude tijden weer terug?"); wat er gebeuren gaat met de 

uitkomsten van de Nationale Conferentie; en speculaties over waarom 

de USA Mobutu nog steeds steunen. 


Mijnenveld / N.V. De Wereld. - Belgium, Brussels : TV1, 1997 [?]. - Video : VHS; 10 min. 


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Keywords: * Angola * Ganda * landmines * feeding schemes * infrastructure 

Summary: 

Reportage over de landmijnkwestie, ditmaal met als voorbeeld Ganda 

in Angola, waar alle aktiviteit onmogelijk geworden is omdat de 

streek in één groot mijnenveld veranderd is, en de bevolking 

afhankelijk is van voedselhulp van het Rode Kruis. 


Wapenhandel [descript.title] / Kenmerk. - Hilversum : IKON, 1997. - Video : VHS; 12 min. 



Keywords: * Africa * Europe * light weapons * arms trade 

* smuggle * codes of conduct* * demobilisation * conflict prevention * airports * trade policy 

Summary: 

Reportage over de grote rol die kleine wapens spelen in gewapende 

conflicten. Europa zou eigenlijk een gedetaileerd geformuleerde 

gedragscode moeten hebben voor de handel in wapens, zodat bedrijven 

en regeringen gecontroleerd kunnen worden door de civil society. 

Momenteel voeren economische belangen nog de boventoon, zoals 

bijvoorbeeld blijkt bij Schiphol, wat een belangrijke doorvoerhaven 

is voor illegale wapentransporten. De beste conflictpreventie is 

voorkomen dat wapens in conflictgebieden terechtkomen. 


Rolf on Art : Africa. - UK, London : BBC, 2005. - Video : VHS; 35 min. 


Keywords: * Africa * arts and culture * Ndebele culture * San art * rock paintings * wall paintings * sculpture 

Summary: 

White artist travels through Africa to see the African art forms. 

He starts with the rock paintings of the San in South Africa, then 

travels to Ghana where he marvels at the Ashanti wood carvers and 

textile art, then once more in South Africa to look at the wall 

paintings in the townships, the N'debele art and a community art 

centre in Soweto. Also attention for modern African art, for 

instance art made from recycled weapons from the civil war in Mozambique. 


En er was licht / dir. Otar Losseliani. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1989. - Video : VHS; 139 min. 

Original title: Et la lumière fut, 1988. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * Africa * traditional culture * western world * feature films (form) 

Summary: 

Prachtige film die voornamelijk in beelden vertelt hoe een 

traditioneel levend (hoewel, de vrouwen zijn de baas) Afrikaans 

dorp in aanraking komt met de westerse cultuur als er bomenkappers arriveren. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good enough * VAF 013 

Afrika : oorlog is business / samenst. & regie Frank Vellenga ; interviews Jaime de Bourbon Parme. - 

Nederland, Hilversum; Amsterdam : AVRO ; Viewpoint Productions, 2006. - Video : VHS; 49 min. 

Nederlands commentaar en ondertitels. Mede mogelijk gemaakt door een financiële bijdrage van Oxfam 

Novib, NCDO, Stichting Doen, Amnesty International, Cordaid, Icco, Fatal Transactions 


Keywords: * Africa * Liberia * Sierra Leone * DRC * conflict diamonds * conflict timber * gold * coltan * cobalt 

* armed conflicts * insurgents * arms smuggle * Kouwenhoven, Guus 

Summary: 

Deel één van de driedelige documentaire "Afrika: oorlog is 

business". Jaime de Bourbon Parme reist door Sierra Leone, Liberia 

en Congo en laat zien dat veel oorlogen niet alleen door 

conflictgrondstoffen worden gefinancierd, maar dat die grondstoffen 

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ook vaak de oorzaak van de conflicten zijn. Jaime praat in Monrovia 

met Daniel Chea, minister van defensie, ook onder Charles Taylor, 

die erg trots is zelf aan het front te hebben gevochten, 250.000 

slachtoffers niet veel vindt, en twintig jaar oorlog kort; in 

Sierra Leone te horen krijgt dat de burgeroorlog om diamanten 

draaide; en in de DRC van de VN commandant voor Oost-Congo, Patrick 

Cammaert, te horen krijgt dat ook daar alles om economische 

belangen draait en het goud naar Uganda verdwijnt in ruil voor 

wapens. Ook het verhaal van de Nederlander Guus Kouwenhoven, met 

zijn houthandel Oriental Timber Company in Buchanan, Liberia,waar 

hij wapens voor Taylor smokkelde en zijn werknemers inzette in de 

oorlog, in ruil voor hout-concessies (waar hij in Nederland voor 

veroordeeld werd). Germain Kongolo, vice-president van Forrest 

Mining Company, vertelt in de DRC dat het normaal is dat de 

'legitieme' regering de opbrengsten uit mijnbouw gebruikt voor de defensie. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VAF 014 * Ook op DVD: DAF 001 (3 dvd's, Ned. versie), DAF 001a (1 dvd, 

53 min., Eng. versie) 

Afrika : oorlog is business / samenst. & regie Frank Vellenga ; interviews Jaime de Bourbon Parme. - 

Nederland, Hilversum; Amsterdam : AVRO ; Viewpoint Productions, 2006. - Video : VHS; 49 min. 

Nederlands commentaar en ondertitels. Mede mogelijk gemaakt door een financiële bijdrage van Oxfam 

Novib, NCDO, Stichting Doen, Amnesty International, Cordaid, Icco, Fatal Transactions 


Keywords: * Africa * Liberia * Sierra Leone * DRC * conflict diamonds * conflict timber * gold * copper mining 

* cobalt * armed conflicts * insurgents * arms smuggle 

Summary: 

Deel twee van de driedelige documentaire "Afrika: oorlog is 

business". Jaime de Bourbon Parme reist door Sierra Leone, Liberia 

en Congo en laat zien dat veel oorlogen niet alleen door 

conflictgrondstoffen worden gefinancierd, maar dat die grondstoffen 

ook vaak de oorzaak van de conflicten zijn. In Liberia blijkt na de 

vrede het land verdeeld te zijn tussen de verschillende 

rebellengroeperingen; zo is de haven van Monrovia bijvoorbeeld in 

handen van LURD, en de houtconcessies zijn weer toebedeeld aan een 

andere partij. In Sierra Leone mag een diamanthandelaar die al 

vijftig jaar in het vak zit vertellen over hoe leuk hij het vindt. 

In Koidu, centrum van de diamantwinning, en tijdens de oorlog in 

handen van het RUF, draait in het het lokale bioscoopje de wel héél 

toepasselijke film "Blood Diamonds". Desmond da Silva, aanklager 

van het Speciaal Gerechtshof in Freetown, klaagt over de cultuur 

van 'impunity'. Misschien is het daarom dat het hof nog niemand 

veroordeeld heeft. Zainab Bangura is directeur van de National 

Accountability Group en vertelt dat dezelfde mensen die tijdens de 

oorlog de diamanthandel beheersten, weer terug zijn, voor zover ze 

ooit zijn weggeweest. Ze wil geen namen noemen omdat a] iedereen 

wel weet wie dat zijn, en b] het veel te gevaarlijk is om namen te 

noemen. In Congo de koper en kobalt mijnen in Katanga. De grote 

staatsmijnen liggen stil, de mijnwerkers zijn ontslagen en de 

winstgevende onderdelen zijn door corrupte politici verpatst aan 

particuliere bedrijven. Een ingenieur van Forrest lijkt de enige 

die gelukkig is met de situatie. Het lijkt erop dat iedereen 

behalve de Congolese bevolking profiteert van de bodemschatten van 

het land. Petronille Waweka, regeringscommissaris in Ituri, reageert dan 

ook vermoeid op de vragen van Jaime: hij vraagt naar de bekende weg. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VAF 015 * Ook op DVD: DAF 001 (3 dvd's, Ned. versie), DAF 001a (1 dvd, 

53 min., Eng. versie) 

Droom van een tycoon : de olifanten komen (2) / samenst.& reg. Foeke de Koe. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

AVRO, 2006. - Video : VHS; 25 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary 

Start: na 31 min. World Report Media 

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Keywords: * Africa * Fentener van Vlissingen, Paul (1941-2006) * wildlife management * protected areas * 

poaching 

Summary: 

Aflevering uit de serie over het project van de deze zomer 

overleden Nederlandse patser Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, die de 

African Parks Foundation opzette: een verzameling natuurparken in 

Afrika. Deze aflevering gaat over de verhuizing van 70 olifanten 

van Lilongwe, Lake Malawi, waar er teveel zijn (600), naar het 200 

km verderop gelegen Majete Park, waar ze door stropers zijn 

uitgeroeid (1984: 300, 1994: 0). Majete is door African Parks 

'geadopteerd', en ze zullen er 25 jaar lang voor zorgen. 


Droom van een tycoon : de prijs van ivoor (1) / samenst.& reg. Foeke de Koe. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

AVRO, 2006. - Video : VHS; 22 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary. World Report Media 



poaching 

Summary: 




Afrika. Deze aflevering gaat over de verhuizing van 70 olifanten 

van Lilongwe, Lake Malawi, waar er teveel zijn (600), naar het 200 

km verderop gelegen Majete Park, waar ze door stropers zijn 

uitgeroeid (1984: 300, 1994: 0). 


Droom van een tycoon : de trots van Barotse / samenst.& reg. Foeke de Koe. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

AVRO, 2006. - Video : VHS; 25 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary. Start: na 89min. World Report Media 


Keywords: * Africa * Zambia * Fentener van Vlissingen, Paul (1941-2006) * wildlife management * protected 

areas * traditional leaders * traditional culture * indigenous peoples * ecotourism * poaching 

Summary: 




Afrika. Deze aflevering gaat over het beheer van het Liuwa park in 

Zambia, waar de lokale Barotse braaf meewerken. 


Droom van een tycoon : nieuwe buren (3) / samenst.& reg. Foeke de Koe. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

AVRO, 2006. - Video : VHS; 25 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary. Start: na 63 min. World Report Media 



traditional leaders * traditional culture * indigenous peoples 

Summary: 




Afrika. Deze aflevering gaat over het beheer van het Omo National 

Park in zuid-west Ethiopië, dat door African Parks voor 25 jaar 

geadopteerd is. Het ligt erg afgelegen en iedere vorm van 

infrastructuur ontbreekt. Eerst moeten de lokale stammen zoals de 

Mursi, de Nyangatom en de Surma, ingelicht worden over de plannen. 

Zij laten hun vee in het park grazen en zijn bang dat African Parks 

dit wil verbieden. De boodschap van African Parks, "wij zijn goede 

mensen, je kunt ons vertrouwen", wordt niet voldoende geacht: ze 

willen echte verdragen waarin hun rechten gewaarborgd zijn. 

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De avonturierster : de heren van Afrika / regie Jean-Claude Guidicelli. - Nederland, Hilversum : Teleac, 

2006. - Video : VHS; 49 min. 

Oorspronkelijke titel: L'Aventurière - Les seigneurs de l'afrique . - prod. par La Compagnie des Taxi-Brousse; 

Marurice Ribière; co-prod. par Lobster Films; France 5, 2006. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * Africa * documentaries * history; 1920-1939 

Summary: 

L'Aventurière n'est pas une série comme les autres, mais inaugure 

un nouveau genre d'écriture télévisuelle. C'est une fiction, car le 

personnage d'Iris, jeune femme d'origine franco-russe née au début 

du siècle dernier, est une création, et toutes ses aventures sont 

aussi romanesques qu'extraordinaires. C'est également une série 

documentaire car toutes les images d'archives inédites qui 

racontent les périples d'Iris aux quatre coins du monde sont 

authentiques. Mais c'est aussi une bande dessinée car le dessin 

donne … la jeune femme son visage et conduit le récit tout au long 

des épisodes. Alors fiction documentée ? Bande dessinée d'archives 

? Docu-fiction BD ? La série L'Aventurière est avant tout une 

formidable histoire pleine d'images époustouflantes qui met en 

scène, avec humour et respect de l'histoire, une jeune femme 

généreuse, engagée et curieuse de tout, … une époque o— la 

découverte du monde était encore un privilège réservé … quelques 

explorateurs ou riches voyageurs.) Les seigneurs de l'Afrique. 

Après avoir visité l'exposition coloniale … Paris, Iris White 

décide d'organiser une grande expédition … la découverte des 

espaces et des peuples d'Afrique. Tandis que les automobiles de la 

mission White traversent le Sahara, les spahis du général Morand 

interviennent pour libérer l'aventurière, prisonnière d'une tribu 

nomade après un accident d'avion. De l'Afrique-Occidentale aux 

forêts du Congo, Iris découvre les réalités d'un empire colonial o— 

la misère côtoie le pillage des ressources naturelles, o— les rois 

africains cohabitent avec missionnaires et colons. Iris et la 

Fondation White s'engagent … créer des hôpitaux et des écoles. Au 

Congo belge, Iris se lie d'amitié avec Karen Van Blix. Elles iront 

jusqu'au Kilimandjaro au secours des éléphants, des rhinocéros et 

des lions , les autres ® Seigneurs de l'Afrique ¯. 


Equator / writ. & press. by Simon Reeve. - UK, London ; Belgium, Brussels : BBC ; Canvas, 2006. - Video : 

VHS; 57 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * Gabon * DRC * Uganda * Kenya * ecotourism * gold mining * mineworkers * ethnic relations * 

fishing * refugee camps 

Summary: 

British jerk travels through Gabon, DRC, Uganda and Kernia. 

Remarks: Picture quality: ? * VAF 018 

Het kind en de soldaat / samenst. Loes Mulders ; eindred. Jelle Kooistra. - Nederland, Amsterdam ; 

Hilversum : Amnesty International ; NCRV, 2001. - Video : VHS; 70 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * Africa * Uganda * Liberia * Netherlands * child soldiers * asylum-seekers * Amnesty International 

* Lord's Resistance Army 

Summary: 

Compilatie tape met: 1] De kindsoldaten van Oeganda/ samenst. Ton 

Emmelot (10 min.); 2] Achter gesloten ogen/ reg. & research Duco 

Tellegen (25 min.); 3] Vrijmarkt/ Hans Hylkema (30 min.); 4] Martin 

Ennals/ Amnesty International (5 min.). 1 & 2 zijn documentaires 

over ex-kindsoldaten in resp. Oeganda en Liberia; 3 is een speelfilm 

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over een ex-kindsoldaat dat asiel zoekt in Nederland; 4 is een portret 

van de eerste secretaris-generaal van Amnesty International, Martin Ennals. 


The origin of AIDS / dir. by Peter Chappell, Catherine Peix ; Import. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 2007. - 


Original title: Les origines du SIDA, prod. by Mutlimedia France Productions ... [et all.], 2003. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * Central Africa * polio * vaccination campaigns * vaccines * HIV/AIDS * pharmaceutical industry 

Summary: 

Deel één van de tweedelige documentaire over de oorsprong van 

HIV/AIDS. In de 1950s was er een concurrentiestrijd gaande tussen 

wetenschappers Hilary Koprowski en Albert Sabin, over wie het 

eerste polio vaccin zou produceren. Koprowski gebruikte apennieren 

als grondstof voor zijn vaccin dat hij oa in Congo testte. Decennia 

later doet journalist Edward Hooper onderzoek naar mogelijk verband 

tussen het ontstaan van HIV/AIDS en de orale poliovaccinatie 

campagne in de Congo in 1957-1960 (doordat het vaccin verontreinigd 

zou zijn door een apenvirus, zoals bij het eerdere Salk vaccin was 

gebeurd) . Hij concludeert dat er een verband bestaat en publiceert 

zijn bevindingen in 1999 in het boek 'The river'.Zijn theorie 

wordt ondersteund door gezaghebbend evolutiebioloog Bill Hamilton. 

Die gaat zelf ook onderzoek doen in Afrika waar hij in 2000 aan 

malaria overlijdt. Op een congres in London wordt de theorie door 

het medisch establishment in datzelfde jaar afgekraakt. Volgens 

sommigen vooral om gevestigde reputaties te beschermen. 

Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood * VAF 020 

Banken stoppen verkoop Krugerrand / NOS Journaal. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1985. - Video : 



Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * economic sanctions * banks * krugerrand 

Summary: 

Journaalitem waarin wordt aangekondigd dat drie banken, RABO, AMRO 

en ABN, zullen stoppen met de verkoop van krugerrands. 

Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood * VSA 001 

Boycot Krugerrand / red. Frits Bom ; Konsumentenman. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 1984. - Video : 



Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * boycotts * economic sanctions * krugerrand 

Summary: 

Item over de nationale actie Boycot Krugerrand, met een interview 

met De Boer van Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika die uitlegt waarom de 

krugerrand geboycot moet worden. ('...een verliesgevende belegging...') 


District six : Vertreibung auf Südafrikanisch : Beobachtungen / von Lindy Wilson ; Red. Rainer 

Hoffmann ; deutsche Bearb. Walter Suches. - BRD, Köln : WDR, 1984. - Video : VHS; 43 min. 

Start: na 93 min. Original title: Last supper in Horstley Street (1983). See VZA 95 for the English version. 

German comment and voice-over. 


Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * Cape Town * Coloureds * District Six * forced removals * 

Group Areas Act* * history; 1980s 

Summary: 

Eine Film über die Apartheidpolitiek Südafrika's, im Besonderen die 

Zwangsumsiedlungspolitiek mit als Beispiel Distict Six bei Cape 

Town, wo am Ende 1982 33.000 Mischlinge sich unter Zwang 

umgesiedeldhatten (werden müssen). 


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Hongersnood in Mozambique en Zimbabwe / Brandpunt. - Nederland, Hilversum : KRO, 1984. - Video : 

VHS; 21 min. Start: na 45 min. Dutch subtitles when needed. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Zimbabwe * famine * drought * development aid * capacity building* 

Summary: 

Een item over de droogte en hongersnood in Afrika, die steeds meer 

landen treffen, ondanks decennia van ontwikkelingshulp. Dit roept 

de vraag op of hulp wel zin heeft. Als voorbeeld twee reportages 

uit de regio: Mozambiek, waar missionaris Jan van Rijen in Beira 

wordt geïnterviewd over de slachtoffers van de droogte en de 

burgeroorlog; en Zimbabwe, waar volgens het commentaar ook al drie 

jaar droogte heerst maar waar de regering tenminste actie 

onderneemt. Interviews met ao mr. A. Msipa, minister van 

droogtebestrijding. Ontwikkelingshulp moet meer zijn dan financiële 

steun: ook kennisoverdracht is van belang. 

Remarks: Picture quality: bad * VSA 001 

John Deuss en Trans World Oil / Tineke Verburg, Yvonne Habets, Hein van Nievelt ; TROS Aktua. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : TROS, 1985. - Video : VHS; 11 min. Start: na 153 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * oil companies (specific) * oil embargo * oil trade 

Summary: 

Een item over de duistere handel en wandel van John Deuss, wiens 

villa net door de actiegroep 'Pyromanen tegen Apartheid' in brand 

gestoken is omdat hijmet zijn bedrijf Trans World Oil de grootste 

olieleverancier van Zuid-Afrika is. 


Kennedy in Zuid-Afrika / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1984. - Video : VHS; 5 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * USA * international political relations 

Summary: 

Item waarin Boesak wordt geïnterviewed over het politieke belang 

van het bezoek dat senator Edward Kennedy aan Zuid-Afrika brengt. 

Zal dit het einde van de politiek van 'constructive engagement' van 

Reagan betekenen en zullen de VS sanctiemaatregelen tegen 

Zuid-Afrika gaan instellen? 


Kirche und Apartheid / ed. Klaus Figge ; cam. Peter A. Frense, Michael Condé. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1984. - Video 



Keywords: * South Africa * church and society * forced removals 

Summary: 

Ein Program über die Position der verschiedenen Christlichen Kirche 

in Süd-Afrika mit Beziehung zum Apartheidspolitiek und der Widerstand dagegen. 


Tambospotje Bevrijdingsfonds KZA / Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika. - Nederland, Amsterdam : KZA, 1984. - 

Video : VHS; 1 min. Start: na 92 min. Dutch subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * ANC * KZA * anti-apartheid resistance 

Summary: 

A TV-spot in which Tambo (ANC-chairman) asks for support in the struggle against apartheid. 


Township geweld / Hier en Nu. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 1984. - Video : VHS; 9 min. 

Start: na 170 min 

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Keywords: * South Africa * township revolt (1984-1986, South Africa) * Crossroads * political violence 

Summary: 

Item over het geweldadige verzet tegen apartheid in de townships 

rond Kaapstad, met name in Crossroads. Interview met David de Beer van Kairos. 

Remarks: picture quality: notsogood * VSA 001 

Agressie in Angola [descript title] / reg. Ria Reitsma ; Hier en Nu. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 1981. - 

Video : VHS; 18 min. Start: na 126 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * Angola * South Africa * USA * military interventions * UNITA * refugees * CIA * international 

political relations 

Summary: 

Item over de Zuid-Afrikaanse agressie in Angola en de steun die ze 

aan UNITA geven, en de (in elk geval morele) steun die de beweging 

uit Amerika (Reagan) ontvangt. John Stockwell, ex-CIA, vertelt dat 

Amerika Savimbi, leider van UNITA, verbood om 

vredesonderhandelingen met de MPLA te beginnen: 'the CIA couldn't 

tolerate that the conflict would end with a peacefull solution'. Er 

wordt geconstateert dat de Zuid-Afrikaanse aanvallen in freuentie toenemen. 


Angola [descript. title]. - België, Brussel : [s.n.], 1978. - : VHS; 35 min. Start: na 91 min. 


Keywords: * Angola * agriculture * smallholders * fishing industry * Benguela (prov.) * infrastructure * oil 

production * diamond mining * illiteracy * democratisation * Cuba * South Africa * UNITA * civil war * USA * 

Zaïre * DRC * refugee assistance 

Summary: 

Belgische documentaire over de situatie in Angola, waar 1978 is 

uitgeroepen tot Ano da Agricultura. De landbouwproduktie is nog 

lang niet op het niveau van voor de onafhankelijkheid. Dit heeft 

verschillende oorzaken: er is nog onvoldoende kader om het vertrek 

van de Portugezen op te vangen; er heerst al twee jaar grote 

droogte; de Angolezen zelf zijn voornamelijk kleine boeren die 

nauwelijks voor de markt produceren; de visserij is door het 

vertrek van de Portugezen ook achteruit gegaan en de hulp uit het 

oostblok pakt niet altijd even gunstig uit: door de oorlog en de 

droogte is de veestapel gedecimeerd. Ook de rest van de economie 

kampt met problemen: de infrastructuur moet herstelt (wegen, 

bruggen, Benguela spoorlijn, Lobito haven); 80% van de bevolking is 

analfabeet..Costa Andrade vertelt over hoe een éénpartijstaat 

toch democratisch kan zijn; president Neto verklaart de noodzaak 

van Cubaanse militairen zolang Zuid-Afrika UNITA blijft steunen en 

het probleem van de Zaïrese vluchtelingen die Mobutu ontvluchten 

komt ook aan de orde. 


Camera lezing Beyers Naudé / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1983. - Video : VHS; 5 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * Naudé, Christiaan F. Beyers (1915 - 2004) * Vrije Universiteit 

Summary: 

Item over de Camera (naar Dom Helder Camera) lezing aan de Vrije 

Universiteit van Amsterdam, die eigenlijk door Beyers- Naudé zou 

worden gehouden, maar nu via band omdat hij geen uitreisvisum kreeg. 


Drie ANC-ers opgehangen in Zuid-Afrika [descript. title] / Hier en Nu, NOS Journaal. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : NCRV, 1983. - Video : VHS; 9 min. Start: na 60 min. Dutch subtitles when needed 


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Keywords: * South Africa * death penalty * ANC * Netherlands * solidarity organisations 

Summary: 

Twee items over de ophanging van drie ANC-ers in Zuid-Afrika en de 

nachtwake bij de Zuid-Afrikaanse ambassade in Den Haag. Interview 

met Arthur Sidweshu, politiek leider van het ANC, die ook in Den Haag is. 


In de woelige wereld van de vogel vrijdag / Joop van Thijn. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 1975. - Video 



Keywords: * Angola * Netherlands * solidarity organisations * Neto, António Agostinho (1922-1979) 

Summary: 

Verslag van de aktie 'Geef om Angola', georganiseerd door het 

Angola Comité, met muziek van Bonga, de documentaire Angola 

Februari '75 en een toespraak van MPLA leider Neto, in Amsterdam 

aanwezig, die zijn dankbaarheid uit voor de steun van de Eduardo 

Mondlane Stichting, hetAngola Comité en het Medisch Comité Angola. 


Kuxa Kanema / real. Camilo de Sousa, João Costa. - Moçambique, Maputo : Instituto Nacional de Cinema, 

1983. - Video : VHS; 20 min. Start: na 69 min. B/W pictures 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Matola Raid (May 1983) 

Summary: 

Aantal items van Kuxa Kanema, het Mozambikaanse nieuwsprogramma dat 

de voortgang van de revolutie op de voet volgt. Beelden van een 

voetbalwedstrijd tussen een team uit de DDR en een Mozambikaans 

team, en een item over de Matola aanval van Zuid-Afrika. 


Mozambique - revolutie in praktijk 1: opbouw van het land / samenst. Henk Barnard ; prod. Paul Staal ; 

Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1976. - Video : VHS; 24 min. Start: na 19 min. 



Keywords: * Mozambique * rural communities * cooperatives * housing construction * housing policy * 

traditional religions * health education * health policy * health care * health workers * vaccination campaigns * 

retail trade* * state enterprises 

Summary: 

Een film over de opbouw van Mozambique, een jaar na de 

onafhankelijkheid. Eerst een interview met een Spaanse pater die 

het land verliet tijdens de koloniale overheersing maar na de 

onafhankelijkheid terugkeerde. Het belangrijkste volgens hem is de 

mentaliteitsverandering: onder het koloniale bewind wantrouwde 

iedereen elkaar, leed men onder bijgeloof, en leefde men erg 

geïsoleerd. Nu men leert de problemen gezamelijk aan te pakken, 

verbeteren ook de onderlinge relaties. Ook aandacht voor de 

huisvesting. Mensen die georganiseerd zijn in dynamiseringsgroepen 

kunnen zich voor een nieuwe woning laten inschrijven die ze dan 

zelf in de weekenden onder deskundige leiding kunnen bouwen. De 

huur is inkomensafhankelijk. Ook de volkswinkels komen aan bod. 

Hier controlleert de staat de prijzen om woekerprijzen ten gevolge 

van tekorten te voorkomen. Helaas valt het aanbod soms wat tegen. 

De gezondheidszorg is het volgende onderwerp. Training van 

brigades, preventieve zorg door middel van voorlichting en 

inentingcampagnes. Tot slot komt Marcelino dos Santos, minister van 

economische coördinatie aan het woord die zich beklaagd dat 

Mozambique, omdat het een volksrepubliek is, erg wordt tegengewerkt. 


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Mozambique - revolutie in praktijk 2: onderwijs / samenst. Henk Barnard ; prod. Paul Staal ; Kenmerk. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1976. - Video : VHS; 19 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * Mozambique * basic education * adult education * illiteracy * education policy * educational 

philosophies 

Summary: 

Deze film laat zien hoe FRELIMO haar ideeën over onderwijs, gevormd 

tijdens de lange bevrijdingsstrijd, in de praktijk probeert te 

brengen. Als voorbeeld het schoolkamp Jeque in de provincie Tete. 


Zuid-Afrikaanse aanval op Matola, Mozambique / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1983 [?]. - 

Video : VHS; 12 min. Start: na 43 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * South Africa * ANC * Matola Raid (May 1983) 

Summary: 

Beelden van de Mozambikaanse televisie over de aanval Van 

Zuid-Afrika op een voorstad van Maputo, als vergelding voor een ANC 

bomaanslag in Pretoria. Getuigenverklaringen en beelden van de 

slachtoffers en verwoesting. T. Hansma van KZA geeft commentaar. 


Zuid-Afrikaanse agressie in Mozambique en Angola [descript. title] / eindred. en reg. Fons Peters ; Ver 

van mijn bed show. - Nederland, Hilversum : KRO/RKK, 1981. - Video : VHS; 13 min. Start: na 144 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Angola * Mozambique * military interventions * mercenaries * Cassinga massacre 

(1978) 

Summary: 

Item over de toenemende agressoie van Zuid-Afrika tegen zijn 

buurlanden. Filmfragmenten waarop een Britse huursoldaat vertelt 

over de smerige praktijken van de oorlog in Angola, en Sietse 

Bosgra die commentaar geeft op beelden van de Angolese TV, onder 

andere met beelden van het Cassinga massagraf. 


Afrikaners in Zuid-Afrika / reg. en samenst. Rob Hof ; cam. Willem van der Linde. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

NOS, 1990. - Video : VHS; 34 min. Start: na 50 min. Gemaakt door Hof Filmprodukties in opdracht van de 

NOS. Nederlands ondertiteld. Begin ontbreekt: titel zelf verzonnen. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * Afrikaners (people) * Netherlanders 

Summary: 

Een film over Afrikaners van Nederlandse afkomst en Nederlandse 

emigranten van recenter datum in Zuid-Afrika. Een van oorsprong 

Afrikaner journaliste van Het Vrije Weekblad, de enige Afrikaner 

krant die zich onomwonden tegen Apartheid uitspreekt, rijdt door 

Zuid-Afrika en toont verschillende families van Nederlandse 

afkomst. De familie Veenstra in Edenburg, boeren die al drie 

generaties in Zuid-Afrika leven; de familie Rebel in Johannesburg, 

die vanwege de woningnood uit Nederland geëmigreerd zijn en nu in 

een huis met VIJF badkamers wonen (waar meneer Rebel érg trots op 

is), en de middle class buitenwijk Riviera bij Pretoria, waar de 

journaliste zelf is opgegroeid. Iedereen (behalve de journaliste 

zelf) vindt dat er in het buitenland en zeker in Nederland helemaal 

verkeerd tegen het apartheidssysteem wordt aangekeken. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VSA 003 

Der zerschossene Traum von Marracuene / real. Licinio Azevedo. - Deutschland, Köln : ZDF, 1990. - Video : 

VHS; 44 min. German subtitles when necessary. Orginal ein Produktion von Kenemo Producão e 

Communicação und Pedro Pimenta für Channel Four und TVE. Mozambique. 


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Keywords: * Mozambique * rural communities * RENAMO * civil war * living conditions * banditry 

Summary: 

Ein Dokumentarfilm über die Folgen der Renamo Gewalt auf der Alltag 

im Mozambikaner Dorf Marracuene. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VSA 003 * Also on tapeVMZ 049 

Frontline Southern Africa : destructive engagement / prod. and dir. Toni Strasburg. - UK, London : Scope 

Films Ltd., 1987. - Video : VHS; 52 min. A shortened version (28 min.) can be seen on VZA 420. 

Dutch subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Frontline states * armed conflicts 

Summary: 

A film about South Africa's agression towards the Frontline states: 

the MNR in Mozambiek, the Beira corridor, attacks on (white) 

farmers in Zimbabwe, attacks of SADF in Angola, support of UNITA. 

Comments of ao Kenneth Kaunda, Chris Hani, Carlos Cardoso and Oliver Tambo. 

Remarks: Picture quality: bad. * VSA 004 

Verslag VN-reis Frontlijnstaten voorjaar '83. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 1983. - Video : VHS; 29 min. 


Keywords: * Frontline states * UN Centre against Apartheid * Zimbabwe * Botswana * Angola 

Summary: 

Veslag van de rondreis van een vierkoppige delegatie van het 

Centrum tegen Apartheid van de VN door de frontlijnstaten Zimbabwe, 

Botswana en Angola. De conclusie is dat Zuid-Afrika zijn pogingen 

om de frontlijnstaten te destabiliseren in de laatste twee jaar 

heeft opgevoerd en dat het tijd wordt om naast het wapenembargo ook 

andere sancties (bijv. olie) te gaan overwegen. 


Ciskei massacre en ANC future / AVRO Televizier. - Nederland, Hilversum : AVRO, 1992. - Video : VHS; 

10 min. Start na 19 min 


Keywords: * South Africa * Ciskei * Bisho massacre (1992) * ANC 

Summary: 

Item about the Ciskei massacre ( is the ANC responsible for the 

many victims: professor D. Welsh thinks so and Mr. D. Omar from the 

ANC thinks not)and about a split in the ANC between the radical 

wing and the more moderate comrades. 


Interview Albie Sachs, Vernie Februari and Mpho Ntoane / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

IKON/KRO/RKK, 1990. - Video : VHS; 19 min. Start na 45 min. Dutch subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * Sachs, Albert Louis (1935- ) 

* February, Vernon (1938-2002) * Ntoane, Mpho (1935- ) * political refugees 

Summary: * Albie Sachs is in Holland and comments on the unbanning of 

organisations in South Africa and the release of Nelson Mandela & interviews 

with Vernie February and Mpho Ntoane, two SA exiles living in Holland. 


Nelson Mandela in his own words / Heart of the matter. - UK, London : BBC, 1990. - Video : VHS; 37 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * ANC * interviews (form) 

Summary: 

Nelson Mandela tells about himself in an interview with Joan Bakewell. 


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Nelson Mandela in the Netherlands, 1990 / NOS Journaal, Achter het Nieuws. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

NOS ; VARA, 1990. - Video ; 2&7 min. & 13 min. : start na 108 min; start na 117 min. 


Summary: 

: Nelson Mandela's reception on the Leidseplein and in the 

Meervaart in Amsterdam, in the Catshuis and in Huis Den Bosch in 

Den Haag. His message: continue the boycotts (2 x NOS Journaal). 

: Mandela's wish to meet Ruud Gullit, who dedicated his 

european-soccerplayer-of-the-year-award to Nelson Mandela in 1987 (AHN). 


Release Nelson Mandela and welcome in Soweto / NOS Journaal. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1990. - 

Video : VHS; 7 min. Start na 64 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) 

Summary: 

Release of Nelson Mandela and welcome in Soweto. Also reactions of 

president Bush (USA) and Kaunda (Zambia). 


Zambia : born again democracy / Out of Darkness. - UK, London : BBC, 1992. - Video : VHS; 32 min. 



Keywords: * Zambia * MMD * Chiluba, Frederick 

Summary: 

Film about the situation in Zambia one year after the first 

multi-party elections which were won by Frederick Chiluba (a 

born-again christian) and his MMD. 


Aids in Afrika: Zimbabwe / AVRO Televizier. - Nederland, Hilversum : AVRO, 1992. - Video : VHS; 10 min. 

Start: na 52 min. Dutch subtitles. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * HIV/AIDS * health care * hospitals * traditional healers 

Summary: 

Reportage over Aids in Zimbabwe. Evenveel vrouwen als mannen zijn 

besmet, in het leger zijn 60 % van de soldaten besmet. Interviews 

met verkopers van traditionele medicijnen die beweren dat ze zowel 

medicijnen hebben die preventief werken als medicijnen die je 

binnen een paar dagen genezen. De Aids campagne is te laat gestart: 

eerst werd het probleem ontkend en vervolgens geminimaliseerd. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VSA 007 

Angola : facing the future / Out of Darkness. - UK, London : BBC, 1992. - Video : VHS; 39 min. 

Start: na 125 min. English subtitles. 


Keywords: * Angola * multi-party politics * economy* * civil war * IMF 

Summary: 

A portrait of Angola, where for the first time multi-party 

elections will be held. In itself a rich country, but the economy 

is in ruins, due to the war and to a state-controled economic 

system. Also IMF dictates are not really helpfull. 


Boipatong massacre - 3 items / Kenmerk, Achter het Nieuws, Brandpunt. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

IKON/KRO/RKK ; VARA ; KRO, 1992. - Video : VHS; 27 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Boipatong massacre (1992) * political negotiations 

Summary: 

Drie items over het Boipatong bloedbad, waarbij veertig mensen, 

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waaronder vrouwen en kinderen, werden afgeslacht door Zulu's uit 

het nabijgelegen Kwamadala hostel. Het ANC verweet de regering 

niets te doen tegen het geweld en daar zelfs medeverantwoordelijk 

voor te zijn, en stapte uit CODESA 2, het onderhandelingsforum 

tussen regering en ANC. Commentaar van deskundigen, politici (ANC, 

IFP en regering), en getuigenverslagen van overlevenden. 


De derde boerenoorlog? / Antenne. - Nederland, Hilversum : EO, 1992. - Video : VHS; 35 min. 

Start: na 89 min. Nederlands ondertiteld. 



Summary: 

Deze video behandelt de vraag of Zuid-Afrika's Special Forces 

(legereenheden) de komende veranderingen (zwarte 

meerderheidsregering) zullen accepteren. Interviews met oa 

onderzoeker Dr. Stephen Ellis (Universiteit van Leiden) en Jan 

Breytenbach (broer van...), een bevelhebber van de Special Forces. 


Radicalisering jongeren in Zuid-Afrika / Hier en Nu. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 1992. - Video : VHS; 

10 min. Start: na 66 min. Dutch subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * youth * ANC Youth League * violence 

Summary: 

Item over de zwarte jeugd in Zuid-Afrika die steeds verder 

radicaliseerd en gewelddadiger wordt, door het aanhoudende geweld 

tusssen zwarten en de ondoorzichtige rol van de regering daarin. De 

jongeren begrijpen steeds minder waarom het ANC met de regering 

blijft praten. Vermoedelijk is het ANC daarom ook uit CODESA 

gestapt. Peter Mokabe van de ANC Youth Leage denkt dat de jongeren 

nog wel onder controle te houden zijn, anderen hebben zo hun twijfels. 


Stakingen ANC / Achter het Nieuws. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 1992. - Video : VHS; 13 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * ANC * political negotiations * intelligence services * Coetzee, Dirk 

Summary: 

Item over de ANC stakingen, bedoeld om de onderhandelingen 

aangaande de hervormingen wat te versnellen. Nothnagel 

(Zuid-Afrika's ambassadeur) verwacht dat de onderhandelingen snel 

hervat zullen worden. Verder komt Coetzee, die ondergedoken zit in 

London, nog eens vertellen welke smerigheden de Special Forces 

hebben uitgehaald (hij was zelf leider van de doodseskaders van 

Vlakplaats), en dat hij vreest voor een staatsgreep van 

krijgsmachtonderdelen als er een zwarte meerderheidsregering aan de 

macht komt. Pathaloog-anatoom Jonathan Gluckman vertelt dat hij 

bewijzen heeft van tweehonderd politiemoorden. Nothnagel zegt dat 

ze allebei zijn uitgenodigd door de regering om naar Zuid-Afrika te 

komen om hun aanklachten te bewijzen, maar dat ze dat nog niet gedaan hebben. 


Afrikaans / Veronica's Nieuwslijn. - Nederland, Hilversum : Veronica, 1992. - Video : VHS; 9 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * Afrikaans (language) 

Summary: 

Item over de geschiedenis van het Afrikaans en de positie van het 

Afrikaans in het 'nieuwe Zuid-Afrika'. 

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Bisho massacre / NOS Journaal. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1992. - Video : VHS; 5 min. 

Start: na 23 min 


Keywords: * South Africa * Ciskei * political violence * Bisho massacre (1992) 

Summary: 

Item over het bloedbad bij Bisho, waar een ANC demonstratie tegen 

het voortbestaan van thuislanden (hier Ciskei) doorhet leger (van 

Ciskei) uit elkaar werd geschoten. 


Die Farbe des Goldes / dir. Don Edkins, Mike Schlömer. - Deutschland, Freiburg : Medienwerkstatt 

Freiburg, 1992. - Video : VHS; 41 min. + see: filmalfabet Start: na 56 min. 



Summary: 



bei der Arbeit und wie das Leben in 'single-sex hostels' ihr Familienleben zerstört. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VSA 008 * Also on VZA 330, VZA 305, Dutch version on VZA 560, Eng. 

version VZA 325 

If the rains don't come / prod.&reg. Paul Cleary ; ed. Derek Hall ; Nature. - UK, [London?] : [s.n.], 1992?. - 



Keywords: * Zimbabwe * Gonarezhou National Park * wildlife management * cattle management * drought * 

feeding schemes * land reform 

Summary: 

The problems of the great drought in Southern Africa in the early 

ninetees, in Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe, where the 

wildlife (very important for the tourist industry) is dying and the 

surrounding farmers letting their cattle graze in the park. Also 

about the food-shortage and -aid, and the growing political conflicts 

(like the land question) that are aggravating because of the drought. 


Sklaven des Krieges : Angola's gefährliche Weg in der Freiheit / dir. Andreas Cichowicz ; prod. Andreas 

Schaaf. - Deutschland, Stuttgart ; Südafrika, Johannesburg : SDR, 1992. - Video : VHS; 25 min. 



Keywords: * Angola * elections * refugees * landmines * returnees * civil war 

Summary: 

Ein Film über die Probleme Angolas bei der kommmenden Wähle: 

Kriegsflüchtlinge, Minen, Infrastruktur, Integrierung ins 

Zivilleben von (ex-) Soldaten, Bürgerkrieg. 


Tödliche Ernte : deutsche Minenräumer in Angola / dir. Andreas Cichowicz ; Auslands Reporter. - 

Deutschland, Köln : WDR, 1992. - Video : VHS; 28 min. Start: na 28 min. 


Keywords: * Angola * mine-clearance 

Summary: 

Ein Film über einen deutschen Team das Minen räumt in Angola. 


Armoede in Zuid-Afrika / Televizier. - Nederland, Hilversum : AVRO, 1992. - Video : VHS; 9 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * social-economic conditions * poverty 

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Summary: 

Item over de toenemende armoede in het rijkste land van Afrika. 


Beyers Naudé over Buthelezi / NOVA. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS ; VARA, 1992. - Video : VHS; 6 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * Naudé, Christiaan F. Beyers (1915 - 2004) * Buthelezi Mangosuthu Gatsha 

(1928-) * interviews (form) 

Summary: 

Interview met Beyers Naudé over de rol van Buthelezi in het nieuwe Zuid-Afrika. 


Daan de Wet: Boer en Afrikaner / samenst. Dolf Reijmers ; prod. en research Ingrid Gavshon ; cam. Peter 

Tischhauser. - Nederland, Hilversum : KRO/RKK, 1992. - Video : VHS; 44 min. 

Start: na 44 min. Dutch subtitles. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Afrikaners (people) * Free State 

Summary: 

Film over de Afrikaner boeren in Lindley in Oranje Vrijstaat, en 

hun angsten voor de toekomst nu de regering met het ANC onderhandelt. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VSA 009 * Also on tape VZA 576 

Elsa's place / Marijke Vreeburg ; Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : KRO/RKK, 1992. - Video : VHS; 9 min. 

Start: na 91 min. Nederlands ondertiteld, want vrnl. gesproken in lokale Mozambikaanse taal. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Maputo (city) * women-headed households * informal sector 

Summary: 

Reportage over het leven in Maputo. Elsa Samuel Dos Santos verdient 

haar geld met een illegaal café in de hoofdstad, aangezien haar man 

als migrant in de Zuidafrikaanse goudmijnen werkt. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VSA 009 * Also on VMZ 070 

Extreem rechts in Zuid-Afrika / Brandpunt. - Nederland, Hilversum : KRO, 1992. - Video : VHS; 8 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * political violence 

Summary: 

Item over extreme politieke groeperingen in Zuid-Afrika en de 

geweldsescalatie. Oa Barend Strijdom. 


Fighting the Zulu war / Assignment. - UK, London : BBC, 1992. - Video : VHS; 44 min. 

Start: na 100 min. Also on tape VZA 365. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Zulu (people) * IFP * ANC * Buthelezi Mangosuthu Gatsha (1928-) * KwaZulu- 

Natal * political violence * history 

Summary: 

A film about the history of the Zulu's, the struggle between IFP 

and ANC, the place of the Zulu's in the 'New South Africa', the 

role of Buthelezi (claiming that he ended apartheid) and the 

growing violence in Kwazulu-Natal. 


Media in Mozambique / Marijke Vreeburg ; Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : KRO/RKK, 1992. - Video : 



Keywords: * Mozambique * media * Mediafax * freedom of the press 

Summary: 

Deel zeven van de Mozambiek-serie van Marijke Vreeburg. Over de 

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situatie van de media in Mozambique: het ontstaan van mediafax, een 

onafhankelijke krant die naar de klanten gefaxed wordt bij gebrek 

aan middelen. Interviews met Fernando Lima en SalamÃo Moyane van 

Mediafax. Ook interviews with Chude Mondlane, zangeres en dochter 

van Eduardo, die na de vrede terugkeerde naar Mozambiek. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VSA 009 * Also on VSA 031 

Mozambique : tussen droom en daad / reg. Marijke Vreeburg ; Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

KRO/RKK, 1992. - Video : VHS; 7 min. Start: na 145 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * famine relief * aid-dependency * drinking water * transport 

Summary: 

Aflevering vijf van een serie over Mozambiek, over de droogte, 

gebrek aan schoon drinkwater, voedselhulp en het probleem van 

distributie, en ontwikkelingshulp in het algemeen. Interviews met 

oa Joaquim Chissano (president) en medewerkers van Artsen zonder Grenzen. 


Weathering the storm / Assignment. - UK, London : BBC, 1992. - Video : VHS; 44 min. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * drought * agriculture * health * health care * political discrimination 

Summary: 

A film about the drought in Zimbabwe ('the worst in hundred 

years'), failing agricultural management (though the minister of 

Agriculture, Kumbira Kangai, denies any responsability for the 

problem.), problems concerning health (HIV/Aids and tuberculosis) 

and health care (witch has to be payed for), an inflation percentage of 50%, 

and political problems concerning the civil war in Matabele land, were 

human bones are found in deserted gold mines. Interviews with ao Mugabe 

(president), Morgan Tsvangirai (Sec.gen. of the Trade Union Congress), 

Ian Smith ('it wouldn't have happened under my rule'). 


Apart leven / reg. Albert Elings ; research Bart Luirink ; Dokument. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 1993. - 

Video : VHS; 35 min. Dutch subtitles. Start na: 150 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Afrikaners (people) * youth * ANC 

Summary: 

Een documentaire over een Afrikaner familie aan de vooravond van de 

eerste vrije verkiezingen. De vader droomt van (en investeert in) 

een aparte blanke staat, de jongste dochter Hannelie is in het 

geheim lid van het ANC. 


Interview met Aad Kamsteeg / De Wereld Vandaag. - Nederland, Hilversum : EO, 1993. - Video : VHS; 4 



Keywords: * South Africa * constitutional change * Freedom Front 

Summary: 

Hoewel er net een nieuwe grondwet is aangenomen in Zuid-Afrika is 

het nog lang geen vrede, volgens Aad Kamsteeg. De extreem-rechtse 

Vrijheidsalliantie is het er niet mee eens: zij willen een federatief 

systeem, terwijl het ANC een sterke centrale regering wenst. 


Mixed feelings / reg. Karin Junger. - Nederland, Hilversum : Humanistisch Verbond, 1992. - Video : VHS; 55 

min. Start: na 6 min. Also on tape VZA 566 


Keywords: * South Africa * ethnicity * ethnic relations * gender relations * apartheid system 

Summary: 

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Een Nederlands gemengd stel (zwarte man, blanke vrouw) gaat in 

Zuid-Afrika op zoek naar een gemengd stel daar dat drie jaar eerder 

(1988) veel opzien baarde in Zuid-Afrika toen het blanke meisje bij 

haar zwarte vriendje introk. Ze onderzoeken hoe de twee naar hun 

leven kijken en wat ze moeten inleveren om bij elkaar te blijven, 

en hoe daar door hun omgeving op gereageerd werd. Door het 

meewerken aan het maken van de documentaire kwamen de hoofdpersonen 

erachter dat ze beter weer uit elkaar konden gaan. 


Mozambique / Tijdsein. - Nederland, Hilversum : EO, 1993. - Video : VHS; 14 min. Start: na 98 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Malawi * refugee camps * civil war 

Summary: 

Het is een jaar vredein Mozambiek, na achttien jaar burgeroorlog. 

Vluchtelingen uit Chipo, een vluchtelingenkamp in Malawi, maken 

zich op om naar huis terug te keren. Ze moeten weer helemaal 

opnieuw beginnen in een verwoest land. 


Nobelprijs Mandela en De Klerk / NOS Journaal, NOVA. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1993. - Video : 



Keywords: * South Africa * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * De Klerk, Frederik Willem (1936-) * peace * 

Nobel prize 

Summary: 

Twee nieuwsitems over de toekenning van de Nobelprijs voor de vrede 

aan Mandela en De Klerk. 


Zug in der Zukunft : Südafrikas Jugend lernt die Versöhnung. / dir. Andreas Cichowicz. - Deutschland, [Kölln] 

; Deutschland, [München] : WDR ; BR, 1993. - Video : VHS; 27 min. 

Start: na 113 min. BR = Bayerische Rundfunk. German voice-over 


Keywords: * South Africa * youth * discrimination 

Summary: 

South African juveniles (black, white and coloured) travel together 

on a train through South Africa to check out their biases and 

prejudices and to learn something about tolerance. 


Soviet implosion part 1 : causes / prod. and dir. by Martin Chiketa. - Zimbabwe, [Harare] : Martin Chiketa, 

2001. - Video : VHS; 60 min. & 9 min. See VSA 11b for part II. 


Keywords: * Southern Africa * USSR * international cooperation 

Summary: 

This video takes a critical look at the ideological and 

institutional issues, policies, personalities, perceptions and 

misperceptions that led to the collapse of the USSR in 1991 and the 

implications of that unprecedented implosion for Southern Africa. 

Politicians, diplomats, journalists and academics from Southern Africa, 

Europe and the USA are interviewed.(also a 9 mins. trailer of the film). 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VSA 011a 

Soviet implosion part 2 : implications for Southern Africa / prod. and dir. by Martin Chiketa. - Zimbabwe, 

[Harare] : Martin Chiketa, 2001. - Video : VHS; 57 min. & 13 min. See VSA 11a for part I. 


Keywords: * Southern Africa * USSR * international cooperation 

Summary: 

This video takes a critical look at the ideological and 

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institutional issues, policies, personalities, perceptions and 

misperceptions that led to the collapse of the USSR in 1991 and the 

implications of that unprecedented implosion for Southern Africa. 

Politicians, diplomats, journalists and academics from Southern 

Africa, Europe and the USA are interviewed. (also a 13 mins. trailer of the film) 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VSA 011b 

Het beroofde land / David de Beer ; Hervormde Jeugdraad. - Nederland, Amsterdam : [s.n.], 1977. - Video : 

VHS; 25 min. Also on tape VNA 07 


Keywords: * Namibia 


Economische boycot (-ontduiking) / Televizier Magazine. - Nederland, Hilversum : AVRO, 1980. - Video : 

VHS; 22 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Namibia * Netherlands * uranium * Rössing Uranium mine 

Summary: 

De VN heeft een boycot ingesteld tegen Zuid-Afrika wat betreft de 

handel in natuurlijke grondstoffen afkomstig uit Namibië. Deze 

boycot wordt door Nederland onderschreven, maar er blijkt toch 

sprake te zijn van illegale importen van uranium ten behoeve van 

URENCO in Almelo. 


Namibia week special / dir. by Diveck Ng'andu. - Zambia, Lusaka : TVZ, 1982 [?]. - Video : VHS; 45 min. 


Keywords: * Namibia * songs * dance * plays (form) 

Summary: 

Programmes of the Namibia week of the Zambian television with 

freedom songs, traditional dances and a play. 


Namibia, the forgotten colony / dir. by Sabine Katins. - DDR, [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1976. - Video : VHS; 58 min. 


Keywords: * Namibia * South Africa * Germany * history; 20th century * SWAPO * Rössing Uranium mine * 

international economic relations * social-economic conditions 

Summary: 

A short history of the German colonisation of Namibia, followed by 

an overview of the present (1975) situation. About the persecution 

and torture of SWAPO members, the weak position of black workers, 

the role and interests of foreign investors (the Rössing Uranium 

Mine), the role of the BRD, still the biggest investor, and the low 

life expancy and high infant mortality rate the blacks are suffering from. 


Olympische spelen gehandicapten 1980 / Avro's Sportpanorama. - Nederland, Hilversum : AVRO, 1979. - 



Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * sport boycotts * Olympic Games for the Disabled 

Summary: 

In 1980 worden de olympische spelen voor gehandicapten in Arnhem 

gehouden. De vraag is: mogen gehandicapte sporters uit Zuid-Afrika 

deelnemen. Het stichtingsbestuur stelt dat, hoewel ze apartheid 

verwerpt, wat haar betreft de sportrers mee moeten kunnen doen, en 

dat het anders aan de politiek in Den haag is om daar een besluit 

over te nemen. De VN is tegen deelname. 

Remarks: picture quality: bad * VSA 012 

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Sprekershoek : olieboycot / NOS Sprekershoek. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1979. - Video : VHS; 10 

min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlands * KZA * Shell * oil embargo * government policy 

Summary: 

KZA legt uit dat de regimes in Rhodesië en Zuid-Afrika geheel 

afhankelijk zijn van olie-importen, onder andere van Shell; vandaar 

de leus; "apartheid drijft op olie". Het KZA start een 

ansichtkaartenactie om de Tweede Kamer te overtuigen voor een motie 

te stemmen die Nederland zou laten deelnemen aan de olieboycott, 

die half november in stemming zal worden gebracht. 


Wiehahn interview / Televizier Magazine. - Nederland, Hilversum : AVRO, 1979. - Video : VHS; 9 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * working conditions * labour relations * history; 1970s 

Summary: 

Interview met Wiehahn die een rapport aan het schrijven is over de 

arbeidsomstandigheden in Zuid-Afrika. Ook met Damming, secretaris 

van de FNV. Botha is wel bereid de apartheid aan te passen, maar 

zover als de commissie Wiehahn wil hij niet gaan. 


Okavango: diep in de Kalahari / dir. by Ken Newman. - Nederland, Hilversum : EO, 1994. - Video : VHS; 

50 min. Start: na 114 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * Botswana * Kalahari desert * Okavango delta * physical environment 

Summary: 

Vogelfilm. 


De verhuizing / reg. Job Groenewegen. - Nederland, Hilversum : TROS, 1995. - Video : VHS; 29 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * Zimbabwe * development aid * education 

Summary: 

Filmpje over de familie Dijkstra die drie jaar in Zimbabwe als 

coöperanten onderwijs gaan geven. De voorbereidingen in Nederland, 

de aankomst, de positieve en de negatieve kanten. 


De wereld van Boudewijn Büch : Namibië / samenst. en reg. Boudewijn Büch. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

VARA, 1995. - Video : VHS; 68 min. Start: na 34 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary. 


Keywords: * Namibia * history * Basters (people) * diamonds * colonialism * Nujoma, Sam (1929- ) * 

Netherlands * KZA 

Summary: 

Boudewijn Büch bezoekt Namibië. In vlot tempo wordt de geschiedenis 

er doorgejast, alle toeristische trekpleisters bezocht, en aan het 

eind een bezoek aan Sam Nujoma, die de beste herinneringen aan 

Nederland blijkt te hebben vanwege de sterke solidariteitsbeweging 

KZA. Hij hoopt dat hij wat van de Namibische zon kan ruilen voor 

wat Nederlands water. Eerst het tweede deel, gevolgd door het begin. 


Angola Februari '75 / reg. Frank Diamand. - Nederland, Hilversum ; België, Brussel : VARA ; BRT, 1975. - 



Keywords: * Angola * independence struggle * civil war * working conditions * civil society * national 

liberation movements * history; 1970s 

Summary: 

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De elkaar beconcurrerende bevrijdingsbewegingen worden 

geïntroduceerd, de MPLA, de FNLA en UNITA, op zo'n manier dat het 

de kijker duidelijk moet worden dat er maar één echte tussen zit: 

de MPLA. Aandacht voor slechtearbeidsomstandigheden bij de 

katoenfabriek Cotanang, en de arrogantie van blanke plantagehouders 

ten opzichte van hun zwarte werknemers. De Portugezen willen 

allemaal terug naar Portugal. De MPLA is bezig met het opzetten van wijkraden. 


Angola, November '75 / reg. Frank Diamand. - Nederland, Hilversum ; België, Brussel : VARA ; BRT, 1975. 

- Video : VHS; 38 min. Start: na 76 min. 


Keywords: * Angola * independence struggle * civil war * national liberation movements * international 

economic relations * small, medium and micro enterprises * labour relations * history; 1970s 

Summary: 

De onafhankelijkheid van Angola wordt gezien als een strijd tegen 

het buitenlands kapitaal, aangezien de MPLA Angola ook economische 

onafhankelijkheid wil geven, dit in tegenstelling tot de FNLA en de 

UNITA, met wie ze onder Portugese dwang in januari een 

overgangsregering heeft moeten vormen, die niet functioneert 

vanwege voortdurende gewapende conflicten tussen FNLA en MPLA. 

Intussen verlaten de Portugezen het land, alles meenemend wat 

meegenomen kan worden, en het land zonder kader achterlatend. Nadat 

de FNLA op 10 juni op een begrafenisstoet heeft geschoten, wordt ze 

uit de hoofdstad verdreven, en in oktober heeft de MPLA tweederde 

van het land in handen. Op 11 november volgt de onafhankelijkheid. 

De nieuwe tijd moet blijken uit beelden van gebruikerscoorperaties 

(om de tussenhandel uit te schakelen, voor zover nog nodig na het 

vertrek van de Portugezen) en arbeiderszelfbestuur in een fabriek. 


Apartheid / School TV Weekjournaal. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1981. - Video : VHS; 13 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system 

Summary: 

Dit jaar is door de VN uitgeroepen tot sanctiejaar tegen 

Zuid-Afrika. In het school tv. journaal wordt uitgelegd wat het 

apartheidssysteem inhoudt, gevolgd door een interview met David de Beer. 


Cape Town squatter camp demolished. - South Africa, Cape Town : BBC, 1981[?]. - Video : VHS; 2 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * Cape Town * Nyanga * informal settlements * Bantustans * forced removals 

Summary: 

Item about the struggle of squatters at Nyanga, near Cape Town, 

where people from Transkei and Ciskei are campaigning for permission 

to stay since their husbands are working in Cape Town. Sofar they have 

been forcibly removed several times, on account of the influx-controll. 


Isitwalandwe : the story of the South African Freedom Charter told by those who struggle for it / dir. 

by Barry Feinberg. - UK, London : IDAF, 1980. - Video : VHS; 52 min. Start: na 115 min. Also on VZA 011 


Keywords: * South Africa * Freedom Charter * Treason Trial (1956-1961) * ANC * apartheid system * antiapartheid 

activists * history; 1945-1960 * high treason 

Summary: 

On 25th June 1955, at the initiative of the ANC, people of all 

races came together in Kliptown, near Johannesburg for the Congress 

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of the people. The culmination of the event was the adoption of the 

Freedom Charter which was intended as a blueprint in the struggle 

for a democratic, non-racial South Africa. In recognition of their 

contribution to this struggle, Albert Luthuli, Yusuf Dadoo and 

Trevor Huddleston were given the Isitwalandwe Award. The film also 

depicts the apartheid regime's response to the Freedom Charter: the 

arrest of 156 leaders and the Treason Trial that would take four 

and a half years and ended in the acquittal of all the accused. The 

film is a combination of rare archival footage and impassionated 

interviews with leaders who were there at the time: Oliver Tambo, 

Yusuf Dadoo, Reg September, John Gaetsewe, Thomas Nkobi, Sonia 

Bunting, Kate Molale, Trevor Huddleston, John Nkadimeno, Alfred 

Nzo, Nkosarana Dlamini, Archie Sibeko, Phyllis Altman, Canon L.J. Collins. 


KZA 20 jaar / Achter het Nieuws. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 1981. - Video : VHS; 14 min. 



Keywords: * Southern Africa * KZA * Angola Comité * Netherlands * Bosgra, Sietse (1935-) * oil embargo 

Summary: 

Item over het 20-jarig bestaan van KZA, in 1961 begonnen als Angola 

Comité. Interview met Sietse Bosgra, activist van het eerste uur, 

en met politici Fred van der Spek (PSP), Jan Nico Scholten (CDA) en 

Relus ter Beek (PvdA). Ook fragmenten van het kamerdebat over een 

mogelijke olieboycot tegen Zuid-Afrika. 


Refugees in Angola / John Snow ; News at One. - UK, London : Channel 4 Television, 1981 [?]. - Video : 



Keywords: * Angola * Cuanza Sul * Cassinga * refugee camps * SWAPO * living conditions * education 

Summary: 

Those refugees that survived the South African attack on Cassinga 

have now a new camp in Cuanza Sul. Living conditions and the focuss 

on education of the SWAPO. 


Sprekershoek. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1981. - Video : VHS; 7 min. Start: na 167 min. 


Keywords: * Southern Africa * Netherlands * KZA * Angola Comité * history; 1960s * history; 1970s 

Summary: 

Tentoonstelling in het tropenmuseum over de geschiedenis van KZA, 

voorheen Angola Comité. Paul Staal en Loes van den Bergh vertellen 

de geschiedenis, van protesten tegen de steun van de Nedserlandse 

regering aan Navo-bondgenoot Portugal (dat in Afrika een 

onmenselijke vorm van kolonialisme bedreef), de rol van Nederlandse 

bedrijven als Fokker, Shell, DAF, Douwe Egberts en Albert Hein (en 

de akties daartegen); en de situatie nu, met de bedenkelijke rol 

van Reagan en Tatcher op het internationale politieke speelveld. 


Thuisland QuaQua / Hier en Nu. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 1984 [?]. - Video : VHS; 12 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * Bantustans * QwaQwa * apartheid system * living conditions 

Summary: 

Item over het thuisland QuaQua, voorbeeld van de apartheidspolitiek van Zuid-Afrika. 


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De vermoeide revolutie / versl. door Walter Zinzen ; Panorama. - België, Brussel : BRT, 1983. - Video : 

VHS; 45 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary. 


Keywords: * Angola * South Africa * MPLA * UNITA * Cunene * civil war * armed conflicts * mercenaries * 

refugees * drought * agriculture * child mortality * sabotage * infrastructure * economic policy * human rights 

violations * history; 1970s * history; 1980s 

Summary: 

Acht jaar na de revolutie die Angola onafhankelijk maakte, lijkt 

het proces in een patstelling te zijn beland. UNITA opereert vanuit 

Namibië in Angola, de SWAPO opereert vanuit Angola in Namibië, en 

Zuid-Afrika bezet Cunene, terwijl Zaïre grote interesse heeft in de 

noordelijke provincies. Angola kampt met 600.000 vluchtelingen, 

droogte, hoge kindersterfte, een verwoeste infrastructuur (bruggen, 

vrachtauto's), problemen met de paralelle markt, nu de (Portugese) 

middenstand is verdwenen, falende landbouwpolitiek 

(collectivisatie) zoals minister De Nasciemento toegeeft, en 

schending van mensenrechten, niet alleen tav UNITA- aanhangers, 

maar ook tav andersdenkende MPLA-leden. 

Remarks: Picture quality: bad. * VSA 014 

Zuid-Afrika : Nyanga / Hier en Nu. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 1981 [?]. - Video : VHS; 12 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * Cape Town * Nyanga * informal settlements * squatters * Bantustans * forced 

removals * apartheid system 

Summary: 

Item over Nyanga, krottenwijk bij Kaapstad, waar inwoners van 

Ciskei en Transkei, twee door het apartheidsregime geschapen 

'thuislanden', keer op keer geweldadig verwijderd worden, omdat ze 

geen vergunning hebben om daar (bij hun mannen die in Kaapstad werken) te wonen. 


Don't shoot the messenger / dir. by Steve Felton ; ed. John Cronwright ; prod. by Simon Wilkie, Carla 

Hoffmann. - Namibia, Windhoek : MISA ; Mubasen, 1998. - 2 Video : VHS; 32 min. 

Produced by MUBASEN for MISA. 


Keywords: * Southern Africa * freedom of the press * censorship 

Summary: 

This is a dramatised documentary highlighting the different 

problems and dilemmas concerning the issue of press freedom in the 

region, mainly by interviewing journalists, editors and ministers of information. 


Dood van Julius Nyerere / 2 vandaag, NOS Journaal. - Nederland, Hilversum : [s.n.], 1999. - Video 


Keywords: * Tanzania * Nyerere, Julius Kambarage (1922-1999) * necrologies (form) 

Summary: 

Een aantal keren dezelfde fragmenten over dood en betekenis van 

Julius Nyerere, ex-president van Tanzania. Ook met Jan Pronk. 


Renaissance - awaken your soul / Conservation Corporation Africa. - South Africa, Johannesburg : CC 

Africa, 2000 [?]. - Video : VHS; 10 min. 


Keywords: * Southern Africa * game reserves * transfrontier parks * environment protection * ecotourism * 

rural communities 

Summary: 

An advertising clip for CC Africa. Conservation Corporation Africa 

(CC Africa) is Africa's leading ecotourism organisation, committed 

to providing world-class holiday experiences for discerning 

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travellers, and to ongoing investment in sustainable conservation 

development and community empowerment. CC Africa's ecotourism model 

recognises that economic development of the areas in which they 

operate is crucial to the maintenance of bio-diversity. They also 

recognise that much of Africa's wildlife heritage and land is 

influenced or owned by local communities. Their model - 

successfully implemented throughout our operations in Africa -- 

links international high net worth, low volume/low impact visitors 

to these wilderness areas and their resident communities. The 

resultant revenue tangibly demonstrates the benefits of ecotourism 

and conservation to the neighbouring residents. 


Chain of tears / dir. by Toni Strasburg. - UK, London : Debonair Production, 1988. - Video : VHS; 52 min. 

A Debonair Production in association with Central Independent Television for Channel Four. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Mozambique * Angola * children * torture * detention * mental health * physical 

health 

Summary: 

A harrowing account of the war-torn lives of apartheid's youngest 

victims. It shows the plight of individual children from Angola, 

South Africa and Mozambique.The images reveal the true pain of 

war for children who are denied the right to survive and the 

continuing horror for those who do. The children of Southern Africa 

are deprived from their innocence, the true cost is their 

childhood. The effects go beyond the physical and leave deep 

psychological scars. The video examines the origins of the regional 

conflict in colonialism and racism, posing provocative questions on peace and justice. 


Besluit over verkiezingen en interview De Klerk / AVRO Televizier. - Nederland, Hilversum : AVRO, 1993. 

- Video : VHS; 11 min. Start: na 134 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * political scenarios* 


Burgeroorlog Angola: Huambo / Tijdsein. - Nederland, Hilversum : EO, 1993. - Video : VHS; 9 min. 



Keywords: * Angola * civil war * Huambo (city) * oil industry 

Summary: 

Over de net weer opgelaaide burgeroorlog in Angola, met name in 

Huambo, dat al lang strijdtoneel is tussen MPLA en Unita. Ook 

aandacht voor de rol van olie in het conflict. 


Het gesprek: Matsemela Manaka / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1993. - Video : 

VHS; 6 min. Start: na 230 min. Staat ook op VZA 460. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * theatre * political transformation 

Summary: 

Theatre director Matsemela Manaka talks about the situation in 

South Africa and the role of theatre as a unifying force and a forum of dialogue. 


Nederlanders in Zuid-Afrika / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1993. - Video : VHS; 13 

min. Start: na 113 min 


Keywords: * South Africa * Netherlanders * remigration * violence 

Summary: 

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Item over Nederlanders in Zuid-Afrika, die vanwege het toenemende 

geweld en gevoel van onveiligheid terugkeren naar Nederland. 


Nederlandse industrieëlen kijken rond in Zuid-Afrika / Hier en Nu. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 1993. 

- Video : VHS; 13 min. Start: na 193 min 


Keywords: * Netherlands * South Africa * government policy * foreign investment 

Summary: 

Over de trip van Andriessen (minister van economische zaken) die 

met de top van het Nederlandse bedrijfsleven een reis door Zuid-Afrika 

heeft gemaakt om te kijken of er al genoeg stabiliteit is om er te investeren. 


Ho Ea Rona = We are going forward / dir. by Dumisani Phakathi ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape 

Town ; Finland, Tampere : Day Zero Film and Video ; YLE, 2002. - Video : VHS; 17 min. 




Keywords: * Lesotho * HIV/AIDS * men 

Summary: 

A short film about four friends: Thabiso was a national boxer; 

Thabo, known to his friends as Kwasa Kwasa, is a dj; Bimbo, a true 

intellectual , is a man of short sentences; and Moalosi an AIDS 

activist. All four are HIV+. They meet to reflect upon their lives, 

to cry, to reminisce - but also most importantl;y, to laugh. 


Tsoga / dir. by Sechaba Ramotoai ; Steps for the future. – South Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, Tampere : 





Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto * school children * HIV/AIDS 

Summary: 

A Soweto school made headlines after 70% of its students were 

reported to have tested HIV+. Ignorance and fear became the agents 

for discrimination. Years later, Joyce, a n ex-learner shares her 

experiences of being raped as a youg girl and suffering discrimination 

after testing HIV+. Having overcome the challenges posed by her HIV 

status, she provides a source of guidance and encouragement. 


The ball / dir. by Orlando Mesquita ; Steps for the future. – South Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, Tampere : 





Keywords: * Mozambique * boys * condoms 

Summary: 

Somewhere on a dusty soccer pitch in Mozambique, a group of boys is 

playing a game of soccer. Suddenly a man runs onto the field 

shouting. He stops the game and accuses the boys of stealing his 

condoms. There are different ways to use condoms. In Mozambique, 20 

million condoms are distributed a year, while there are 4 million 

sexual-active men. But young boys are great consumers of them... 


The Sky in her eyes / dir. by Ouida Smit, Madoda Ncayiyana ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape 


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Keywords: * South Africa * KwaZulu-Natal * HIV/AIDS * children 

Summary: 

Set in rural Kwazulu Natal, this poignant short film shows a young 

girl struggling to cope with her grieve and confusion after loosing 

her mother to AIDS. When a boy allows her to attach a picture she 

has drawn of her mother to his kite, this act of friendship and the 

joy of flying a kite together, makes the girl smile again. 


Ander Afrika: Malawi / dir. Jelte M. Boll, Leon C. Coetzer. - Nederland, Hilversum : KRO, 1995. - Video : 

VHS; 37 min. Start: na 109 min. KRO ism Mensen in Nood: een Tenfold produktie 


Keywords: * Malawi * Blantyre * HIV/AIDS medicines * traditional healers * consulates * women * traditional 

leaders 

Summary: 

Twee Nederlandse programmamakers met crew op reis door Afrika, 

deze keer Malawi. Te zien zijn de tabaksbeurs in Blantyre, een 

traditionele genezer met z'n medicijn tegen hiv/aids, koninginnedag 

op het consulaat en lady chief Chikumbu. 


De laatste kans op vrede / dir. Lawrence Simanowitz ; Ned. bew. Hans Claessen ; Onder de vlag van de 

Verenigde Naties. - Nederland, Utrecht : Teleac, 1995. - Video : VHS; 51 min. 

Serie nav 50-jaar bestaan van de VN. Start: na 29 min. An international Co-production for The One World 

Broadcasters, with Teleac Netherlands, DR Denmark, UR Sweden and IBT England. 


Keywords: * Angola * civil war * UNAVEM 

Summary: 

Documentaire over het falen van de VN in Angola. Nu de derde poging met Unavem III. 


Tutu about light weapons / Human rights - Human wrongs. - UK, London : BBC, 1995. - Video : VHS; 9 



Keywords: * Southern Africa * light weapons * civilians 

Summary: 

Tutu about the problem of the spread of light weapons, causing more 

and more civilians to become victims of the war: nowadays up to 90%. 


Zimbabwe: klerenhandel Madagaskar: terugkeer uit de dood / Audrey Brown, Joseph Warungu ; Africa 

express. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1995. - Video : VHS; 9 & 6 min. Start: na 11 min. 

Dutch subtitles and comment. Audrey Brown is responsible for , Joseph Warungu for . 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * textile industry * aid use * private aid * Madagascar * death rituals 

Summary: 

: Item over de handel in tweedehands kleren die door 

liefdadigheidsorganisaties en NGO's naar oa Afrika gebracht worden 

en daar verhandeld worden ten koste van de eigen textielindustrie. 

: Item over het famadian-ritueel in Madagaskar: het draaien van 

de botten van de voorouders als manier om je respect voor hen te 

tonen en als reden om weer eens een feestje te geven. 


Dertig vertellingen op de zondagmiddag : van de Schoonheid en de Troost : John Coetzee / samenst. 

Wim Kayzer. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 2000. - Video : VHS; 122 min. Start: na 31 min. 

Dutch subtitles when nessecary 


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Keywords: * South Africa * literature * Coetzee, J.M. (John Maxwell) (1940- ) * interviews (form) 

Summary: 

Wim Kayzer probeert Zuidafrikaanse schrijver John Coetzee te 

interviewen over de begrippen schoonheid en troost. 


Heart of Darkness / dir. by Nicolas Roeg. - USA, Hollywood : [s.n.], 1994. - Video ; 110 min. 



Keywords: * DRC * colonialism * ivory * history; 19th century 

Summary: 

Previously the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse 

Now (1979), the dark novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, a 

parable about greed-inspired colonialism, was adapted into this 

television movie by offbeat filmmaker Nicolas Roeg. Ambitious 

sailor Marlow (Tim Roth) is employed by a British trading company. 

His mission is a journey to a remote colony in the Belgian Congo, 

the source of the consortium's profitable supply of ivory, where 

he's to retrieve some stranded cargo. As he travels upriver 

visiting the trading stations which acquire the precious commodity 

through exploitative barter with natives, Marlow hears wild tales 

of Kurtz (John Malkovich), a hugely-successful company manager 

whose post is deep in the jungle. It seems that Kurtz is revered as 

a god by the locals, both worshipped and greatly feared. Reaching 

Kurtz's compound, however, Marlow finds that the man has become a 

fiend, committing blasphemous atrocities and driven mad by power 

and disease. Malkovich was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild 

Award and a Golden Globe for his performance as Kurtz. 


Family ties part 1 / dir. by Anna Maria Lombard. - South Africa, Johannesburg : SABC, 2002. - Video : VHS; 

39 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Tanzania * ANC * exile * families 

Summary: 

Report about the Tanzanian Women of ANC-exiles in Mazimbu, Morogoro 

in Tanzania. During Apartheid the ANC had a school, SOMAFCO, for 

the refugees who fled South Africa. Many of them started families 

with Tanzanian women. In 1992 the ANC gave exiles an opportunity to 

return to South Africa. Many did return, leaving their families behind. 


African Union Summit and Bush in Africa / BBC World. - UK, London : BBC World, 2003. - Video : VHS; 

7 min. 


Keywords: * Southern Africa * African Union * USA * foreign policy 

Summary: 

Item about the African Union Summit in Maputo and the trip of 

American president Bush in Africa, now on his third day, in Botswana. 


Der inszenierte Hunger = Les maux de la faim / Jihan El Tahri. - Frankreich, Strasburg : ARTE ; Dominant 

7, 2003. - Video : VHS; 55 min. Produziert zusammen mit SBS TV Australia, BBC Four, First Circle Films 

Start: nach 7.30 min. 


Keywords: * Zambia * USA * EU * famine relief * WFP * gmo* * economic policy * USAid 

Summary: 

Ein Film über die internationale Nahrungsmittelhilfe für Sambia und 

andere Staten Afrikas. Nicht nur die Dürre, aber auch Korruption 

und Fehler der Regierung sind verantwordlich für ein Teil der 

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Probleme Sambias. Auch die Politik der Weltbank und IWF (IMF) ist 

mitverantwortlich für die Verarmung der Bevölkerung. Die Gründe für 

die Nahrungsmittelhilfesind weniger humanitär als wirtschaftlich. 

In der USA wird die Hilfe geleitet von USAid. Die Gesetzgebung 

verbietet um andere als USA Agrarprodukte zu kaufen. 80% der Mais 

der Nahrungsmittelhilfe kommt aus der USA, die ein riesigen 

Maisüberschuss produziert. Verbrennen wurde billiger sein, aber das 

sieht nicht gut aus. Auch das Problem der gentechnisch manipulierte 

Agrarprodukten kam im Falle Sambias an das Licht, wenn die Regierung 

die Einfuhr gentechnisch manipulierte Mais verbot. Es sieht aus das der 

Handelskrieg USA -EU die wirkliche Grund der Nahrungsmittelhilfe ist. 


Sophiatown : blues for Mandela / prod. and dir. by Pascale Lamche ; De Donderdag Documentaire. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 2003. - Video : VHS; 52 min. Start: na 49 min. Dutch subtitles 

Een produktie van Little Bird Production en Ochre Moving Pictures voor de BBC, in co-produktie met 

France2, TV2, Radio Telefis Eireann, IKON en The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa. 

Copyrights bij LittleBird/France2/BBC. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Sophiatown * music artists * gangs * apartheid system * Group Areas Act* * 

forced removals * history; 1945-1960 

Summary: 

Nostalgic documentary about Sophiatown, near Johannesburg, that in 

the 1950s was a racial mixed neighbourhood, where many musicians 

lived and performed, and their connections with the local gangs 

that were inspired by American movies like "Angels with dirty 

faces", and where Nelson Mandela worked in the first all-black 

lawyers office. Lots of music, played now by the musical legends 

from that time. Memories and/or music from, inter alia, Nelson 

Mandela, Jurgen Schadeberg (from Drum Magazine), Don Mattera, Hugh 

Masekela, Joe Mogotsi, Dolly Rathebe (who was greeted by Mandela 

when he just was out of jail in 1990 with:"Hello Dolly, can you 

still sing the blues?"), Dorothy Masuka, Abigail Kubeka, Thandi 

Klaasen, Ibrahim Abdullah, The Jazz Epistles, The Manhattan 

Brothers, The African Inkspots. In 1959 the first black musical 

"King Kong", with Miriam Makeba, came in production, about 

Sophiatown-life. It was so succesfull that it went to London too, 

where many black participants tried to defect but under large 

pressure returned to South Africa. Also attention for how apartheid 

ended this vibrant culture: by forced removals under the Group 

Areas Act, the population was moved to Meadowlands, the houses 

where torn down and the white suburb 'Triumph' was built. 


Tshombe / Bert Govaerts ; Histories. - België, Brussel : Ketnet Canvas, 2003. - Video : VHS; 45 min. 



Keywords: * Congo * Katanga * Tshombe, Moïse (1919 - 1969) * secession* * history; 1945-1960 * history; 

1960s 

Summary: 

Tshombe was related to the royal family of the Lunda people and in 

1959 became president of the Belgian supported Conakat, the 

strongest political party in Katanga. In 1960 he attended the 

Brussels Congo Conference, where he pressed for a loose federation 

of independent states in the Congo. In the general elections of 

1960, Gonakat gained control of Katanga provincial legislature, and 

when the Congo became independent, Tshombe proclaimed Katanga's 

secession from the country. He worked close with Belgian business 

interests, appointed a Belgian officer to command his army, and 

refused to cooperate with either the UN or the central government 

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led by Patrice Lumumba. In Aug. 1960 he was elected president of 

Katanga; he maintained a large mercenary army, with mercenaries 

from Europe and South Africa, to fight against UN troops. He was 

charged by an UN commission with complicity in the murder of 

Lumumba (Jan. 1961) in Katanga. In April 1961 he was arrested but 

was released when he pledged to reunite Katanga with the Congo. He 

quickly repudiated the promise and continued to defy the central 

government. Finally forced to capitulate, he went into exile in 

Europe in 1963. With lots of archival footage. 


HIV/AIDS - concert 46664. - South Africa, Cape Town : [s.n.], 2003. - Video : VHS; 88 m. 

Start: after 36 min. 


Keywords: * South Africa * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918- ) * music * HIV/AIDS 

Summary: 

Report of the HIV/Aids concert in the Greenpoint Stadium, Cape 

Town, November 29th 2003, with Bono, Queen, Eurithmics, Youssou 

N'dour, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Beyoncé, Mandela and others, for a 

predominantly white audience (because of the ticket prices). 


Mugabe's Youth Militia / Knevel op Zaterdag. - Nederland, Hilversum : EO, 2004. - Video : VHS; 12 m. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * political violence * political opposition * youth * armed civilians * MDC * ZANU-PF 

Summary: 

Knevel laat stukjes zien van een documentaire over de 

jeugdmilitia's en hun geweldadige intimidatie- praktijken tegen de 

oppositie (voornamelijk MDC-leden), en heeft een kort interview met 

Wiep Bassie, coördinator van ZimbabweWatch. 


Botswana : land van tienermoeders / reg. Victor Rosier ; Metterdaad. - Nederland, Hilversum : EO, 2004. - 

Video : VHS; 24 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * Botswana * women * street children * teenage pregnancy * domestic violence * vocational 

education * living conditions * women-headed households * HIV/AIDS * women's empowerment * poverty 

alleviation 

Summary: 

Documentary about young women in Botswana, who get a vocational 

training in sewing and catering, to enable them to generate an income, 

from Maria Phiri at the school of The Dutch Reformed Church in Botswana. 


Het geweten van de commandant / samenst. en reg. Gerry Corba, Nicolien Herblot ; Factor. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : IKON, 2004. - Video : VHS; 26 min. Start: na 28 min. 



Keywords: * Rwanda * Rwandan genocide (1994) * Dallaire, Romeo A. (1946-) * Bosnia-Herzegovina * UN 

peacekeeping operations 

Summary: 

Schrijnende documentaire over hoe twee 'falende' legercommandanten, 

Karremans in Bosnië en Dallaire in Rwanda, terugkijken op hun 

missie en hun eigen verantwoordelijkheid voor het mislukken ervan. 


Congo Road / reg. Jean-Pierre Coppens ; Panorama. - België, Brussel : BRT 1, 1997. - Video : VHS; 25 

min. Start: na 62 min. Tape MC 1655. Dutch subtitled 


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Keywords: * DRC * USA * Israeli's * Kabila, Laurent-Desiré (1939-2001) * PMCs * Tutsi (people) * copper 

mining * gold mining * American Mineral Fields * Barrick Gold Corporation * intelligence services * northern 

NGOs (other) 

Summary: 

Een enigszins gedramatiseerde en speculatieve documentaire over de 

rol van vooral Amerikaanse inlichtingendiensten als CIA en DIA, 

Amerikaanse mijnbouwbedrijven als American Mineral Fields en 

Barrick Gold Corporation (met George Bush in het bestuur), 

Amerikaanse NGO's als International Rescue Committee en US 

Committee for Refugees (die ook weer nauwe banden met Amerikaanse 

inlichtingendiensten hebben), en PMCs als MPRI, dat bemand wordt 

door oa een voormalige DIA directeur en gepensionneerde Amerikaanse 

generaals, en dat het Angolese leger traint en assisteert, bij het aan de macht 

brengen van Laurent Kabila in de DRC. Een Frans geheim agent ontwaart ook 

nog de hand van een Tutsi maffia, gesteund door extreem-rechtse Israëli's 

omdat de Tutsi's zich als de 'Joden van Afrika' presenteren. 


Vier presidenten en één koning : Sam Nujoma / reg. Anette Kentie, Aad van den Heuvel. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : KRO, 1997. - Video : VHS; 30 min. Start: na 95 min. Tape MC 1655. 



Keywords: * Namibia * Nujoma, Sam (1929- ) * history 

Summary: 

Reclamefilmpje voor Namibië en Sam Nujoma door Aad van den Heuvel. 


Diamantkoorts / dir. by Richard Dowden ; Panorama. - Belgium, Brussels : BRT 1, 1992. - Video : VHS; 41 

min. Start: na 30 min. Dutch subtitles. Originally produced for Channel 4. Tape MC 1379 


Keywords: * Angola * diamonds * De Beers * trade policy * diamond trade * diamond mining * Russia 

Summary: 

Film over diamantbedrijf De Beers, die het monopolie op de 

diamanthandel met alle macht probeert te behouden. Dat wordt meer 

en meer bedreigt: door de handel in illegale Angolese 

conflict-diamanten, en door het Russische aanbod (Rusland is op dit 

moment de grootste producent) dat niet onder het kartel van CSO, de 

centrale handels organisatie van De Beers, valt. Ook aandacht voor 

het siteholder systeem van CSO, interview met Julian Ogilvie Thompson, 

president van De Beers, en optreden van Harry Oppenheimer (voormalig president). 


Media in Mozambique / Marijke Vreeburg ; Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : KRO/RKK, 1992. - Video : 

VHS; 13 min. Start: na 169 min. Tape MC 1379 


Keywords: * Mozambique * media * Mediafax * freedom of the press 

Summary: 

Deel zeven van de Mozambique-serie van Marijke Vreeburg. Over de 

situatie van de media in Mozambique: het ontstaan van mediafax, een 

onafhankelijke krant die naar de klanten gefaxed wordt bij gebrek 

aan middelen. Interviews met Fernando Lima en SalamÃo Moyane van 

Mediafax. Ook interviews with Chude Mondlane, zangeres en dochter 

van Eduardo, die na de vrede terugkeerde naar Mozambiek. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VSA 031 * Also on VSA 009 

Mozambikaanse reacties op VN operatie Somalie / Marijke Vreeburg ; Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

IKON/KRO/RKK, 1992. - Video : VHS; 5 min. Start: na 139 min. Dutch subtitles. Tape MC 1379 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Somalia * UN peacekeeping operations 

Summary: 

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Reacties in Mozambique, dat na het sluiten van het vredesakkoord 

binnen enkele maanden zelf met een VN vredesmissie te maken zal 

krijgen ter implementatie van het bestand, over de VN operatie 

Restore Hope in Somalië. Aan het woord komen Mediafax journalist 

SalamÃo Moyana en minister van communicatie Armando Guebuza, die 

beiden kritisch commentaar leveren omdat de souvereiniteit van 

Somalië niet voldoende gerespecteerd wordt. 


Along the track : the gatherers / prod. & dir. by Garth Lucas, Ann Strimling. - South Africa, Johannesburg : 

Talking Pictures, 1994. - Video : VHS; 22 min. Start: na 76 min. Tape MC 1661. Dutch subtitled 


Keywords: * Southern Africa * San (people) * traditional culture * hunter-gatherers * hunting and gathering * 

indigenous knowledge * indigenous peoples 

Summary: 

Documentaire over de San. Over hun geschiedenis, de 'genocide van 

de bosjesmannen'; over hun cultuur en tradities, hun jachttechnieken 

en kennis van de natuur; en over hun toekomst, die er somber uitziet. 


Kruimeldieven / scen. en reg. Olivier Balande, Alice Mallet ; Werelden. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 

1998. - Video : VHS; 50 min. Start: na 122 min. Tape MC 1726. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * Madagascar * juvenile justice system * youth * crime * penalties * penal institutions * prison 

conditions 

Summary: 

Documentaire over hoe de politie en justitie optreden tegen 

jeugdcriminelen op Madagascar. Tevens een kijkje in het 

heropvoedingskamp Anjanamasina en de gevangenis Antanimora. 


Steenrijk in Afrika / reg. Rob Hof ; Columbus. - België, Brussel ; Nederland, Amsterdam : TV2 ; Hof 

Filmprodukties, 1999. - Video : VHS; 45 min. Start: na 25 min. Tape MC 1726. Dutch subtitled 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * sculptors * sculpture * history 

Summary: 

Sympathieke documentaire over de geschiedenis van het 

beeldhouwersdorp Tengenenge in noord-Zimbabwe, en de oprichter 

ervan, de 74-jarige Tom Bloomfield. Bloomfield begon als tabaksplanter 

in Rhodesië, maar door de VN-sancties, onder andere op tabak uit Rhodesië, 

besloot hij om, samen met zijn landarbeiders, kunstenaar te worden. 

Tengenenge groeide uit tot een internationale kunstenaarscommune, 

met ook beeldhouwers uit Malawi, Mozambiek en Angola, waarvan enkele, 

zoals Bernard Matemera, wereldberoemd werden. 


De eerste keer / Diogenes. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 1994. - Video : VHS; 25 min. 

Start: na 48 min. Tape MC 1490. Also on VZA 374. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * rural areas * Eastern Transvaal * commercial 

farmers * farm workers 

Summary: 

Deze documentaire geeft een beeld van de gevoelens die de naderende 

verkiezingen oproepen in Oost-Transvaal, zowel bij de blanke 

bananenplantagehouders, die een soort burgerwacht hebben opgezet 

tegen de "kleine criminaliteit", en zich zorgen maken over de 

opkomende vakbonden, als bij hun zwarte werknemers, die zich nog 

steeds zeer voorzichtig uitlaten over de toekomst ("ik zou het 

liefst op God stemmen"). Ook met huishoudster die er niet in slaagt 

haar vreugde over de vrijlating van Mandela te verbergen. 

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Isingiro Hospital / Reg. & prod. Hillie Molenaar, Joop van Wijk ; Dokument. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 

1994. - Video : VHS; 45 min. Nederlands ondertiteld. Tape MC 1490 

Geproduceerd door Molenwiek Filmproduktie, 1992 


Keywords: * Tanzania * hospitals * physical health care * traditional healers * traditional health care * 

HIV/AIDS * HIV/AIDS medicines * pregnancy * orphans * poverty 

Summary: 

Documentaire over St. Mary's Hospital at Isingiro, Kagera province, 

in noord Tanzania. Over het taboe dat nog steeds rond HIV/AIDS 

heerst (mensen overlijden aan TBC of malaria), over traditionele 

geneeskunst versus westerse geneeskunst, inclusief een traditionele 

genezer die openhartig vertelt dat ook hij AIDS-slachtoffer is; het 

tekort aan medicijnen en klamboes; over sterilisatie als manier van 

familie planning (wel eerst tien kinderen krijgen), over zwangere 

meisjes die door vriend en familie verstoten worden; over de 

wezenopvang bij dorpelingen, die eigenlijk te arm zijn om nog meer 

monden te voeden, laat staan om schoolgeld te betalen. 


Zuid-Afrika stemt (1) / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1994. - Video : VHS; 29 min. 



Keywords: * South Africa * elections April 1994 (South Africa) * community radio * AWB * Terre'Blanche, 

Eugene Ney (1941-) * IFP * Buthelezi Mangosuthu Gatsha (1928-) * ANC * Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla 

(1918- ) * election campaigns * truth and reconciliation 

Summary: 

Impressie van drie roerige verkiezingsdagen tijdens Zuid-Afrika's 

eerste vrije en democratische verkiezingen. In de studio Dhlomo 

(ANC) en Nothnagel (Zuid-Afrikaans ambassadeur in Nederland), en 

filmbeelden vanuit Zuid-Afrika, die aandacht besteden aan radio 

702, een van de eerste onafhankelijke radiostations, die op reportage 

gaat bij verkiezingscapagnes van de AWB van Eugene Terre'Blanche, 

de IFP van Buthelezi, en Het ANC van Mandela; en interview met Sheila 

Sisulu, over hoe het voelde om te stemmen en hoe het na de verkiezingen 

met het proces van truth and reconciliation moet. 


The blacks are coming back to town / reg. Leon Willems. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1998. - Video : 

VHS; 35 min. Start: na 90 min. Tape MC 1679. Dutch comment and subtitles 


Keywords: * South Africa * Johannesburg * Durban * urban areas * urban communities * urban development 

* urbanisation * architecture * segregation * social integration * townships * informal settlements * informal 

sector * housing * housing policy 

Summary: 

During the apartheid-era blacks were forced to leave the towns and 

live in townships far removed from the town center. After apartheid 

the blacks started to move back to the town centres, while the 

wealthy whites moved to the suburbs. Many of the blacks still live 

in single-sex hostels or informal settlements. two architects, 

Rodney Harber in Durban and Mphethi Morojele in Johannesburg, show 

how they work to overcome the legacy of apartheid in urban development. 


President in Afrika : Malawi / eindred. & samenst. Aad van den Heuvel. - Nederland, Hilversum : KRO ; 

Mediaat, 1998. - Video : VHS; 30 min. Start: na 34 min. Tape MC 1679. Dutch comment and subtitles 


Keywords: * Malawi * democratisation * poverty * poverty alleviation * tobacco industry * debt relief * 

economic development * heads of state 

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Summary: 

Aflevering over Bakili Muluzi, die in 1994 gekozen werd als 

president van Malawi, waarmee een einde kwam aan de dictatuur van 

Hastings Banda. Hij ziet armoede als het grootste probleem: een 

groot deel van de bevolking leeft in een subsistence-economie, de 

werkeloosheid is hoog, grondstoffen zijn er niet en er is nauwelijks industrie. 

Ook de aflossing van de buitenlandse schuld slokt veel van de staatsinkomsten op. 


Afrika : als de mens voor god speelt / Prod. Lisa Truitt ; Ed. Mick Kaczorowski. - Brussel : Canvas, 1998. - 

Video : VHS; 50 min. Start: na 54 min. Tape MC 1694. Dutch comment and subtitles 

Original a National Geographic Society production ¸1990 


Keywords: * Africa * Kenya * Zimbabwe * South Africa * population * wildlife management * game reserves * 

poaching * safaris * ecotourism * agriculture * indigenous peoples * ivory 

Summary: 

Documentaire over het natuurbeheer versus de overbevolking in 

Afrika, met name in Kenia, Zimbabwe en Zuid-Afrika. Natuurparken 

moeten concurreren met de landbouw-behoeften van de bevolking die 

aan de randen van natuurreservaten wonen. Door de lokale bevolking 

te laten delen in de opbrengsten die deze parken kunnen genereren 

door toerisme en verkoop van jachtvergunningen (Zimbabwe: 10 

miljoen dollar per jaar aan inkomsten uit de verkoop van 

jachtvergunningen), en ze gecontroleerde jacht op bijvoorbeeld 

impala's toe te staan, gaat deze de natuur ook als bron van 

inkomsten zien en wordt natuurbehoud eigenbelang. Door strengere 

stroperswetten neemt het stropen van bijvoorbeeld olifanten sterk 

af. In het Krugerpark zijn er zelfs teveel, en moeten ze door de 

parkwachters worden afgeknald, waarna ze ingeblikt worden. Dit is 

echter een zeer omstreden aanpak waarvoor collega's in bijv. Kenia 

weinig waardering kunnen opbrengen. 


Mozambikaanse vluchtelingen in Zuid-Afrika / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1992. 

- Video : VHS; 13 min. Start: na 74 min. Tape MC 1355. Dutch comment and subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * South Africa * Mozambique * refugees * RENAMO * terrorism * slavery * farm workers * famine 

Summary: 

Reportage over Mozambikanen die voor het Renamo-geweld en de 

droogte naar Zuid-Afrika vluchten. Zuid-Afrika erkent ze niet als 

vluchteling, en blanke boeren gebruiken ze als landarbeider tegen nauwelijks of geen loon. 


In gods naam / reg. Don Boyd ; Dokument. - UK, London : NCRV, 1994. - Video : VHS; 32 min. 

Start: na 136 min. Dutch subtitles and comment. Tape MC 1489 


Keywords: * South Africa * African independent churches * church and society 

Summary: 

Documentaire over de Afrikaanse kerken in Zuid-Afrika, onder andere 

de Africa Galilea Apostolic Church in Zion, de Zion Apostolic Faith 

Mission Church, de Nazareth Congregational Church of God, en de 

grootste, de Zion Christian Church (ZCC). 


Verkiezingen Zuid-Afrika : tweede dag [sel. title] / NOS Journaal. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1994. - 

Video : VHS; 2 min. Start: na 183 min. Tape MC 1489. 



Summary: 

Nieuwsitem over het verloop van de tweede verkiezingsdag. In allerijl 

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worden er miljoenen nieuwe stembiljetten bijgedrukt, aangezien er een 

groot tekort blijkt. Beeld van Mandela die zijn briefje in de bus doet. 


Werelds : Zimbabwe / samenst. & reg. Robbert Baars. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1994. - Video : VHS; 

28 min. Dutch comment and subtitles. Tape MC1489 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * youth * living conditions * gender equality * education * lobola * polio * employment 

* ethnic discrimination 

Summary: 

Film over twee twintigers, een jongen en een meisje, in Zimbabwe. 

De jongen is aan beide benen verlamd door polio, werkt als 

telefonist in Harare en wil zich gaan bekwamen in de 

computerbranche. Het meisje doet stage als monteur en wil 

doorstuderen om ingeneur te worden. Verder praten ze over 

vriendjes/vriendinnetjes, trouwen, lobola, en discriminatie (ook in 

1994 zijn er nog whites-only restaurants). 


Van Kaapstad tot Cairo : straatkinderen en landmijnen / Filmed and dir. by Michael Davie. - 

Netherlands, Hilversum : RVU/ educatieve omroep, 1999. - Video : Originallyproduced in 1998 by Africa 

Odyssey Productions; 25 min. Start: na 70 min. Dutch subtitled. Tape MC 1709 


Keywords: * Botswana * Okavango delta * Zimbabwe * Bulawayo * street children * Mozambique * landmines 

* disabled people 

Summary: 

In deel twee van de serie 'Afrika: van Kaapstad tot Caïro' reist 

Michael Davie door Botswana, Zimbabwe en Mozambique. In Botswana 

kanoot hij door de Okavango Delta, in Zimbabwe gaat hij langs zijn 

geboorteplaats Bulawayo, waar hij met straatkinderen praat over 

lijmsnuiven en homo-prostitutie. In Mozambique bezoekt hij een VN 

mijnopruimingseenheid en een ziekenhuis waar slachtoffers van 

landmijnen kunstledematen worden aangemeten. 


Africa dreaming : The gaze of the stars / dir. by João Ribeiro ; written by Mia Couto. - Netherlands, 

Hilversum ; Mozambique, Maputo : NPS ; Ebano Multimédia, 2006 (1997). - Video : VHS; 25 min. Start: na 

60 min. English subtitles 


Keywords: * Mozambique * gender relations * domestic violence * feature films (form) 

Summary: 

Short film about love, relations, alcohol and domestic violence in a Mozambican village. 


The Soweto uprising - 16 June 1976 / prod. & dir. by Kate Townsend. - UK, London : BBC 2, 2006. - Video 



Keywords: * South Africa * Soweto uprising (1976-1977) * students * civil unrest * anti-apartheid resistance * 

secondary schools * education policy * Afrikaans (language) * police * political violence 

Summary: 

The story of the Soweto Uprising, that started the 16th of June 

1976, retold thirty years later by those who took part (in it or 

against it). The protests started because the government had 

decreed that secondary schools in Soweto should teach half their 

subjects in Afrikaans, the language of the oppressor. The 

background was formed by the independence of Angola and Mozambique 

and Steve Biko's Black Consciousness on the one hand, and disco 

music and 'Saturday Night Fever' on the other. Some of the events 

are re-enacted, and most of the existing footage is shown. 

Interviews with student leaders Seth Mazibuko, Murphy Marobe, 

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Sibongile Mkhabela, Mujakathata Mokoena, and Tseitsi Mashinini, 

leader of the Action Committee (old interview fragments, he died 

alone and in mental disorder in Guinea in 1990); journalists Max du 

Preez (Beeld), Sophie Tema (The World), Nora Steyn (Beeld), and 

photojournalist Sam Nzima (The World), who shot the worldfamous 

picture of Hector Pietersen; students Phydian Matsepe, Caroline 

Mabeni; police officers Kobus Malan (Soweto Detective Force), 

Charles Zeelie (Police Riot Squad - "Soweto was rather pictoresque, 

with all the fires burning all over Soweto"), Robert Mathube 

(Soweto Police, black); teachers Fanyana Mazibuko, Magdelene 

Meselane; family Virginia Mashinini (mother of Tseitsi), Antoinette 

Sithole (sister of Hector Pietersen). 


A right to live : Aidsmedikamente für Millionen / Birgit Schultz. - Deutschland, Köln : Bildersturm ; WDR ; 

ARTE, 2006. - Video : VHS; 44 min. German comment and subtitles 


Keywords: * Tanzania * pharmaceutical industry * HIV/AIDS * HIV/AIDS medicines * health care * patent law 

* church and society * rural poverty * drought * hospitals * rural areas 

Summary: 

Die 52-jährige Krisana Kraisintu weiá, was sie will: Aidspräparate, 

wirksam und kostengünstig für Afrika. Die frühere Leiterin der 

Forschungsabteilung der thailändischen Government Pharmaceutical 

Organization hat das bisher billigste Aidspräparat der Welt 

entwickelt. Gleichzeitig hat die Pharmazeutin die Medikamentierung 

vereinfacht, so dass Infizierte nur noch zwei Mal am Tag eine 

Tablette schlucken müssen. Zuerst hat die Thailänderin Kraisintu 

diese Generika 1992 in ihrer Heimat herstellt. Als das gut lief, 

ging sie nach Afrika. Seitdem hat Krisana Kraisintu in Žthiopien, 

im Kongo und jetzt in Tansania Fabriken für preiswerte 

Aidsmedikamente aufgebaut. In Afrika - in nahezu allen Ländern 

südlich der Sahara - steigt die Todesrate von Aidsinfizierten 

weiter dramatisch an. Medikamente können sich nur wenige leisten, 

und die komplizierte Medikamentierung der aus Europa und den USA 

importierten Mittel ist ein zusätzliches Hindernis. Hinzu kommt die 

weit verbreitete Tabuisierung von HIV/Aids: Die Kranken werden oft 

aus allen sozialen Zusammenhängen ausgestoáen. Die Dokumentation 

verfolgt die Arbeit der Asiatin in Tansania. 14 Prozent der 

Tansanier sind HIV-positiv und der Altersdurchschnitt sank auf 37 

Jahre ab. Weil es bisher keine Hoffnung gab, wurde das Problem 

verdrängt. Heute kauft die Regierung die Medikamente aus der 

eigenen Landesproduktion und verteilt sie an die Krankenhäuser und 

Gesundheitsstationen. Krisana Kraisintu lebt nicht ungefährlich, 

seit sie das Monopol groáer westlicher Pharmakonzerne auf die 

Herstellung von Aidsmedikamenten untergräbt. Es gab Zeiten, da hat 

sie jeden Tag Todesdrohungen am Telefon bekommen. Die Buddhistin 

lässt sich jedoch nicht einschüchtern, im Gegenteil: Die Zahl der 

afrikanischen Länder, die sich für Kraisintus Medikamente interessiert, wächst. 

Remarks: Picture quality: ? * VSA 042 

De wezen van Nkandla / dir. Brian Woods. - UK, London ; België, Brussel : BBC ; True Vision Productions ; 

Canvas, 2006. - Video : VHS; 44 min. Start: na 45 min. Dutch subtitles. Original produced for BBC, 2003 


Keywords: * South Africa * KwaZulu-Natal * rural areas * rural communities * HIV/AIDS * children * social 

conditions * poverty * children-headed households * church and society 

Summary: 

HIV/AIDS has orphaned around 750.000 children in South Africa. This 

documentary follows three families in Kwazulu-Natal and looks how 

the children have reacted to the huge changes in their lives caused 

by HIV/AIDS. In this area of Zululand, there is high unemployment, 

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no running water or electricity and limited access to medical 

treatment. In one family, the children have been living on their 

own after being orphaned. In another, a young girl is learning to 

look after her sick mother and other family members after the death 

of her father. In the third, the children are sent to live with 

their aunts family following their father's death, placing additional 

pressure on already poor relatives.Woods has taken care to present 

events as much as possible from the point of view of the children. 


"Ask me I'm positive" / dir. by Teboho Edkins ; prod. by Don Edkins. - South Africa, Cape Town ; Lesotho, 

Maseru : Day Zero Film and Video ; Sesotho Media Productions, 2003. - Video : VHS; 51 min 

English subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * Lesotho * HIV/AIDS * HIV/AIDS medicines * sex education * condoms * documentaries * rural 

areas 

Summary: 

Documentary in which the main characters from another Day Zero 

documentary, Ho ea Rona / Dumisani Phakathini, (VSA 021) travel 

with a mobile cinema/video installation through the rural areas of 

Lesotho, to educate the people about HIV/AIDS. 


SACOD Forum 2001 / cam. & dir. Dumisani Dlamini. - South Africa, Johannesburg : SACOD, 2001. - Video : 

VHS; 12 min. Eng. subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * Southern Africa * film art * film directors * film industry * films * congresses 

Summary: 

Impressions of the SACOD Forum 2001 in Maseru, Lesotho. This was 

the fifth edtion of this annual event that creates a meeting place 

where film and videodirectors, producers, distributors and NGOs 

from the Southern African region get tiogether to screen and debate 

productions from the region. SACOD members use the Forum to explore 

and develop new aesthetic principkles and to find and share different forms of expression. 


Rural woman / research and script Filius Chalo Jere. - Zambia, Lusaka : Development Support 

Communication for Rural Women in Zambia, 1997. - Video : VHS; 180 min. 

Produced in cooperation with the Dutch Embassy in Lusaka 


Keywords: * Zambia * rural areas * women's empowerment 

Summary: 

This video contains 12 episodes highlighting major problems that 

hinder the development of women in the rural areas of Zambia, like 

male oppression, problems with getting loans, 'property grabbing' 

after the dead of a husband, problems with landownership, contacts 

with ngo's, underrepresentation in politics. 

Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood * VZM 001 

Aftermath / role play dir. Augustine Lungu ; cam. Moses Katota ; cam. and script Filius Chalo Jere. - [s.l.] : 

ZARD, 1995. - Video : VHS; 39 min. 


Keywords: * Zambia * spouses * children * widows 

Summary: 

Video about the sorry plight of widows and their children in 

Zambia, due to local traditions ('sexual cleansing' and 'property 

grabbing'), and about the importance of making a will. 

Remarks: Picture quality: bad * VZM 002 

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Imiti Ikula / dir. by Sampa Kangwa, Simon Wilkie ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, 





Keywords: * Zambia * Lusaka (city) * HIV/AIDS * street children * orphans * girls 

Summary: 

Memory is one of the 75.000 street kids in Lusaka, most of them 

orphans due to AIDS. Although she is hard, streetwise and ready to 

fight, she has a softer side which influences her daily living, 

like finding a way to watch the solar eclipse, getting her hair 

braided, cooking, singing and talking with her friends. She is a 

street child who fights for - and finds - her own identity and 

destiny. Vulnerable, yet strong, Memory is a compelling character. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZM 003 

Zambia through women's eyes / ed. by Robert Mushiko. - Zambia, Lusaka : NGOCC, ¸ 2002. - Video : 

VHS; 20 min. 


Keywords: * Zambia * women * women's empowerment * NGOCC 

Summary: 

A film about the position of women in Zambia, and the initiatives 

that are taking place to improve their situation through better 

education for girls, poverty reduction by economic empowerment of 

women, etc. Also the history and role of the NGOCC in these 

processes, that has changed in the past fifteen years from 

coordinator to focal point of the women's movement in Zambia. 

Remarks: Picture quality: bad * VZM 004 

Zambian Republican Party : alternative government, general conference and North Western tour / 

Chanda Chimba III. - Zambia, Lusaka : ZRP, 2001. - Video : VHS; 39, 45 & 30 min. 


Keywords: * Zambia * election campaigns * conferences 

Summary: 

Pictures of the 2001 election campaign of the ZRP, and its 

presidential candidate mr. B.V. Mwila, who is touring the country, 

and of the first general conference of the ZRP, held in Kabwe Town. 

Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood * VZM 005 

Education - a right for every child / Women for Change. - Zambia, Lusaka : Window Images, 2003. - Video 

: VHS; 35 min. English subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * Zambia * education policy * teacher education * rural areas * infrastructure * educational aid * 

Women for Change 

Summary: 

The Convention on the rights of the child is also signed by Zambia, 

but education, mentioned as one of the basic rights,has declined 

nontheless. Mainly in remote rural areas, schools are rare and 

suffering of inadequate infrastructure, accomodation and 

educational materials, lack of water, and also the teachers are 

often underqualified. Women for Change visits these areas to assess 

the situation and help with providing better accomodations. 

Remarks: Picture quality: shaky * VZM 006 

Kinderen, slachtoffer van AIDS en droogte / TROS Aktua. - Nederland, Hilversum : TROS, 1991. - Video : 

VHS; 8 min. Start: na 109 min. Dutch comment and subtitles. Tape MC 1380 


Keywords: * Zambia * children * orphans * children-headed households * HIV/AIDS * drought * famine * 

families * African NGOs 

Summary: 

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Item over de droogte en de AIDS epidemie in Zambia. Vooral kinderen 

worden door beide getroffen. Ook aandacht voor CINDI, een ngo van 

lokale onderwijzers die een deel van hun salaris gebruiken om kinderen te helpen. 


Als wij er niet voor zorgen... : Paul van Vliet in Zambia / samenst. en reg. Thomas Ruigrok. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : AVRO, 1998 [?]. - Video : VHS; 25 min. Start: na 96 min. Tape MC 1714 


Keywords: * Zambia * rural areas * rural communities * rural poverty * HIV/AIDS * orphans * education * 

UNICEF * civic associations 

Summary: 

Paul van Vliet reist voor UNICEF naar Zambia, het land met het 

hoogste percentage AIDS wezen. Hij verblijft vijf dagen in het 

dorpje Malala in het zuiden van het land. Hij praat met AIDS 

slachtoffers en wezen. Aids is taboe: mensen sterven aan TB. Als de 

wezen door familie worden opgevangen (vaak de grootouders), is er 

meestal geen geld voor school, en weinig te eten. Er is een civic 

opgericht om de wezen zo goed mogelijk op te vangen, die wordt 

gesteund door UNICEF. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VZM 008 

Hun broeders hoeders / prod. & reg. Catherine Mullins. - Nederland, Hilversum ; Canada, Hull (Quebec) : 

RVU ; Green Lion Productions, 2005. - Video : VHS; 55 min. Dutch subtitles and comment 


Keywords: * Zambia * HIV/AIDS * HIV/AIDS medicines * Lusaka (city) * orphans * children-headed 

households * street children * health services * rural areas * traditional healers * traditional leaders * NGOs * 

poverty * demography 

Summary: 

Documentaire over AIDS-wezen in Chazanga, een compound bij Lusaka. 

Steeds meer AIDS-wezen zorgen voor hun kleinere broertjes en 

zusjes, en soms voor hun stervende ouders. (je wordt geen wees als 

je ouders dood zijn, maar als ze bezig zijn te sterven). Twee 

'children-headed households' worden gevolgd. Ze krijgen 

uiteindelijk hulp van Afrikaanse en internationale ngo's. 

Aangrijpende documentaire over de problematiek van AIDS-wezen, en 

de rol die armoede speelt, waardoor de simpelste oplossingen vaak 

onbereikbaar blijven. Ook met commentaar van Stephen Lewis, 

gedreven VN gezant voor HIV/AIDS in Afrika. 


Jean Bedel-Bokassa : de keizer-'kannibaal'. / Jan van den Berghe, Dirk Baert. - België, Brussel : Canvas, 

2003. - Video : VHS; 42 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * Central African Republic * Bokassa, Jean-Bedel (1921 -1996) 

Summary: 

Biografische documentaire over Bokassa, de dictator die de Centraal 

Afrikaanse Republiek bijna vijftien jaar bestuurde als een soort 

operette-dictator. Veel interviewfragmenten met hemzelf, en met 

zijn biografe Geraldine Faes. (Er zijn overigens nooit harde 

bewijzen gevonden voor zijn vermeende kannibalisme). 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VAC 001 

Het beloofde land / reg. George Brugmans ; cam. Alexander Oey ; geluid Rik Meier ; montage J.P. 

Luijsterburg ; Tegenlicht. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 2003. - Video : VHS; 49 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * Rwanda * Rwandan genocide (1994) * traditional courts * repatriation * freedom of the press * 

truth and reconciliation 

Summary: 

Documentary about the reconstruction of Rwanda after the genocide 

of 1994, with attention for the importance of cows; the Muambi 

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genocide memorial; the gacaca's (traditional courts), who have to 

trial almost all of the 100000 prisoners; the lack of freedom of 

the press and the education of new journalists; internetcafés and 

the role of IT in the economy; and about the importance of cows. 

Interviews with Paul Kagame, ex-refugee and now president of 

Rwanda, Sam Nkusi, ex-refugee and now minister of energy, 

telecommunication and infrastructure and Tharcisse Karugarama, 

vice-precident of the High Court. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VAE 001 

Zur Schuld verdammt : General Dallaire die Blauhelme und das Massaker von Ruanda / dir. by Steven 

Silver. - Deutschland, München : ARD, 2003. - Video : VHS; 62 min 

Letze 8 Minuten entbrechen. German voice-over. 


Keywords: * Rwanda * mass killings * UN * Dallaire, Romeo A. (1946-) 

Summary: 

1994 leitete der kanadische Brigadegeneral Romeo Dallaire eine 

Friedensmission der Vereinten Nationen in Ruanda. Unter seine Augen 

wurden in 100 Tagen 800.000 Menschen getötet. Das war der gröáte 

Völkermord seit Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Dieser Film zeigt seine Geschichte. 


The day I will never forget / Kim Longinotto. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 2003. - Video : VHS; 77 min. 

Dutch subtitles. Produced for Channel Four. 


Keywords: * Kenya * circumcision * women's rights * women's empowerment 

Summary: 

A documentary about the circumcision practices applied to young 

girls in Kenya. The women who do it appeal to religion and/or (in 

this case Somali) tradition. Usuallychristian churches who resist 

those practises. A group of young girls has fled to the Maraquet 

school out of fear for being circumcised. Their lawyer gets a 

judicical enforcement order to prevent their mothers to circumcise 

them. It is the first time something like this has happened. 


De kuilen van ons hart / dir. by Roger Beeckmans ; Kwesties. - België, Brussel : Canvas, 2004. - Video : 

VHS; 50 min. Dutch comment and subtitles 


Keywords: * Rwanda * Rwandan genocide (1994) * justice system * court cases * church and society 

Summary: 

Een documentaire over de Rwandese genocide en de nasleep daarvan. 

In 2001 was er in Brussel eren rechtszaak bij het Hof van Assisen, 

aangespannen door vier 'weduwen van Sofu' tegen vier verdachten van 

deelname aan de massamoord, waaronder twee kloosterzusters. Alle 

vier werden ze tot lange gevangenisstraffen veroordeeld. 

Ondertussen gaat in Rwanda zelf de gacaca-rechtspraak door: een 

soort volksrechtbanken waar, zo lijkt het, de brutaalste wint. Eén 

van de weduwen die de rechtszaak in Brussel won vertelt dat ze in 

haar dorp van niemand meer water krijgt. 


The killers / Reporter Fergal Keane ; ed. Mike Robinson ; Panorama. - UK, London : BBC, 2004. - Video : 

VHS; 60 min. 


Keywords: * Rwanda * Rwandan genocide (1994) * human rights violations 

Summary: 

Up to a million people were murdered in Rwanda in just one hundred 

days. This film marks the 10th anniversary of the genocide with a 

haunting investigation of how ordinary men became pitiless killers. 

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It contains some of the most harrowing descriptions of genocide 

ever given by killers themselves. One of them tells the Panorama 

team: "It is as if we were competing over the killing." The case of 

mayor Sylvestre Gacumbitsi, who lured 'his' Tutsi's into the church 

of Nyarubuye, where they were first attacked by the police and 

later on by Hutu peasants. Panorama found the major in a Tanzanian 

refugee camp, where he denied to have anything to do with the 

massacre. But he did flee the camp after the interview. The church 

is now a monument to the massacre. Also attention for the role of 

the radio (Radio Milles Collines) in the butchery. 


Rwanda en de kolonel / Bert Govaerts ; Histories. - België, Brussel : Canvas, 2004. - Video : VHS; 42 min. 

Nederlandse ondertitels en commentaar 


Keywords: * Rwanda * Belgium * colonialism * independence struggle * democratisation * Hutu (people) * 

Tutsi (people) * history; 1945-1960 * history; 1960s 

Summary: 

Toen de Belgen in 1916 van de VN Rwanda-Urundi als mandaatgebied 

kregen toegewezen (tot dan een Duitse kolonie) was het een door de 

Tutsi-minderheid bestuurde (via het systeem van 'indirect bestuur' 

door Tutsi-chefs) monarchie met aan het hoofd de Mwami. Door de 

katholieke seminaries ontstond er ook een kleine geschoolde 

Hutu-elite, waarvan Gregoire Kayibanda een voorname representant 

was. Hij wist het missieblad Kinyamateka om te vormen tot 

propagandakrant voor zijn Hutu-beweging en vertienvoudigde in één 

jaar tijd de oplage. Als in de aanloop naar de onafhankelijkheid 

Mwami Mutarra plotseling overlijdt en wodt opgevolgd door Kigeri, 

de onlusten tussen Hutu's en Tutsi's verder toenemen (1959) en de 

eerste Tutsi-vluchtelingen in de buurlanden verschijnen, wordt de 

Belgische kolonel Guy Logiest vanuit de Kongo eropaf gestuurd om de 

orde te herstellen, en als dat lukt gevraagd als resident te 

blijven. Logiest kiest al snel partij voor de Hutu's en Gregoire 

Kayibanda, die, nadat zijn partij in de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen 

in 1960 een grote meerderheid behaald heeft, tijdens het Congres 

van Gitarama de republiek uitroept. De VN bemoeit zich ermee 

(eigenlijk pro-Tutsi), en als de onlusten weer oplaaien slaan de 

Belgen wel de Tutsi's hard neer maar laten ze de Hutu's ongemoeid. 

Bij de landelijke verkiezingen wint de Hutu-partij en wordt de monarchie 

afgeschaft, en op 1 juni 1962 wordt Rwanda onafhankelijk onder de Hutu-partij. 


Rwanda's forgotten tribe / dir. by Romain Baertsoen. - UK, London : National Geographic Television and 

Film, 2004. - Video : VHS; 57 min. 


Keywords: * Rwanda * history; colonial * ecological balance * Akagera National Park * ethnic relations * 

indigenous peoples * colonialism * nomads * nomadism * traditional culture * Rwandan genocide (1994) 

Summary: 

A documentary about how ethnic relations were created by the 

colonisers of Rwanda, especially the Belgians in the 1930s, who 

divided the Rwandans (who, until then, shared one common culture, 

language, belief system, food, etc.) into three tribes: Tutsi's, 

Hutu's and Twa, based upon 'European features', and the number of 

cows one owned. The Bahema, a small nomadic herdsmen people, who 

breed their cattle with the aim of getting the most beautiful cows, 

not the most productive, and who were mainly living in the Akagera 

region, were untouched by colonial politics and could live their 

traditional life until the genocide in 1994, when they were branded 

as "Tutsi's", and many of them got killed. The Akagera National 

Park was established in 1934, but when in 1994 refugees started to 

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eturn to Rwanda, they needed land (Rwanda being the most densely 

populated country in Africa) and took about two-thirds of the park, 

leaving the Bahema with too little space for their nomadic 

existance, which they had to give up. 


The legacy of Siti / Bridget Thompson. - South Africa, Johannesburg : M-Net ; Tomas Films ; Acacia 

Entertainment, 1999. - Video : VHS; 27 min. English subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * Zanzibar * women * music 

Summary: 

A rather vague documentary about the Zanzibar woman singer Siti 

Binti Saad, born at the end of the nineteenth century. She was the 

first one to introduce African drums to the Talab music (from 

Indian and Arab origin) and sing in Swahili, about social issues. 


Tanzania : einde van een tijdperk / samenst. Ferry Franssen ; Panoramiek. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 

1985. - Video : VHS; 35 min. Dutch comment and subtitles when necessary. Uitzending van 15 oktober 1985 


Keywords: * Tanzania * Nyerere, Julius Kambarage (1922-1999) * elections * literacy * primary education * 

health services * import * export * poverty * World Bank * IMF * Pronk, Jan (1940- ) * debt relief * 

development policy * economic development 

Summary: 

President Nyerere stelt zich bij de komende verkiezingen niet 

verkiesbaar. In een interview kijkt hij terug op wat er gelukt is 

(onderwijs en alfabetisering) en op wat er niet gelukt is 

(armoedebestrijding). Over de internationale economische 

verhoudingen, de ondragelijke schuldenlast, de import die duurder 

wordt terwijl de export steeds minder oplevert, de rol van IMF en 

Wereldbank. Ook interview met voormalig minister van 

ontwikkelingssamenwerking in Nederland, Jan Pronk; en met de 

vice-president van de Wereldbank, Shahid Husain. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VAE 009 

Mama Tumaini : women of hope / Martin Mhando, Sigve Endresen. - Norway, Oslo ; Tanzania, Dar es 

Salaam : Tanzania Film Company ; Motlys, 1986. - Video : VHS; 59 min. English subtitles 


Keywords: * Tanzania * home industry* * women's empowerment * corruption 

Summary: 

Feature film about a bored Norwegian woman in Tanzania who wants to 

make pottery with a local black pottery cooperation. 


Hali Halisi / prod. Martin Meulenberg, Thomas Gesthuizen. - 

Netherlands, De Bilt ; Netherlands, Hilversum : Madunia foundation 

; Scherpenzeel Media Foundation, 2000. - Video : VHS; 30 min. 

This documentary was produced by Madunia foundation as commissioned 

by Scherpenzeel Media Foundation. 


Keywords: * Tanzania * youth * hiphop * social issues 

Summary: 

Hali Halisi (a Swahili expression meaning "the real situation") 

portrays rap as an alternative medium in Tanzania. Rappers and 

experts give their views on the emerging hip hop scene in Dar es 

Salaam and Zanzibar (Tanzania), and their thoughts on the 

importance of rap as a medium for communication. In many African 

countries hip hop is becoming more and more important to the urban 

youth. The music and the life style it symbolises are appealing to 

them, and in the nineties rap has become a soundtrack to their 

lives. Through rap lyrics young people in Africa express their 

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views on their own situation, their living conditions, ideals and 

problems. Many African rappers aim at educating their audience, 

they see it as important to educate their listeners about issues 

such as aids, unemployment, corruption, democracy etc. 


Een duivels pact / Dir.&prod.by Peter Raymont ; Tegenlicht. - Netherlands, Hilversum : VPRO, 2005. - 

Video : VHS; 48 min. ¸ Investigative Productions, 2004 


Keywords: * Rwanda * Rwandan genocide (1994) * Dallaire, Romeo A. (1946-) * UN peacekeeping 

operations 

Summary: 

Tien jaar na de genocide in Rwanda keert Roméo Dallaire, destijds 

commandant van de VN troepen in Rwanda, terug naar het land, om aan 

de herdenking deel te nemen. Tevens is het een onderdeel van zijn 

eigen therapie, aangezien hij na zijn onsuccesvolle optreden in 

1994 zwaar depressief raakte en een aantal zelfmoordpogingen ondernam. 


Angano...angano : verhalen van Madagascar / Cam. en reg. Cesar Paes ; prod. Marie-Clémence Paes ; 

NOS Documentaire. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1992 [?]. - Video : VHS; 50 min. 



Keywords: * Madagascar * oral literature * oral history * traditional culture * ancestors * rituals * rice 

Summary: 

Een documentaire over de traditionele cultuur op Madagascar, met 

aandacht voor het vertellen van traditionele verhalen, orale 

geschiedenis, offer- en herbegraaf-rituelen, de rijstcultuur. 


Van Kenia naar Kaapstad :Tanzania / reg. Anette Kentie ; samenst. en eindred. Aad van den Heuvel. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : KRO, 1993. - Video : VHS; 30 min. 

Start: na 140 min. Dutch comment and subtitles when necessary. Tape MC 1443 


Keywords: * Tanzania * archeology * water engineering * rural areas * church and society * health care * 

hospitals * health care * democratisation * multi-party politics * political opposition * freedom of the press * 

donor-recipient relation * civil society * disabled people 

Summary: 

Documentaire over Tanzania, die begint met de archeologische 

onderzoekingen van Louis en Mary Leakey, die overblijfselen van de 

eerste voorlopers van de mens, de Australopithecus boisei, vonden, 

die op 1.750.000 jaar ouderdom werden geschat. Verder aandacht voor 

diverse waterinstallatie projecten, waarvan de meeste met 

(Nederlands) ontwikkelingsgeld gerealiseerd worden; voor de rol van 

de kerk op het gebied van gezondheidszorg dmv kerkhospitalen, die 

steeds drukker bezocht worden omdat het in de staatsziekenhuizen 

aan steeds meer ontbreekt (medicijnen); het proces van 

democratisering, de invoering van een meer-partijenstelsel en de 

persvrijheid, en over hoe donorlanden met hun ontwikkelingsgelden 

moeten omgaan (samenwerken met lokale ngos). Aan het eind nog een 

Nederlandse pater die gehandicapten dmv oude naaimachines en een 

naaiopleiding aan een toekomst helpt. 


Darwin's Nightmare / written & dir. by Hubert Sauper. - Nederland, Amsterdam ; France, Paris : VPRO ; 

Mille et une productions ; [etc.], 2004. - Video : VHS; 90 + 18 min. 

Produced by Mille et une productions, Paris; coop99 filmproduktion, Vienna; Saga Film, Bruxelles. In 

collaboration with ARTE and WDR. First 15 min. are missing. 


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Keywords: * Tanzania * Lake Victoria * fishing industry * arms smuggle * poverty * unemployment * export * 

globalisation * EU * famine * HIV/AIDS 

Summary: 

Some time in the 1960's, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was 

introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. 

The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the 

entire stock of the native fish species. However, the new fish 

multiplied so fast, that its white fillets are today exported all 

around the world. Huge hulking ex-Soviet cargo planes come daily to 

collect the latest catch in exchange for their southbound cargo. 

Kalashnikovs and ammunitions for the uncounted wars in the dark 

center of the continent. This booming multinational industry of 

fish and weapons has created an ungodly globalized alliance on the 

shores of the world's biggest tropical lake: an army of local 

fishermen, World bank agents, homeless children, African ministers, 

EU-commissioners, Tanzanian prostitutes and Russian pilots. 

Followed by an interview with director Hubert Sauper. 


Africa : leopards of Zanzibar / prod. & dir. by Graham Booth. - UK, London : National Geographic 

Television and Film, 2001 ¸. - Video : VHS; 60 min. Start: na 67 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * Zanzibar * soccer clubs * fishing 

Summary: 

A documentary about fishermen in the village Bwejuu, Zanzibar, and 

their soccerteam the Zanzibari Leopards. 


Lost children / Regie Ali Somadi Ahadi, Oliver Stoltz. - Germany, Baden-Baden : ARTE, 2005. - Video : 

VHS; 65 min. German comment and voice-over 


Keywords: * Africa * Uganda * Lord's Resistance Army * child soldiers 

* human rights violations * war crimes * families * rituals * post-traumatic stress disorder 

Summary: 

Die Mitglieder der fanatisch-religiösen Lordïs Resistance Army 

(LRA) entführen Kinder aus ihren Dörfern und zwingen sie zum Töten 

- auch ihrer eigenen Familienangehörigen. Opfer werden zu Tätern 

gemacht und einem Volk werden über Generationen hinweg 

Lebensgrundlage und Zukunft genommen. 'Lost Children' ist das 

Porträt von vier Kindersoldaten zwischen 8 und 14 Jahren, die nach 

gelungener Flucht aus den Buschlagern der Rebellen nur Eines 

wollen: wieder Kind sein und leben. Dieser Film gibt den Kindern 

eine Stimme und ein Gesicht. Aus ihrer Perspektive wird eher 

emotional als faktisch der Krieg in Nord-Uganda geschildert. 'Lost 

Children' vermittelt einen Eindruck davon, wie die Kinder und ihre 

Familien versuchen, die schreckliche Vergangenheit in einer 

grausamen Gegenwart zu bewältigen. Die Kinder, die den Rebellen 

entkommen konnten, sind alle Täter und Opfer zugleich. Aber auch 

Helden, denn die Flucht zu wagen und den Angehörigen ihrer Opfer 

wieder zu begegnen, erfordert viel Mut. Nur wenige Kinder haben 

überhaupt die Chance den Krieg im Busch zu überleben; die meisten 

werden als "Kanonenfutter" Opfer der Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) 

oder als vermeintliche Rebellen durch die Regierungstruppen 

getötet. Aber: ist ein Kind ein Mörder, wenn es zum Töten gezwungen 

wird und aus Angst, selbst zu sterben, sich dem Zwang beugt? Der 

Makel als Täter, das Trauma als Opfer und die Wunden als 

èberlebende verfolgen diese Kinder bis in ihre Familien, ihr 

näheres Umfeld und die Gesellschaft. 


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Kigali : des images contre un massacre = Kigali : Bilder gegen ein Massaker / Jean - Christophe Klotz. 

- France, Paris : ARTE, 2006. - Video : VHS; 95 min. 

Un production de ADR Productions, KTO et l' Ina, en association avec ARTE France et Capa 

German voice-over and subtitles 


Keywords: * Rwanda * Rwandan genocide (1994) * France * journalism * media coverage * international 

political relations 

Summary: 

Jean Christophe Klotz, een Franse journalist die in 1994 aanwezig 

was bij de massamoord van Hutus op Tutsis en daarvan filmbeelden 

schoot die in het westen werden uitgezonden, gaat na 10 jaar terug 

om alsnog te proberen te begrijpen hoe het heeft kunnen gebeuren. 

Zijn beelden (en die van zijn collega's) hadden geen invloed op de 

gebeurtenissen: hoewel de internationale gemeenschap wist wat er 

gebeurde, greep ze niet in. Klotz zat in 1994 in Kipagapaga, een 

wijk van Kigali, oa bij pater Henri Blanchard, die in kerk en 

gemeentehuis vluchtelingen verborg, totdat ze door de Interahamwe 

opgepakt en vermoord werden. Interviews met Bernard Kouchner, in 

1994 de persoonlijk gezant van de Secretaris-Generaal van de VN, 

generaal Romeo Dallaire, die in 1994 de leiding had over de VN 

troepen, en Philipe Gaillard, in 1994 gedelegeerde van het 

Internationale Rode Kruis in Rwanda, en met een paar overlevenden. 

Klotz is gefrustreerd dat de journalistiek geen invloed heeft op de 

gebeurtenissen (hij laat beelden zien van de Franse televisie één 

jaar voor de massamoord, waar een Franse mensenrechtenactivist 

massagraven in Rwanda blootlegt en vertelt dat dit geen incidenten 

zijn maar deel uitmaken van een goed georkestreeerde, door de staat 

georganiseerde campagne, en de Fransen oproept hun steun aan de 

Rwandese regering te staken). Ook de dubieuze rol van de Fransen komt aan bod. 


Yellow cake road / AVRO Televizier. - Nederland, Hilversum : AVRO, 1980. - Video : VHS; 26 min. 

Dutch subtitels and comment Avro Televizier is verantwoordelijk voor de Nederlandse versie. 


Keywords: * Namibia * France * UK * Netherlands * history; 1980s * uranium * Rössing Uranium mine * trade 

policy * SWAPO 

Summary: 

Een (oorspronkelijk Britse) documentaire over de illegale handel in 

uranium uit Namibië dat door Zuid-Afrika geexporteerd wordt naar 

Frankrijk, UK en Nederland (URENCO, Almelo), tegen VN resoluties in. 

Remarks: Picture quality: very bad * VNA 001 

Wind of hope / dir. by Jenny Morgan. - Namibia, Windhoek : New Dawn Video, 1990. - Video : VHS; 30 min. 

Produced by New Dawn Video for the Ministry of Information of Namibia. English subtitles when needed. 


Keywords: * Namibia * political transformation * future scenarios * living conditions * education * housing * 

business 

Summary: 

Documentary about the hopes and expectations of the Namibians, 

black as well as white, two weeks before independence. People are 

optimistic and expect better living conditions, better education, 

better housing and new business opportunities. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VNA 002 

Afravision #166: The return / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1989. - Video : VHS; 29 min. 


Keywords: * Namibia * political refugees * repatriation * returnees * UNHCR 

Summary: 

The return of Namibian (Swapo) exxiles from Zambia to Namibia as 

part of the UN supervised repatriation programme. The film follows 

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Thecla Chikooa north to her home village, where she is united with 

her family after 13 years of exile. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VNA 003 

Südwest-Afrika-Namibia zwischen gestern und morgen / Jurgen A. Schulz. - BRD, Hanstedt : JAS-Film- 

Medienservice, 1983. - Video : VHS; 40 min. 


Keywords: * Namibia * Germans (people) * society and culture * cultural identity * politics 

Summary: 

Der Film informiert über das Leben der deutschstämmigen Bevölkerung 

in Namibia, zeigt die Härte auf, die dieses Land den Menschen 

abfordert, weicht auch den politische Problemen (SWAPO 

Terroristen!) nicht aus. Das wird insbesondere in den Sequenzen 

deutlich die im Norden des Landes, in den Homelands und im Bereich 

Rundu an der Grenze zu Angola gedreht worden sind (geworden). Sehr 

viel grauenhafte pro-deutsche Propaganda. 


No easy road to freedom / prod., dir., and wri Kevin Harris. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Kevin Harris 

Productions, 1988. – 2 Video : VHS; 58 min. 


Keywords: * Namibia * South Africa * unlawful detention * human rights violations * Koevoet * military 

interventions * forcible recruitment * Cassinga massacre (1978) * conscientious objectors * media coverage * 

censorship * UN Security Council Resolution 435 (1978) * SWAPO 

Summary: 

Documentary about the plight of the Namibian people due to the 

military intervention and illegal occupation accompagnied by gross 

human rights violations by South African army and police forces. 


Kolmanskop / dir. by David Pupkewitz. - UK, London : Focus Films, 1983. - Video : VHS; 57 min. 


Keywords: * Namibia * feature films (form) 

Summary: 

A young woman, Anna Stevens travels with her husband Len to the 

deserted diamond mining town of Kolmanskop in South West Africa, 

which seventy years earlier, in more prosperous days, was the site 

of a racial scandal involving her grandmother. The story of the two 

women unfold in parallel in this study of sexual and social taboes. 

Remarks: Picture quality: bad * VNA 006 

Het beroofde land / David de Beer. - [s.l.] : Hervormde Jeugdraad, 1977. - Video : VHS; 25 min. 

Dutch comment and subtitles. Also on tape VSA 012 


Keywords: * Namibia * South Africa * social-economic conditions * political discrimination * SWAPO * labour 

migration * apartheid system * contract labour * military interventions * torture * Ovamboland 

Summary: 

Illegaal gefilmde documentaire over de situatie in Namibië in 1977, 

met veel aandacht voor de Zuid-Afrikaanse bezetting, plundering en 

schending van mensenrechten. 


Namibia, Africa's last colony / Presented by Nora Chase ; cam. Peter A. Frense ; prod. by Paul Hamann ; 

Third Eye. - UK, London : BBC, 1984. - Video : VHS; 50 min. 


Keywords: * Namibia * South Africa * apartheid system * living conditions * Katutura * mortality * health * 

health care * social-economic conditions * land policy * church and society * education * legislation * SWAPO 

* Cassinga massacre (1978) * Koevoet * torture * human rights violations 

Summary: 

Documentary about the illegal occupation of Namibia by South 

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Africa, motivated by the mineral wealth of the country, and the 

consequences for the Namibian population of the apartheid system. 

Living conditions. land question, social-economic situation, social 

conditions in Katutura (township near Windhoek), health care, child 

mortality, legislation, the role of the churches, education, the 

Cassinga massacre, the torture and killings by Koevoet, and the 

role of SWAPO are the subjects treated in this documentary. 


A trust betrayed / prod. and dir. by Dudley Viall. - Namibia, Windhoek : AfriNature Films ; Ministry of 

Information and Broadcasting, 1997. - Video : VHS 

Made for the Multi-Media Campaign on violence against women and children; made possible by the 

embassy of the USA in Namibia. 


Keywords: * Namibia * gender equality * domestic violence * sexual harassment * sexual violence * child 

abuse 

Summary: 

Seven years after independence, women and children in Namibia 

question the reality of gender equality. A Trust Betrayed is the 

story of three families, the silent crime of Hendrik Venter, the 

abuse of Maria Mutjavikwa and the violent rape of Menisia Amtenya. 


Toivo, child of hope / dir. by Magnus Isacsson. - Canada, Montreal : Alter-Ciné Inc., 1990. - Video : VHS; 

27 min. English subtitles when necessary With time code 


Keywords: * Namibia * South Africa * independence struggle * SWAPO * Toivo ya Toivo, Andimba (1924-) * 

repatriation * Koevoet * peace agreements * history; colonial 

Summary: 

Toivo: Child of Hope tells the story of the liberation of Namibia, 

a freedom hard-won after thirty years of bloody struggle against 

the tyrannical rule of the white minority. Liberation was due, in 

large part, to the relentless efforts of charismatic leader, 

Andimba Toivo Ya Toivo, the co-founder of the Namibian nationalist 

movement and Secretary of the South West Africa People's 

Organization (SWAPO). His homecoming, after 23 years of 

imprisonment and exile, is celebrated with great joy.Toivo's life 

acts as a catalyst for a history of Namibia's struggle towards 

independence. Also with a history of the independence struggle. 


Three SWAPO election campaign spots / dir. by Andrew Pearson. - Namibia, [Windhoek] : SWAPO Video 

Unit, 1989. - Video : VHS; 5, 10 & 15 min. 


Keywords: * Namibia * election campaigns * SWAPO 

Summary: 

Three election campaign spots, highlighting the role of SWAPO in 

the independence struggle; the importance SWAPO has always attached 

to good education and medical care; The implementation of UN 

resolution 435 on April 1st, 1989 - ten years after its adoption; 

and lots of fragments of election speeches by Nuyoma. 


Five spots on violence against women and children / Namibian Institute for Democracy. - Namibia, 

[Windhoek] : NID, 1990 [?]. - Video : VHS; 7 min. 

Produced by the IND as part of the multimedia campaign on violence against women and children, funded by 

the American Embassee. 


Keywords: * Namibia * domestic violence * sexual violence * child abuse * alcoholism 

Summary: 

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Five spots on alcoholism (in relation to violence), child abuse, 

rape, and domestic violence against women and children. 

Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood * VNA 013 

Namibian elections free and fair? / dir. by Gita Sahgal ; cam. Edwyn Wes. - UK, London : Bandung 

Productions ; Channel 4 Television, 1989. - Video : VHS; 14 min. 


Keywords: * Namibia * South Africa * elections * election monitoring * electoral system * Koevoet 

Summary: 

Documentary about the situation in Namibia close to the 1989 

elections. Under the UN repatriation scheme many exiles return to 

their country, but are still affraid to go home, due to the 

continued presence of South Africa, and the incorporation of 

ex-Koevoet members in the SWAPOL (police), of which the Secr. Gen. 

to the UN stated on August 3rd: "UNTAG has clearly established that 

ex-Koevoet elements in SWAPOL (police) have not adjusted to the new 

political situation in Namibia and have continued to harrass and 

intimidate the civilian population. They are not suitable for 

continued employment in the police force under the terms of the UN. 

Also there are doubts about the election procedure. With Glenys 

Kinnock as election observer from the UK. 


Back to the motherland / written and prod. Jackson K. Swartz. - Namibia, [Windhoek] : Council of Churches 

in Namibia, CIMS, 1990. - Video : VHS; 27 min. 


Keywords: * Namibia * political refugees * repatriation * Council of Churches in Namibia * SWAPO 

Summary: 

Documentary about the repatriation of Namibian exiles. A number of 

exiles , Like Freddy Shipopyeni, Peter Katjavivi, member of the constituent 

assemblee, and Theo-Ben Guribab, Foreign Secretary of SWAPO, tell their stories. 

The R(epatriation)R(esettlement)R(econstruction) programme is executed 

by the UNHCR together with the Council of Churches of Namibia. 

Remarks: picture quality: goodenough * VNA 015 

Chiwana Namibia / dir. de prod. J.C. Colson ; réal. Ali Akika. - France, Paris : Libres Images, 1985 [?]. - 

Video : VHS; 11 min. Start: na 96 min. Production: Libres Images pour UNESCO - Antenne 2. 


Keywords: * Namibia * Angola * South Africa * Cuanza Sul * health care * education policy * living conditions 

* apartheid system 

Summary: 

Documentary about the Namibian refugee camp Cuanza Sul in Angola, 

with attention for the reasons why the refugees have fled Namibia, 

the health and education politics of SWAPO, the organisation of and 

living conditions in the camp. 


Kotirintama Vieraalla Maalla = Homefront abroad. - Finland, [Helsinki?] : Afrifilm-team/Petola and 

Pääkkönen, 1985 [?]. - : VHS; 44 min. Start: after 53 min. 


Keywords: * Namibia * Angola * Cuanza Sul * political refugees * refugee camps * living conditions * health 

care * education * water resources * water supply * vocational education * SWAPO 

Summary: 

A Finish documentary on Cuanza Sul, the largest Namibian refugee 

camp in northern Angola. The film gives a detailed view of live in the camp. 


Namibia - tell the world / dir. by Colin Thomas ; prod. by Gillian Slovo. - UK, London ; Nederland, Hilversum 

: Channel Four ; NCRV, 1985. - Video : VHS; 52 min. 

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This film was made under the ACTT Workshop Declaration in collaboration with Channel 4, Komitee Zuidelijk 

Afrika and NCRV Television. 


Keywords: * Namibia * South Africa * apartheid system * education * living conditions * migrant workers * 

Bantustans * agriculture * natural resources * political refugees * Koevoet * askari * church and society * 

transitional government 

Summary: 

This documentary traces the inequalities which exists in Namibia - 

inequalities in education, in health care, in employment and in 

living conditions. It showes how Namibians have been impoverished 

and forced to live in unproductive reserves in order to create a 

pool of cheap migrant labour. The programme touches on the 

responsability of Western countries for the continuing occupation 

of Namibia and upon the multinational companies who are accused of 

rushing to remove Namibia's rich mineral deposits before independence 

comes. The latter part of the documentary shows how the church and 

SWAPO are challenging the apartheid system in many ways - in classrooms 

and in community organisations, as well as by armed struggle. Also about 

the protests against the (South African installed) interim-government. 

Remarks: Picture quality: bad * VNA 016 * Also on tape VNA 018 

Namibia : ingen fred i sikte / oplegg og regi Einar Lunde. - Sweden, [Stockholm?] : [s.n.], 1986 [?]. - Video : 

VHS; 30 min. Start: na 107 min. Swedish comment and subtitles. 


Keywords: * Namibia * South Africa * church and society * Koevoet * askari * transitional government * 

SWAPO 

Summary: 

A documentary about Namibia, one year after Botha installed a 

'interim government' in Windhoek. Interviews with members of this 

puppet regime, claiming that they are operating independently from 

South Africa, interviews with Koevoet members (the much feared 

South African police unit) about their work in Namibia, interviews 

with church representatives, who also declared themselves against 

the interim government, with Gwen lister of the Namibian 

(independent newspaper), who states that the government is South 

African, not Namibian, and interviews with some South African 

soldiers, about how they are fighting communism. 


SWAPO rally. - Namibia, Windhoek : SWAPO, 1986. - Video : VHS; 13 min. Start: na 137 min. 


Keywords: * Namibia * SWAPO * demonstrations * transitional government 

Summary: 

SWAPO rally against the interim-government, on July 27, 1986, with 

Pastor Hendrick Witbooi, acting vice-President of SWAPO. 


Namibia / dir. by Manus van de Kamp. - Netherlands, Amsterdam : KZA, 1983. - Video : VHS; 35 min. 

Produced for Bevrijdingsfonds Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika. Dutch version on VNA 017a 


Keywords: * Namibia * Angola * South Africa * history; colonial * SWAPO * Cuanza Sul * refugee camps * 

living conditions * health care * education policy 

Summary: 

This documentary starts with a short history of Namibia's 

colonisation. Then the refugee camp in Cuanza Sul : the living 

conditions, the diseases (TBC) and the health care system, the food 

production system, the education policy of SWAPO, the traditional 

culture, the South African agression, the language policy (more 

english education instead of indigenous languages or Afrikaans), 

the role of the churches in the liberation struggle. 

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Namibia / dir. by Manus van de Kamp. - Nederland, Amsterdam : KZA, 1983. - Video : VHS; 35 min. 

Produced for Bevrijdingsfonds Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika. Dutch comment and subtitles 

English version on VNA 017 


Keywords: * Namibia * Angola * South Africa * history; colonial * SWAPO * Cuanza Sul * refugee camps * 

living conditions * health care * education policy 

Summary: 

This documentary starts with a short history of Namibia's 

colonisation. Then the refugee camp in Cuanza Sul : the living 

conditions, the diseases (TBC) and the health care system, the food 

production system, the education policy of SWAPO, the traditional 

culture, the South African agression, the language policy (more 

english education instead of indigenous languages or Afrikaans), 

the role of the churches in the liberation struggle. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VNA 017a 

Namibia - tell the world / dir. by Colin Thomas ; prod. by Gillian Slovo. - UK, London ; Nederland, Hilversum 

: Channel Four ; NCRV, 1985. - Video : VHS; 52 min. 

This film was made under the ACTT Workshop Declaration in collaboration with Channel 4, Komitee Zuidelijk 

Afrika and NCRV Television. 


Keywords: * Namibia * South Africa * apartheid system * education * living conditions * migrant workers * 

Bantustans * agriculture * natural resources * political refugees * Koevoet * askari * church and society * 

transitional government 

Summary: 

This documentary traces the inequalities which exists in Namibia - 

inequalities in education, in health care, in employment and in 

living conditions. It showes how Namibians have been impoverished 

and forced to live in unproductive reserves in order to create a 

pool of cheap migrant labour. The programme touches on the 

responsability of Western countries for the continuing occupation 

of Namibia and upon the multinational companies who are accused of 

rushing to remove Namibia's rich mineral deposits before independence 

comes. The latter part of the documentary shows how the church and 

SWAPO are challenging the apartheid system in many ways - in classrooms 

and in community organisations, as well as by armed struggle. Also about 

the protests against the (South African installed) interim-government. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VNA 018 * Also on tape VNA 016 

Namibia : our future, our desire / Gerard Bueters. - Netherlands, Amsterdam : Multi World Pictures, 1989 ¸. 

- Video : VHS; 27 min. Start: na 18 min. Dutch comment & subtitles 


Keywords: * Namibia * youth * student activists * NANSO * independence struggle * school boycotts 

Summary: 

Documentary about the role of pupils and students, and the Namibian 

student organisation NANSO, in their struggle for independence. The 

NANSO started school boycotts in the north of Namibia because the 

SADF (South African army) used to take position next to schools, so 

many children got killed in the fights between SADF and SWAPO. 


Namibia : toekomst op een weegschaal / Gerard Bueters. - Nederland, Amsterdam : Multi World Pictures, 

1989 ¸. - Video : VHS; 18 min. Dutch comment and subtitles. 


Keywords: * Namibia * South Africa * general elections * SWAPO * electoral system * international economic 

dependence 

Summary: 

Documentaire over Namibië aan de vooravond van de eerste vrije 

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verkiezingen. Hoe vrij die zullen zijn valt nog af te wachten: 

Zuid-Afrika heeft het land nog steeds in een economische houdgreep, 

en het probleem van Walvis Bay, Namibië's haven die Zuid-Afrika 

niet wil afstaan, zal nade verkiezingen nog steeds niet zijn 

opgelost. Interviews met Gwen Lister van 'the Namibian' en Daniel 

Tjongarero, vice-voorzitter van SWAPO. 


Namibia - op weg naar onafhankelijkheid / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1989. - 

Video : VHS; 24 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary. 


Keywords: * Namibia * South Africa * Netherlands * UNTAG * church and society 

Summary: 

Een programma over de rol van de Namibiaanse kerken in de 

bevrijdingsstrijd en de rol van de Nederlandse militairen in UNTAG, 

de VN missie die de repatriërering van vluchtelingen voor de verkiezingen moet begeleiden. 


Afravision #155: Cuanza Sul refugee camp / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1989. - Video : VHS; 121 

min. With time code 


Keywords: * Namibia * South Africa * Angola * Cuanza Sul * refugee camps * political refugees * SWAPO * 

health care * education policy * traditional culture 

Summary: 

A compilation of footage material from within SWAPO's most well 

established refugee camp. It shows the well equiped bakery, 

hospital and school, and contains interviews with various camp 

residents, including Colin Ramalala, who fled by foot from the war 

zone in northern Namibia. 


Tears of blood : images of Namibia's Human Rights struggles / dir. by Richard Pakleppa ; prod. by 

Bridget Pickering ; music by Sergey Rachmaninov. - Namibia, Windhoek : Legal Assistance Centre, 1993. - 

Video : VHS; 36 min. Co-produced by On Land Productions and Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC). 


Keywords: * Namibia * South Africa * paralegal aid * Legal Assistance Centre * women's rights * children's 

rights * gender discrimination * gender equality * domestic violence * unlawful detention * human rights 

advocacy * human rights activists * history; colonial * torture * health and safety * human rights education * 

civic education * constitutions 

Summary: 

Documentary about the Legal Assistance Centre in Namibia. It traces 

the Namibia's struggle for human rights through the transition to 

independence in 1990 up to the present. The film explores how a 

society marred by trauma and oppression is not transformed 

overnight with the end of war and the departure of the colonial 

power.The film raises selective incidents where the human rights of 

Namibians were grossly violated. It focuses on violations 

perpetrated both on the side of the oppressors and the liberators. 

Tears of blood is also the story of a woman who is abused by her 

husband in her own home. This facet of the film stresses the point 

that human rights are violated in everyday lives of ordinary people 

and our societies therefore faces challenges of establishing a 

living human rights culture amongst a people who have been 

deprived, oppressed and traumatised for generations. The film shows 

how human rights lawyers and paralegals work with clients and 

communities to stem the flood of violent disregard for human life and dignity. 


Afravision #154: Namibia on the brink / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd, 1989. - Video : VHS; 45 min. 


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Keywords: * Namibia * South Africa * SWAPO * trade unions * democratisation * general elections * land 

policy * Walvis Bay * transnational corporations * bilateral relations * military * human rights violations * UN 

Security Council Resolution 435 (1978) 

Summary: 

This film looks at people's expectations of a future independent 

Namibia. Starting with a brief history, the film tackles questions 

of land; the economy, especially the role of transnational 

corporations like CDM and Rossing Uranium Ltd.;the future 

ownership of Walvis Bay; the relationship of SWAPO with the unions; 

and the relations with South Africa. Interviews with ao Louis 

Pienaar, Danny Tjongarero (SWAPO), Paul Kalenga (NANSO), Ben Ulenga 

(M.U.N.), Dirk Mudge (DTA) and Toivo ya Toivo (SWAPO). 


Via Namibia / dir. by David Pupkewitz ; music by Hugh Masekela. - UK, London : Focus Films, 1986. - Video 

: VHS; 55 min. With time code 


Keywords: * Namibia * South Africa * military * deserts 

Summary: 

This combination of feature film and documentary is full of the 

ambiance and the flavour of Namibia, its colours, heat and its 

people. Masekela's rhythmstresd together the basic story line of a 

visiting foreign journalist to the war torn zones of Northern Namibia. 

The stark, still shots capture the essence of Namibia's desolation. 


The right to hope / dir. and ed. by Steve Felton. - Namibia, Windhoek : New Dawn Video, 1990 ¸. - Video : 

VHS; 34 min. Produced for UNICEF Namibia. 


Keywords: * Namibia * children * drinking water * housing * malnutrition * physical health care * education * 

agricultural policy * health * living conditions * civil society * households* * sanitation 

Summary: 

An overview of the problems that Namibia faces six months after 

independence (21/3/1990), concentrating on Namibia's children. 

Malnutrition, dideases like TB and malaria, lack of save drinking 

water, poor sanitation, poor housing, unemployment, the need for 

new agricultural techniques (like seed selection), the lack of 

qualified teachers (80% not or underqualified), the role of civil 

society in tackling these issues and the role of UNICEF. Interviews 

with ao Dr Nicky Iyambo, Minister of Health, and Nahas Angula, Minister of Education. 


Building the future / dir. and ed. by Steve Felton. - Namibia, Windhoek : New Dawn Video, 1990. - Video : 

VHS; 27 min. Specially produced for the UN Donors Conference held in New York in June 1990. 


Keywords: * Namibia * health * health education * educational performance * educational materials (form) * 

agriculture * foot-and-mouth disease * cattle management * infrastructure * vocational education * housing * 

donor coordination * international economic dependence 

Summary: 

This video was specially produced for the UN Donors Conference in 

June 1990. Shot in the north and south of the country, the film 

shows some of the problems facing Namibia, in the areas of health, 

education, agriculture, and housing, together with some working 

examples of possible solutions. President Sam Nujoma and Prime Minister 

Hage Geingob spell out their hopes for support from the international community. 


Namibië op weg naar onafhankelijkheid / dir. by Gerard Bueters ; Panoramiek. - Nederland, Amsterdam ; 

Nederland, Hilversum : Multi World Pictures ; NOS, 1989. - Video : VHS; 16 min. 

Nederlands commentaar en ondertitels waar nodig. 

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Keywords: * Namibia * South Africa * Angola * UN Security Council Resolution 435 (1978) * SWAPO 

Summary: 

Bij de akkoorden van Brazzaville, waar Zuid-Afrika en Angola vrede 

sluiten en besloten wordt dat Cuba zijn troepen geleidelijk uit 

Angola terugtrekt, werd ook overeenkomst bereikt over de uitvoering 

van resolutie 435 van de Veiligheidsraad van de VN, waarin de 

onafhankelijkheid van Namibië wordt omschreven. Zuid-Afrika moet de 

bezetting van Namibia opgeven en vrije verkiezingen mogelijk maken. 

De Namibiërs geloven het pas als ze het zien. Gwen Lister van the 

Namibian, het enige onafhankelijke dagblad, dat vele malen te 

lijden heeft gehad van Zuid-Afrikaanse terreur en intimidatie, 

stelt dat op dit ogenblik de troepenversterking in het noorden van 

het land alleen maar toeneemt, en gepaard gaat met intimidatie van 

de bevolking om niet op SWAPO te gaan stemmen. Het tegendeel is 

waarschijnlijker, zeggen Namibiërs. Evenals in 1978, toen 

Zuid-Afrika na aanvaarding van de resolutie 800 Namibische 

vluchtelingen in Cassinga in Zuid-Angola vemoordde. Ook interviews 

met Daniël Tjongarero, vice-voorzitter van SWAPO, en Ben Ulenga, 

die als SANCO activist tot tien jaar gevangenschap op Robbeneiland 

werd veroordeeld en nu Secr. Gen. van de mijnwerkersbond is. 


The Namibian independence process / Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law. - USA, New York : 

Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law ; Global Vision ; S.A. Now, 1990. - Video : VHS; 16 min. 


Keywords: * Namibia * South Africa * constitutional assemblies * constitutional change * elections * electoral 

system * election monitoring * election results * Koevoet * UNTAG * SWAPO 

Summary: 

Documentary made by American election observers about the elections 

in Namibia for the constituent assemblee in 1989, won by SWAPO. 

Much attention for the manipulations and intimidations of South 

Africa, more specially the actions of Koevoet in Ovamboland, and 

the weakness of the UN peacekeeping force UNTAG. 


Emma's story / dir. by Bridget Pickering. - Namibia, Windhoek : AIDS Care Trust ; On Land Productions, 

1997. - Video : VHS; 28 min. English subtitles when necessary. 


Keywords: * Namibia * HIV/AIDS * women * sex education 

Summary: 

A powerful documentary about a eighteen year old woman, Emma 

Tuahepa Kamapoha, who finds out that she is HIV- positive, infected 

by a former boyfriend. At first she is desperate and suicidical, 

but later she finds out more about the disease and decides to come 

out in public, the first Namibian woman to do so, and uses her 

experiences to educate other people. Also the reactions of her 

mother, Magdalena Tuahepa, her new boyfriend Evilastus, her aunt and her sisters. 


Master positive / dir. by Kelly Kowalski ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, Tampere 

: Day Zero Film and Video ; YLE, 2001. - Video : VHS; 8 min. 




Keywords: * Namibia * HIV/AIDS * mortality 

Summary: 

Master Positive makes cheap coffins for the poor. It's a new 

business, but he thinks there's a viable market considering 

Namibia's growing AIDS-related deaths. This short film follows 

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Master Positive as he constructs a prototype papiermache coffin and 

makes his first sale. Dealing with death in his job and confronting 

his own HIV status he has become a true master of positive living. 


Not afraid / directed directed by Carla Hoffmann ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, 

Tampere : Day Zero Film and Video ; YLE, 2001. - Video : VHS; 7 min. Start: na 10 min. 



Keywords: * Namibia * HIV/AIDS * mothers * HIV/AIDS medicines 

Summary: 

Cathy, who is from Namibia, relates her experience as an HIV+ 

mother who lost her baby due to lack of access to treatment. Her 

message to other HIV+ women is cautionary, yet life affirming: "I'm 

still a human being , I'm a woman, I'm a mother, I'm myself. I can 

still use my hands and feet. Not affraid of death, Cathy is a inspiration for life. 


House of love / dir. by Cecil Moller ; cam. Craig Matthews ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape Town ; 





Keywords: * Namibia * Walvis Bay * HIV/AIDS * prostitution 

Summary: 

Surrounded by vast expanses of desert and sea, the small Namibian 

harbour of Walvis Bay is the unlikely setting in which filmmaker 

Cecil Moller explores the lives of sex-workers. Dependent for their 

business on the brief visits of foreign shipping trawlers to this 

remote port, the women give revealing insights into the choises 

they have made and why they have made them. Their conflicts to do 

with notions of love, sex, sin and redemption become the main 

themes, while the threat of HIV/AIDS hangs ominously in the background. 


Oker en water : Himba kronieken uit het land van Kaoko / prod., dir. and cam. Craig Matthew ; prod. and 

dir. Joelle Chesselet. - Nederland, Hilversum ; South Africa, Cape Town : RVU ; Doxa Productions, 2001. - 

Video : VHS; 52 min. Dutch subtitles. Original title: Ochre and water 


Keywords: * Namibia * Kaokoland * Epupa project * infrastructure * Himba (people) * traditional culture * 

water engineering * water management 

Summary: 

A documentary about the Himba people, herdsmen of Kaokoland whose 

traditional culture, and especially the holy graves of their 

ancestors, will be destroyed when the Epupa project will be 

realised. The Namibian government wants to built a dam near the 

Epupa falls, for hydro-electric power and to guide water to the 

inlands. The film shows the protests of the Himba, in Namibia but 

also in Sweden and London. For the moment the plan has been postponed. 


Search for the Bushman / dir. and prod. by Agnieszka Piotrowska. - UK, London : National Geographic 

Channel, 2004. - Video : VHS; 57 min. 


Keywords: * Namibia * San (people) * Kalahari desert * rock paintings * history; colonial * nomadism * 

hunter-gatherers * San art 

Summary: 

Filmmaker Piotrowska travels through Namibia and SouthAfrica with 

Dieter Noli, archeologist, James Suzman, antroplogist, and Nigel 

Crawhall, sociolinguist, in search of the Bushmen. Having lived as 

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hunter-gatherers for the longest time, they now have no land, no 

work, no income and no hunting righs. One of the oldest cultures of 

the earth seems to vanish. 


I have seen Nda Mona / dir. by Richard Pakleppa. - Namibia, Windhoek ; South Africa, Johannesburg : On 

Land Productions ; SACOD, 1999. - Video : VHS; 27 min. 

Part of the SACOD series 'Landscape of memory', produced by Don Edkins. English subtitles 


Keywords: * Namibia * independence struggle * SWAPO * detention * torture * political violence * murders * 

truth and reconciliation * amnesty 

Summary: 

Documentary about the violence Swapo used against Namibian refugees 

in Angola during the independence struggle. SWAPO has extended a 

blanket amnesty for everyone, and wants to close the chapter. They 

urge people to forget the past and concentrate on the future, on 

"economic reconciliation". For survivors and family of victims it 

is impossible to reconcile without knowing the truth. 


The struggle for justice : the story of the legal assistance centre / dir. by John Thynne. - Namibia, 

Windhoek : Mubasen Film and Video, 2003. - 2 Video : VHS; 38 min. 


Keywords: * Namibia * paralegal aid * Legal Assistance Centre * human rights advocacy 

Summary: 

The film explores the origins of the legal assistance centre (lac) 

from the brutal repression of the apartheid regime to the relative 

freedom in which the centre can now operate. How the lac is a 

vanguard of legal reform and human rights protection in a young and 

developing country. It concentrates nowadays on land rights, for 

instance for the Himba people vs the Epupa project and for the San 

vs the Herero cattle farmers; the application of customary law in 

rural areas vs the constitution, that guarantees gender equality; 

human rights education, for police officers and traditional chiefs; 

and cases of police and army torture, for instance in the case of the Caprivi Seccesionists. 


Picture qu: Anniko van Santen in Namibië / Wilde Wereldreizen. - Nederland, Hilversum : AVRO, 2005. - 

Video : VHS; 29 min. Dutch comment and subtitles 


Keywords: * Namibia * Etosha National Park * San (people) * environment protection * ecotourism * wildlife 

management * local economic development 

Summary: 

Anniko van Santen reist rond in het Etosha National Park en het Nya-nya reservaat. 

Remarks: Picture quality: ? * VNA 037 

Van Kenia naar Kaapstad: Namibië / reg. Anette Kentie ; samenst. en eindred. Aad van den Heuvel. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : KRO, 1993. - Video : VHS; 29 min. Start: na 4 min. Tape MC 1448 

Dutch subtitles when necessary. Tape MC 1448 


Keywords: * Namibia * political transformation * orphans * development aid * Katatura * unemployment * land 

policy 

Summary: 

Na de onafhankelijkheid is er in Namibië nog niet zoveel veranderd, 

kun je te horen krijgen van zowel een zwarte vrouw in Katatura als 

van een Duitse grootgrondbezitter. Naast veel toeristische plaatjes 

komen ook problemen als werkeloosheid (50%) en landherverdeling aan de orde. 


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Tod in der Savanne : das leise Sterben der Buschmänner / Ein Film von Andreas Cichowicz. - 

Deutschland, München : SDR, 1993 ¸. - Video : VHS; 31 min. Start: na 53 min..Tape MC 1438 

German comment and subtitles 


Keywords: * Namibia * Botswana * San (people) * hunter-gatherers * hunting and gathering * alcoholism * 

Kalahari desert * indigenous knowledge * indigenous peoples * traditional culture * cultural identity * ethnic 

discrimination * land policy * land claims * game reserves * tourism * poverty * children 

Summary: 

A documentary about the disappearing traditional culture of the San 

in Namibia. There is not enough land to enable them to continue 

their hunter/gatherer culture, especially as it is claimed by 

cattle farmers and tousist industry (western hunters). 


Nr.2 op de dodenlijst / Scen. & reg. Timo Korhonen ; Werelden. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 2000. - 

Video : VHS; 50 min. Start: na 122 min. Tape MC 1731 

Oorspr. geproduceerd door Millennium Film & Road movies, in samenwerking met YLE. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * Namibia * SWAPO * Lubowski, Anton T.A.W. (1953-1989) * extrajudicial killing * intelligence 

services * South Africa * treason 

Summary: 

Documentaire over advocaat Anton Lubowski, in de 1980s de tweede 

man van SWAPO (en de eerste blanke die in zich Namibië bij SWAPO 

aansloot), die in 1989, vlak voor de onafhankelijkheid van Namibië, 

in Windhoek vermoord werd. Naar vermoed wordt door een huurling van 

het CCB, een branche van de Zuid-Afrikaanse geheime dienst die 

tegenstanders van het apartheidsregime liquideerde. Hij was door 

zijn hang naar luxe niet onomstreden: Gwen Lister van dagblad The 

Namibian vond hem daarom zelfs chantabel. Deze geruchten werden 

versterkt toen de Zuid-Afrikaanse minister van defensie Malan in 

antwoord op beschuldigingen dat de CCB achter de liquidatie zat 

beweerde dat Lubowski een van hun agenten was geweest die veel goed 

werk voor ze had verricht, tesamen met de ontdekking van 

bijschrijvingen op Lubowski's rekening van in totaal 100.000 Rand, 

door een schaduwfirma van de geheime dienst. Zijn vrienden en 

familie achten dit echter ondenkbaar. Aan het woord onder meer 

Michaela Figueira (vriendin), Nina Viall (secretaresse SWAPO), Hage 

Geingob (campagneleider SWAPO), Gaby (ex-vrouw), Molly & Wilfried 

(ouders), Jumbo Smit (hoofd recherche Windhoek). 

Remarks: Picture quality: good enough * VNA 040 

Capricorns beautiful people / dir. Jamie Uys. - South Africa, Bloemfontein : Mimosa, 1974. - Video : VHS; 

95 min. This is the UK TV title of the film "Animals are beautiful people". 


Keywords: * Namibia * Namib desert * Kalahari desert * fauna * San (people) 

Summary: 

Hilarious documentary on the wildlife and San people of the Namib deserts. 


Tribunais populares. - Moçambique, Maputo : [s.n.], 1980 [?]. - Video : VHS; 19 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * community courts * penalties 

Summary: 

Documentary about the working of the tribunais populares in the 

north of Mozambique, with comment from Albie Sachs in Maputo. 

Remarks: Picture quality: bad * VMZ 001 

Buzi / real. José Cardoso. - Moçambique, Maputo : Instituto Nacional de Cinema, 1983. - Video : VHS; 26 

min. B/W picture 


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Keywords: * Mozambique * agriculture * industry 

Summary: 

"Dedicamos este filme aos trabalhadores e população da vila do Buzi 

que, em condiçäes difíceis, provam no dia a dia sua luta que a 

vontade e a confiança geram energias e soluçäes que são a crita, o 

saibro e o macadame da estrada do futuro que pretendemos construir!" 

Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood * VMZ 002 

Organização da Mulher Moçambicana / Organização das Mulheres Moçambicanas. - Moçambique, 

Maputo : OMM, 1982 [?]. - Video : VHS; 20 min 


Keywords: * Mozambique * OMM * women's empowerment * cooperatives * gender relations * polygamy * 

adult literacy * FRELIMO 

Summary: 

Film over the work of the Organização da Mulhere Moçambicana. 


O drama das cheias em Machanga ; Depressão tropical Eline - Cidade da Beira / real. Consul Junior. - 

Moçambique, Beira : Alternative Development, 2000. - Video : VHS; 10 & 3 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Beira * floods * storms 

Summary: 

Este filme é dedicado … população de Machanga, vítima das cheias e 

da depressão tropical Eline editao no dia 25/03/2000. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VMZ 004 

Hora de construir / real. Ismael Vuvo. - Moçambique, Maputo : Instituto Nacional de Cinema, 1983. - Video 

: VHS; 38 min. B/W picture 


Keywords: * Mozambique * agriculture * infrastructure * RENAMO 


Vrouwen in Mozambique / Ike Bertels. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1984. - Video : VHS; 30 min. 



Keywords: * Mozambique * independence struggle * women * FRELIMO 

Summary: 

In 1970 is er een film gemaakt over 3 Mozambikaanse vrouwen die met 

het Frelimo meevochten. In 1984 ging Ike Bertels terug om te kijken 

wat er van de 3 vrouwen geworden was. De vrouwen kijken samen nog 

eens naar de film en geven er kommentaar op, en vertellen hoe hun 

levens na de onafhankelijkheid zijn gelopen. 


Wie fout was mag het zeggen / Ike Bertels. - Nederland, Amsterdam : VPRO/BGTV, 1983. - Video : VHS; 

30 min Dutch comment and subtitles when necessary. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Machel, Samora Moisés (1933-1986) * FRELIMO * rehabilitation* * 

independence struggle * political violence 

Summary: 

In 1983 is er een speciale bijeenkomst geweest die enkele dagen in 

beslag nam, van Frelimo leden, het Politburo en een grote groep 

"compromitidos", collaborateurs van de Pide, de Portugese geheime 

dienst. Ze moesten uitleg geven en verslag doen van hun vroegere 

activiteiten. Doel was om te komen to rehabilitatie van de 

collaborateurs. Met glansrol voor president Machel, die ze met veel 

onbedoelde humor ondervraagt en toespreekt. 


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Mozambique 1982: sociaal-economische situatie / Achter het Nieuws. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 

1982. - Video : VHS; 30 min. Dutch comment 


Keywords: * Mozambique * history; 1960s * history; 1970s * independence struggle * social-economic 

conditions * social-economic policy * education * trade * RENAMO * community policing * banditry 

Summary: 

Historische beelden van de gewapende strijd van het Frelimo tegen 

de Portugese overheersers, met een kort kommentaar. Marcelino dos 

Santos geeft een politiek commentaar over de strijd en het 

socialistische bestel. Daarna een serie beelden met commentaar 

over: onderwijs, gezondheidszorg, landbouw, gemeenschapsdorpen, 

staatsbedrijven (CAIL-Chokwé), cashewproduktie, risico's op 

verlamming bij cassaveconsumptie, de haven van Maputo en de 

problemen met de handel, het probleem van de MNR, Machel over de 

MNR en het uitdelen van wapens aan de burgerwacht. 


Frontlijnstaten en sancties Zuid-Afrika [descript. title] / Diogenes. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 1986. 

- Video ; 70 min. Dutch comment & subtitles. Original title unknown. Also on tape VMZ 016 


Keywords: * Southern Africa * Frontline states * Zambia * Botswana * Zimbabwe * Mozambique * Swaziland 

* international sanctions * South Africa * destabilisation policy * international economic dependence 

Summary: 

Een uitgebreide documentaire over de houding van de frontlijnstaten 

t.o.v. economische sancties tegen Zuid-Afrika. Eerst algemene 

informatie over de frontlijnstaten en de problematiek in Zuidelijk 

Afrika. Daarna de speciefieke situatie in Zambia, Botswana, 

Zimbabwe, Mozambique (het belang van de Beira-corridor en sabotage 

van de MNR), en Swaziland. Alle frontlijnstaten kampen met het 

probleem dat ze economisch vrijwel geheel afhankelijk zijn van Zuid-Afrika. 


Apartheid's second front. - UK, London : BBC, 1986. - Video : VHS; 50 min. B/W copy. Start: na 25 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * South Africa * destabilisation policy * international political relations * RENAMO * 

terrorism * transport * migrant workers 

Summary: 

Documentary about Mozambique as apartheid's second front. About the 

Beira harbour and -corridor, the transport difficulties, the 

history and actions of the MNR or Renamo, with an interview with 

Ian Smith about the role of the MNR in 1975, when it was supported 

by Rhodesia, about Mozambican migrant mineworkers who are sent home 

by South Africa, about the funeral of Machel and the inauguration 

of Chissano. Also interviews with Carlos Cardoso, about Renamo. 


Corridor of power. - UK, London : Thames, 1986. - Video : VHS; 25 min. B/W copy. Also on VMZ 011 


Keywords: * Southern Africa * Frontline states * Mozambique * transport * international economic 

dependence * destabilisation policy * international sanctions 

Summary: 

Documentary about the economic dependence from the frontline states 

of South Africa, especially Mozambique. The situation in Beira, the 

different trade routes in Southern Africa, the importance of the 

Beira-corridor, the relation of the MNR with South Africa, interview with 

Joseph Hanlon about the raid on the Matola factory in Maputo, the 

Nkomati-accord, and the use of economic sanctions against South Africa. 


Apartheid : het tweede front / Panorama. - België, Brussel : BRT, 1986. - Video : VHS; 40 min. 

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Start: na 34 min. Dutch comment and subtitles 


Keywords: * Mozambique * South Africa * Frontline states * destabilisation policy * Machel, Samora Moisés 

(1933-1986) * migrant workers * international economic dependence * infrastructure * transport * economy* * 

Nkomati Accord (March 1984) * RENAMO 

Summary: 

Reportage over Mozambiek en de prijs die het betaalt in de strijd 

tegen apartheid. Beelden van de begrafenis van Machel en 

installatie van Chissano; de situatie van de Mozambikaanse 

mijnwerkers en landwerkers wiens contracten in Zuid-Afrika niet 

verlengd worden; het belang van de Beira - corridor; de economische 

destabilisatiepolitiek van Zuid-Afrika; de transportproblemen, veroorzaakt 

door RENAMO; interviews met Rob Davies, Carlos Cardoso en Mangezi. 


Apartheid's second front. - UK, London : BBC, 1986. - Video : VHS; 50 min. B/W copy 



Keywords: * Mozambique * South Africa * destabilisation policy * international political relations * 

international economic dependence * RENAMO * terrorism * transport * infrastructure * migrant workers 

Summary: 

Documentary about Mozambique as apartheid's second front. About the 

Beira harbour and -corridor, the transport difficulties, the 

history and actions of the MNR or Renamo, with an interview with 

Ian Smith about the role of the MNR in 1975, when it was supported 

by Rhodesia, about Mozambican migrant mineworkers who are sent home 

by South Africa, about the funeral of Machel and the inauguration 

of Chissano. Also interviews with Carlos Cardoso, about Renamo. 


Corridor of power. - UK, London : Thames, 1986. - Video : VHS; 25 min. Start: na 74 min. 

Also on VMZ 010. B/W copy 


Keywords: * Southern Africa * Frontline states * Mozambique 

* transport * Nkomati Accord (March 1984) * international economic dependence * international sanctions * 

destabilisation policy * RENAMO 

Summary: 

Documentary about the economic dependence from the frontline states 

of South Africa, especially Mozambique. The situation in Beira, the 

different trade routes in Southern Africa, the importance of the 

Beira-corridor, the relation of the MNR with South Africa, interview 

with Joseph Hanlon about the raid on the Matola factory in Maputo, 

the Nkomati-accord, and the use of economic sanctions against South Africa. 


Zuidelijk Afrika na Machel / Panoramiek. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1986. - Video : VHS; 18 min. 

Start: na 16 min. Dutch subtitles and comment 


Keywords: * Mozambique * South Africa * Machel, Samora Moisés (1933-1986) * Nkomati Accord (March 

1984) * economic sanctions * RENAMO 

Summary: 

Begrafenis Samora Machel; Interview met Joe Hanlon over de relatie 

Zuid-Afrika - Mozambique; Betrokkenheid Zuid-Afrika bij dood 

Machel; Betekenis van Machel voor de frontlijnstaten; Commentaar 

Joe Hanlon mbt de Nkomati - akkoorden; Interview met Frene Ginwalda 

(ANC) over het belang van Machel in de strijd tegen apartheid en 

over economische sancties, terugtrekken IBM, positie Shell, ed. 


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Dood Samora Machel [descript. title] / BRT Journaal, NOS Journaal, BBC news. - België, Brussel ; 

Nederland, Hilversum ; UK, London : BRT ; NOS ; BBC, 1986. - Video : VHS; 30 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Machel, Samora Moisés (1933-1986) * funerals * RENAMO * economy* 

Summary: 

Journaal items over de dood van Samora Machel, RENAMO en de zwakke economie van Mozambiek. 


Hongersnood en burgeroorlog Mozambique [descript. title] / Brandpunt Zaterdag-editie. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : KRO, 1987. - Video : VHS; 10 min. Start: na 16 min. Also on VMZ 016 



Keywords: * Mozambique * civil war * South Africa * RENAMO * destabilisation policy * history * torture * 

drought * famine * transport * banditry * infrastructure * refugees * child mortality * health care 

Summary: 

Reportage die begint met een korte geschiedenis van Mozambiek vanaf 

de onafhankelijkheidsstrijd tegen de Portugezen, gevolgd door 

beelden van volkswinkels en schooltjes die door de regering Machel 

werden opgericht. Verder komen aan bod: RENAMO, Zuid-Afrika,de 

gevolgen van de burgeroorlog op het gebied van infrastructuur 

(treinen, wegen, vrachtauto's, havens) en distributie, de droogte, 

de hongersnood, de vluchtelingen (naar Zimbabwe), de kindersterfte, 

de afwezigheid of onbereikbaarheid van medische voorzieningen en 

Florrie de Pater van NOVIB. 


Hongersnood en burgeroorlog Mozambique [descript. title] / School TV Weekjournaal. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : NOS, 1987. - Video : VHS; 10 min. Start: na 6 min. better copy on VMZ 015 


Keywords: * Mozambique * civil war * South Africa * RENAMO * destabilisation policy * history * migrant 

workers * drought * banditry * famine * transport * infrastructure 

Summary: 




werden opgericht. Verder komen aan bod: RENAMO, Zuid-Afrika, de 

trekarbeiders naar de Zuid-Afrikaanse mijnen die terug gestuurd 

worden naar Mozambiek, de gevolgen van de burgeroorlog op het 

gebied van infrastructuur (treinen, wegen, vrachtauto's, havens), 

de droogte, de hongersnood, de vluchtelingen (naar Zimbabwe), de 

kindersterfte, en Guus Meijer van de Eduardo Montlane Stichting (EMS) in Nederland. 


Race against time / Oxfam. - UK, London : Oxfam, 1987. - Video : VHS; 6 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * South Africa * RENAMO * refugee camps * feeding schemes * transport 

Summary: 

Backgrounds of the food emergengy situation in Mozambique (South 

Africa; RENAMO). Pictures of a refugee camp in Zambezia in northern 

Mozambique and an interview with Bill Yates from Oxfam, about the 

need for food assistance. A call for help. 


Mozambique : burgeroorlog en hongersnood [descript. title] / Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 



Keywords: * Mozambique * civil war * RENAMO * South Africa * destabilisation policy * torture * international 

economic dependence * migrant workers * drought * economic policy 

Summary: 

Reportage over de burgeroorlog, droogte, hongersnood en economische 

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politiek en afhankelijkheid van Zuid-Afrika in Mozambiek 


Hongersnood en burgeroorlog Mozambique [descript. title] / School TV Weekjournaal. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : NOS, 1987. - Video : VHS; 10 min. Also copy on VMZ 013 


Keywords: * Mozambique * civil war * South Africa * RENAMO * destabilisation policy * history * migrant 

workers * drought * famine * transport * banditry * infrastructure * child mortality 

Summary: 




werden opgericht. Verder komen aan bod: RENAMO, Zuid-Afrika, de 

trekarbeiders naar de Zuid-Afrikaanse mijnen die terug gestuurd 

worden naar Mozambiek, de gevolgen van de burgeroorlog op het 

gebied van infrastructuur (treinen, wegen, vrachtauto's, havens), 

de droogte, de hongersnood, de vluchtelingen (naar Zimbabwe), de 

kindersterfte, en Guus Meijer van de Eduardo Montlane Stichting (EMS) in Nederland. 


Frontlijnstaten en sancties Zuid-Afrika [descript. title] / Diogenes. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 1986. 

- Video ; 70 min. Dutch comment & subtitles. Original title unknown. Also on tape VMZ 009 


Keywords: * Southern Africa * Frontline states * Zambia * Botswana * Zimbabwe * Mozambique * Swaziland 

* international sanctions * South Africa * international economic dependence 

Summary: 

Een uitgebreide documentaire over de houding van de frontlijnstaten 

t.o.v. economische sancties tegen Zuid-Afrika. Eerst algemene 

informatie over de frontlijnstaten en de problematiek in Zuidelijk 

Afrika. Daarna de speciefieke situatie in Zambia, Botswana, 

Zimbabwe, Mozambique (het belang van de Beira-corridor en sabotage 

van de MNR), en Swaziland. Alle frontlijnstaten kampen met het 

probleem dat ze economisch vrijwel geheel afhankelijk zijn van Zuid-Afrika. 


Hongersnood en burgeroorlog Mozambique [descript. title] / Brandpunt Zaterdag-editie. - Nederland, 

Hilversum : KRO, 1987. - Video : VHS; 10 min. Start: na 72 min. Also on VMZ 013 



Keywords: * Mozambique * civil war * South Africa * RENAMO * destabilisation policy * history * torture * 

drought * famine * transport * banditry * infrastructure * refugees * child mortality * health care 

Summary: 




werden opgericht. Verder komen aan bod: RENAMO, Zuid-Afrika,de 

gevolgen van de burgeroorlog op het gebied van infrastructuur 

(treinen, wegen, vrachtauto's, havens) en distributie, de droogte, 

de hongersnood, de vluchtelingen (naar Zimbabwe), de kindersterfte, 

de afwezigheid of onbereikbaarheid van medische voorzieningen en 

Florrie de Pater van NOVIB. 


SalÃo dos escultores / Xuxo Lara. - Moçambique, Maputo : Kanemo, 1986. - Video : VHS; 13 min. 

English voice-over when necessary. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * sculpture 

Summary: 

On the month of October 1986, 'Horizonte Arte E Difusão promoted an 

exhibition of Mozambican wooden sculpture. Various artists 

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participated, such as Boa, Chissano, EstevÃo Janu rio, Govane, 

Macie, Mavie, Mateus Cossa, Muando, Naftal Langa, Samate, Simäes, 

Sumbane, Victor Sousa, and Zaqueu. The exhibition showed mostly a 

type of work that is characteristic of the southern part of 

Mozambique. With comment by Albie Sachs. 

Remarks: Picture quality: varying * VMZ 017 

De geur van tereur / versl. door Walter Zinzen ; Panorama. - België, Brussel : BRT, 1987. - Video : VHS; 21 

min. Dutch subtitled. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * South Africa * destabilisation policy * RENAMO * civil war * terrorism * banditry * 

political violence * Homoine massacre (1987) 

Summary: 

Verslag van de noodsituatie in Mozambique, veroorzaakt doorde 

terreur van RENAMO (MNR). Over de hongersnood, omdat de boeren 

vanwege de terreur hun land niet kunnen bebouwen; 

rehabilitatiekampen voor ex-RENAMO leden; over het Nkomati-akkoord 

waar Zuid-Afrika zich niet aan houdt (dwz dat ze de MNR blijft steunen); 

en over het Homoine massacre, waar op 18 juli 1987 400 mensen vermoord werden. 

Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood. * VMZ 018 

Afrika Nu / Veronica's Nieuwslijn. - Nederland, Hilversum : Veronica, 1988. - Video : VHS; 45 min. 



Keywords: * Africa * Netherlands * Mozambique * private aid * RENAMO 

Summary: 

Uitzending van de nationale aktie "Afrika NU" van afgelopen 

december, waarin wordt vertelt hoeveel geld er binnen is gekomen en 

waar dat aan besteed wordt. Na ongeveer 20 miinuten komt Mozambique 

aan bod: er is een kleine 6 miljoen gulden besteed, voornamelijk 

aan landbouwgereedschappen, windmolens, stoffen, garens en naalden 

en transportmiddelen. De route Maputo - Xai Xai wordt via de lucht 

afgelegd, aangezien de weg te gevaarlijk is ivm RENAMO aanvallen. 

Beelden van RENAMO slachtoffers, ondervoede kinderen, en president 

Chissano die zegt dat het westen wel èrg laat in aktie komt. 


Militaire hulp aan Mozambique [descript. title] / Nadia Tilon ; Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 

1988. - Video : VHS; 13 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * South Africa * Western Europe * civil war * terrorism * military cooperation * 

RENAMO * FRELIMO * banditry 

Summary: 

Mozambique vraagt militaire steun aan westerse landen in de strijd 

tegen rebellenbeweging RENAMO (dat ondanks de Nkomati akkoorden nog 

steeds gesteund wordt door Zuid-Afrika),aangezien de steun uit 

Oost-Europa tekortschiet (sterk verouderd materiaal). Steeds meer 

Westeuropese landen neigen ertoe die steun ook te verlenen (UK, 

Spanje, Portugal, Italië, Skandinavië (uitgezonderd Denemarken)). 

Nederland blijft voorlopig meer zien in 'indirekte steun': geen wapens 

maar wel voertuigen die bijvoorbeeld ook door het leger kunnen worden gebruikt. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VMZ 019 

Let the flowers survive = Deixem as flores sobreviverem / dir. by Rodrigo Concalves. - Mozambique, 

Maputo : Ministerio da Educação de Moçambique, 1987. - Video : VHS; 18 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * independence struggle * illiteracy * literacy * education policy * FRELIMO * 

RENAMO * South Africa * statistics (form) * destabilisation policy 

Summary: 

During Portuguese rule there were only a few missionary schools to 

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educate the Mozambican population. After independence in 1975 it 

became one of the main policies of FRELIMO to fight illiteracy and 

provide education for the youth as well as adults. Because of the 

destabilisation policy of the apartheid regime in South Africa, 

that is actively supporting the rebel movement RENAMO, many schools 

and educational materials are destroyed. With basic statistics of Mozambique. 


Kraamklinieken aktie "Uw lakens bevallen best" / Vrouwengroep Mozambique. - Mozambique, Maputo : 

Vrouwengroep Mozambique, 1988. - Video : VHS; 15 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Netherlands * women * private aid * clinics 

Summary: 

Video over de lakenaktie die een aantal in Mozambique woonachtige 

Nederlandse vrouwen heeft opgezet met als doel de hygiënische 

omstandigheden in de kraamklinieken te verbeteren. Interview met 

een Nederlandse vrouw in Maputo die het hoe en waarom van de aktie 

uitlegt, en beelden van de distributie. 


Ap sar da guerra.... ainda hesperança : exposição fotogr fica de Carlos Mula / real. Lucas Sarmento. - 

Moçambique, Maputo : [s.n.], 1988 [?]. - Video : VHS; 14 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * photography 

Summary: 

The Mozambican photographer Carlos Mula introduces himself, 

followed by pictures of his exhibition. Most of his pictures are of 

Gaza, and show the results of the civil war. 


Bloedbad Homoine / Canal Zero. - Moçambique, Maputo : Cabinete de communicação social, 1987. - 



Keywords: * Mozambique * Homoine massacre (1987) * RENAMO 

Summary: 

Minister Muchango bezoekt Homoine na de RENAMO aanval van 18 juli 

1987, waarbij meer dan 380 boeren omgebracht werden, de meesten 

vrouwen, kinderen, bejaarden en patienten van het 

districtshospitaal. De minister legt een krans bij het massagraf en 

condoleert de nabestaanden. Verder getuigenverklaringen van 

overlevenden, waaronder een Nederlandse kooperant. 


O cidadÃo de orelhas cortadas. · espera do regressso. Os Deslocados (Zambézia) / real. Licinio 

Azevedo, Jorge Ferrao, Horacio Come ; Canal Zero. - Moçambique, Maputo : Cabinete de communicação 

social, 1987. - Video : VHS; 3 x 15 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * RENAMO * terrorism * banditry * refugee assistance * refugees * water supply * 

health care * education 

Summary: 

Drie uitzendingen over de gevolgen van de RENAMO terreur in 

Mozambique. In het eerste deel getuigenverklaringen van 

slachtoffers van een RENAMO aanval in Inhambane. Beelden van 

vluchtelingen in Tete en Moatize. Nijverheid, gezondheidszorg en 

onderwijs komen hier provisorisch maar snel tot stand. In het 

tweede deel een gesprek met een gezondheidswerker; beelden van 

Benga, een dorp in Tete; gesprek met John Cosgrave van Oxfam over 

het waterprobleem in de regio; en over kinderziekten in een 

vluchtelingenkamp. In het derde deel vluchtelingen in de provincie 

Zambézia. Kleding en voedseldistributie; gesprek met Bernardo 

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Concalo van het Rode Kruis (CVM) en gesprek met een vluchteling. 


Entrevista com Albie Sachs / ed. Ingrid Br s. - UK, London : TVE, 1988. - Video : VHS; 46 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Sachs, Albert Louis (1935- ) * bomb attacks * society and culture 

Summary: 

Beelden van de bomaanslag op de auto van ALbie Sachs. In een eerder 

opgenomen interview vertelt hij over zijn leven,zijn werk, over Mozambikaanse 

cultuur en de veranderingen in Mozambique in de laatste tien jaar. 


Honger en destabilisatie in Mozambique / Gerard Bueters ; Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum ; Nederland, 

Amsterdam : IKON ; MultiWorld Pictures, 1988. - Video : VHS; 24 min. Start: na 27 min. 



Keywords: * Mozambique * South Africa * Zimbabwe * civil war * terrorism * RENAMO * destabilisation policy 

* banditry * famine * malnutrition * refugees * working conditions 

Summary: 

Documentaire over de gevolgen van de Zuid-Afrikaanse destabilisatie 

politiek in Mozambique, met name de Renamo - terreur, die 

hongersnood veroorzaakt omdat mensen hun akkers ontvluchten en die 

de infrastructuur vernietigd. Ook aandacht voor het lot van vluchtelingen 

die in Zimbabwe terecht komen en voor een hongerloontje op de grote 

(blanke) farms moeten werken onder slechte arbeidsomstandigheden. 


Mozambique : de pijn van Apartheid / dir. by Gerard Bueters. - Nederland, Amsterdam : MultiWorld 

Pictures, 1988. - Video : VHS; 27 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * history * South Africa * destabilisation policy * migrant workers * RENAMO * civil 

war * refugees * international economic dependence * education policy 

Summary: 

Filipe Tembe is een 28 jarige Mozambicaan die in Nederland woont. 

Hij gaat naar een middelbare school toe om een clubje leerlingen 

die een project over Mozambique willen opstarten voor te lichten 

dmv de video 'Honger en destabilisatie in Mozambique', ook van 

Gerard Bueters (verderop op deze tape in zijn geheel te zien.) Een 

van de leerlingen is een blanke, 17 jarige Zuid-Afrikaan die de 

apartheid in zijn land ontvlucht is. Onderwerpen die aan bod komen 

zijn: de onderwijs - en gezondheidszorgpolitiek van Frelimo na 1975, 

de burgeroorlog en Renamo, de destabilisatie politiek van Zuid-Afrika, 

de economische afhankelijkheid van Zuid-Afrika (goederen en werkgelegenheid). 


Als de boot niet komt..... - Nederland, Hilversum : RTL4, 1991. - Video : VHS; 15 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * RENAMO * civil war * famine * malnutrition * refugees * feeding schemes 

Summary: 

Somber verslag over de situatie in Mozambique, met beelden van 

Renamo slachtoffers, vluchtelingen, hongersnood en ondervoeding. 

Interviews met J. Mondlane van het Rode Kruis Mozambique en R. 

Vornis, Nederlands ambassadeur te Mozambique, die pleit voor 

voortzetting van de Nederlandse hulp. 


Homelands : Malangatana - Mozambique / dir. by Adrian Pennink. - UK, London : BBC, 1990. - Video : 

VHS; 50 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * artists * arts and culture * anti-apartheid resistance * traditional culture 

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Summary: 

Part 2 of a six part series about artisits who stay to work in 

their country in spite of social and political pressure. They talk 

about the relation between art and government and their own 

political position. This part is about Malangatana, one of 

Mozambique's most eminent artists. He talks about the struggle 

against first the Portuguese and later the Renamo bandits, and how 

he uses his art in the struggle. 


Korte samenvatting instructiemissie Beira - Mozambique 26 juni – 30 augustus 1993 / dir. and prod. by 

Jan Peursum. - Nederland, Amsterdam : Jan Peursum, 1993. - Video : VHS; 29 min. Start: na 2 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * Mozambique * Amsterdam (Netherlands) * Beira * city-linking * fire brigade * 


Summary: 

Reportage over de instructiemissie in de zomer van 1993, van Jan 

Peursum en Leen van der Laan, twee Amsterdamse brandweerlieden van 

de brandweer Diemen, die met veel materieel, vrnl. 

persluchtsystemen voor de adembescherming van brandweerlieden, en 

een rookmachine om mee te oefenen, de brandweer in Beira onderricht 

gaan geven in het gebruik van deze apparatuur. Dit alles in het 

kader van de Stedenband Amsterdam - Beira. Daarnaast ook beelden 

van Beira. Typische brandweermannenfilm. 


Stedenband Amsterdam-Beira / AT5 Nieuws. - Nederland, Amsterdam : AT5, 1993. - Video : VHS; 2 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * Mozambique * Amsterdam (Netherlands) * Beira * city-linking * fire brigade 

Summary: 

Nieuwsitem over de ondertekening van de Stedenband Amsterdam - 

Beira te Amsterdam. Een van de voorbeelden van de stedenband is de 

samenwerking tussen de brandweer Diemen en de brandweer Beira. 


Mozambique 29 juli - 7 oktober 1995 / dir. and prod. by Jan Peursum. - Nederland, Amsterdam : Jan 

Peursum, 1995. - Video : VHS; 30 & 20 min. 




Summary: 

Reportage over de instructiemissie van de Diemense brandweer, in de 

personen Jan Peursum en Leen van der Laan, aan de havenbrandweer 

van Beira in 1995, in het kader van de Stedenband Amsterdam - 

Beira. Het inschepen van de brandweerwagen die ze als geschenk 

meenemen, het wachten in de haven van Beira op de ontscheping, en 

trainingssessies met de collega's in Beira. Gevolgd door een kortere versie. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VMZ 030 * Uitgebreide versie op tape VMZ 031 

Mozambique 29 juli - 7 oktober 1995 : Instructiemissie Haven & Oilterminal brandweer Beira / dir. and 

prod. by Jan Peursum. - Nederland, Amsterdam : Jan Peursum, 1995. - Video : VHS; 61 min. 




Summary: 




Beira. Dit is de uitgebreide versie (vergelijk tape VMZ 030). Eerst 

beelden van Johannesburg en Maputo. Het inschepen van de 

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andweerwagen die ze als geschenk meenemen, het wachten in de 

haven van Beira op de ontscheping, en trainingssessies en demonstraties 

met de collega's in Beira. Ook aandacht voor het heerlijke Mozambikaanse eten. 


Mozambique 29 juli - 7 oktober 1995 : instructiemissie haven en oilterminal brandweer Beira / dir. and 

prod. by Jan Peursum. - Nederland, Amsterdam : Jan Peursum, 1995. - Video : VHS; 61 min. 




Summary: 




Beira. Dit is de uitgebreide versie, vrijwel identiek aan tape VMZ 

031, alleen hier ook aandacht voor de cursus brandweerlieden - 

Portugees aan het KIT te Amsterdam. Eerst beelden van Johannesburg 

en Maputo. Het inschepen van de brandweerwagen die ze als geschenk 

meenemen, het wachten in de haven van Beira op de ontscheping, en 

trainingssessies en demonstraties met de collega's in Beira. Ook 

aandacht voor het heerlijke Mozambikaanse eten. 


Brandweermissie Beira Mozambique 15 februari - 1 maart 1996 / dir. and prod. by Jan Peursum. - 

Nederland, Amsterdam : Jan Peursum, 1996. - Video : VHS; 61 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * Mozambique * Amsterdam (Netherlands) * Beira * city-linking * fire brigade 

Summary: 

Reportage over het bezoek van twee leden van de Diemense brandweer, 

Leen van der Laan en Jan Peursum, aan Beira waar ze al gedurende 

een aantal jaren instructiemissies hebben uitgevoerd, in het kader 

van de Stedenband Amsterdam - Beira. Ditmaal vooral aandacht voor 

de wateroverlast door de overvloedige regenval en het uitbundig 

groene landschap wat daar het gevolg van is. Misschien mede 

daardoor vrijwel geen brandweerman te zien in deze aflevering. Ook 

met beelden van Mutare en Harare in Zimbabwe. 


Instructiemissie 1997 en 1998 Beira, Mozambique / cam. en prod. Jan Peursum. - Nederland, Amsterdam 

: Jan Peursum, 1998. - Video : VHS; 60 min. 




Summary: 

Reportage over de instructiemissies van de Diemense brandweer, in 

de personen Jan Peursum en Leen van der Laan, naar de brandweer van 

Beira, in het kader van de Stedenband Amsterdam-Beira. Veel 

brandweertrainingen, wachten op het vrijgeven van meegebracht 

materieel in de haven van Beira, overhandigen van het kado: een 

gote ingelijste kleurenfoto van een uitslaande brand, en het 

blussen van een echte brand, dat helaas nogal dramatisch afloopt. 


Kuxa Kanema : la naissance du cinema / dir. by Margarida Cardoso ; Import. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

VPRO, 2004. - Video : VHS; 52 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * Mozambique * FRELIMO * independence struggle * documentaries * journalism * civil war * 

socialism * society and culture * censorship 

Summary: 

De geschiedenis van het weekjournaal Kuxa Kanema dat Frelimo na de 

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onafhankelijkheid van Mozambique in 1975 ging opnemen en uitzenden 

(via mobiele cinema's) om het volk te leren wat het betekende om 

vrij te zijn in het nieuwe (dwz socialistische) Mozambique. In 1975 

werd het Nationaal Film Instituut (NFI) opgericht dat de journaals 

ging produceren. Ook de Franse cineast Godard kwam naar Mozambique 

met zijn project "Nord contre Sud ou naissance (de l'image) d'une 

nation". Hij wilde een soort anti-tv maken, filmapparatuur bij de 

dorpelingen brengen en ze ermee leren omgaan en daarna de spullen 

achterlaten zodat ze ermee zouden kunnen doen wat ze wilden. Dit 

ging Frelimo wat te ver en er werd geen toestemming gegeven. In de 

jaren tachtig kwam het land steeds meer in de greep van de 

burgeroorlog en begonnen regeringsrethoriek en werkelijkheid steeds 

verder uit elkaar te lopen, en het idealisme uit de beginjaren 

verwaterde. Hoewel er geen officiële censuur bestond was de 

atmosfeer wel zodanig dat de filmmakers aan zelfcensuur deden. 

Tegenwoordig is het NFI iets 'wat er tegelijkertijd wel en niet 

is', zoals één van de geïnterviewden het uitdrukt: de muren staan 

er nog wel, en binnen liggen de films in hun originele blikken te vergaan. 


Mulher rural e deslocada [descr. title] / prod. e real. Mustafo Afugi ; Associação Moçambicana da Mulher 

Rural. - Moçambique, Maputo : Associação Moçambicana da Mulher Rural, 1988 [?]. - : VHS; 57 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * rural areas * rural communities * internally displaced persons * women * living 

conditions 

Summary: 

A associação Moçambicana da Mulher Rural, através deste pretende 

fazer uma abordagem do que é o dia a dia da mulher rural e deslocada. 


Beira : cidade ameaçada / texto e real. Teresa SNogueira ; Magazine da Paz. - Moçambique, Maputo : 

TVM, 1995. - Video : VHS; 30 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Beira * infrastructure * erosion * tourism * corruption * refugees * crime and 

society * deforestation * urban administration 

Summary: 

Beira: bedreigde stad luidt de titel van deze film. Bedoelt wordt: 

bedreigd door erosie. In een interview met de burgermeester legt 

die uit met welke problemen de stad te maken heeft. Voor de 

bestrijding van de erosie heeft hij buitenlandse donoren nodig. 

Amsterdam heeft al steun toegezegd in de vorm van een masterplan 

(kosten één miljoen) om de erosie aan te pakken. Maar Beira wil ook 

meer toeristen trekken, en zo wordt er in de duinen een nieuw 

(Zuid-Afrikaans) vakantie-oord aangelegd, zonder vergunning (ivm de 

erosie), maar door 'een fout van een ambtenaar' kan het toch 

doorgang vinden. De grote hotels uit de koloniale tijd zijn te 

vervallen om buitenlandse investeerders te trekken, en bovendien 

bezet door ontheemden en zelfs politiemensen. Er zijn veel 

vluchtelingen in de stad, vaak grote families die niet weten hoe je 

in een stad moet leven. De criminaliteit neemt toe nu de wegen naar 

Maputo en Tete weer geopend worden. Aan het eind nog een fragment 

over illegale houtkap en het verdwijnen van inheemse soorten daardoor. 


Beira - zomer 1993 / Eduardo Mondlane Stichting. - Nederland, Amsterdam : EMS, 1993. - Video : VHS; 29 

min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Amsterdam (Netherlands) * Beira * school children * educational aid * 

educational institutions * EMS 

Summary: 

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Gerrit Berkelder (voorzitter Eduardo Mondlane Stichting) reist met 

brandweerman Leen langs scholen in Beira in het kader van de 

scholenbanden tussen Amsterdamse en Beirajaanse scholen. 


Dood spoor / Jack Janssen. - Nederland, Amsterdam : Margaret Mead ; Humanistische Omroep, 1990. - 

Video : VHS; 48 min. Dutch subtitles. Een Margaret Mead prduktie voor de Humanistische Omroep 


Keywords: * Mozambique * South Africa * railways * rail transport * civil war * sabotage * RENAMO * 

FRELIMO * social-economic conditions * banditry 

Summary: 

Mozambicaan Gulamo Sacoor, uit de koloniale elite afkomstig, sluit 

zich in 1974 aan bij Frelimo, en werkt een aantal jaren voor de 

revolutie. In 1982 wordt het geweld hem teveel en gaat hij naar 

België. In 1990 keert hij terug om Mozambique in ogenschouw te 

nemen en te kijken of hij kan helpen. Veel arbeiders werken in 

Zuid-Afrika, officieel de vijand, of verwerken in de haven 

Zuidafrikaanse ladingen. De spoorlijn die in 1894 gereed kwam 

tussen Pretoria en Lourenço Marques, wordt nu nog nauwelijks voor 

de handel gebruikt, en is voortdurend doelwit van Renamo sabotage 

en aanslagen, de "gewapende bandieten" die door Zuid-Afrika 

gesteund worden. Door de burgeroorlog lijkt het hele land op een 

dood spoor te zijn terecht gekomen. 

Remarks: Picture quality: varying * VMZ 039 

Milorho presents Semba, Xibugo, Tufo, Nganda, Mapiko, Makway, Limbondo, Xigovia / dir. by Emmy 

Bosten. - Moçambique, Maputo : Milorho, 1995. - Video : VHS; 52 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * dance * music 

Summary: 

Sing and dance group Milorho from Maputo performs a number of rather spastic choreographies. 


Matola raid 23-5-1983 [descript. title]. - Moçambique, Maputo : TVE Moçambique, 1983. - Video : VHS; 

14 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * South Africa * war crimes * Matola Raid (May 1983) 

Summary: 

Eyewitness-accounts and pictures of the victims and the damage 

caused by the South African raid on Matola on 23/5/1983. 


OJM Beira 1996. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1996. - Video : VHS; 42 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * youth * dance 

Summary: 

Dance performance by the Mozambican youth organisation Organização 

da Juventude Moçambicana (OJM). 


A procura do tempo imaginado = dromen in een nachtmerrie / reg. Emmy Bosten. - Moçambique, 

Maputo ; Nederland, Amsterdam : Ebano Multimédia ; Stichting Backlight, 1992. - Video : VHS; 26 min. 

Dutch subtitles & comment. Medegefinancierd door de Eduardo Mondlane Stichting. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * women * civil war * living conditions * internally displaced persons * children * 

peace negotiations 

Summary: 

Drie vrouwen in het disrict Pebane vertellen hoe het is om al zo 

lang in oorlog te leven; wat het met hen en hun kinderen doet en 

hoe ze verlangen naar vrede. Op 4 oktober 1992 werd een 

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staakt-het-vuren bereikt tussen de strijdende partijen. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VMZ 043a 

A procura do tempo imaginado = dreaming in a nightmare / reg. Emmy Bosten. - Moçambique, Maputo ; 

Nederland, Amsterdam : Ebano Multimédia ; Stichting Backlight, 1992. - Video : VHS; 26 min. 

English subtitles & comment. Medegefinancierd door de Eduardo Mondlane Stichting. 




Summary: 





Remarks: Picture quality: good * VMZ 043b 

A procura do tempo imaginado = dreaming in a nightmare / reg. Emmy Bosten. - Moçambique, Maputo ; 

Holanda, AmsterdÃo : Ebano Multimédia ; Stichting Backlight, 1992. - Video : VHS; 26 min. 

Medegefinancierd door de Eduardo Mondlane Stichting. 




Summary: 





Remarks: Picture quality: good * VMZ 043c 

Uma cidade - que ambiente? / real. Emmy Bosten. - Moçambique, Maputo ; Nederland, Amsterdam : TVE 

Moçambique ; Stichting Backlight, 1990. - Video : VHS; 12 min. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Nampula (city) * environmental pollution * erosion * urban administration * water 

supply * water pollution * sustainable development * urban development 

Summary: 

Film over de milieuvervuiling in de Mozambicaanse stad Nampula. Een 

stad die eigenlijk bedoeld was voor 30.000 mensen waar er nu 

240.000 wonen (door de oorlog ontvluchten de mensen het 

platteland). Met een falend stadsbestuur, dat na de 

onafhankelijkheid eigenlijk niets aan planning heeft gedaan. 

Bovendien ontbreekt het aan voldoende financiële middelen om beleid 

uit te voeren. De voornaamste problemen zijn gerelateerd aan water: 

gebrek aan waterleidingen, gebrekkig rioleringssysteem, waardoor 

het oppervlaktewater dat de mensen noodgedwongen voor alles 

gebruiken enstig vervuild wordt. Tijdens de regentijd loopt het 

drainage - systeem over en veranderd het water onverharde wegen in 

erosiegeulen, ook al omdat door de dichtere bebouwing de grond 

minder water op kan nemen. Hoogspanningsmasten die langs zulke 

geulen staan dreigen om te vallen. Het bestuur moet leren 

bestemmingsplannen te maken waarin modellen voor duurzame 

ontwikkeling worden opgenomen. 


Seguro : nascimento de um sindicato / real. Bert Sonnenschein ; prod. Rens van der Linden. - 

Moçambique, Maputo : Iris Imaginaçäes, 1998. - Video : VHS; 37 min. Apoiado financeiro por: FNV 

(Federação de Sindicatos Hollandeses); Embaixada do Reino dos Países Baixos em Mozambique. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Nampula (city) * trade unions * labour relations 

Summary: 

Seguro é um documento que conta a história do nascimento do 

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primeiro sindicato que surgiu da basena história de Moçambique, 

23 anos após da independência nacional. Seguro, Sindicato de 

Empregados domésticos e Guardas Organizados e Respons veis, marca 

um novo ponto na história sindical de Moçambique. Desta vez não 

foram os paträes ou os chefes que tomaram a iniciativa de organizar 

os trabalhores, mas simforam elles próprios, os guardas e 

empregados domésticos, que decidiram tomar conta do seu futuro e 

organizam-se no sindicato Seguro. Seguro é o primeiro filme 

Moçambicano que foi feito por pessoas a filmarem-se a si próprias. 


Vila autórquica : ratos, cabritos, etc ... / real. e montagem Orlando Lima ; guião e prod. Bert 

Sonnenschein. - Moçambique, Maputo : Iris Imaginaçäes, 1998. - Video : VHS; 18 min. Produzido para 

AWEPA. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * local government * capacity building* * feature films (form) 

Summary: 

VilaAutórquica é um a vila em que as pessoas acabaram de oster a 

sua independéncia local. Mas na Vila Autórquica tudo ainda um 

bocado torto. Rapidemente os novos dirigentes realizam-se que 

governar não é tão facil e tem muitas facetas. 


Novos desafios da educação communitaria / real. Tome N'Tchenya. - Moçambique, Maputo : Instituto de 

Comunicação Social, 1991. - : VHS; 29 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * educational aid * adult education * adult literacy * informal sector * civic 

associations 


Um pedaço da terra / real. Tome N'Tchenya. - Moçambique, Maputo : Instituto de Comunicação Social, 



Keywords: * Mozambique * Nampula (prov.) * rural areas * rural communities * agrarian reform * women * 

cooperatives * erosion * smallholders * credit * health education 


De Naparama's [descript. title] / Nieuwslijn. - Nederland, Hilversum : Veronica, 1990 [?]. - Video : VHS; 9 

min. Start: na 44 min. Dutch comment and subtitles 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Nampula (prov.) * Zambézia * RENAMO * civil war * traditional religions * armed 

civilians 

Summary: 

Een documentaire over de Naparama's in het noorden van Mozambique, 

een groep van ongeveer 20.000 strijders onder leiding van de 

charismatische leider Manuel Antonia, die met een mix van 

katholieke en traditionele rituelen zijn mannen het geloof geeft 

dat ze onkwetsbaar zijn voor kogels. Zelf gebruiken ze alleen maar 

speren. Ze hebben al Nampula en een groot deel van Zambezia bevrijd 

van de Renamo bandieten. 


Der zerschossene Traum von Marracuene / real. Licinio Azevedo. - Deutschland, Köln : ZDF, 1990. - 

Video : VHS; 44 min. German subtitles when necessary. Orginal ein Produktion von Kenemo Producão e 

Communicação und Pedro Pimenta für Channel Four und TVE. Mozambique. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * rural communities * RENAMO * civil war * living conditions * banditry 

Summary: 

Ein Dokumentarfilm über die Folgen der Renamo Gewalt auf der Alltag 

im Mozambikaner Dorf Marracuene. 

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Remarks: Picture quality: good * VMZ 049 * Also on tape VSA 003 

Mozambique 1982: sociaal-economische situatie / Achter het Nieuws. - Nederland, Hilversum : VARA, 

1982. - Video : VHS; 30 min. Also on tape VMZ 008. Dutch comment 


Keywords: * Mozambique * history; 1960s * history; 1970s * independence struggle * social-economic 

conditions * social-economic policy * education * trade * RENAMO * community policing * banditry 

Summary: 

Historische beelden van de gewapende strijd van het Frelimo tegen 

de Portugese overheersers, met een kort kommentaar. Marcelino dos 

Santos geeft een politiek commentaar over de strijd en het 

socialistische bestel. Daarna een serie beelden met commentaar 

over: onderwijs, gezondheidszorg, landbouw, gemeenschapsdorpen, 

staatsbedrijven (CAIL-Chokwé), cashewproduktie, risico's op 

verlamming bij cassaveconsumptie, de haven van Maputo en de 

problemen met de handel, het probleem van de MNR, Machel over de 

MNR en het uitdelen van wapens aan de burgerwacht. 


Um fogÃo de argila / Organização das Mulheres Moçambicanas. - Moçambique, Maputo : OMM, 1991. - 

Video : VHS; 27 + 16 + 6 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * OMM * fuels * women * infants * orphans * household work* 

Summary: 

Reportage over een OMM project voor houtbesparende klei-oventjes 

aan de Zambesi-oevers: gebruik en constructie. Daarna een verhaal 

over de trieste situatie van zuigelingen. Gevolgd door een kort 

item over het 4e OMM congres in 1991. 

Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood. * VMZ 051 

Minen. Bomben unter nackten Füáen / Bericht von Christian Dezer, Jens Monath, Claus Richter. - 

Deutschland, Mainz : ZDF, 1994. - Video : VHS; 45 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * mine-clearance * private sector* * military industry 

Summary: 

Ein film über die Industrie und die Slachtopfer von Minen in 

Kambodja, Mosambik und Afghanistan. In Mosambik, bei der UN Projekt 

Caminho, sind es dieselbe Firmen die erst die Minen an der Renamo 

verkauft haben, die sie jetzt raumen willen, um so noch einmal daran zu verdienen. 


Een bijzondere band / Escolas Gemeas. - Nederland, Breda : Arkink Audiovisuele Produkties, 1990. - 



Keywords: * Netherlands * Mozambique * secondary schools * school children * educational aid 

Summary: 

Video over de Bredase werkgroep Escolas Gemeas van scholengemeenschap 

Graaf Engelbrecht (en Bredaas Industrieel Kontakt) die een scholenband 

heeft met de Fransisco Manyanga school in Maputo, Mozambique. 


Little soldiers / dir. by Bert Sonnenschein ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, 




Keywords: * Mozambique * HIV/AIDS * educational materials (form) * primary education 

Summary: 

Part three of a trilogy of short films using hand-made animal 

puppets to dramatise different issues around HIV/AIDS, making them 

easily accessible to young children 5 to 8 years old.Hippo had 

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heard shooting during the night, and the friends fear that the 

poachers have returned. But lion fears this new disease called AIDS 

even more, as he doesn't understand it. Tortoise explains, 

describing how white bloodcells and the virus work in the body. 


The razorblade / dir. by Bert Sonnenschein ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, 





Summary: 

Part two of a trilogy of short films using hand-made animal puppets 

to dramatise different issues around HIV/AIDS, making them easily 

accessible to young children 5 to 8 years old.When lion is 

suffering from asthma, Aida, the hippo, takes her friend to Auntie, 

who is a sangoma. Lion is scared to death of the treatment and Aida 

jokes around with him. But Auntie knows how to treat asthma and how 

to prevent AIDS while treating her patients 


True friends / dir. by Bert Sonnenschein ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, 





Summary: 

Part one of a trilogy of short films using hand-made animal puppets 

to dramatise different issues around HIV/AIDS, making them easily 

accessible to young children 5 to 8 years old. As the gossip 

spreads that Gazelle is HIV positive, her best friend Zebra gets 

upset and expels her from the lake-side. When the wise tortoise 

finds her alone and weeping, she stands up for Gazelle and calls 

upon the other animals to reaccept her. 


Night stop / dir. by Licinio Azevedo ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, Tampere : 





Keywords: * Mozambique * HIV/AIDS * prostitution 

Summary: 

The young women wake up in the afternoon, when the trucks start 

arriving in Moatize Town in northern Mozambique, near the border 

with several other countries. The truckers pull up at the Montes 

Namuli, a hotel, restaurant and bar. The women - now dressed and 

made up - go to work, disappearing into the drivers' trucks. As the 

night unfolds, chatting, arguing and hustling, they reveal their 

individual stories of pregnacy, the search for a husband, 

unrequited love, violence and resignation. While the women are 

aware of the danger of HIV, sex is just a commodity they negotiate. 

At dawn the trucks pull out and the women wander home together. 


Eclipse / dir. by Orlando Mesquita ; cam. João Costa ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape Town ; 





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Keywords: * South Africa * HIV/AIDS * girls * children-headed households * orphans 

Summary: 

Eclipse is a dreamlike documentary depicting the total blackout of 

four girls' lives, eclipsed by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It's a story 

about four sisters, Lara, Eugenisse, Fatima and Luisa - the oldest 

sixteen and the youngest nine. They are aids orphans living in the 

Moçambican town of Chimolo. Their mother died of AIDS and their 

father disappeared, probably to commit suicide in a nearby place of 

spirits. The film documents their day to day struggle for existence 

as they try to make ends meet by re-selling produce they have bought from the market. 


Dancing on the edge / dir. by Karen Boswall ; cam. Giulio Biccari ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape 





Keywords: * Mozambique * HIV/AIDS * rural areas * traditional culture * rural poverty 

Summary: 

The film is set in rural Mozambique, where traditional gender roles 

and poverty influence the fight to contain the spread of AIDS. 

Antonietta is HIV positive and works as an AIDS counsellor in the 

city. But she takes her one healthy daughter to a remote village 

for initiation into sexuality. After a week of rituals and lessons 

how to please a man, the daughter will become a woman and 

consequently be put at risk to contract HIV. Antonietta struggles 

with the contradictions of maintaining traditional customs while 

adapting to the reality of the modernworld. 


A miner's tale / dir. by Gabriel Montlane, Nicholas Hofmeyr ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape Town 





Keywords: * Mozambique * HIV/AIDS * migrant workers * traditional culture 

Summary: 

Joachim is a migrant labourer who is torn between his 

responsibilities for his junior wife in South Africa and his senior 

wife and family in Mozambique. When visiting his home village after 

a long absence, he is also torn between his understanding ofthe 

responsibilities of his HIV status and what traditional society 

expects of him as a man. He has to make a choice: he cannot please 

everybody at the same time.The elders are adamant that Joaquim must 

do his traditional duty and give his wife more children. 


Mama Heidi / script en reg. Eric Velu. - Nederland, Hilversum : EO, 2003 ¸. - Video : VHS; 25 min. 



Keywords: * Mozambique * Christian mission * street children * educational projects * health services 

Summary: 

A documentary about two American christian fundamentalists, who 

went to Mozambique to help street children to get some food, 

clothing, health care and education, in exchange for religious participation. 


Listen to the women : women in the media in Mozambique / dir. by Licinio Azevedo. - Mozambique, 

Maputo : Ebano Multimédia ; UNESCO / Mozambique, 2003. - Video : VHS; 42 min. 

Produced by Elbano Multimédia for UNESCO Mozambique. English subtitles and comment. 

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Keywords: * Mozambique * women * media * journalists * women's empowerment * gender relations 

Summary: 

The life for women in Mozambique is generally very traditional: a 

woman's place is in the home, and women working in the media are 

considered to be invading male turf. This video portrays six women 

who nonetheless have found positions at radio and/or tv stations, 

followed by statistics on the situation of Mozambican in the media in 2003. 


Carlos Cardoso : an independent spirit / dir. by Rehad Desai. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Uhuru 

productions, 2001. - Video : VHS; 33 min. English comment and subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * Mozambique * journalism * Cardoso, Carlos Alberto (1952-2000) * freedom of expression * 

freedom of the press * democratisation * organised crime * corruption * privatisation * Banco Austral * BCM * 

murders * social-economic policy * FRELIMO 

Summary: 

A film about the life and work of independent investigative 

journalist Carlos Cardoso, who ctritically followed the FRELIMO 

policies concerning freedom of expression, freedom of the press, 

democratisation, social-economic policy, corruption and links 

between organised crime and government officials. He was murdered 

on November 22 2000, probably because of his relentless research 

into the corruption and laundry scandalls concerning the Banco 

Austral and the BCM (Banco Comercial de Moçambique). 


Instructie missie Beira : middenkadercursus 12 april - 25 mei 2001 / cam. en prod. Jan Peursum. - 

Nederland, Amsterdam : Jan Peursum, 2001. - Video : VHS; 61 min. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * Mozambique * Amsterdam (Netherlands) * Beira * fire brigade * city-linking * 

bilateral aid * educational aid * physical health care 

Summary: 

Reportage over de brandweermissie van Jan Peursum en Leen van der 

Laan in het voorjaar van 2001, waar behalve een brandweerwagen en 

bijbehorend materieel inclusief trainingen aan de havenbrandweer 

van Beira wordt overgedragen; en verder nog computers van de 

Waterleiding Amsterdam aan de middelbare Samora Machel school in 

Beira, speelgoed voor straatkinderen aan een opvangcentrum en 

rolstoelen aan de direcção provincial da mulher & coordenação da 

acção social. Inclusief toespraken (slecht te verstaan). 


Amsterdam - Beira : banden van vriendschap / reg. Bert Sonnenschein. - Nederland, Amsterdam ; 

Mozambique, Maputo : AT5-E ; NiZA ; Iris Imaginaçäes, 1999. - Video : VHS; 21 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Netherlands * Beira * Amsterdam (Netherlands) * city-linking * fire brigade * 

vocational education * history; 1990s 

Summary: 

Beelden van trainingen van de brandweer van Beira, onder leiding 

van Jan Peursum en Leen van der Laan, twee Amsterdamse 

brandweerlieden, op hun laatste missie in 1999, afgewisseld met 

interviewfragmenten waarin de heren de geschiedenis van het 

brandweerproject Amsterdam - Beira vertellen en laten merken dat ze 

het moeilijk vinden om er mee te stoppen ('het is eigenlijk nog 

veel te vroeg ook om er mee te stoppen....') Ze hebben in 10 jaar 

drie brandweerkorpsen opgeleid en van materiaal voorzien: de 

havenbrandweer, de gemeentelijke brandweer en de 

luchthavenbrandweer. Jan Peursum heeft al hun bezoeken aan de 

zusterstad op video vastgelegd. Gelukkig verschijnt op het laatst 

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de tekst: Jan en Leen gaan in September 2000 weer zes weken training 

geven in Beira. De gemeente Amsterdam heeft na de ramp in Mozambique 

extra geld beschikbaar gesteld voor de wederopbouw van haar partnerstad Beira. 


Amsterdam - Beira : banden van vriendschap - fragmenten / reg. Bert Sonnenschein. - Nederland, 

Amsterdam ; Mozambique, Maputo : AT5-E ; NiZA ; Iris Imaginaçäes, 1999. - Video : VHS; 14 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Netherlands * Beira * Amsterdam (Netherlands) * city-linking * fire brigade * 

vocational education * history; 1990s 

Summary: 

Beelden van trainingen van de brandweer van Beira, onder leiding 

van Jan Peursum en Leen van der Laan, twee Amsterdamse 

brandweerlieden, op hun laatste missie in 1999, afgewisseld met 

interviewfragmenten waarin de heren de geschiedenis van het 

brandweerproject Amsterdam - Beira vertellen en laten merken dat ze 

het moeilijk vinden om er mee te stoppen ('het is eigenlijk nog 

veel te vroeg ook om er mee te stoppen....') Ze hebben in 10 jaar 

drie brandweerkorpsen opgeleid en van materiaal voorzien: de 

havenbrandweer, de gemeentelijke brandweer en de luchthavenbrandweer. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VMZ 064a * Voor de complete film zie VMZ 064 

Waterputten Beira. - [s.l.] : [s.n.]. - Video : VHS; 16 min. B/W picture, no sound 


Keywords: * Mozambique * water supply 

Summary: 

Zwart wit beelden van allerhande waterputten en mensen met vaten en 

dergelijke wachtend bij gemeenschappelijke kranen. Zwart/wit film zonder geluid. 


Dondo no dhondo = Dondo in the woods : O amanhecer dos Bairros = The awakening of the Bairros 

Com as suas mÃos = With their hands A força delas = Their power / real. Kurt Greussing. - Austria, 

Vienna : North-South Institute for Development Coorperation, 2000. - Video : VHS; 11, 6, 10 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Dondo * local government * civic associations * civic education * gender equality 

* timber industry 

Summary: 

Three short films about the city of Dondo in Sofala province, 

Mozambique. : Dondo is a rural town with poor public services. 

Therefore Development Committees are formed in each beirra 

(township), stimulating their local population to resolve their own 

problems, using their own resources. Examples of street cleaning 

and garbage collection projects; the construction of latrines, 

acces roads and water pumps; and - in coorperation with the city 

council - the development of a management system for water pumps 

(English comment and voice-over). : Images of the sawmill Moflor 

in Dondo, without text. : "Their" in the title refers to the 

women of Dondo. As an example of their strength we see a woman 

repairing a water pump (text in Portuguese). 


Djaaka / Casa de Cultura da Beira. - Mozambique, Beira : Djaaka, 2002 [?]. - Video : VHS; 42 min. 


Keywords: * Mozambique * music * traditional culture 

Summary: 

Performances van de Beiraese band Djaaka, die traditionele en 

moderne stijlen met elkaar vermengen. Deze succesvolle band maakt 

gebruik van traditionele instrumenten en percussie uit de regio. 

Zij ontwikkelen daarbij hun eigen ritmes en teksten. Djaaka is 

vernoemd naar de gelijknamige vrucht 'Jaca' van een boom. De wortel 

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van die boom wordt door medicijnmannen voorgeschreven voor zaken 

als de versterking van het huiselijk leven, vriendschappen. Een 

origineel en wervelend gezelschap met een aanstekelijke performance 


Looting the nation / prod. and dir. by Rehad Desai, Anita Khanna. - South Africa, Johannesburg : Uhuru 

productions, 2004. - Video : VHS; 30 min. English subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Banco Austral * BCM * corruption * donor-recipient relation * IMF * World Bank * 

good governance * justice system * organised crime * Cardoso, Carlos Alberto (1952-2000) * privatisation 

Summary: 

Documentary about the growing corruption and organised crime in 

Mozambique, partly instigated by donors like World Bank and IMF, 

who care more about interest rates than about corrupting the 

system. Special attention for the bank scandals that occurred with 

the privatisation of the Banco Austral and the BCM, and the murders 

of journalist Carlos Cardoso and bank manager Antonio Siba Siba 

Macuacua, who were investigating these cases. Interviews with 

Roberto Tibana, economic analyst; Joe Hanlon, author and political 

analyst; Isabel Rupia, head of the Anti Corruption Unit; the late 

Carlos Cardoso;Judge Trendade, director of Centre for Legal 

Reform; Fernando Lima, director of Scoop (press bureau), and the 

widows of Carlos Cardoso and Antonio Siba Siba Macuacua. 


De nieuwe wereldorde : Mozambique / Diogenes. - Nederland, Hilversum : VPRO, 1993 [?]. - Video : VHS; 

19 min. Start: na 90 min. Dutc subtitles when necessary. Tape MC 1410 


Keywords: * Mozambique * ONUMOZ * Nampula (city) * bureaucracy 

Summary: 

Documentaire over de bureaucratische en logistieke problemen bij 

het installeren van VN-vredesmacht ONUMOZ in Nampula in noord-Mozambique. 


Elsa's place / Marijke Vreeburg ; Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : KRO/RKK, 1992. - Video : VHS; 9 min. 

Start: na 63 min. Nederlands ondertiteld, want vrnl. gesproken in lokale Mozambikaanse taal. Tape MC 1386 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Maputo (city) * women-headed households * labour migration * informal sector 

Summary: 

Reportage over het leven in Maputo. Elsa Samuel Dos Santos verdient 

haar geld met een illegaal café in de hoofdstad, aangezien haar man 

als migrant in de Zuidafrikaanse goudmijnen werkt. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VMZ 070 * Also on VSA 009 

Mozambique : Gorongoza / Marijke Vreeburg ; Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON/KRO/RKK, 1992. - 

Video : VHS; 10 min. Start: na 79 min. Tape MC 1386. Dutch comment and subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Gorongosa (district) * peace agreements * RENAMO * FRELIMO * soldiers * 

reconciliation * malnutrition * child mortality 

Summary: 

Reportage over Gorongoza, waar tot voorkort een Renamo-kamp was, en 

waar een paar weken na de ondertekening van het vredesakkoord 

Frelimo en Renamo soldaten samen naar een voetbalwedstrijd kijken, 

en vertellen dat ze nu gericht zijn op verbroedering. Verder aandacht 

voor de hongersnood, veroorzaakt door de burgeroorlog en de droogte. 


The tree of our forefathers / reg. Licinio Azevedo. - Nederland, Hilversum : RVU, 1994. - Video : VHS; 49 

min. Start: na 37 min. Tape MC 1512. Dutch voice-over and subtitles 


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Keywords: * Mozambique * Tete (prov.) * civil war * peace agreements * refugees * returnees * RENAMO * 

landmines * mortality 

Summary: 

Documentaire over Mozambicanen die een jaar na het vredesakkoord 

uit een vluchtelingenkamp in Malawi terugkeren naar huis (Tete). De 

reis duurt lang door het gebrek aan transport, en er zijn veel 

doden te betreuren. Als ze hun land eindelijk bereiken, proberen ze 

hun bestaan weer op te bouwen. Met prachtige muziek. 


Mozambique: nog steeds gaan we dood / reg. Marijke Vreeburg ; Kenmerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

IKON/KRO/RKK, 1992. - Video : VHS; 9 min. Start: na 9 min. Tape MC 1388. Dutch comment & subtitles 


Keywords: * Mozambique * Gaza * drought * drinking water * famine 

Summary: 

Reportage over de hongersnood in Mozambique: ditmaal de provincie Gaza. 


Zapping International : Das Fernsehen der Mosambikaner / Aldo Lee. - France, Paris : ARTE France ; 

Point du Jour, 2007. - Video : VHS; 27 min. German voice-over, comment and subtitles 


Keywords: * Mozambique * television * freedom of expression * sex education * traditional healers 

Summary: 

Documentaire over de Mozambicaanse televisiezenders en 

-programma's. Tegenwoordig kunnen Mozambikanen kiezen uit tal van 

commerciële televisiezenders, naast de aloude staatszender 

(Frelimozender) TVM. Dankzij de recent verworven vrijheid van 

meningsuiting wordt niet alleen meer het regeringsstandpunt 

uitgezonden, maar is er ruimte voor muziekzenders, (Braziliaanse) 

telenovela-zenders, HIV/AIDS voorlichting voor de jeugd, komische 

series, voetbal en natuurlijk veel praatprogramma's ('de Mozambikanen 

houden van televisie omdat ze zoveel van praten houden'). 


Tendai : wij naar school, zij naar school / Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika. - Nederland, Amsterdam : KZA, 1992. - 



Keywords: * Zimbabwe * Netherlands * secondary education * educational aid 

Summary: 

Een film van Nederlandse coöperanten van het Komité Zuidelijk 

Afrika, die, terug in Nederland, een geldinzamelingsactie op 

middelbare scholen houden om het schoolgeld te betalen van speciaal 

door hen geselecteerde, getalenteerde leerlingen, wier ouders het 

schoolgeld door de grote droogte in 1992 niet kunnen betalen. Een 

dia-show over het leven in Zimbabwe, met Nederlandse tekst. 

Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood * VZW 001 

Keeping a live voice : 15 years of democracy in Zimbabwe / dir. and prod. by Edwina Spicer ; music John 

Oakley-Smith, Thomas Mapfumo ; cam. Tzvika Rozen. - Zimbabwe, Harare : Edwina Spicer Productions, 

1995. - Video : VHS; 84 min. 

Produced for the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace by Edwina Spicer Productions. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * democracy * corruption * political violence * drought * censorship * resettlement * 

land restitution 

Summary: 

A pessimistic overview of the first 15 years of Zimbabwe's 

independence, focussing on problems like government corruption, 

lack of freedom of expression, strife between government and 

unions, failing economic development, violence between ZANU and 

ZAPU, land acquisition act, etc. The cover of the video states 

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optimisticly that democracy is alive in Zimbabwe: "if this were not 

the case, this video could not have been made". 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZW 002 

Benjamins droom. Zimbabwe / dir. by Tijs Tinbergen ; De Wereldboot. - Nederland, Den Haag : Musch en 

Tinbergen ; Bureau Voorlichtingsmiddelen (DVL/VM), 1997. - Video : VHS; 30 min. Dutch subtitles. 

Geproduceerd door Musch & Tinbergen, in opdracht van de Direktie 

Voorlichting Ontwikkelingssamenwerking van het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken. Opgenomen i.s.m. 

Framework International Ltd. te Harare. 


Keywords: * Netherlands * Zimbabwe * educational materials (form) * primary education * game reserves 

Summary: 

Video for primary education purposes, from the Dutch Ministry of 

Foreign Affairs.The story of Benjamin, a young kid who lives in a 

game reserve, dreams of becoming an elephant trainer in a circus. 


Side by side : women against AIDS in Zimbabwe / dir. by Peter Davis ; Women and AIDS Support 

Network. - Zimbabwe, Harare : Villon Films, 1993 ¸. - Video : VHS; 46 min. 

Co-produced by Harvey McKinnon Productions and Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * women * HIV/AIDS * sex education 

Summary: 

In Zimbabwe an estimated 10 % of the population is infected with 

HIV/AIDS. In Africa the burden of the disease falls most heavily on 

women. In response women are uniting to seek new strategies to halt 

the spread of the disease. 

Remarks: Picture quality: bad * VZW 004 

Mavhudzi, secondary school in Zimbabwe / Lisette Rens, Henk Frencken, Bart van der Heijden, Wilma 

Derks. - Zimbabwe, Nyazura : [s.n.], 1984. - Video : VHS; 37 min. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * Netherlands * secondary schools * education programmes * vocational education 

Summary: 

Een film door Nederlandse cooperanten gemaakt over de school 

Mavhudzi in Zimbabwe die na de onafhankelijkheid is opgericht om 

terugkerende vluchtelingen en vrijheidsstrijders een mogelijkheid 

te bieden om hun onderwijsachterstand in te lopen. Met aandacht 

voor het 'Education with production' onderwijssysteem, dwz veel 

aandacht voor agrarische en technische vaardigheden. 


Mavhudzi Zimbabwe : eine Schule für ein neues Land / Christliche Friedesdienst. - Schweiz, Bern : 

Christliche Friedesdienst, 1982. - Video : VHS; 30 min. 

German subtitles when necessary and German comment. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * secondary schools * education policy * independence struggle * international 

economic dependence 

Summary: 

A video about the building of the school, the educational concept 

of 'education with production', the hardship during the liberation 

war (shown in lots of b/w pictures) and the still strong (economic) 

dependence on South Africa. 


Roffels voor Rhodesië / dir. by Jane Howell. - Nederland, Hilversum : NOS, 1986. - Video : VHS; 70 min. 

Oorspronkelijke titel: Drums along Balmoral drive. Nederlands ondertiteld. 


Keywords: * Rhodesia * Zimbabwe 

Summary: 

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TV-drama over een blank echtpaar dat de machtswisseling van Rhodesië 

naar Zimbabwe meemaakt. De man probeert zich noodgedwongen aan de 

nieuwe omstandigheden aan te passen, voor de vrouw is het leven zinloos geworden. 

Remarks: Picture quality: ? * VZW 007 

Een land op de rand van Afrika : Zimbabwe / samenst. en reg. Han van der Meer ; red., prod. en resea 

Anneke Lubberts, Dirk Jan Roeleven ; Ver van mijn bed show. - Nederland, Hilversum : KRO/RKK, 1989. - 



Keywords: * Zimbabwe * interviews (form) * social issues * social-economic conditions * history; 1980s 

Summary: 

Han van der Meer reist rond in Zimbabwe en geeft een positief beeld 

van het land na 10 jaar onafhankelijkheid dmv interviews met oa 

Eddison Zvobgo (minister), Ian Smith (ex-premier), Julia Zvogbo 

(parlementslid), Thomas Mapfumo (musician), Gerard Stroobach 

(geëmigreerde Zuid-Afrikaan), Jonathan Moyo (politicoloog), Jan 

Smitsman (geëmigreerde Nederlandse Bloemenkweker). 


lilliane fonds in Zimbabwe / Tweede Lijn. - Nederland, Hilversum : Veronica, 1989. - Video : VHS; 23 min. 



Keywords: * Zimbabwe * health care * disabled people 

Summary: 

Documentaire over het werk van het Liliane fonds in Zimbabwe, waar 

gewerkt wordt - volgens de uitgangspunten voor revalidatie van de 

WHO - aan community-based revalidatieprojecten, met opleidingen tot 

revalidatie-assistent voor vrijwilligers, diepatienten in hun 

dorp opzoeken en daar behandelen. 


Nhasi tave nehama : No longer alone / dir. by Ann Holmes ; prod. Edwin Angless ; Women and AIDS 

Support Network. - Zimbabwe, Harare : WASN ; Capricorn Video Unit, 1993. - Video : VHS; 48 min. 



Keywords: * Zimbabwe * HIV/AIDS * health workers * traditional healers * sex education 

Summary: 

Dramatized production about how to deal with aids in your home 

situation; when to use condoms (not only with your girlfriends but 

also with your wife); a traditional healer tells he cannot heal aids; 

and about the advantages of forming aids support groups for mutual support. 

Remarks: Picture quality: notsogood. * VZW 009 

Dancing out of tune : a history of the media in Zimbabwe / dir. and ed. Edwina Spicer ; cam. Tsvika 

Rosen ; research Richard Saunders. - Zimbabwe, Harare : Edwina Spicer Productions, 1999. - Video : VHS; 

56 min. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * media * censorship * freedom of the press 

Summary: 

This video examines the current limitations of and challenges to 

Zimbabwe's media by placing them within the context of the country's history. 


Skills around the world : Zimbabwe 1999 / stichting Beroepenpromotie Nederland. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1999. - 



Keywords: * Zimbabwe * educational aid * educational projects * vocational education * construction industry 

Summary: 

Video about 'skills across the world' teams that teach local 

communities in Zimbabwe how to construct houses, schools and 

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furniture. The last minutes show how the experiences of the Zimbabwean 

project are used for a similar case for Kosovo refugees in Liechtenstein. 


Nkuleleko means freedom / dir. by Ron Hallis, Ophera Hallis. - Zimbabwe, Harare : [s.n.], 1982. - Video : 

VHS; 28 min. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * education programmes * education policy 

Summary: 

Produced in Zimbabwe, the film features the pilot schools for 

education with production. It shows how academic education and 

practical subjects can be integrated and demonstrates education 

with production in building, agriculture and cattle ranching. It 

encourages cooperativeness and colletivism as well as the linking 

of theory and practice. The highlights of this film are interviews 

with the Hon. Prime Minister, comrade R.G. Mugabe, His Excellency 

President Canaan Banana and the minister of education, comrade D.B. 

Mutumbuka who all proclaim very clearly the Government new policy 

on education. It is a very lively film and should prove useful to 

those who wish to implement Education with Production. 


How to vote : a step by step guide / Zimbabwe Election Support Network. - Zimbabwe, Harare : Zimbabwe 

Election Support Network, 2001. - Video : VHS; 10 min. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * voter education * political participation 

Summary: 

A step by step description of the voting process, by the Zimbabwe Election Support Network. 


Big balls / dir. by Heeten Bhagat ; Steps for the future. – South Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, Tampere : Day 

Zero Film and Video ; YLE, 2001. - Video : VHS; 4 min. 



Keywords: * Zimbabwe * men * HIV/AIDS 

Summary: 

Two men are atwork. One is black and the other is white. They are 

building something together, but there is tension. Their 

conversation is raw, peppered with innuendo and tales of supposed 

conquests. As they talk they spar with words, meaning little but 

saying so much. Funny yet devastating cruel. It becomes clear that 

those conquests will ultimately be their demise... 


Ndodii / dir. by Farai Matambidzanwa ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape Town ; Finland, Tampere : 





Keywords: * Zimbabwe * traditional culture * HIV/AIDS * widows 

Summary: 

Set in a remote village in Zimbabwe, the film depicts the impact of 

HIV/AIDS on the traditional practice of wife inheritance. Mai 

Tawanda, an HIV+ widow, is instructed by her elders to choose a new 

husband. Faced with the reality of being ostracized and blamed for 

her husband's death, she is challenged with the choice of breaking tradition. 


A fighting spirit / dir. by Leo Phiri ; cam. Michael Schlömer ; Steps for the future. - South Africa, Cape Town 


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Keywords: * Zimbabwe * HIV/AIDS * boxing 

Summary: 

A national hero turns public enemy, when he confesses his tragic 

secret. Gilbert Josamu, Zimbabwean middle-weight boxing champion, 

discovered he was HIV positive at the height of his career. Living 

in a society where HIV/AIDS is taboo, Josamu forged his medical 

certificate and continued to pursue his career. Just months before 

he died, Josamu finally confessed to having lived with HIV for 14 

years. The public outrage that followed forced him into his 

toughest fight yet: the battle for acceptance. This is a story told 

by those who are still alive. 


Food distribution in Zimbabwe / dir. by Edwina Spicer. - Zimbabwe, [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2002. - Video : VHS; 14 

min. English subtitles when necessary 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * Masvingo (prov.) * political opposition parties * political discrimination * famine relief 

* MDC 

Summary: 

About the politically influenced famine relief schemes of the Zimbabwean 

government, and the problems that delivers to MDC members/voters. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good. * VZW 016 

Prayers for peace. - Zimbabwe, [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2002. - Video : VHS; 20 min. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * Bulawayo * ZANU-PF * church and society * political opposition 

Summary: 

About prayers for peace and testimonies of political violence by 

ZanuPF supporters, in a church in Bulawayo. Ao archbishop Pius 

Ncube of Matabeleland and bishop Pius Dlongwane from South Africa. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good, but only the first 6 mins. After that only * darkness + sound. * VZW 017 

Zimbabwe after the elections : post poll 2002. - Zimbabwe, [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2002. - Video : VHS; 20 min. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * presidential elections * political violence * MDC * ZANU-PF 

Summary: 

About the retribution against opposition supporters (MDC) after the 

presidential elections of 2002, in a rural area in Zimbabwe. 

Shocking evidence of beatings, rape and wanton destruction. 


Zimbabwe before the elections : fighting for rights : pre poll 2002. - Zimbabwe, [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2002. - 

Video : VHS; 45 min Produced for DANIDA (Danish international development assistance) 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * presidential elections * political violence * ZANU-PF * MDC 

Summary: 

Reports about the situation in Zimbabwe before the presidential 

elections of 2002: about the political violence of ZanuPF 

supporters against MDC members, the lack of access to public media 

of the opposition, and the partial treatment of candidates and 

their supporters by the police, the army and the courts. 


Never the same again : Zimbabwe's growth towards democracy 1980-2000 / prod. and dir. by Edwina 

Spicer. - Zimbabwe, Harare : Edwina Spicer Productions, 2000. - Video : VHS; 90 min. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * history; 1980s * history; 1990s * democratisation 

Summary: 

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Since independence the government of Zimbabwe has demonstrated its 

unwillingness to accommodate and reflect the diversity of opinion 

in Zimbabwe. But the resilience of civil society shows that Zimbabweans 

are determined to demand their rights to be heard. Never the Same Again 

examines Zimbabwe's growth towards a more plural and democratic society. 

Remarks: picture quality: good * VZW 020 

My land my life / dir. by Rehad Desai ; music Oliver Mtukudzi. - Zimbabwe, Harare : Ice Media ; Uhuru 

productions, 2002. - Video : VHS; 52 min. 

Produced in association with SBS-TV Australia & ICE Films Zimbabwe. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * veteran soldiers * land reform * ZANU-PF * MDC * Second Chimurenga 

Summary: 

A film about the land reform program of Robert Mugabe. Set in the 

farmlands of the tense and violent Mashonaland East Area, the story 

is told by white farmers, black farmworkers and war veterans, each 

with their own point of view. Shot over the three-month period 

preceeding the presidential elections.Also with a short history 

of the Second Chimurenga (independence struggle). 


Zimbabwean TV-night. - Zimbabwe, Harare : ZBC, 1983 ?. - Video : VHS; 141 min. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * ZBC * music * Swaziland * Thailand 

Summary: 

A video with Zimbabwean television: a music program, showing a 

number of bands (ao Tom Brothers and Bhundu Boys); a documentary 

about Swaziland; one about Thailand; an item about a new 

celebration day for mr. Mugabe (with rushes of a visiting Kim Il 

Sung, singing the praise of Mugabe). 

Remarks: Picture quality: not so good * VZW 022 

Free and fair? / Amani Trust. - Zimbabwe, Harare : Crisis in Zimbabwe Co-ordinating Committee, 2002. - 



Keywords: * Zimbabwe * ZANU-PF * MDC * political violence * elections 

Summary: 

Video about the violence in the last two years the Zanu-PF and 

president Mugabe are using to intimidate the opposition, usually 

MDC members. Witnesses and victims tell their stories: ao Aniko 

Chikuwanyanga, father of the murdered Trymore; Tendai Biti, 

MDC-activist; Anthony Reeler, chairman of Amani Trust Harare; 

Tawanka Hondora, from the Lawyers for Human Rights. 


In a dark time / dir. and prod. by Edwina Spicer. - Zimbabwe, Harare : Edwina Spicer Productions, 2003. - 

Video : VHS. For protection, the film maker and women interviewed have remained anonymous. 



Keywords: * Zimbabwe * political youth organisations * political violence * sexual violence 

Summary: 

In the violence that has surrounded the Presidential Elections in 

March 2002, many women were rapedby the "Green Bombers", a 

government-created youth brigade, to punish women and communities 

that are supporting Zimbabwe's opposition party MDC. In this 

documentary the testimonies of three victims. 


Songs in the night: prayers for peace in Zimbabwe / Solidarity Peace Trust. - Zimbabwe, Harare : [s.n.], 

2003. - Video : VHS; 23 min. English subtitles when necessary 

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Keywords: * Zimbabwe * political violence * church and society 

Summary: 

On 27 February 2003, church leaders from Zimbabwe and South Africa 

gathered in the Bulawayo Catholic Cathedral along with a 

congregation of over one thousand to bear witness to the tortured, 

and to offer prayers for healing and peace. Zimbabweans from five 

provinces came forward and testified, relating pesonal ordeals of 

torture and loss. Candles were lit and placed on the altar in 

solidarity with the suffering. To commemorate the scores killed in 

political violence in the last two years, wooden crosses were carried 

through the church in a procession led by the Archbishop of Bulawayo, Pius Ncube. 


Die blutige Reform / David Muntaner. - Frankreich, Strasburg : ARTE, 2003. - Video : VHS; 25 min. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * land allocation * land invasions * land tenure * land policy * farm workers * 

commercial farmers * drought 

Summary: 

Eine Agrar-Reform kündigte Präsident Robert Mugabe vor drei Jahren 

an, um die Wahlchancen der starken Opposition zu mindern. Er 

versprach der schwarzen Mehrheit, das Land der Farmen und Ranches 

umzuverteilen - 70 Procent der extrem fruchtbaren Erde Simbabwes 

gehörten bis dahin der weiáen Minderheit, also nur einem Prozent 

der Bevölkerung. Mugabe gewann und das Unglück nahm seinen Lauf. 

Zuerst bediente sich die Clique um den Präsidenten: sie nahmen sich 

die Filetstücke per staatlicher Enteignung und dann ermutigten sie 

das Volk, die 4500 weisen Familien in Eigenregie, also blutig und 

mit allen Mitteln, von ihrem land zu vertreiben. Die Jahren danach 

ist die Balanz verheerend; die Landbesitznahme durch die schwarze 

Mehrheit vernichtete mit vielen Existenzen auch das Wissen der 

Weiáen um die Bearbeitung des Bodens. Heute liegt die einst 

produktivste und modernste Landwirtschaft Ostafrikas am Boden: die 

neuen schwarzen Landbesitzer sind noch ärmer als zuvor, 6 Milionen 

Menschen in Simbabwe hungern und Mugabe ist noch immer an der Macht. 


Bowl out Mugabe / reg. Raymond Bouwman ; In de ban van sport. - Nederland, Hilversum : RTL5, 2003. - 



Keywords: * Zimbabwe * Netherlands * cricket * sports and society 

Summary: 

Documentaire over de wereldkampioenschappen cricket in 2003 en de 

Nederlandse deelname daaraan, ondanks de situatie in Zimbabwe, waar 

ook een wedstrijd gespeeld moet worden. Interviews met Wiep Bassie 

van Zimbabwe Watch (tegen deelname); René van Ierschot, de 

voorzitter van de Nederlandse cricketbond die graag als a-politieke 

nitwit optreedt, en politiek een zaak van de overheid en niet van 

de cricketbond vindt; Clémence Ross, demissionair staatssecretaris 

van sport, die vindt dat de cricketbond ook een eigen 

verantwoordelijkheid heeft (en dus weg had moeten blijven), 

bondscoach Emmerson Trotman ("ik heb geen tijd voor politiek"), en 

beelden uit Zimbabwe, waar de cameraploegvan RTL5 werd opgepakt 

toen ze wachtrijen voor de winkels filmden. Ook beelden van 

slachtoffers van Mugabe, die tijdens een kerkdienst getuigden van 

marteling, en later weer werden opgepakt.. 


A legitimate election / Solidarity Peace Trust. - Zimbabwe, Harare : Solidarity Peace Trust, 2003. - Video : 

VHS; 43 min. 

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Keywords: * Zimbabwe * presidential elections * political violence * politically motivated crime * human rights 

violations * election monitoring 

Summary: 

Documentary about the presidential elections in Zimbabwe in 2002. 

Comments of voters, waiting in endless lines, due to the reduction 

of the number of polling stations in urban regions; civil society 

groups like Zimbabwe Election Support Network, Zim Crisis 

Coalition; and from opposition politicians (MDC). Also with 

statements of the different election observer missions: the South 

African observer mission states that the elections were legitimate, 

though they may not have been 'free and fair'. 


Rust voor Busani's geest [Healing the spirit] / dir. by Edwina Spicer. - Nederland, Amsterdam : Amnesty 

International, Afdeling Nederland ; Humanistische Omroep, 2001. - Video : VHS; 39 min. 

English subtitles, Dutch comment & voice-over 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * Matabeleland * Matabele (people) * repression * political violence * trauma 

therapies * death rituals * Amani Trust 

Summary: 

Documentary about the trauma therapy the Amani Trust is using in 

Matabeleland to heal the wounds of the next of kin of the victims 

of the operation Gukurahundi of the Fifth Brigade, the elite troops 

of the Zimbabwean government who tortured en killed many Ndebele in 

the 1980s. Research of the Amani Trust showed that 50% of the 

population suffered from depressions and apathy, caused by the 

repression in the eighties.The therapy consists of the exhumation 

and the reburial of the corpses of the victims on family grounds, 

in attendance of family and clergy. Here the case of Elisabeth 

Dube, who lost her nephew Busani in 1984, is presented. 


De vrienden van Mugabe / Roel van Broekhoven ; Dokwerk. - Nederland, Hilversum : NPS, 2002. - Video : 

VHS; 58 min. Dutch subtitles & voice over 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * Mugabe, Robert Gabriel (1924-) * history; 1960s * history; 1970s * history; 1980s * 


Summary: 

Old friends of Mugabe are interviewed and tell why they are 

dissappointed in their former comrade. They are: Edgar Tekere 

(former secretary-general of ZANU), Wilfred Mhanda (former 

commander of the liberation army), Edison Zvobo (founder of ZANU), 

James Chikerema (former freedom fighter), Pius Ncube (Archbissshop 

of Bulawayo) and Mike Davis (former ZANU-supporter). 


Five days in May / Panorama. - UK, London : BBC, 2003. - Video : VHS; 40 min 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * political discrimination * political opposition * torture 

Summary: 

A Panorama team spent five days in May under cover in Zimbabwe. 

Interviews with opposition activists and MPs, like Job Sikhala, MP 

for the MDC, who got arrested and tortured. His story made Andy 

Flower, white cricket captain, and Henry Olonga, black test 

cricketplayer, to wear black bandages to mourn the dead of 

democracy, in an important match. Both were forced in exile. The 

brother of Henry, Victor Olonga, Zimbabwe rugby captain, is still 

supporting Mugabe: "I support my government because my government 

is supporting me". Andrew Meldrum, Zimbabwe correspondent of The 

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Guardian since 1980, was declared enemy of the state and forced in 

exile in May 2003. But Mugabe still enjoys support from a large 

number of people,in Zimbabwe as well as in other African 

countries, like South Africa, were at Walter Sisulu's funeral he 

was greeted with a standing ovation. 

Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VZW 031 

National Youth Service training in Zimbabwe : "shaping youths in a truly Zimbabwean Manner" / 

Solidarity Peace Trust. - Zimbabwe, Harare : Solidarity Peace Trust, 2003. - Video : VHS; 14 min. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * political youth organisations * murders * sexual violence * church and society 

Summary: 

Two church officials, Pius Ncube and Kevin Dowling (from South 

Africa) present a report of the Solidarity Peace Trust about the 

youth militia and the violence they commit (the usual murder and 

rape). Two former youth militias tell their stories. 


Blanke angst : verjaagd uit Afrika / prod. en reg. door Rob Hof ; Dokument. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

NCRV ; Hof Filmprodukties, 2003. - Video : VHS; 55 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary. 

Part 2 is on VZW 33A 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * land reform * whites * land invasions * commercial farmers * farm workers * veteran 

soldiers 

Summary: 

Part one of this documentary shows the cases of some white farmers 

in Zimbabwe who were driven from their land by the so-called 

'war-veterans'. Not only the whites but also their black 

farmworkers are unhappy with the developments, since they loose 

their jobs and often also their houses. Also a Dutch farmerswife, 

who after two and a half year of harrasment, finally left for the USA. 


Blanke angst : de laatste Nederlander / prod. en reg. door Rob Hof ; Dokument. - Nederland, Hilversum : 

NCRV ; Hof Filmprodukties, 2003. - Video : VHS; 40 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary 

Part one is on VZW 33. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * land reform * whites * land invasions * commercial farmers * veteran soldiers 

Summary: 

Part two of this documentary shows the cases of some white farmers 

in Zimbabwe who were driven from their land by the so-called 

'war-veterans'. With many staged scenes to rise the emotional 

impact, unfortunately at the expense of its credibility. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZW 033a 

Secrets of the camps / Reporter Hilary Andersson ; prod. by Jonathan Brunert ; ed. by Mike Robinson ; 

Panorama. - UK, London : BBC, 2004. - Video : VHS; 40 min. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * youth * militarisation * military bases * human rights violations * political youth 

organisations * politically motivated crime 

Summary: 

Panorama exposes the secret camps in Zimbabwe, where Robert 

Mugabe's government trains thousands of youths - some only twelve 

years old - to rape , torture and kill. In their training camps the 

Zimbabwean government is subjecting thousands of innocent youths to 

rape, brainwashing and brutality. It is all part of an horrific 

process designed to mould youths loyal to Robert Mugabe and his 

ZANU party. Panorama has tracked down dozens of these young people 

who reveal how they are taught to torture and kill. They testify to 

murdering opponents of Mugabe's government, and they reveal the 

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utal regime inside the camps themselves. 


Soul in torment / dir. by Prudence Uriri. - Zimbabwe, Harare ; South Africa, Johannesburg : Capricorn Video 

Unit ; SACOD, 1999. - Video : VHS; 27 min. 

Part of the SACOD series 'Landscape of memory', produced by Don Edkins. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * Second Chimurenga * Matabeleland * civil war * torture * political violence * human 

rights violations * military 

Summary: 

Documentary about the massacre in Matabeleland in the early 1980s. 

Interviews with victims and former soldiers of Mugabe's Fifth Brigade. 

Nobody seems to know why these mass killings were ordered by president Mugabe. 


One man one vote? : how the 2002 presidential elections in Zimbabwe were won / Solidarity Peace 

Trust. - Zimbabwe, Harare : Solidarity Peace Trust, 2004 (May). - Video : VHS; 22 min. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * presidential elections * election laws * election monitoring * election results * MDC 

Summary: 

Ever since Zimbabwe's first democratic elections in 1980, there 

have been accusations that the voters roll is a shambles. In the 

run up to the 2002 presidential elections, the main opposition 

party MDC was denied access to the updated presidentiaL voters 

roll. Further it was discoverd that after the official ending of 

the voters registration proces in January 2002 there had been a 

secret registration of 400.000 voters, the same number by which 

Mugabe claimed to have won the elections. According to an 

investigation by the MDC, there could be as many as 2 million - or 

35% - bogus voters on the roll. Interviews with ao Morgan Tsvangirai. 


Zimbabwe : human rights abuses versus imperialist propaganda ploys / Zimbabwe TV. - Zimbabwe, 

Harare : ZTV, 2004. - Video : VHS; 37 min. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * ZANU-PF * African Union * MDC * UK * human rights * election campaigns * 

electoral system * imperialism * neo-colonialism 

Summary: 

Fragments of Zimbabwean television, dealing with a negative report 

on the human rights situation in Zimbabwe, presented at the African 

Union ministers meeting in Addis Ababa, which is concocted by the 

British secret service and its allies (US), in order to discredit 

the land reform program and to demonise Zimbabwe in the eye of the 

world, in order to further their imperialist and neo-colonial 

goals, using ngo's and 'puppet opposition party MDC' to disturb the 

country and bring about an illegal regime change. Comments by 

amongst others Jonathan Mojo (Minister of Information and 

Publicity) and Stan Mudenge(Minister of Foreign affairs). This is 

also the reason why access to the public media of opposition 

parties, as is requqired by the SADC rules for free and fair 

elections, will be denied to the MDC, as Patrick Chinamasa 

(minister of Justice, Legal and Parly Affairs), states in 

parliament. Blairs puppets would only use the opportunity to 

announce daily that they would remove Mugabe by violence. 


No war in Zimbabwe / Solidarity Peace Trust. - South Africa, Port Shepstone : Solidarity Peace Trust, 2004. 



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Keywords: * Zimbabwe * South Africa * refugees * xenophobia * forcible repatriation * refugee camps * 

refugee policy * torture * human rights violations 

Summary: 

A video about the plight of Zimbabwean refugees in South Africa. 

The Zimbawean government estimates that there are about 3.4 million 

refugees, or 66% of the productive adult population. Refugees tell 

their stories about torture and intimidation, and how dissapointed 

they are about the reception in South Africa, where they are 

confronted with corrupt Home Affair employees and corrupt police 

(both admitted by the Secretary-General of the Dept. of Home 

Affairs, Barry Gilder), and a government that denies the problem of 

Zimbabwean refugees, because admitting that would mean they would 

have to admit the gravity of the crisis in Zimbabwe, and there is 

no political will to do so. Also about the xenophobia of the South 

Africans themselves, and the bad circumstances in Lindela Holding 

Camp, where refugees are gathered for forcible repatriation. 


Manufacturing content : Noam Chomsky and the media / Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick. - Netherlands, 

Utrecht : Humanistisch Verbond, 1994 [?]. - Video : VHS; 123 min. Dutch subtitled. Start: na 33 min. 


Keywords: * democracy * freedom of the press * freedom of expression * media industry * media coverage * 

media policy * censorship * business 

Summary: 

Een documentaire over de politieke ideeën van Noam Chomsky, 

Amerikaans activist en taalwetenschapper, met name over democratie 

en media en de rol van de elite versus de 'gewone man'. 


Van Kenia naar Kaapstad : Zimbabwe / reg. Anette Kentie ; samenst. en eindred. Aad van den Heuvel. - 

Nederland, Hilversum : KRO, 1993. - Video : VHS; 32 min. Dutch subtitles when necessary. Tape MC 1446 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * Matabeleland * drought * water utilisation * famine * famine relief * wildlife 

management * poaching * Great Zimbabwe * African NGOs (other) * Shona culture * HIV/AIDS 

Summary: 

Een documentaire over de situatie in Zimbabwe, en met name in 

Matabeleland, een jaar na de droogte die grote hongersnood 

veroorzaakte. Met aandacht voor de burgeroorlog die er in het begin 

van de 1980s woedde, nieuwe watermanagement systemen om de droogte 

te bestrijden, het stropen van olifanten en zwarte neushoorns voor 

hun ivoor en de strijd hiertegen, het werk van de Catholic Development 

Commission (CADEC), de Shona culture en Great Zimbabwe, en de HIV/AIDS epidemie. 


De hongermakers / samenst. Tony Verbruggen, Walter Zinzen ; Panorama. - België, Brussel : BRT 1, 1992. 

- Video : VHS; 27 min. Start: na 150 min. Tape MC 1375. Dutch comment and subtitles 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * drought * famine * feeding schemes * trade policy * agricultural policy 

Summary: 

Reportage over de droogte en de dreigende hongersnood in Zimbabwe. 

Volgens Cephas Msipa, hoofd van het bureau voor graanhandel, is de 

droogte (die al drie jaar aanhoudt), de enige oorzaak. Volgens 

anderen, oa Jonathan Moyo, speelt mismanagement bij het beheer van 

de voedselvoorraden door de overheid, die net voor de droogte het 

grootste deel van haar maisvoorraden aan het buitenland verkocht 

heeft, de grootste rol. Anderen geven de schuld aan Wereldbank en 

IMF, die met hun 'structurele aanpassing' misschien wel zorgen dat 

Zimbabwe zijn schulden afbetaald, maar dat wel ten koste van de bevolking laat gaan. 


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Ahnenkult und Geisterglauben : Barfuss zu den Geistern der Ahnen / Heinrich Büttgen ; Gott und die 

Welt. - BRD, Stuttgart : SDR, 1993. - Video : VHS; 28 min. Start: na 3 min. 

German comment and voice-over 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * traditional culture * Roman Catholic Church * ancestors * witches * cults 

Summary: 

Documentaire over voorouder- en geestencultuur in Zimbabwe. Vaak 

zijn deze traditionele praktijken verweven met de praktijk van de rooms-katholieke kerk. 


Out for the count : Zimbabwe elections 2005 / Solidarity Peace Trust. - South Africa, Johannesburg : 

Solidarity Peace Trust, 2005. - Video : VHS; 21 min. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * elections * election monitoring * voter registration * feeding schemes * traditional 

leaders 

Summary: 

Documentary about the 2005 elections in Zimbabwe. Reginald Matchaba 

Hove, of the Zimbabwe Election Support Network, sums up what went 

wrong: the 'climate of fear', the politisation of food aid (not for 

MDC supporters), and voters roll irregularities. Membathisi 

Mdladlana, of the South African Observer Mission, denies that 

anything went wrong, as do Acting Minister of Finance Herbert 

Murerwa and President Mugabe. Shari Eppel, human rights activist, 

relates how the South African Observer Mission refused to be 

informed or to verify the claims about food distribution 

irregularities. Pius Ncube, Archbishop of Bulawayo lets witnesses 

speak about their experiences with the feeding schemes. It appears 

that their chiefs, who are ZANU-PF puppets, refuse to distribute 

food to people who don't attend ZANU-PF rallies or who are known 

MDC-supporters. Welshman Ncube, Secretary General of the MDC, 

doesn't recognise the outcome of the elections. The MDC is 

challenging the results through the Electoral Court. 


Hamburgers in Harare / De keuze van De Keyser. - België, Brussel : TV2, 1998 [?]. - Video : VHS; 49 min. 

Tape MC 1672. Dutch comment and subtitles 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * Harare (city) * food industry * informal sector * rural areas * pop music * small, 

medium and micro enterprises * HIV/AIDS * street children 

Summary: 

Een wonderlijke documentaire, waarin allerlei aspecten van het 

leven in Zimbabwe gekoppeld worden aan de grote populariteit van de 

hamburgers van Wimpy, dat een vestiging heeft in Harare. 


Flüchten um zu überleben / Georg Stingl. - Deutschland, Leipzig : MDR, 1994. - Video : VHS; 30 min. 



Keywords: * Zimbabwe * Mozambique * refugees * refugee camps * rural poverty * Roman Catholic Church * 

church and society * hospitals * sanitation * cholera * HIV/AIDS * repatriation 

Summary: 

Documentary about the refugee camp Mazowe for Mozambican refugees 

in Zimbabwe, which started in 1984 and houses now 35.000 refugees. 

The catholic church is giving aid not only to the refugees but also 

to the rural Zimbabweans in the surrounding area, who are often not 

better of than the refugees, and sometimes even worse since they 

have no acces to UN aid for refugees. Since there is a peace agreement 

in Mozambique, people are expected to return home in the coming years, 

but much has to be done in Mozambique (especially in Tete where most 

of the refugees come from) before they can go back, since everything is destroyed. 

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De hand aan de ploeg : kerk en staat in Zimbabwe / Ander Nieuws. - Nederland, Hilversum : NCRV, 1988 

¸. - Video : VHS; 31 min. Tape MC 1137. Dutch comment and subtitles. Oospronkelijk een WDR produktie 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * church and state * church and society * education policy * educational aid * rural 

development * cotton * land rights * land policy * drought * water engineering * dams * unemployment * 

health care * tuberculosis * malnutrition * refugee camps * Mozambique * RENAMO * hospitals * domestic 

violence * lobola * gender discrimination * traditional health care * marxism * Roman Catholic Church 

Summary: 

Documentaire over de samenwerking van de katholieke kerk met de 

marxistische regering van Mugabe, met name op het gebied van 

onderwijs, gezondheidszorg en vluchtelingenhulp (voor Mozambicaanse 

vluchtelingen die het Renamo-geweld in hun land ontvluchten). 


Land invasions Zimbabwe / John Schrapnel, Claire McFall. - België, Brussel : TV2, 2003. - Video : 

Oorspronkelijk een BBC production, ¸ 2003; 33 min. Start: na 129 min. Tape MC 1813 



Keywords: * Zimbabwe * land invasions * commercial farmers * farm workers * veteran soldiers * agriculture 

* unemployment 

Summary: 

De blanke boerenfamilie Case wordt van begin 2001 tot begin 2003 

gevolgd. Ze krijgen te maken met land invasie; hun boerderij wordt 

geplunderd; hun gewassen gestolen en hun werknemers raken dak- en 

werkeloos. 90% van de Zimbabwaanse landbouw is stilgevallen sinds de landinvasies begonnen. 


In de bonen / prod. & reg. Mark Philips ; Werelden. - Nederland, Hilversum : IKON, 1997. - Video : VHS; 50 

min. Start: na 116 min. Originally a BBC production. Tape MC 1700. Dutch subtitles 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * UK * agroindustry * horticulture * agricultural products * retail trade* 

Summary: 

Documentaire over de Chiparawe farm in Marundara, Zimbabwe, die als 

één van de vier farms ter wereld peultjes mag telen voor Tesco, een 

grote Britse supermarktketen met 10 miljoen klanten. Wel moet de 

farm aan zeer strenge kwaliteitseisen voldoen: zo worden de 

pluksters om de andere dag op nagellengte geïnspecteerd (niet te 

lang) en de peultjes stuk voor stuk op miniscule rupsen 

gecontrolleerd. Dertig tot veertig procent van de oogst wordt 

afgekeurd, en lokaal als veevoer gebruikt. Tesco vraagt zijn 

klanten drie-en-een-halve gulden voor 150 gram peultjes, betaalt de 

teler anderhalve gulden, terwijl de plukker vijf cent krijgt. 


Kinderen van Zimbabwe / fotogr.& script Maya Pejic ; regie Karl Streuli. - Nederland, Bloemendaal : 

Arcadia Filmprodukties, 1998. - Video : VHS; 14 min. Tape MC 1518 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * children * rural areas * townships * education * cooperatives * land policy * rural 

poverty * sculptors * sculpture 

Summary: 

Fotoserie over het leven van kinderen in Zimbabwe, zowel op het 

platteland als in de townships, met extra aandacht voor het beeldhouwersdorp Tengenenge. 


Discarding the filth : operation Murambatsvina - footage / Solidarity Peace Trust. - South Africa, 

Johannesburg : Solidarity Peace Trust, 2005. - Video : VHS; 30 min. English subtitles when necessary 


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Keywords: * Zimbabwe * ZANU-PF * housing policy * informal sector * forced removals * townships * church 

and society 

Summary: 

Shots from demolished townships and market places in Zimbabwe, 

since the government started operation Murambatsvina in May of this 

year. People are seen to tear down their own homes, after the 

police ordered them to do so. Sister Patricia Walsh of the 

Dominican Missionary Sisters in Hattclif Extension (Harare North), 

tells how their creche and clinic had to be demolished within 24 

hours (together with the other structures). Not only shacks, but 

also housing cooperatives' buildings are being torn down. The 

population seems resigned. Shots from Harare, Hattclif Extension, 

Chivu and Masvingo craft market, Killarney resettlement, Bulawayo 

traders market, Beitbridge, Victoria Falls and Ngozi mine settlement. 

Remarks: Picture quality: good * VZW 049 * For finished product see: DZW 001 

Nederlands cricketteam in Zimbabwe. - Netherlands, Hilversum : [s.n.], 2003. - Video : VHS; 17 min. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * political discrimination * Netherlands * cricket 

Summary: 

Reportage over Zimbabwe en het Nederlandse cricketteam dat in 2003 

voor het wereldkampioenschap cricket in het Zimbabwe van Mugabe zit. 


Flame / dir. by Ingrid Sinclair. - Zimbabwe, Harare ; Namibië, Windhoek : Black and White Film ; BA 

productions ; On Land Productions, 1996. - Video : VHS; 85 min. 

Originally a co-production of Simon Bright and Joel Phiri with Black and White Film company, BA productions 

and Onland productions, in conjunction with the European Union, Fons Sud (France) and International Film 

Festival Rotterdam. 


Keywords: * Zimbabwe * women * independence struggle * women's empowerment 

Summary: 

Ingrid's first feature film, shot in Zimbabwe with an entirely Zimbabwean 

cast, is based on the accounts of women who joined the liberation war of 

Zimbabwe. The film is about the role of the women in the struggle and afterwards. 


Zimbabwe Count Down / writ. & dir. by Michael Raeburn. - France, Paris : ARTE France ; TACT 



Keywords: * Zimbabwe * Second Chimurenga * Mugabe, Robert Gabriel (1924-) * whites * farmers * veteran 

soldiers * MDC * land invasions * torture * referendums * general elections * presidential elections * films 

Summary: 

Michael Raeburn, a white Zimbabwean filmmaker (born in the former 

Rhodesia) who in the 1970s sided with the rebels of Mugabe ('my 

youth hero'), looks back at 23 years of independence, using 

material of his older films and other footage. An analysis of what went wrong. 


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