Monthly Archives: "December 2023"

Rabbi Natan Gamedze is the only black Rabbi South Africa has ever produced. In the mid – 1980’s, when South Africa was at the height of its racially repressive legislation, a committed black man from a Swazi Royal lineage decided to cross the colour barrier and become a Jew. This two-part documentary traces Rabbi Gamedze’s

The story of the man who murdered the architect of apartheid. On 6 September 1966 a parliamentary messenger strode between the green leather benches of Cape Town’s House of Assembly, pulled out a knife and stabbed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd to death. The assassin, Dimitri Tsafendas, was written off as insane and condemned to a

Father inside: Turbulent apartheid township politics left their mark on Magadien Wentzel. His mother farmed out all her children to keep her job as a live-in domestic worker. Magadien was enraged to gradually find out in childhood, who his parents were. Brutalized by members of his foster family, he turned in his teens, to gangsterism

Teko comes home: A highly emotional drama, an exotic, current modern story of a young man returning from the United States. A young man who should have ended up being a farm labourer, but is a graduate from the USA. The story of a Malawian Gardener/ Kenneth’s trek: Through Kenneth’s journey, we create a compelling

This series traces the lives and journeys of our ancient ancestors through what they left behind where they lived. Investigating everything from artworks and tools to remains of food we begin to piece together how people lived. In a cave on the South Cape Coast we find surprising material evidence supporting the genetic fact that

This series of documentaries aims to tell a number of compelling human stories while at the same time informing  audiences of issues around serious illnesses that affect South Africans across the socio-economic divides. It is a knowledge building series that also speaks of the human spirit’s will to heal and survive. Titles in this series