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Facts in the film

South Africa

  • South Africa's population is 49 million
    "The online World Factbook", The C.I.A. of the U.S.A. (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sf.html)
  • South Africa is a land of diversity in its geography, people and political history
    "South Africa," Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2007
  • The country's Northern Cape province is the largest of its nine provinces
    "Northern Cape", Wikipedia English (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Cape)
    "South Africa," Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2007

HIV/AIDS

  • The country's health system is unable to cope with epidemic diseases like HIV/AIDS
    John Pilger, Freedom Next Time, citing John Rees, 'Imperialism: Globalisation, the State and War', International Socialism, no. 93, p.13.
  • 6 million South Africans have the HIV
    "HIV and AIDS in South Africa", Avert (http://www.avert.org/aidssouthafrica.htm)
    "South Africa: Rural women the losers in HIV response", Amnesty International (http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report/rural-women-hit-south-africas-hiv-response-20080318)
  • South Africa's HIV infection rate is amongst the highest in the world
    "South Africa marks 20 years since Mandela walked to freedom", Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61A1SY20100211)
  • HIV has spread in the last 20 years throughout many countries in the world
    "AIDS", Healthy Living Index, BBC World Service (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/sci_tech/features/health/sexualhealth/aids/)
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Mothibistad and Kuruman

  • Mothibistad is less than 20 kilometres away from Kuruman
    Map data, AfriGIS (http://maps.google.com)
  • Kuruman has a national monument that provides twenty million litres of clear water daily
    "Natural Phenomenon - The Eye of Kuruman", The Northern Cape Tourism Board (http://www.northerncape.org.za/unique_experiences/natural/the_eye/)

Quotations

  • Desmond Tutu says, 'we wonder when the fruit of democracy will reach the tables of all of our people'
    "South Africa Celebrates Mandela’s 20 Years of Freedom", Mike Cohen, Bloomberg Businessweek (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-11/south-africa-celebrates-mandela-s-20-years-of-freedom-update2-.html)
  • Richard Spoor explains, 'the people who are dying…  are rural people… they are people without a voice'
    Film 'Apartheid Did Not Die', John Pilger, interviewing Richard Spoor

Apartheid

  • In Afrikaans, 'separateness' is 'apartheid'
    "About South Africa", Mazalien (http://www.mazalien.com/apartheid-did-not-die.html)
  • During the Apartheid era, non-whites were forcibly displaced under the pretence of 'racially separate development'
    John Pilger, Film 'Apartheid Did Not Die'
  • More than eight decades after its inception, Apartheid's legal basis was dissolved, in 1994
    "Apartheid Did Not Die", Mazalien (http://www.mazalien.com/apartheid-did-not-die.html)
    "Apartheid FAQ: When Did Apartheid End?", Alistair Boddy-Evans, About.com Guide (http://africanhistory.about.com/od/apartheidfaq/f/HowEnded.htm)

  • The so-called 'Truth and Reconciliation Commission' saw murders get away with their crimes
    John Pilger, Film 'Apartheid Did Not Die'
  • The Constitution reads: 'we… adopt this constitution… to… establish a society based on social justice'
    "Premable", Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (http://www.info.gov.za/documents/constitution/1996/96preamble.htm)
    
"Chapter 2 - Bill of Rights", Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (http://www.info.gov.za/documents/constitution/1996/96cons2.htm)

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Economic

  • South Africa is one of the continent's economic superpowers
    Shrmeen Obaid-Chinoy, 'Fleezing Zimbabwe', 'Foreign Correspondent' Report, ABC TV
  • South Africa has the largest economy on the continent
    "South Africa celebrates 20 years of freedom for Nelson Mandela", David Smith, The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/10/mandela-freedom-20th-anniversary)
  • The country is endowed with amazing mineral wealth in gold and diamonds
    "About South Africa", Mazalien (http://www.mazalien.com/apartheid-did-not-die.html)
  • It has the most unequal society in the world
    "South Africa celebrates 20 years of freedom for Nelson Mandela", David Smith, The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/10/mandela-freedom-20th-anniversary)
  • South Africa has the world's biggest divide between rich and poor
    "Twenty years after Mandela's release, South Africa social divide endures", Justine Gerardy, AFP (http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100209/world-news/twenty-years-after-mandelas-release-south-africa-social-divide-endures)
  • Skin colour remains a reliable indicator of economic status
    "Nelson Mandela anniversary - South Africans unfulfilled 20 years after release", Sebastien Berger, The Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/7207106/Nelson-Mandela-anniversary-South-Africans-unfulfilled-20-years-after-release.html)
  • The minority ruling class has, according to the U.N., a 'direct influence over the economic lives of the majority'
    "United Nations report highlights growing inequality in South Africa", World Socialist Web site (http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/may2004/safr-m21.shtml)
  • On average whites earn seven times more than blacks
    "South Africa Celebrates Mandela’s 20 Years of Freedom", Mike Cohen, Bloomberg Businessweek (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-11/south-africa-celebrates-mandela-s-20-years-of-freedom-update2-.html)
  • Whites comprise 9% of South Africa's population
    "South Africa", Wikipedia English (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa)
  • When Apartheid officially ended unemployment was at 13%
    "Why Has Unemployment Risen in the New South Africa?", International Policy Centre, University of Michigan (http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55749/4/IPC-working-paper-mclaren-035.pdf)
  • Today 36% of the labour force is caught in a 'vicious cycle of open unemployment'
    
"United Nations report highlights growing inequality in South Africa", World Socialist Web site (http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/may2004/safr-m21.shtml)
  • Thousands of South Africa's children are malnourished
    "Why sharks should not own sport", John Pilger (http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=572)

Housing

  • Millions of blacks still live in rural communities in the ten former Bantustans

    "Apartheid Did Not Die", Mazalien (http://www.mazalien.com/apartheid-did-not-die.html)
  • Most blacks live in conditions little different from two decades ago
    "South Africa celebrates 20 years of freedom for Nelson Mandela", David Smith, The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/10/mandela-freedom-20th-anniversary)
  • Most blacks live in either low-income townships or informal rapidly growing shanty-towns
    "Apartheid Did Not Die", Mazalien (http://www.mazalien.com/apartheid-did-not-die.html)
  • Shanty-towns, home to millions of blacks, are often long distances from work, with little access to running water
    "South Africa marks 20 years since Mandela walked to freedom", Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61A1SY20100211)

    "Apartheid Did Not Die", Mazalien (http://www.mazalien.com/apartheid-did-not-die.html)
  • The Reconstruction and Development Programme has housed thousands
    John Pilger, Film 'Apartheid Did Not Die'
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