An infuriating film. I spent the entire time I was watching angry at the screen. Angry at how cruel human beings can be, how racism can destroy lives and put family members in crossroads. Euzhan Palcy's film is a powerful indictment of Apartheid in South Africa, a film I wish had received wider appreciation.
shareIronically South Africa was run more efficiently during Apartheid.
shareAt what cost? Ideally one would want a nation which is efficiently run sans discriminating against its citizens and the way the negative way the country is run today in your eyes might not be directly correlated with the end of Apartheid.
shareI don't think the end of Apartheid in and of itself brought worse governance....the end of white rule did.
The same thing happened in neighboring Rhodesia when it became Zimbabwe. They didn't have Apartheid, but they had white rule too. Once it became Zimbabwe under black rule...they went from the breadbasket of Africa to the begging bowl of Africa. They had the most prosperous black middle class in the continent....now they're on the verge of famine.
There's no denying that when the Boer/Afrikaners ran things, they ran them more efficiently. Regardless of Apartheid legislation.
The end of Apartheid was not only moral but inevitable. The end of white rule has only created more problems than solutions.