This movie is a lie. Nothing more than revisionist, Stalinist propaganda
This entire movie is a lie. It is a nasty piece of Stalinist propaganda written by Shawn Slovo, daughter of Joe Slovo, to whom the film is dedicated, who is described as a member of 'ANC Special Ops', and portrayed as a heroic man engaging in a just struggle against an oppressive government.
Joe Slovo was the leader of the South African Communist Party, a fact the film conveniently omits, just as it omits his role in the infamous 'Church Street Bombing' in 1983, a car bomb that exploded at rush hour in Pretoria, killing 19 and wounding 200 civilians, including men, women and children of all races, putting to a lie a statement uttered by a character in the film that the 'ANC does not kill indiscriminately', which is all those Stalinist thugs ever did.
This bombing was greenlit by Nelson Mandela and planned and executed by Slovo.
Of course, all the 'operatives' involved were granted amnesty at the ANC's sham Truth and Reconciliation hearings.
Other wanton acts of barbarism against civilian men, women and children by these 'freedom fighters' that didn't kill 'indiscriminately' included the Magoo Bar bombing in Durban in 1986 that killed 3 and injured 69, as well as the Amanzimtoti bombing in Durban in 1985, that exploded in a busy shopping center, killing 5 and injuring 40.
The monster responsible for the Magoo Bar bombing, Robert McBride, was taken off death row, granted amnesty and given a high ranking position in the new South African police force. I kid you not.
Throughout the 80s and early 90s there were a series of bombings detonated at various 'Wimpy' fast food restaurants that indiscriminately killed scores of men, women and children, which clearly demonstrated the savagery and thuggery of the African National Congress, as well as the evil nature of Mandela, Slovo and then head of the ANC, Oliver Tambo.
Today, under ANC misrule, South Africa has been turned into the murder and rape capital of the world, as well as the AIDS capital of the world, with an estimated 3 000 000 people infected, in a country of 37 000 000.
There is an ongoing genocide against white Afrikaner farmers, almost 2 000 of whom, men women and children, have been brutally murdered, usually tortured first, and the entire populace is gripped by a crimewave that is turning the country to rubble.
These are the realities of the ANC, and no amount of revisionist film making will change that. Philip Noyce should be ashamed of his role in this lie.