Apartheid Era Film

“South Africa’s cinema history is deeply intertwined with the histories of colonialism and apartheid that it has both been determined by and has in turn defended”

Maingard, Jacqueline. South African National Cinema. London: Routledge, 2008.

You cannot understand the films made in South Africa without understanding the context surrounding them. For most of the longevity of South African cinema, Racial Apartheid was persisting throughout the country. To sum up Apartheid, Apartheid was a time in South Africa of white majority rule (History 2010).