{"id":67856,"date":"2017-03-13T12:51:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T11:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/?p=67856"},"modified":"2020-05-21T16:13:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T15:13:44","slug":"south-african-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/south-african-story\/","title":{"rendered":"South African Story: Ten Movies That Tell Most Of It"},"content":{"rendered":"
The South African story is a mixture of so many things. These include stories about the earliest times of the country, the funny side of the country, apartheid, post-apartheid, crime, and many other things.<\/p>\n
Movies in South Africa, as it is in every other place, serves to imitate life. If not the life that is, then the life that was, or could have been.<\/p>\n
It is the same with these South African movies which have brought to the world the part of the country that probably was heard of before, or never.<\/p>\n
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Although this began as a mini-series, the movie ended up telling one of the most told stories among the Zulus. It is the story of the rise of Shaka Zulu, who is still regarded as one of the most brutal and legendary leaders of the Zulu Kingdom, and in fact, the whole of Africa.<\/p>\n
It was set in the 19th century at the time when the British were beginning to make their way into the African continent. The movie featured Henry Cele who played the part of Shaka.<\/p>\n
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You won\u2019t need a long walk to find that the Mandela\u2019s Long Walk To Freedom<\/em> tells an important side of the South African Story. What makes this movie even more significant is that it was based on Mandela\u2019s autobiographical work of the same title.<\/p>\n What it means is that it gives us a story from Mandela\u2019s point of view. The movie was released in 2013, summarizing the childhood of Mandela until after his prison life. The movie starred Idris Elba\u00a0and\u00a0Naomie Harris.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Released in 1992, this South African movie is one of the most acclaimed movies in the country. Shot in\u00a0Soweto\u00a0and Johannesburg, the movie tells part of the Apartheid story of the country, although it centres on the Soweto uprising.<\/p>\n It featured Leleti Khumalo who played the part of Sarafina and Whoopi Goldberg who was her teacher.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This movie was drawn from Athol Fugard\u2019s novel, Tsotsi. It takes to heart the story of how life can easily change in South Africa, as well as the crime that abounds herein.<\/p>\n It is the story of a young man named Tsotsi who leaves his troubled home and ends up in crime. He hijacks a car and finds a baby in it. The movie which continues with the dilemma of Tsotsi, had Presley Chweneyagae playing the part of the main character.<\/p>\n After its release in 2005, this movie was acclaimed by many as it went on to win an Oscars in the\u00a0Best Foreign Language Film of the Year category and was nominated for the\u00a0Golden Globes. It also had many other nominations and awards in its pockets.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This movie was released in 1995, telling the story of a meeting between the two races that have opposed each other for so long in South Africa, only to conclude on their singular humanity.<\/p>\n It tells the story of Father Stephen Kumalo, a black man who had gone to the Johannesburg in search of his son, and James Jarvis, a White,\u00a0who has also embarked on the same journey. Kumalo was to find out his son who had turned a thief had killed Jarvis\u2019 son.<\/p>\n The movie starred James Earl Jones (Stephen Kumalo) and Richard Harris (James Jarvis) and was based on Cry, the Beloved Country<\/em>; a 1948 novel by\u00a0Alan Paton.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This movie is another which was drawn from the historical life of Nelson Mandela. The thing with Mandela is that he is as a person, a single Story of South Africa. On this side of the story, the movie captured his time as the first black president of South Africa.<\/p>\n Starring Morgan Freeman, the movie centres on the efforts of Nelson Mandela to unite a country which was racially torn apart following the brutal apartheid and his influence on the Rugby World cup hosted and won by the country in 1995.<\/p>\nSarafina!<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Tsotsi<\/h2>\n
Cry, the Beloved Country<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Invictus<\/strong><\/h2>\n