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- A white middle class South African suburbanite with no interest in politics agrees to help his black gardener find his jailed son. His investigation opens his eyes to the horrors committed by the secret police and turns him into a target.
- A young Soweto actor joins a gang to study up and be more convincing in a gangster role he wants.
- The Mthembus are an eccentric family who saddled with their late mother's debts, open their family home in Soweto as a backpackers - with hilarious results.
- Most people know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte, the entertainer. This film unearths his significant contribution to and his leadership in the civil rights movement in America and to social justice globally.
- Documentary about Miriam Makeba.
- Set when the apartheid government was still in control, this powerful South African thriller is based on the true story of a policeman belonging to an elite government squad who was assigned to masquerade as a supporter and infiltrate the African National Congress so he could assassinate their leaders. Fourie is the cop, and his squadron is the most notoriously racist unit of the S.A. police force; they were infamous for donning street clothes, putting on blackface makeup, and driving around in unmarked cars to kill people and cause trouble to encourage fighting amongst rival groups. Although the ANC members are initially suspicious of Fourie, eventually they accept him and send him to be trained in Lusaka, Zambia, and other places. They even send him to Moscow where he learns about Marxist philosophies. By the time Fourie completes all that training, the conflict has ended, Mandela is released, and his squadron has split up and melted into the general populace.
- A documentary on the life story of Desmond Tutu and his journey during the crucial years of anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa.
- On the 16th June 1976, when students would be writing their mid-year exams, thousands of young people from all over Soweto gathered for a protest march that would change South Africa's history. "Soweto Blues" is a tribute to them.
- Set in the buzzing city of Johannesburg, 'Opus' follows a day in the life of Lebo, a young aspiring bassist living in the informal settlements. After losing his parents and inheriting the double bass instrument 'Bontle', Lebo has developed a symbiotic relationship with his 'Bontle' and his music, which have made him an outsider in the community, but have become his anchor for getting him through his poverty-stricken life and the harsh city landscape.
- Grabbing a lift on a tuk tuk, Gregg whizzes around the colourful and energetic township of Soweto just outside Johannesburg - home of both Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela.
- In Zambia Palin meets a witch doctor who tells him that he has an "evil shadow" and bad things lie ahead for him. Palin then moves on to Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River, where he goes whitewater rafting. In Johannesburg he receives some bad news: the Agulhas, a scientific research ship they were scheduled to take to Antarctica has no space for them.
- Alexandra and her family moved to Ireland in the 1990s from Russia. After tasting some of their beloved family dishes, Catherine travels to Mexico where Alexandra's sister, Anna, introduces her to Mayan cooking and 5-star Mexican cuisine.
- After revisiting a handful of flavorful moments from around the world, Catherine recreates some of the unique recipes she has tasted on her travels to South Africa, and she will teach you how to cook the same breathtaking dishes at home.
- In 2014, a mysterious gunman killed Senzo Meyiwa at girlfriend Kelly Khumalo's home. What can the other people who were there tell us about that night?
- Jake is still in the custody of Child and Family Services. Despite Martin knowing that Jake is now communicating with him via numbers, Martin is still concerned that the review will find him an unfit parent as he chases these numbers. He gets some help from Arthur in this matter. Martin is also concerned about the news that Jake feels pain until the issue with each of these numbers is resolved. Regardless, Jake is able to provide Martin with another number, this one scribbled on a piece of paper with the picture of a dragon. At an accident scene where a woman is hit by a vehicle, Martin runs across a seemingly homeless and off kilter man calling himself the Invisible Prince. Martin eventually learns that this man has a special connection to numbers like Jake as witnessed by the same number Jake provided him scribbled over and over in a notebook. This leads Martin to a class action lawsuit and a former junior colleague at the New York Herald. He just has to figure out the connection between these situations and the homeless man's ramblings about slaying the dragon with a magic sword, which the King buried. These goings-on have a further connection to the World Championship Dance Battle being shown and conducted online, a South African villager who wants to move to the city but equally wants to get her friend out of an abusive relationship, someone from Clea's troubled past, and the move-it-forward cell phone which goes from the hands of the two Japanese girls to a stood up girl in a red dress.
- 2012–2019TV-147.4 (402)TV EpisodeJerry and South African comedian Trevor Noah drive a 1985 Ferrari 308GTB for coffee at One Girl Cookie in Brooklyn NY.