Forty years ago this month, a low-budget, whimsical comedy made in South Africa opened in art-house theaters across the United States. A proto-mockumentary by a director who wrote, shot, and edited ...

The main character of Oliver Hermanus' shattering “Moffie,” set in 1981 South Africa, is a handsome, white 18-year-old. In the country's system of apartheid, he is a member of the ruling class, but he ...

For some listeners, Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” was a rebellious, grooving rock track ideal for car ride sing-alongs, but for the youth of South Africa, the pseudo-disco cut from The Wall ...

The new film “Moffie” examines the brainwashing of a generation of white men in the twilight of the apartheid regime. By Roslyn Sulcas “Mo-FFIES!” chant the soldiers, precisely lined up under a baking ...

Presley Chweneyagae, the South African actor who earned international acclaim for his role in the Oscar-winning film Tsotsi, the first South African movie to win an Oscar, has died. He was 40.