South Africa: The White Laager

Duration: 2000

Year Published: 1977

Creator: Learning Corporation of America

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: A documentary which explores the history of the Afrikaaners and Afrikaaner nationalism, and the development of apartheid and its relevance to South Africa’s political situation today. Includes interviews with whites in various professions and with differing points of view on apartheid.

Complete Record: A study of the white Afrikaaners in South Africa. Spans the centuries, briefly, from the times when they literally protected themselves with the laager - a circle of covered wagons - to the present, when the laager takes the form of apartheid government.