Leleti Khumalo

Jeanette is a beautiful open minded law student. She decided to study while her boyfriend is completing his national military service. They are set to be engaged when he returns. During her summer holiday with her father in the Free State a random act of kindness by an attractive Indian man sparks an unexpected love affair. Despite being warned not to act on these feelings she decides to pursue this relationship. Secret meetings followed, since it was against the law at the time to have an interracial relationship. When their secret comes out, it leads to a very tragic turn of events.

An illiterate village girl defies the customs of her tribe, discriminatory to women, only to become the spark of a Literary Revolution.

Фильм о времени после падения апартеида, когда Южная Африка провела у себя Кубок мира по регби 1995 года. Тогда шел первый президентский срок Нельсона Манделы, который пытался использовать все возможности, чтобы прекратить многолетнее непонимание между белым и чернокожим населением страны.

The storyline follows Faith and her two young sons, who live on the streets of Johannesburg as she works a busy street junction begging from passing motorists. With the little money she makes she tries to raise her children, although they often go to sleep hungry and scared. Faith not only has to face the apathy of the wealthy elite that pass her every day but also the distrust and anger of the locals. —bizcommunity.com

After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.

Сюжет фильма основан на реальных событиях середины 90-х годов прошлого века, когда народ хуту, составлявшее в Руанде этническое большинство, устроило в стране кровавую резню, уничтожив более миллиона (!) человек, принадлежавших народу тутси.Главный герой фильма по имени Пол — управляющий престижного отеля в столице Руанды, в котором от убийц укрылись несколько сотен человек. Пол делает все от него зависящее, чтобы их спасти. Ситуация осложняется тем, что жена Пола также принадлежит народу тутси. У Пола большие связи, он не гнушается ни подкупом, ни шантажом; он угрожает, умоляет, льстит… И спасает от гибели 1268 человек.

The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.