Betrayal [videorecording] / director, Mark J. Kaplan ; produced by Mark J. Kaplan, Xola Mkefe.

Full version.

[South Africa] : SABC : Grey Matter Media ; Johannesburg : Film Resource Unit [distributor], c2006.

1 DVD (56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

English narration with dialogue in unidentified local language with English subtitles.

"Shot over a number of years, this is a haunting film that pays tribute to an unsung heroine of the armed struggle against apartheid. This is the story of Nokuthula Simelane, a 23 year old student who was unofficially held captive and then disappeared in 1983. Her fate remains locked in diffusing memories and suspicions, admissions and denials, woven through with the thread of betrayal. Using dramatic reconstructions the film illustrates what the effect her disappearance has had on her family and by implication on the thousands of other South African families of the disappeated"--Container.

DVD

Images / Video & Film

English; Undetermined

August 15, 2006