Mandela Film Series Continues with "Behind the Rainbow" on 7 June 2018

The #Mandela100 Film Series continues on 7 June 2018 at 19h30! With Jihan El-Tahri the organisers have invited one of the best documentary filmmakers of our time - with her film "Behind the Rainbow" she has covered 100 years of ANC history! Breathtaking footage, very clear analysis! Not to be missed!

Behind the Rainbow explores the transition of the ANC from a liberation organization into South Africa's ruling party, through the evolution of of the relationship between two of its most prominent cadres, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. Exiled under Apartheid they were brothers in arms, under Mandela they loyally labored to build a non-racial state, now they are bitter rivals. Their duel threatens to tear apart the ANC and the country, as the poor desperately seek hope in change and the elite fight for the spoils of victory.

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