EFFORTPOST [NSFW - I'm warning you] A short History of Banned and/or Controversial Films in Southern Africa - Part 3 [FINAL]

Greetings Dramatards!

Today I wanna attempt to finish this huge rabbit hole I sunk into. The large amount of controversial and banned films released all throughout history in South Africa, and Southern Africa. Most of course had been during the days of High Apartheid, during the NP regime, but there has since and before, been a bunch of other films been controversial for really r-slurred reasons.

FILMS BANNED FOR BEING TOO GAY FOR APARTHEID:

1988 - Quest for Love: Low quality Lesbian love story. Banned because of the ultra religious and conservative government, and would become unbanned by 1993. However still remained largely unknown because all of South Africa's races are pretty much very religious and conservative comparitive to liberal places like UK and USA. Although gay rights were legalized by the Mandela Administration, gay rights would remain obscure as the majority of attention would remain on race relations.

https://theculturetrip.com/africa/south-africa/articles/10-of-the-most-controversial-films-from-south-africa/

SHIT BANNED IN ZIMBABWE:

Jock of the Bushveld (1986) was a pretty inoffensive film about a famous Afrikaner story. It involves a young boy Percy rescueing a drowning dog, and adopting the puppy as Jock. Afterwards, he and Jock live through many adventures involving wild animals and slave drivers.

Banned because of its South African origins. At the time Zimbabwe boycotted South African products because of its apartheid regime. Zimbabwean were still very sore about SA having been Rhodesia's chief benefactor, and the new leadership was openly hostile to anything South African which could be easily boycotted.

Once again the film itself was not the cause of a banning or controvesy.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140502004908/http://www.sahistory.org.za/topic/history-south-african-film-industry-timeline-1895-2003

2010 - Lobola

Our conservative zimbabwean cousins up north objected to the degeneracy which this movie displayed!

The film was banned because it "doesn't really portray African custom when it comes to marriage, since one does not get married while drunk." Another objection is a scene where a young couple kisses in front of their parents, as well as the "abrupt ending" wut

I still can't fully decipher what their censorship board was smoking, because drukeness in african weddings is pretty normal. It was puritan nonsense.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160305074953/http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-3923-Munyas+movie+banned+over+smooch/news.aspx

2014 - Kumasowe

https://allafrica.com/stories/201408110765.html

This one's just another authoritarian regime banning any criticism of its heavy handed police brutality, the reason for its ban is obvious.

2015 - Fifty Shades of Grey

Hahahahahahahahaha. This one was hilarious. Our zimbabwean cousins wanted to save their middle ages black women from middles aged white women nonsense

Once again a demonstration how conservative most actual African countries and their people truly are in comparison to the libtard West. Banned because of the explicit erotic scenes. In some theaters an edited version was allowed.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150224213508/http://news24zim.com/2015/02/20/50-shades-of-grey-banned-in-zimbabwe/

MODERN CONTROVERSIAL FILMS IN SOUTH AFRICA!!!

1995 - Cry, the Beloved Country:

Story takes place in 1946, on the cusp of the Verwoerd Administration implementing Apartheid as legal policy upheld by the gov. Drama between black and white fathers who overcome their racism and animosity, and they eventually come to unexpected understandings about their sons and their own shared humanity. Never seen it, no idea if its jank or not.

My understanding is the film is fine on its own, but in 1995, the country of South Africa was in flux, emotions were running high, and the people of SA still had raw feelings of divisiveness post Apartheid. The problem wasn't the film itself, but in 1995, the South African government had begun the "truth and reconciliation commission", which basically was a public forum in a quasi Nuremberg trial imitation, in which "victims of gross human rights violations to give statements about their experiences", and perpetrators (the bad guyz) give testimony and request amnesty from both civil and criminal prosecution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_and_Reconciliation_Commission_(South_Africa)

The TRC hearings deserve their own long Loooong post regarding how utterly fricking dramatic they were, but all that's relevant to know for dramatards was that fricking nobody was happy by the outcome. Whites on "amnesty" trials who confessed their oppression of blacks left a bitter taste in the mouths of other whites like Afrikaners, as they felt the ANC was rewriting history in their favour, and would b-word for decades after that ANC car bombings of Afrikaans schools by Mandela's freedom fighters would never get even mentioned, and you get the idea.

Blacks would b-word and moan similarly that the TRC hearings would basically allow the most aggregious and brutal of apartheid's chief leaders' basically to get away scot free, for just confessing their past wrongs, and many blacks wanted a public hanging of many top Apartheid leaders, most notably Nelson fricking Mandela's wife was outspoken about this against Mandela himself.

In the end Mandela wisely ignore the simmering, and probably avoided a race war after the democracy was achieved so remarkably peacefully.

With this in mind, when the film "Cry, the Beloved Country" came out, no one was in the mood for a deep political drama, tensions were high, and races still way too divided to give a shit about a deep message of coming to understanding of their shared humanity or fricking whatever. Thus the film was controversial, though ironically through no fault of its own.

Then there were other liberal journos who bitched that the film was tonedeath and didn't show the correct way of aparheid blablabla

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/12/20/black-white-in-golden-tones/a47ca034-d94a-4333-a6aa-7953260f1ec2/

Treurgrond (2015)

Oh this one is FANTASTIC FOR DRAMA

It's basically a thriller horror movie about farm attacks on white farmers in SA. As you can imagine this

The film tells the story of a farming community in South Africa trying to survive the numerous farm attacks confronting them almost every day. The title of the Movie translate to Terror-Ground.

Critics moaned that the movie was melodramatic and overly sentimental beyond good acting. Black people, and ANC cucks moaned that the movie exagerated genocide against Boers, and was instilling race discontent into the public.

Afrikaners hated the movie because it made entertainment out of a horror reality which many boers in isolated towns in the country dealt with, and that the movie was in very poor taste to capitalize this frequent tragedy. Instead of being a type of tragic holocaust type film, it was very slasher crap jank.

Anyways this film pissed off fricking everybody, and worst is I personally never heard of it before i researched controversial films in SA.

https://journals.co.za/doi/10.10520/EJC189433

The Wound (2017)

ANOTHER mega spicy drama uber turbo volcano in South Africa was this film, this time from Zulu and Xhosa people.

"The Wound plays off in the Eastern Cape and tells the story of a lonely factory worker who quits his job to become a Xhosa initiation school facilitator. The subject and practice of ulwaluko (initiation) is a culturally sensitive one among amaXhosa. The Wound premieres in South Africa at the Durban Film Festival in June 2017."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulwaluko

So what is Ulwaluko, you ask? Basically it is the African version of circumcision, but much more hardcore. Ulwaluko marks for men, the change from childhood to adulthood, is an ancient initiation rite practised (though not exclusively) by the Xhosa people. Other who do this include Zulus.

The initiation ritual is commonly conducted during late June/early July or late November/ early December, and during the ritual practice, the traditional surgeon (ingcibi) surgically removes the foreskin. After the cut is made, the period of seclusion that follows lasts about one month and is divided into two phases - but this is rarely the case in modern times and/or in urban areas, where it usually lasts at least 4 weeks. During the first 7 days the initiates are confined to a hut (bhoma) and the use of certain foods, for example meat, is restricted, but this may differ as certain homes have their own beliefs or ways of doing things. Water may also be restricted.

This practice has been uber controversial among South africans, and has been the source of much seeth and sneed between Xhosas and the rest of the country. The Xhosas and Zulus are very conservative and take their heritage and cultural preservation seriously; meanwhile other liberals criticize the practice as barbaric and archaic.

ANC wingcucks frequently have infighting regarding Ulwaluko, because according to the constitution an the principles which the ANC is supposed to uphold, the human rights of Xhosa boys are being violated, but the Xhosa and Zulu voting blocks are way to big and powerful to piss off, so it's perpertually swept under the rug amidst much bitching and moaning

https://web.archive.org/web/20211003000555/http://www.ulwaluko.co.za/Problems.html

Poor sanitation conditions and bad medical knowledge by the inductors has meant about 1000 young men have died from this tradition since 1995. Every time a zulu/xhosa boy dies, the controversial debate begins again. It has the same flavour of bitter controvesy as burgerlanders debating gun-control or abortion. So you guyz can imagine the nuclear seeth which erupted when a movie depicting this culturally sensitive secretive tradition made its way on the movie screen.

The ritual is supposed to be a secret, in that details of the ritual are not supposed to be disclosed to females or non-initiated males; according to the principle of 'what happens in the bush, stays in the bush'. This causes uproar whenever someone tries to address the inherent danger of unqualified morons cutting the peepees of boys far away from hospitals in the bush.

https://mg.co.za/article/2009-07-18-tackling-the-matter-headon/

Cultural prejudice is so great that uncircumcised or 'improperly' circumcised Xhosa/Zulu men are attacked and beaten for their lack of conformity. In March 2014 a young man was assaulted after he had spoken out during a community meeting about the complications he sustained through the ritual.

There's also been other types of frick ups, like a dude having part of his peepee cut off instead of just his foreskin.

https://mg.co.za/article/2014-03-25-man-severely-beaten-for-speaking-out-about-peepee-amputation/

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Three suspects are to appear in the Flagstaff magistrate's court on Wednesday for allegedly assaulting a 20-year-old man from Pondoland in the Eastern Cape after he spoke at a community meeting of his dismay at losing his peepee in a botched traditional circumcision in June 2012.

Dingeman Rijken, a doctor who treated the man at the time of his injuries at Holy Cross Hospital near Flagstaff, said: "The initiate was allegedly accused of 'shaming the custom' by sharing his story of penile amputation at the meeting on Wednesday last week. The next day, on the Thursday afternoon, three men beat him severely. He suffered injuries to his head, feet, arms and legs. He was hospitalised and has since been discharged, but his injuries are still so severe that he cannot speak."

According to a community member who witnessed the assault but asked not be identified, the attackers were in their mid-20s and appeared to be drunk.

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When the movie The Wound (2017) aired in SA, cinemas in the Eastern Cape province were forced to cancel screenings of the film and offer refunds because of protests, intimidation and vandalism.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-02-09-inxeba-wounding-the-pride-and-prejudice-of-xhosa-men/

Nu Metro Cinemas subsequently cancelled screenings countrywide, while Ster-Kinekor continued to show it outside of the Eastern Cape (the Xhosa home base). Crew and cast received death threats and were forced to go into hiding.

Riots imploded all over the Eastern Cape. The film's producers filed complaints with the Human Rights Commission and the Commission for Gender Equality over threats and violence, but nobody with influence gave a shit.

Here is a Youtube news interview with a Xhosa Prince Abongile Ngozi over the backlash. The prince is an r-slur

https://www.ajol.info/index.php/actat/article/view/49044

https://ewn.co.za/2019/12/17/21-boys-dead-in-summer-initiation-in-ec-says-health-minister

CONTROVERSIAL FILMS TOO GAY FOR SA:

Beauty (2011)

Beauty (Skoonheid in Afrikaans) premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. The film is about a man named François, an Afrikaner in his late forties, who lives a seemingly happy life. He is openly racist and homophobic, but at the same time he has frequent sexual encounters with other white, married men. South African Brokeback Mountain,

Controversial because cristians in SA, both black and white, protest the Gay Agenda. I remember this shit being contraband, but since even teenagers were homophobic, it wasn't the popular kind of contraband in SA highschools.

Of Good Report (2013)

"An introverted high school teacher in rural South Africa starts a neurotic affair with a pupil, with disastrous consequences. Of Good Report was initially banned for containing, what critics called, child pornography , but was quickly legitimised on appeal."

I can't find the original articles it been scrubbed

2023 ZIMBABWE SHENANIGANS:

https://www.newzimbabwe.com/zimbabweans-react-to-banned-chamisa-president-documentary-after-south-african-broadcaster-comes-to-their-rescue/

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/africa/2022-08-11-post-mugabe-era-film-president-banned-by-zimbabwe-censorship-board/

Basically the ruling cucks post Mugabe banned a Danish film exposing the monumental corruption during the 2018 Zim election, and was pretty quickly.

https://cpj.org/2022/08/zimbabwes-censorship-board-bans-danish-documentary-about-opposition-leader/

Still an authoritarian hellhole

And that's the whole lot for now! Hope you douchebags enjoyed it!

Part2:

https://rdrama.net/post/185786/marseyflagsouthafrica-a-short-history-of-banned

Part1:

https://rdrama.net/post/185294/marseyflagsouthafrica-a-short-history-of-marseyban