mhambi: His big white self: Nick Broomfield becomes part of the story

Read a review on Mhambi of Nick Broomfield's second documentary on South Africa's extreme right wingers.

mhambi: His big white self: Nick Broomfield becomes part of the story

Nick Broomfield might not be aware of it, but His big white self his documentary on South African Eugene Terre'blanche and his Afrikaner Weerstands Beweging (AWB), follows a precedent established way back.

In 1834 The Spectator bemoaned the "maltreatment of the aborigines" and according to it, this had no equal in history. The Afrikaner colonists had a very bad press, starting at the turn on the nineteenth century by an account of the British traveler John Barow, and a few years later in a book by John Philip, a compatriot.