Documentary (52’)
South Africa tries to destroy the independence of the Frontline States through invasion and sabotage, particularly of transport routes. But the Frontline States fight back to maintain their import and export corridors. An intimate portrait of the hopes and fears of leaders in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Tanzania and Botswana, in their struggle to preserve their independence and economic autonomy, from the drama of the truck driver delivering vital supplies to an embattled town through dangerous war zones, to the miracle of regional co-operation in plant breeding to bring resistant varieties to peasant farmers. Concrete evidence of why the Southern African Development Community was formed and its early achievements. A must-see movie to model ways for Africa to engage in autonomous development, and escape being a reservoir of raw materials.
Sales to:
Channel 4 UK; SBS Australia; DSR Germany; Portuguese TV; Channel 13 New York; GDR TV East Germany