BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning John Pilger was banned from South Africa for his reporting during the apartheid era.
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On his return thirty years later, he describes the extraordinary generosity of a liberated people, but asks who the true beneficiaries of a democracy and the 'Mandela factor' are. As a new wealthy black elite joins the white minority, for whom nothing has changed, life for the majority is, in many ways, harder than ever.
This film was first broadcast: 21 Apr 1998
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