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...midst of a heated campaign for the district attorney's seat, the movie begins with incumbent Raymond Horgan (Brian Dennehy) losing ground to the challenger, Nico Della Guardia (Tom Mardirosian). Horgan needs something quick and sensational, he thinks, to halt his slide...
...white man in a black South African township, the Rev. Nico Smith faces death threats in his battle against apartheid...
...year was 1981, and the telegram said, "You are called to Mamelodi parish." To the professor, Nico Smith, it meant a complete change in his life, a rejection, in fact, of everything that his life had been until then and everything fundamental in Afrikaner society and Afrikaner belief...
...visit to Mamelodi was organized by Nico Smith, 58, the only resident white minister in an urban black township. In the early 1980s he turned his back on the powerful Dutch Reformed Church and became a minister in the black branch of the church in Mamelodi. In 1986 he moved into the township with his wife Ellen, a child psychiatrist. Says Smith: "The whites of this country have got to see what pain there is under the black skin...
...reign of terror is in large part a grisly reflection of the apartheid system that gives power to South Africa's 5 million whites. Bottled up in teeming townships and denied any voice in the political life of their country, many blacks are filled with fury. The Rev. Nico Smith, a white Dutch Reformed minister who has moved into Mamelodi, a black township outside Pretoria, compares the situation to that of laboratory animals that begin to devour one another when conditions become unbearable. Says Smith: "Social pathology is consuming the townships. There is a loss of sensitivity for people...