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Wednesday night is "Zoo Night" at Crazy Zach's, where drats are a whopping nickel from eight to ten. After loosening up for a quarter, dance the "shag", a predominantly southern dance resembling the jitter bug, done to "beach music," an adulteration of R&B revival hits...
Shot in black and white, Come Back Africa follows a young black man, Zacharaiah (Zach Mgabi), who leaves his native Zululand when famine forces him to the big city to try to support his wife and two children. Rogosin's camera-work starkly captures the cold hostility of Johannesburg; throughout the film there are shots of black and white workers moving, zombie-like, through the dreary streets of the city. These shots repeat throughout the film, setting a motif of alienation that reinforces the brutal racism depicted through Zach's travails...
...First Zach gets a job in the gold mines--dehumanizing experience number one. Soon he loses that job, and in rapid succession he loses a few others--houseboy, gas station attendant, waiter, road crew--when the white employers become displeased with him. These contacts with Afrikaaners and Britishers--who insist on being called "Boss" or something equally demeaning--are typified in this encounter with the shrewish woman who hires, then summarily fires, Zach as her houseboy...
...Zach's odyssey continues to the horribly dilapidated townships (precursors of Soweto), where he finds friendship but still no steady job. He grows increasingly frustrated; finally, joined by his wife and children, the debilitating pressures of apartheid begin to tell on him. The ending of the film is, of course depressing...
Harvard swept the remaining eight singles matches with ease. John Ingard demolished Kurt Andrews, 6-2, 6-2, in the second singles contest, Gary Reiner crushed Zach Smith, 6-2, 6-1, in the third singles bout, and Chip Baird, in the fourth slot, smashed Brian Smith...