Have You Heard from Johannesburg: The Bottom Line (2010)
86 min
The theme of the fifth story of six is money: how a grassroots movement cuts the South African government off from the taproot of its success, its sustaining financial connections to the West. Citizens all over the world, from a General Motors director to average employees of Polaroid, from account-holders in Barclays Bank to consumers who boycott Shell gas, all refuse to let business with South Africa go on as usual. Faced with attacks at home and growing chaos in South Africa, international companies pull out in a massive exodus that undermines the apartheid system. It is the first international grassroots campaign to use economic pressure to bring down a government.
- Release date
- April 15, 2010
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Todd Boekelheide
Cast
- Shadi Chauke as Narrator
- Tony Bloom as Self - South African businessman
- Sampie Terreblanche as Self - Afrikaner academic
- Cheryl Carolus as Self - United Democratic Front
- Christopher Nteta as Self - Pan-African Liberation Committee
- Caroline Hunter as Self - Polaroid employee 1968-1971
- Peter C. Wensberg as Self - Polaroid executive 1958-1982
Crew
- Oliver Tambo · Archive footage
- Desmond Tutu · Archive footage
- Ken Williams · Archive footage
- Connie Field · Director
- Connie Field · Producer
- Todd Boekelheide · Composer
- Tom Hurwitz · Cinematographer
- Gregory Scharpen · Editor