Filmed by the Film Service of South Africa during the 1970s this clever and insidious film is a propaganda film aimed at righting the wrongs of “anti-apartheid propaganda”.

It displays footage from the anti-apartheid films of the time, claiming that the “staged” images “strips the black man of their dignity”. It juxtaposes any negative image with groovy, professional, wealthy and contented blacks at work and home in their sprawling, modern suburbs. It rolls out TV personalities, a university chancellor and even Christian Barnard to advocate the huge possibilities that exist for blacks in education, health and the media.

Using an ingenious mixture of outright mockery and exaggeration, this dishonest presentation attempts to gloss over the real problems of apartheid. Darkly amusing in hindsight, it is a masterful lesson in twisting the truth to suit a political agenda.