P.W. Botha
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Extract 2
Extract 3
1980s
0:24:00
South Africa
A campaign biography of P.W. Botha, president and later prime minister of South Africa who was committed to state terrorism and murder to stop Black majority rule.
Physical formats available:
VHS,
Mini DV
Digital formats available:
Quicktime (Pro Res)
Audio & visual:
Sound,
Color
With biased and personal views from his wife and family members depicting him as a "normal human being like you and I."
Collection
South African Propaganda
(36)
During the apartheid era, the South African Information Service launched a campaign of propaganda and disinformation aimed at the Western powers, which it considered its natural allies against what it called the “Communist onslaught” to take over South Africa.
This campaign was both covert and overt, and ranged from what appeared to be straightforward tourist films to savage attacks on the ANC through a source apparently connected to the South African Information Service. The South African government spent millions of dollars to win support, with most of this effort being directed at the USA, where it had many influential sympathisers of the apartheid regime.
These VHS tapes represent an extremely rare collection of propaganda materials produced by the Information Service.
