�BLOOD AND LAND� (Working Title) - Script Thursday, August 11, 2005 1. 10:00:00:00 This World Logo 2. 10:00:05:00 Fade up: Ext night Long shadows Music 3. 10:00:08:00 Capt. van Zyl briefs men Capt. van Zyl VO: You take the small house. There are two of you - right?! then we�ll take the big house. 4. 10:00:14:00 WS men in huddle Police prepare to roundup a gang believed to have attacked a white farmer. 5. 10:00:16:00 Arrival of vehicles Music 6. 10:00:18:00 Door kicked Capt. van Zyl VO: Lie down! Lie down! 7. 10:00:24:00 Dark Int of house Capt. van Zyl VO: Into the corner! Stand there! You too! 8. 10:00:30:00 Looks thru ID book In 1994, when apartheid ended in South Africa, whites owned 80 percent of the land. The new government promised land would belong to all who worked it. 9. 10:00:37:00 Suspect against wall Kenau VO: Thabo� Capt. van Zyl VO: Welcome to the South African police! 10. 10:00:44:00 Hanging voodoo doll Music 11. 10:00:49:00 Forensic material Over the past decade, more than fifteen hundred white farmers have been murdered. Whites still own 75 percent of the country. 12. 10:01:05:00 Louis Meintjies Louis: I was born here. And, I love this land just as much as anybody else. And they won�t kick me off this land, we will fight for it. 13. 10:01:15:00 Payete Ndlovana Payete: All these blacks are going to fight the whites... and all these whites are going to fight the blacks. So it�s a blood war. It will be a blood war. 14. 10:01:25:00 Door kicked in Kenau: Come�stand still. 15. 10:01:34:00 Suspects handcuffed Many believe that white farmers are paying a heavy price for the land they still own and for the sins of apartheid. 16. 10:01:37:00 Ext of shack with suspects Kenau: Armed robbery. Attempted murder � farm attack. Capt. van Zyl: Lock-up. 17. 10:01:42:00 Dark evening - valley This is a story set in South Africa�s violent heart where the struggle over land has already begun to resemble a blood war. 18. 10:01:52:00 Title: Sirens and music 19. 10:02:01:00 SVC cops parade Capt. van Zyl: Piet retief � Murder. White River- murder. Kwamahlanga - murder. Crissiesmeer - murder. Vosman, murder� 20. 10:02:10:00 SVC cops parade Morning parade at Mpumulanga�s Serious Violent Crimes Unit. Captain Manie van Zyl reads out the report for the past weekend in this, South Africa�s bloodiest province. 21. 10:02:23:00 OTS of Capt. van Zyl reading list Capt. van Zyl: � Mbhlembe rape gang�. 22. 10:02:25:00 His colleagues Under apartheid, the captain worked for the all powerful security police.Today he heads an under resourced unit of 8 men who investigate farm attacks. They only have two cars between them. 23. 10:02:42:00 Parade breaks up In the new rainbow nation of South Africa, everything the captain does is still bounded by race. He answers to black superiors; but the victims of his cases are mainly white and their treatment at the hands of black assailants gives him nightmares. 24. 10:02:58:00 Slide projector Capt. van Zyl watches Capt. van Zyl VO (subtitled): Every scene influences your life. You can�t rest. How can you put your head to a pillow and sleep. Why the brutal killing? The torture, to get what? Money? It can�t be just common robbery. 25. 10:03:25:00 CU of slideshow Capt. van Zyl VO: It must be a human being hating another human being. 26. 10:03:33:00 Tilt down fence Payete battles to open fence Payete : The white people tormented my father before 1961. They told him this was government land. Black people were not supposed to be here. They called it a black spot. 27. 10:03:55:00 Payete and Martha walk down corridor Payete Ndlovana and his wife Martha can only reach the graves of their ancestors through an electrified corridor. The fence is an echo of the past put up by a white farmer to cut them off from land that was once theirs. 28. 10:04:08:00 Stop and point thru fence Payete (subtitled): Look there, that was my father�s house. Do you see those trees? That�s where our house use to be. The pigsty was on that side. That�s where we lived. 29. 10:04:23:00 POV walk into cemetery Payete VO : They came at two in the morning and surrounded the house. Said they were looking for the owner. I came out so they took me, and then they took my mother. They locked us up in the cells at Kameeldrift Police Station. 30. 10:04:42:00 WS of Payete and Martha in graveyard It was 1973. The apartheid government seized their land and sold it to a white farmer. 31. 10:04:50:00 CU Payete at the graveside Payete VO: They had no right to put us in jail. They should have asked us to come and to discuss it. This was our farm. We didn�t steal it. Soon after our arrest my mother fell ill. Not long after that, she died of a broken heart. 32. 10:05:09:00 Martha weeds grave Their faith in their ancestors is absolute. Martha asks them for guidance. 33. 10:05:15:00 Ms Martha weeding Martha (subtitled): We have faith in you. Because you are the ones who will give us strength� for us to come back home here. 34. 10:05:23:00 WS Soft focus, flowers in foreground When the ANC government came to power over a decade ago, Payete lodged a claim to get his land back - but since then the land commission has done nothing for him. 35. 10:05:33:00 Trucks and the �Keep Out � Mining� Recently the farm was sold on to another white farmer. He has made things worse. He�s begun to mine sand on the farm, rapidly turning it into a wasteland. Now, day in and day out, truckload by truckload, the farmer carries away the very soil that Payete considers to be his - but he doesn�t know how stop it. 36. 10:06:01:00 Green truck Payete VO (subtitled): You know I�m getting very angry� especially when the trucks are loading over there. I�m shiverring. Because I�m telling you it�s very, very painful. He�s damaging the land. 37. 10:06:13:00 Wind pump. Capt. van Zyl walks through house And the violence continues. Miles away in the ruin of a farmhouse torched when the owner and his wife were murdered - Captain van Zyl hunts for clues to explain the brutality. 38. 10:06:26:00 POV burnt int house Capt. van Zyl (subtitled) : The two elderly people were literally chopped up. The old man was stabbed 38 times. Why 38 times? 39. 10:06:40:00 Capt. van Zyl walks through house Bearing witness to such extremes of violence against fellow whites finally drove the captain to a nervous breakdown. It kept him off duty for seven months. 40. 10:06:49:00 Capt. van Zyl van Zyl sync Capt. van Zyl (subtitled) : I couldn�t take it anymore. Seeing day and night every day the brutal killings. It must� I�m a human being. It must take, it must take its toll. 41. 10:07:02:00 Ext rain township street For Payete Ndlovana the wound of losing his land has festered in a small township house for decades. 42. 10:07:01:00 Payete and Martha in kitchen Payete VO: The attack on the farmers is the issue of the land. Payete: They will kill them because they don�t want to work together. 43. 10:07:18:00 CU cooking pot Martha: You know those white people. Payete: The white people, they�re no good man. Martha It�s how they treating the blacks. Payete: The government says that we must get our farms back� because the white people stole them from black people. They took our mother�s and father�s land But now the law has changed to get it back. But the whites do this� They don�t want to give it back. Let him give my land back! And let him go to the land where they come from. It�s simple man. 44. 10:07:56:00 Ext Valley, ploughing Less than a mile from the disputed sand mine is land a white farmer has worked for the past 25 years. 45. 10:08:07:00 Drives tractor Louis VO: We didn�t steal this land, I bought this land legally. I think it�s just the culture that has been created in South Africa that the farmer - he�s got a lot of land and we need to kill him and I think that�s Government propaganda. 46. 10:08:22:00 Int Louis and maps Louis Meintjies runs the operational centre of the local farmers� self-defence unit. 47. 10:08:28:00 Maps boards and pins Louis : The red pins is where serious crimes has been committed, the white and the pink pins are for let�s call it normal crimes like house breaking and theft, vehicle theft, and all these red ones there has been either a murder or a rape case or a serious assault. 48. 10:08:44:00 CU on pins Louis sync Louis : For the last two years about twelve serious attacks of which nine were murder. The latest one was on New Years eve is at this point. And about just about seven eight months previously the neighbour was killed. The old man was beaten to death. About three months ago Johan van Dyk was shot in his house and he was killed. And just before that on this side At and Rien Venter was shot and killed in their house. 49. 10:09:13:00 Zoom out from aerial photo All this violence has occurred within a distance of 4 miles from his farm. 50. 10:09:21:00 Tilt across map with red line Louis sync Louis: There�s a lot of land claims in the area, that might be part of it. I believe it�s all part of the government�s action against the white farmer to get the land away from him. And the two, according to me, runs hand in hand: the killings, intimidation which suits the government and the pressure there on the farmer to sell. 51. 10:09:44:00 10:09:53:00 10:10:02:00 Thru car windscreen Pan to Payete Get out Frans works the land with his son Payete calls Frans Payete meets Frans His fears are fuelled by the government�s refusal to condemn Robert Mugabe�s land grabs in Zimbabwe next door But it ignores the intense resentment of those the farmers have evicted from their land. Frans Ngobeni worked on the same farm that was once Payete�s land. Payete has come to report his lack of progress. Frans is also getting nowhere with his case of unlawful eviction. In a bid to stop him from filing a claim, the farmer shot his dogs in front of his children. When that didn�t scare him off, the farmer knocked down Frans� house and dumped the family here. 52. 10:10:26:00 Payete & Frans sit down Payete: Hey Frans. It�s hard to speak about it. I�ve come to tell you what�s been happening. It�s this business with the farmer.. I went to the farm the other day. He�s started digging near the graveyard. 53. 10:10:52:00 OTS of Frans Frans: If they were to say,� that place, it�s yours again, I won�t look back. I�ll make a move. That�s my place, my children were raised there. 54. 10:11:01:00 WS Child foreground Frans once had his own crops and livestock. Now he can only afford to send one of his 7 children to school. The sole breadwinner is his wife. She earns 40 pounds a month as a live-in domestic worker many miles away. 55. 10:11:18:00 CU Payete Payete: That man has given a lot of people problems. When we voted in �94, we thought the situation would mean� that we and the farmers were going to share 50/50. 56. 10:11:27:00 Moloto shots Many workers with land rights are evicted in an attempt to head off to head off their claims to land. The area around Frans� shack becomes more crowded as more workers are forced off farms. Their anger mounts. 57. 10:11:45:00 Spot Capt. van Zyl Capt. van Zyl VO: There are probably farmers who ill treat their workers who are attacked and there are farmers who are good to their workers and they also get attacked. Whether you�re good to them, or bad to them, you get attacked in the same brutal manner, I just don�t understand it. 58. 10:12:05:00 CU Bible Priest (subtitled): Dearly beloved, at this moment of depature � we experience a heavy heartache. 59. 10:12:15:00 WS of 3 female mourners Members of Louis� small farming community gather to bless the ashes of two of their number. A husband and his wife murdered late last year. 60. 10:12:27:00 CU urns placed into wall Louis VO: We put them away and we�ll forget them. Since their death we�ve had three or four others that also died in the same way. And it just carries on and you bury and the next one and it never stops. 61. 10:12:46:00 Pick up thru sunset 62. 10:12:50:00 WS Ext of house evening 63. 10:12:54:00 Louis standing at window Louis cleaning gun Louis synch Louis VO: They came in at night, there was a struggle he was shot and killed, his wife was killed. Everything was left as is. The cell phones were there, the safe where the guns were in was standing there with the safe keys on the table, nothing taken. Louis: But if just robbery is the motive for all that why why wait for the farmer why maim him why kill him? That doesn�t make sense. 64. 10:13:29:00 Int suspects in cell Statistics reveal that the perpetrators of farm murders are young, black and usually unemployed. Their violence seems to cross the boundary between theft and race hatred; between superstition and reality. And some use witchcraft. 65. 10:13:47:00 10:13:58:00 CU of feet in cell Capt. van Zyl synch Capt. van Zyl VO: Many of them go to the witchdoctor. They want muti potions to make themselves invisible, so that the police can�t catch them. Capt. van Zyl: And its something we always look for. The talisman on his wrist or his waist. It�s strange - when you question the witchdoctors - they confirm the suspect was there. And you wonder: why would he ask for potions to make himself invisible? He must have done something. 66. 10:14:18:00 Track up green valley Assailants on the run don�t need spells to become invisible. The captain�s 8 men are stretched over an area the size of Scotland. And most attacks occur at night 67. 10:14:34:00 Ext Henk speaks to Capt. van Zyl Henk: I awoke at about half past one with a terrible pain. And apparently I was hit with this on my mandibles. 68. 10:14:48:00 Track interior Captain van Zyl has come to take a statement from farmer Henk Coetzee who has up until now been silenced by a steel bar that shattered his jaw. 69. 10:14:58:00 Int room, Henk opens door Henk: The safe was here. Capt. van Zyl: Ok, Behind the door? So he must have known there was a safe? 70. 10:15:06:00 MS Henk, Capt. van Zyl left of frame Henk: Definitely, I think its sort of an inside job. You know this is terrible. I came here from Namibia just after a year ago for a new future here in this country. Look at this. 71. 10:15:21:00 CU Henk synch Capt. van Zyl: Now you�re leaving. Why? Henk: There�s no future here. 72. 10:15:30:00 Trailer leaves farm Music 73. 10:15:40:00 10:15:54:00 Pan across landscape Close up Anna weeping There�s been more trouble further down in the valley. Another vicious assault. Weapons have been stolen. But this time the victim is not a white farmer. Anna Makuwa is a worker left in charge of the farmhouse while the white owners were out. 74. 10:16:00:00 2 shot of Capt. van Zyl and Anna Capt. van Zyl: He wanted to kill you? Anna: Yes. 75. 10:16:05:00 photograph Capt. van Zyl: So this is Kleinbooi? 76. 10:16:09:00 CU side of Anna crying Anna: I said, �what are you doing?� and he started to beat me in the face. Then Kleinbooi approached and kicked me here. If someone kicks you here you�ve got no strength. Then they grabbed me. 77. 10:16:21:00 CU photograph Music 78. 10:16:24:00 10:16:31:00 CU Identikit on laptop WS of group sitting in kitchen The photograph is an old one. The captain arranges for a police forensic officer to assemble a current identikit of Kleinbooi. He once worked on this farm and is well known in the area. 79. 10:16 :37:00 Mid 2 shot of ID inspector and Anna Anna: The nose is right. Forensic Officer: So the nose is right? Anna Yes and the mouth. Forensic Officer Is it right? 80. 10:16:43:00 Side shot the two Anna Yes, but here it was a bit thinner. Forensic Officer So it was a bit thinner? That�s fine we�ll make it a bit thinner. 81. 10:16:53:00 Cu on computer screen Anna: He looks like that. Forensic Officer The eyes are right? Anna: Yes 82. 10:16:56:00 CU Anna Anna: Yes, I�m scared now because they might come back They can come back. They know I�ve told the police. I don�t know where they are and my child is out there. And they told me they�re going to kill her if I talk to the police. She doesn�t want to go to school anymore because she�s scared. She�s worried she might just walk into him. 83. 10:17:21:00 Cu Anna Capt. van Zyl: How old is your child? Anna: She�s 15 years old? 84. 10:17:26:00 Cars move into dawn Thru gate 4 am the next morning . Police think Kleinbooi is hiding in the valley. Captain van Zyl has managed to muster the help of an extra detective who brings his own transport. 85. 10:17:39:00 Capt. van Zyl & Kenau get out of vehicle Capt. van Zyl: Where is he? 86. 10:17:41:00 The policemen move in on a friend and possible accomplice of Kleinbooi. 87. 10:17:44:00 Capt. van Zyl: Open police! Kenau Quickly. 88. 00:17:50:00 Shack door opens Kenau Come out. Put your hands behind your back. Miller: Ah, ah, ah - these people are arresting me now! Kenau: Don�t give us any trouble. 89. 00:18:05:00 Inside car Capt. van Zyl: We�re not cross with you but I see you want to fight! Miller: No� Capt. van Zyl: Yes it�s early and you still want to sleep. 90. 10:18:20:00 Int car Capt. van Zyl: Which house? The big or the small one? Kenau: What�s her name? Miller: Theresa 91. 10:18:29:00 Running towards house The captain is not sure how many suspects he�s chasing. But Kleinbooi is armed and dangerous enough to scare him. 92. 10:18:37:00 10:18:51:00 Capt. van Zyl speaks to woman Capt. van Zyl points gun at door Capt. van Zyl VO: As you run toward a house, you�re frightened. You don�t know what�s inside. Kenau: Open the door. Capt. van Zyl: Who�s inside? Woman: Let us in. Capt. van Zyl VO: You�re prepared but you�re jumpy. You just don�t know what�s waiting for you. Kenau: Where�s Kleinbooi?.... Is this the woman. 93. 10:19:06:00 10:19:12:00 Group leave shack Miller in car. Capt. van Zyl shows him identikit Kleinbooi is one step ahead of the police. He�s left the valley. Anna and her daughter are now in grave danger since the news got out that she�d identified him to the police. And the unwilling police informer is also now vulnerable. 94. 10:19:23:00 Int Mbeki on tv Mbeki on TV: South Africa belongs to all who live in it. United in their diversity. This means that we must realise the goal of the transformation of our country away from its racist past. 95. 10:19:33:00 Cu of Payete Payete watches the President address the nation surrounded by his sons. All were born on the farm he�s trying to get back. 96. 10:19:41:00 CU of TV Mbeki on TV: We entered into an exchange that we would abandon all our claims to the land the African majority had lost before 1913, as a result of violent colonial dispossession. Naturally, this government would ensure that at least the post 1913 land claims would be settled without undue delay. 97. 10:20:02:00 CU of Payete But for Payete the delay has been an eternity. The problem, is not only with the white farmer but the government�s own land commission. It seems paralysed. 98. 10:20:15:00 Ws of men in lounge Solly (subtitle): They said no you have a good claim, this was a black spot. This is what happened, you were forcibly removed from that area. All those things were said. 99. 10:20:24:00 Pan to Payete Payete: In other words, it means that the government gazette is talking shit. 100. 10:20:27:00 Cu of Solly (checked shirt) Solly: Everyday its a new story from land commissioner. We hear stories about van Rensburg� trucks are still getting in and out destroying the land. 101. 10:20:35:00 White shirt: The land belongs to us. That�s the end of the story. 102. 10:20:38:00 WS of Lounge Payete: Sometimes a fight can make it right. If you go to prison it doesn�t matter. Solly: Guys. Payete: So lets give this guy a fight! Solly: N. O. No! 103. 10:20:48:00 Two shot Red Cap: We�ve run out of patience. We cannot take it any longer. 104. 10:20:54:00 Man with child on lap Cu Payete in sync Payete (subtitled): If the land affairs is not doing his job� these black people will grab the land. Then there�s gonna be a hell of a fight. Black is black and white is white. All these blacks are going fight the whites� and these whites will fight the blacks�. So it�s a blood war. It will be a blood war. 105. 10:21:15:00 10:21:19:00 Int Rushing around living room Erica on radio Radio: Standing by Radio static 3 days later the blood war returns to the valley. Erica: Did you receive? Radio: Where do you want me to go? Louis: Let him go to Piet. Erica: Drive to Piet Lourens. There are 3 black armed men. 106. 10:21:33:00 Bouncing in car Louis: Yesterday they attacked Pieter Swart. He was shot dead, his children and servants tied up� and we know a cell phone was stolen. 107. 10:21:45:00 10:22:02:00 MS Louis driving POV helicopter, car through long grass, walking through grass It�s been a rare five months since the last murder in Louis Meintjie�s� area. Now 3 armed men are said to be heading in this direction. As a police helicopter searches the area, Louis hopes to intercept them. In this terrain his chances of contact are slim. 108. 10:22:12:00 Louis in bush in Afrikaans Louis (sub-titled): This is what makes a farm attack so difficult. From the house he�s into the bush.. like here. And he lies in there, covers himself with grass. If he lies still � you can literally walk right past him and you�re not going to see him. 109. 10:22:35:00 Louis scans horizon thru binos A week later, the dead farmer�s workers identify a suspect. A 19 year old is charged with murder. But there�s no trace of his accomplices. Like Kleinbooi and his gang, they�re on the loose. 110. 10:22:51:00 Capt. van Zyl walks through landscape Captain van Zyl needs to trace Kleinbooi before he attacks again. He examines previous cases in search of a lead. 111. 10:23:01:00 Forensic tape B&W Radio static 112. 10:23:05:00 Forensic tape It�s a case of an elderly farmer and his wife who left Zimbabwe for South Africa when Mugabe�s land grabs began. They thought they would be safer here. 113. 10:23:13:00 Old man with hammers Tom De Vos: They hit me with that hammer here. You can see the marks where they hit me. But I�m blocking I push forward. I realise that I can�t go back. 114. 10:23:24:00 Int old woman Mrs. De Vos: �Granny wake up! Where�s the money?� � 115. 10:23:28:00 Int corridor Capt. van Zyl and man Tom De Vos: By now there�s just blood� the way they�re hitting me. I struggle my way in. I want to trigger the alarm. But they�re on me. They�re hitting me. Mrs. De Vos: Here was a table that he smashed over my head. Tom De Vos: There are some alarms here. I look for this one but I don�t find it. Mrs. De Vos: And then he grabbed a Broken vase and hit me here. Smashed my cheek-bone; broke my nose. Capt. van Zyl: I remember there was a lot of blood against the wall. 116. 10:23:54:00 Man in doorway Tom De Vos: Then I manage to get to this one. And I activate the alarm. But they grab and rip it off. So it stopped. Now I know there�s no phone. There�s no more alarm. They dragged us into that room. So she tells me to lie still. And so we don�t move. 117. 10:24:14:00 Pan on still of injured man Miraculously they survived. He suffered deep concussion, a severed ear and was partially blinded. 118. 10:24:22:00 Forensic video Capt. van Zyl VO : We investigate; we catch them; we get evidence; take them to court. But it�s happening more and more. It�s excessive. Why the torture? That�s the question. 119. 10:24:37:00 Capt. van Zyl and Man in doorway Capt. van Zyl: How old are you sir? 120. 10:24:40:00 Man breaks down Tom De Vos: I am on the 29th March I turned 80. Capt. van Zyl: It�ll get better. 121. 10:24:55:00 Forensic video Capt. van Zyl VO: I put it down to hatred. You don�t do that to an 80 year old man. Why so much violence? I mean you hit someone with a hammer he dies. He was left for dead. 122. 10:25:07:00 Ext. Men sit around table. The policemen meet the local Commando � a paramilitary unit that dates back to the Boer war. The government is dismantling the commandos just when danger seems to be on the increase. 123. 10:25:20:00 Cu on man in red shirt and red face MS Kenau Red face: There are two things that they demand first: money and firearms. Kenau: But at this farm attack, they didn�t even ask for money� Straight to firearms. 124. 10:25:32:00 Identikit circulates The police use the Commando to intensify the hunt for Kleinbooi�s and his gang. 125. 10:25:40:00 Cu over the shoulder of identkit Cu Kenau Kenau: He has a round face. He�s not the same guy we�re looking for. This man has a long face. 126. 10:25:45:00 Identikit circulates MS of James MS Kenau Ws of group Capt. van Zyl They stole a lot of weapons from Coetzee and they� took weapons from that Anna. James: Its the small details. If there�s one walking around at night, stop him. �Where are you going? Where do you stay? What are you doing?� The guys panic when you start asking questions. Kenau: The blacks must know we�re after these people. Capt. van Zyl: We�ll see how many men we can get but I don�t promise anything. 127. 10:26:10:00 Pan over valley Running in the dark Soon after nightfall an alarm is triggered in the valley below. It�s the same house the captain visited that afternoon. By chance the police are still nearby. 128. 10:26:36:00 Run up and around house Up to steel gate Checking rooms with guns drawn Capt. van Zyl hugs woman Kenau: Open the door. Open the door Open Aunty Kenau: Clear. Clear. Capt. van Zyl: Are you alright sir. Mr. De Vos: Yes I�m fine. Capt. van Zyl: Aunty are you alright? Kenau: Come and spend the night with us. Capt. van Zyl: Just tonight. Get your shoes. 129. 10:27:35:00 Old lady walks into room The old couple heard a window being forced. They hit the alarm and it seems whoever it was ran away. 130. 10:27:39:00 Capt. van Zyl mirror Capt. van Zyl: It�s shit man! Shit! 131. 10:27:46:00 Track down int corridor Actuality Capt. van Zyl static in doorway Capt. van Zyl VO : The old people are close to my heart, they�re old and battered. They look to you in the eye. Will you catch them. Capt. van Zyl Come aunty. Capt. van Zyl VO : We must catch them. You keep going till you get them. You must get it right. 132. 10:28:05:00 Drum beat women song & dance spot Payete The dancers celebrate a peaceful farm handover. They happen so rarely in Mpumulanga province, it calls for a party. Payete has come here hoping to speak to the chief land claims commissioner. Some of what he hears is close to his heart. 133. 10:28:32:00 Man dancing Sub-title(Off): Power! to the people. 134. 10:28:36:00 Cu man giving speech Official: Today the white men are rich using our strength and our sweat. Yet they still refuse to give us the land. They must go! 135. 10:28:50:00 MS White farmers The white farmer who sold his land to the government is not just insulted, he is also praised. 136. 10:28:56:00 Mpumulanga MEC MEC: The land must belong to all and to all that work it - black or white. We want to say thank you for joining this noble struggle � and we are saying continue with us as part of your contribution to the struggle to build this rainbow nation. 137. 10:29:21:00 Signing ceremony Song The ultimate message is clear - land claims will only be settled with willing sellers. The land commission can legally seize white farmer�s land but has never done so. 138. 10:29:37:00 Title held aloft and paraded Women sing Finally title passes back to the original owners: people who until recently worked this land for the white farmer. 139. 10:30:01:00 Payete talks to blue overall Track though crowd Payete feels left behind. He looks for the land commissioner or anyone else who might help him with his problem. 140. 10:30:09:00 Payete speaks to woman official Payete: I put in my claim in 1995 Woman official: Where did you make the claim? Payete: Pretoria. I made the claim there. They agreed that the land is ours. But there�s been a long delay. 141. 10:30:23:00 Cu woman official Woman official: Go to our office in Gauteng� 142. 10:30:28:00 10:30:33:00 Dancing woman in Blue headdress Payete finds Tozi G But he�s been to that office already. Finally, when he�s about to give up, he finds the man he has been looking for � the chief land claims commissioner. 143. 10:30:38:00 Payete looking at Tozi Payete (subtitled): We had applied about 10, 12, 13 years now. And he bought the farm in 2003 or 2002. But is it right that if the land is claimed, somebody can come and buy it? Tozi G: No, we stop any sale of that land and we stop any development of that land. Payete: But that man is still busy on the farm. When I talk to the commission they say they are busy. It takes a long time. Why? When I get the farm back... It�s going to be condemned. Tozi G: If he was aware that the sale was gazetted it was unlawful for him. 144. 10:31:18:00 Pan to Payete Walks away Woman danicng Payethe�s heard all of this before. It�s got him nowhere. Even the government�s own land commissioner can�t seem to help him. By the time he heads home Payethe�s convinced the Zimbabwean approach to land reform is what South Africa needs. 145. 10:31:34:00 Payete on his verandah Payete VO (subtitled) : Until today what has happened? Nothing! Mugabe is right. He�s dead right,because they pinched his land off him That�s why he fights. So Mugabe is right. A hundred percent right. 146. 10:31:45:00 CU Bible Prayer in TAU meet Chairman (Subtitled) : I saw a beast come out of the sea with seven heads and ten horns. And on the horns ten crowns. And he makes the earth and those who dwell thereon� to bow down before the beast 147. 10:31:58:00 WS of Louis LouisVO: The anti-christ is among us. We don�t have a Christian Government, they don�t believe in the same God I believe in. 148. 10:32:08:00 WS and c/a of white men in meeting Louis Meintjies is a leading member of the old, Transvaal Agricultural Union. A relic of apartheid it represents just 10 percent of all white farmers. 149. 10:32:18:00 Ws of big man in khaki Delegate (Subtitled): This booklet is issued by the Committee for the Restitution of Land Rights. On the cover of this book it is written, �this is our land�. I want to tell you that what�s happening here is a threat to� democracy and the free market system in this African land� in this dark African land. The cold wind that blows over the Limpopo River... what is happening in the north, we feel is happening here. And yet there is a deliberate denial Not one speaks of it 150. 10:32:54:00 Assembled farmers These farmers are united by the suspicion that the government is trying to take their land � but unlike Zimbabwe - to do it by stealth. 151. 10:33:01:00 Driving - hand on wheel The union argues that land owned by the government should be used to settle claims. Under apartheid, vast tracts of farmland were bought to consolidate tribal homelands. Louis has links to one such area: a place called Rus de Winter. 152. 10:33:20:00 Cu Louis driving synch Louis: My uncle had a farm there and our family on my mothers side has been farming in that area for years now. 153. 10:33:32:00 Sideshot thru window of deserted houses For 12 years the area has been lying in limbo. Thousands upon thousands of hectares abandoned, with no one living there. 154. 10:33:46:00 Defocused thru fence Synch Louis: I can remember the whole land from the other side of the house was planted, now there is grass, there�s bugger all growing. And all under irrigation. You know it just makes you sad. Why not? It�s got great potential. But they don�t even ... Give it to the blacks let them use it. They do nothing, it lies here, it is really a sin to leave it like this and they want to take the white farmers stuff. 155. 10:34:11:00 Louis on exterior walk Louis VO: There�s just so much wasted here that has been built. I mean people grew up here, they were born here. They worked here; they created something and now it�s gone. Natures taken over. There�s nothing left. 156. 10:34:29:00 Louis opens metal door 157. 10:34:40:00 Louis takes a walk around the old house Louis VO: Where would I go if I leave my place, because in most places there�s a land claim on it so let�s call it the last stand. 158. 10:35:02:00 Tilt from grass to house Captain van Zyl has been called to a farm 50 miles from his base. In the past months it�s been hit 3 times. 159. 10:35:12:00 Capt. van Zyl visits Pages for statement Mrs Page: I just saw a black man and I knew� Mr. Page: I saw something is wrong. I�m being attacked. Mrs Page: This one was open but I slammed it in their face you know. Mr. Page: He pushed me to the ground and said I must stop shouting. And he kept me there with his pistol. 160. 10:35:30:00 WS of house with flower n foreground In the last attack, one of the assailants was killed in a shoot out. The others escaped and are still at large. 161. 10:35:37:00 Mrs. Page: We realised that these are people that are really, really very bad and their only intention is to destroy you, to kill you. Mr. Page: We�ve actually decided to sell the farm. 162. 10:35:47:00 Capt. van Zyl removes gun from car Captain van Zyl gets a break. An informer directs his team to a house in a black township 163. 10:35:51:00 Capt. van Zyl runs around house Capt. van Zyl : Lets go in! Locked from the inside. 164. 10:36:02:00 Enters room with gun up. Arrest Jacob (off camera) Capt. van Zyl: Hey! Keep your hands up! Kenau: Put your hands against the wall! Capt. van Zyl: Where�s your ID? Kenau: ID Book! Jacob: I haven�t got one. 165. 10:36:09:00 CU looking through Photos The suspect�s description matches that given by the farmer of his attacker. 166. 10:36:18:00 Looking under mattress Kenau: Where are the rest of your clothes? Capt. van Zyl: Where are your clothes? Inside? Kenau: Let�s take a look. 167. 10:36:25:00 Int Capt. van Zyl and Jacob Capt. van Zyl: You haven�t got an ID. Why not? Jacob: Because there was a problem with my family. 168. 10:36:34:00 Tight 2 shot Capt. van Zyl: Where�s your photo? Jacob: I don�t have a photo. Capt. van Zyl: So you don�t stay here. Jacob: I stay here its my mother�s place. Kenau: Your mother�s place. But where do you stay. You don�t stay here. Jacob: I stay here. Kenau: Because you�ve got no clothes here. 169. 10:36:53:00 Ext leaving scene He calls himself Jacob Mazibuko. He says he�s 25 years old. Police are not convinced by his answers 170. 10:36:59:00 Bars in police station CU Jacobs hands CU Jacob Capt. van Zyl: Do you work? Jacob: No. Capt. van Zyl: Staying with? Jacob: Mother and father and two sons. Capt. van Zyl Ok, you don�t have work, nothing. Jacob: No. Capt. van Zyl: Where did you get that watch, huh? No turn it around. Where did you get this watch? Jacob: I buy it. Capt. van Zyl: But you don�t work? Jacob I asked for it at home and they gave it to me. Capt. van Zyl: Have you been arrested. Jacob: Yes. Capt. van Zyl: For? Jacob: For robbery. For carjacking. Capt. van Zyl: For hijacking? Jacob: Yes. 171. 10:37:38:00 Capt. van Zyl & Jacob 2 shot Capt. van Zyl VO: It�s a mind game. You know it�s him, It comes with experience, his body language, everything. Its obvious that when you question him he won�t tell the truth. You have to confront him with facts, with evidence. 172. 10:37:56:00 Cu Jacob 2 shot Kenau: We�ve got evidence that places you on that farm with the robbery. Jacob: No. Capt. van Zyl: Ja. Jacob: No. 173. 10:38:04:00 Cu Jacob Capt. van Zyl: Are you willing to do an ID parade? Jacob: I don�t understand what you�re saying. Capt. van Zyl: Do you know what�s an ID parade? Jacob: ID parade? Capt. van Zyl: Yes! Jacob: I understand an ID parade. Capt. van Zyl: You know ID parade? Are you willing to do an ID parade? 174. 10:38:17:00 CU Jacob Jacob: No. I have a reason why I don�t want it. First thing, I have a lawyer, an advocate Mr. Mhlangu. I must call him because every time I do a parade I call him because� Kenau: Every time, you do an ID parade? How many times did you do an ID parade? Jacob: No I was�� 2002, 14 charges here in Witbank. Kenau: What? Jacob: 14 charges. Kenau: 14 charges of what? Jacob: Were running here in Witbank. Kenau: Against you? Jacob: Yes. Kenau: What were the charges? Jacob: Robbery. All the charges were robbery. Capt. van Zyl: I got bad news for you. You must do an ID parade. 175. 10:38:59:00 POV through bars of ID parade Photographer: Look at me. 176. 10:39:13:00 CU of feet Police assemble an identity parade. Jacob Mazibuko is in the lineup. He is Number 4. The last time the farmer saw his attacker was when he held a gun to his head. 177. 10:39:37:00 ID inspector and Mr Page Page: There are 2 guys : number 4 looks sort of� I can�t really tell properly. Officer: So you say number 4? Mr. Page: I must say I�m not 100 percent sure. Officer: Can you ask number 4 to step forward? 178. 10:39:41:00 Pan through bars Mr Page sync Mr.Page: We can�t all hide. I asked my workers to come and help me but they wouldn�t. They said no they�re not willing to. So if they�re not willing to who else would do it? With this high crime rate in this country we got to do some thing. 179. 10:40:07:00 POV thru bars as Jacob approaches Its becoming clear that at 25, Jacob is already a hardened criminal. He has no links to any land claim. 180. 10:40:13:00 2 shot of Kenau and Jacob Capt. van Zyl: Morning Jacob. Kenau: You�re going to court tomorrow. Jacob: For what? Kenau: For armed robbery and attempted murder. 181. 10:40:29:00 Track to Capt. van Zyl. Jacob had other ideas. On his way to court, he escaped. He is still at large. It�s a blow to Captain van Zyl. He hoped Jacob would be a link to the ringleaders in what is beginning to look more like common crime than politically motivated terror. 182. 10:40:38:00 Smoke through trees Meeting Now looking for other explanations for the violence, the captain invites officers from neighbouring areas to a bush meeting. 183. 10:40:46:00 Ext Cops sitting around table Capt. van Zyl: Why murder the guy? Why doesn�t he just take the stuff and fuck off? Why the violence against people? John: I don�t think it�s the right thing to say but its part of his nature. Capt. van Zyl: Nature, culture. John: They�re cruel toward each other. Its not strange for them. They beat each other to death. This is just something that comes along. He stands to gain financially. 184. 10:41:08:00 Ext C/a drinking But the main reason for the get- together is to perform the weekly ritual of forgetting - to get drunk. 185. 10:41:14:00 The boys drink Capt. van Zyl VO: You need an escape route, you can�t just carry on. There are many things that people do: they go berserk. You have to find something, you need distraction. The guys in the unit drink, as a way of forgetting for a moment - but in the morning the memories return. 186. 10:41:40:00 Their demons are many and dangerous. The drinking goes on deep into the night. 187. 10:41:51:00 CU of grader removing Donkeys plough Walk into hut On Payete�s land claim, the sand is disappearing faster. All his appeals to the land commission have come to nothing. In desperation he travels to a former black homeland � a backwater, left over from the apartheid era. He�s come here in search of help � but this time, from beyond the grave. 188. 10:42:28:00 CU on female witch doctor Payete: Some people get their land through force but I don�t want to use force. I want to act within the law but the law works so slowly, so very slowly. 189. 10:42:43:00 Int OTS of witch doctor CU witch Doctor Payete: This business could land us in jail and we don�t want to go to jail. You think about killing your self or about killing someone else. So now all you have in your head is this evil You want to take an axe and chop him; take a knife and stab him. You don�t want to have to deal with him. You�d rather die! 190. 10:43:09:00 Payete blows into Meerkat Sangoma: Let the matter come out� Let�s see what�s going on here. 191. 10:43:19:00 Hitting meerkat on floor Sangoma throws the bones Sangoma: You can see here� Our ancestors are talking to the elders. �Here�s our son who wants our land.� The elders are opening up a path. Here�s our farm but thing�s afoot. There�s disagreement. You see the situation. Hewants to point a gun at the other. 192. 10:43:32:00 Cu pointing at bones Sangoma: You can see the situation. One wants to point a gun at the other. 193. 10:43:45:00 Throws bones again The ancestors seem to have sensed murder in Payete�s heart. Perhaps to calm him they offer reassuring words. 194. 10:43:55:00 CU Payete Sangoma: But none of this harm will come to you. Nothing can happen to you. 195. 10:44:01:00 CU payete CU Sangoma Sangoma: The ancestors say, �this is our child�s land.� We�ve spoken and they�ve spoken. 196. 10:44:08:00 10:44:24:00 Ext Voortrekker Monument Int Voortrekker monument Louis Meintjies also turns to his ancestors for spiritual help. The Voortrekker Monument records the Afrikaner settlers� war against black people. Carved in marble is the historic battle of Blood River. A handful of Boers triumphed against a mighty Zulu army. It still inspires Louis 197. 10:44:35:00 Int Voortrekker Monument Louis VO: The Boers at Blood River, made a deal with God on that day that, should they come out alive, they�ll build a church and the day would always be remembered. 198. 10:44:45:00 Int Voortrekker Monument Louis & Erica come here every year. It helps fortify their resolve to fight on. But recent attacks have shaken their faith. 199. 10:45:02:00 Ms Louis viewing murals Louis VO: It�s really scary what�s happening. I think far more people was killed in the last ten years than through the whole Great Trek. What happened then is again happening today and time will tell whether we will come out of it alive. 200. 10:45:17:00 Lightening bolt behind statue Thunder 201. 10:45:20:00 Ext Louis surveying landscape. Louis VO: I believe that in the near future it might just happen that we�re pushed into a corner and that we might have to make a deal with God again. 202. 10:45:40:00 Funeral cortege Mourners Two men embrace Music The funeral of the victim of the most recent murder. He was a farmer and a businessman. He didn�t share Louis suspicion of his black countrymen. But that proved no protection. He leaves behind yet another grieving widow, fatherless children and unemployed workers. The farm is already up for sale. But it is around death and mourning that one can still see a glimmer of that so-called �rainbow nation� still used to describe South Africans. 203. 10:46:25:00 Weeping woman emerges from crowd Black woman distraught, close to collapse at funeral In South Africa common crime affects everyone. Statistics just released, show black farmers are coming under attack as well. Captain van Zyl is now convinced that greed and not revenge drives the violence 204. 10:46:40:00 CU on rainy windscreen Ms Capt. van Zyl driving Capt. van Zyl VO: I don�t believe it has anything to do with Apartheid. You must look at it in context: farm attacks are like any other crime � it�s just a name. No, its not about driving people off their land. It�s just common crime. 205. 10:47:02:00 Pan from gate With Kleinboy still at large van Zyl has come to check on Anna - to see if she�s safe. She is not. He�s been back to taunt her. 206. 10:47:08:00 Anna talks to Mane & Kenau 2 shot Capt. van Zyl and Anna Anna: There was a man right there. I�m getting very scared now. I keep quiet. He calls. I keep quiet. Now if he comes, what do I do? They will make sure I�m dead. Capt. van Zyl: We will catch him. Don�t worry. Kenau: Anna, you can trust us ok? Anna: I know you�re the police sir. 207. 10:47:44:00 WS thru chains, cops leave 208. 10:48:02:00 Wide landscape (Title:) At the current rate of land reform in South Africa it will take 60 years for all claims to be settled. By then only 30 percent of South Africa�s agricultural land will be owned by black people. 209. 10:48:55:00 ROLL CREDITS 1 1