Have You Heard from Johannesburg: The Bottom Line

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

April 15, 2010

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English

Director

Connie Field

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0972816