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In 1994, the Afrikaners of South Africa had to abandon their political power and their racial privileges. Traumatized by these changes and in order to take part in a new strategy for agricultural development, white farmers were soon migrating toward the region of Niassa, in northern Mozambique, long regarded as an enemy nation because of its communist government. This film follows Daan, Fritz and several other pioneer families as they rediscover the founding myth of their culture, pursuing northward the Great Trek begun by their Boer ancestors 200 years earlier. This people, "chosen by God", are thus pursuing their divine mission : "to bear the light of civilization to the heart of black Africa". But the rich lands of Niassa were already occupied by the Yaos, determined not to let these wealthy Afrikaners seize the earth of their ancestors. Excluded from the modernization movement of their region, would these tribes have any other choice but to accept these new migrants and their disproportionate economic power ? In addition to this history, this documentary seeks to give an overlapping vision of a phenomenon which is not specific to this part of the world : economic colonialism.

France / South Africa - 2000 - 57 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Réalisation Aldo Lee Scénario Aldo Lee Image Giulio Biccari, Lance Gewer, Aldo Lee Son Karen Boswall, Tony Bensusan Montage Jean-Pierre Bloc

Production Dominant 7 Productions E-mail : dominant7@free.fr Co-Production Icon Entertainment, South African Broadcasting Corp.

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