Just like yesterday's article, today's article would be inspired by a movie. The movie I watched today is titled "Silverton Siege". It is a Netflix movie based on true life event but fictionized.

Be rest assured that my article doesn't include any spoilers as I try to talk about the lessons learnt from the movie.

Silverton Siege

The movie centered on the story of three anti-apartheid guerilla fighters who belong the "MK movement" (the arm wing of the African National Congress) founded by the South African former President "Nelson Mandela". The trio decided to carry arm and take part in the act of sabotage against the white minority government.

They are part of a wider network of guerilla fighters who inflict sabotage on key sectors across the country especially in whites' districts. They carry out this sabotage to send message to the government, while they try as much as possible not to kill any civilians.

The incident happened in 1980. In the movie it was showed that the siege was as a result of the trio fleeing from the police in an attempted act of sabotage in which they decided to hold a bank on hostage as way of securing their freedom with a lot of twists that came later on.

Apartheid

Apartheid is an institutionalised racial segregation, that discriminates against the blacks by making the whites superior. It also disenfranchised the blacks and deprived them of political rights.

Apartheid had continued in South Africa despite international plea for its end. It was until the early 1990s before the barbaric rule was laid down after much pressure and act of protest which resulted in the freedom of Nelson Mandela after serving twenty seven (27) years in prison.

The movie reminisce a dark and bitter history of South Africa and the suffering of the black majority in the hands of white minority.

The land of South Africa belongs and has been the ancestral home of the black, while the earliest white settlement in South Africa was about 400 years ago.

The fight back

I am not a preacher or supporter of violence, but sometimes one need to fight especially for Freedom. This what made peaceful freedom fighters like Nelson Mandela and co; to form an arm movement.

The white minority government was responding to their peaceful protest with undue violence and massacre of armless people.

In a speech given by Mandela during the founding of Mk movement (the original name in Zulu is "uMkhonto we Sizwe")

He said there are defining times in a country where you have to submit or fight and they have chosen to fight for their freedom

What's the price freedom?

In the movie two major character repeated the rhetorical question

"What's the price of freedom?"

And their answer was "everything."

Freedom is something worth fighting for and it's worth more than gold or money or anything else.

The Stockholm syndrome

Towards the latter part of the movie the Stockholm syndrome began to take effect on the hostages.

Stockholm syndrome happens when hostage and captors develop physiological bonding. And this result in the hostage sympathizing with the captors and seeing things from their point of view.

When Stockholm syndrome takes effect; the hostages do not see their captors as frightful monsters again and tend to follow their instructions.

Racism; a prevailing issue

Despite the fact that there are no major countries on earth still practicing racial segregation like that of South Africa's apartheid policy.

The world hasn't gotten over the issue of racism and it is still a major issue across the world. It is even happening in countries that are said to be advanced economically and socially.

Racism isn't confined to one race alone but majorly it tends to happen to people of colour especially we the blacks.

Everyone is equal and we are all humans with the same brain, organs and blood. We shouldn't look down on anybody or consider anybody as superior due to their skin colour.

Let spread love not hate. Say no to racism.

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