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With Christmas only three days away, Carol Claus agrees to her father's request that she leave the North Pole on a mission to help save Christmas. Joining single father Ben Hanson and his children for the holidays seems an easy enough task until Santa informs her that Ben is the man behind the disturbing new book 'Beyond Bah Humbug: Why Lying to Your Children about Santa Claus is a Bad Idea'.
Posing as Miss Kane, the children's new nanny, Carol pulls...
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Among those present on the day set aside for sale was Major Taylor Berry, a wealthy gentleman, who traveled a long distance, to buy a maid for his wife. As was the custom, all the negroes, were taken out and placed in a line, so that, the buyers could easily, examine their good marks. Major Berry was, immediately attracted by Polly's shiny and alert appearance, and immediately negotiated with the dealer, paid the agreed price, and began to go home...
3) Moffie
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The year is 1981 and South Africa's white minority government is embroiled in a conflict on the southern Angolan border. Like all white boys over the age of sixteen, Nicholas Van der Swart must complete two years of compulsory military service to defend the apartheid regime. The threats of communism and 'die swart gevaar' (the black danger) is at an all-time high. But that's not the only danger Nicholas faces. He must survive the brutality of the...
4) Kanarie
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Afrikaans
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A coming-of-age war musical about a small town boy who gets chosen to serve his compulsory two year military training in the South African Defence Force Choir and Concert group- known as the 'Canaries'- during the height of the Apartheid regime.
5) Indemnity
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"Theo, an ex-firefighter suffering from severe trauma after a failed rescue mission, wakes up next to his wife's lifeless body with no recollection of what happened. Labeled the prime suspect, he quickly finds himself hunted by sinister forces and a ruthless deputy chief of police and embarks on a breakneck mission to uncover the truth behind his wife's death"--Container.
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In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, and emotionally frail. One day his mother, fiercly religious, brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to make this stranger into his brother.
7) Krotoa
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"Set in the majestic South African coastal lands, adolescent Krotoa is sent from her tribe to live with Dutch colonialists. Trapped amidst often-violent conflicts between two cultures, she becomes the translator and a skilled mediator, but Krotoa is eventually charged with being a traitor by both sides. Though hope for this tragic heroine fades, her troubled life journey leads to the birth of a nation, ultimately unifying what was once torn apart...
8) Indemnity
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Theo Abrams is an ex-Cape Town fireman suffering from severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, unable to return to work due to the psychological trauma sustained during a failed rescue mission.
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