1945 THE SOUTH AFRICAN SCENE NO. 4 JAN CHRISTIAN SMUTS CECIL RHODES TABLE MOUNTAIN XD13334

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Disclaimer: This historic film was produced during the apartheid era in South Africa. It contains propaganda elements that explicitly or tacitly endorse racism and racial separation. It is presented solely for historical purposes, to help document in part a period of terrible repression.
This film, one of the series "The South African Scene" focuses on Field Marshall Jan Christian Smuts. Smuts had been a South African statesmen, military leader and philosopher. He served as the Prime Minister of South Africa from 1919 to 1924 and from 1939 to 1948. The film particularly shows him as Prime Minister attending the Table Mountain Annual Memorial Service (:18). The film was produced by the Union Defense Force Film Unit (:32). Table Mountain is viewed (:54) as one of the most well-known landmarks of Cape Town. Cecil Rhodes’ residence sits on the lower slopes of Devil’s Peak (1:06). Field Marshal Smuts and his party are seen as they made their way to climb to Table Mountain (1:22). The memorial service is held annually at the summit of the mountain in order to commemorate the mountaineers who had perished in the war of 1914 to 1918 (1:49). Smuts is seen at the age of 75 heading the party to climb the mountain (2:04). Maclear’s Beacon is viewed as the location for the service at an altitude of 3,500 feet (2:11). Climbers of the mountain are seen embarking on the lower slopes of Skeleton Gorge (2:21). They are then seen passing near the foot of the cable way (3:12) and a shot of the cable car follows as it rides up the mountain (3:22). Viewers of the memorial service climb the mountain with rope harnesses and await Smuts’ arrival (4:30). Smuts is also an authority on South African flora (4:58) as footage of some of the typical examples of flowers found here follows (5:13). Smuts nears the summit (5:42) as spectators applaud his arrival (6:11). The film begins to wrap up with shots of the areas rugged terrain (6:23) as the memorial service is underway as well as Smuts addressing the service (6:42).
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[@jeremybear573]

Wonderful!

[@simonf8902]

Smuts was a fine soldier and a good politician. He was a great supporter of Britain and the Commonwealth.

[@steveib724]

You tricked me

[@toomanyuserids]

South Africa would have been a nasty and brutal joke without British colonization. To some extent it's become that since. Zimbabwe much?

[@laserbeam002]

The problem with ending colonialism is that the leaders who came along after the end had no real political experience, no economic experience, no foreign affairs experience and no real knowledge on how to build and maintain a country no how to build those institutions and the countries economic system. They only knew how to give firey speachs that stirred up the populace. They had their idology and knew it well BUT knowing the idology did not mean they knew how to run a country in the real world.