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Cape Rebel (1989)

Cape Rebel (1989)

Drama History
Release Date: 1989, April 27
Directors: Dirk de Villiers
Cast: Ian Roberts, Gavin Van Den Berg, Jocelyn Broderick, Keith Grenville, Michelle Botes

Overview:

Movie version cut from the TV series (Arende) Epic drama of honor, passion and freedom set during the Anglo-Boer War and follows the bound fates of rebellious Boer farmer Sloet Steenkamp and Captain of the British Army James Kerwin. A period drama of a time when Britain colonised by might in Southern Africa. Sloet was a Cape Colonist who refused to surrender to the new rule, and was one of the Cape rebels. After being captured he and many others were taken captive and sent to British concentration camps in Saint Helena where Sloet was doomed to stay forever