Not Die was shown on British and South African television on April 21. Both the film and article generated enormous controversy throughout South Africa. Below is an abridged version of the Weekly Mail article. Black-skinned people needed not apply. Among the black majority there is a new sense of pride that gives meaning to ubuntu, the traditional spirit of humanism expressed in a distinctly African notion that people are people through other people.
Few whites go into the townships.
It follows that they ought not to have merely an expectation of a better life, but a right to one. This right is still denied and South Africa is still not theirs. Fly into any South African city and the divisions are precise and entrenched. Johannesburg offers the most vivid example. On one side, there is Sandton municipality where, in fortified splendour, live some of the most pampered people on earth.