Edited sentence: In Lethal Weapon 2, the South Africans are portrayed as proto-Nazis, complete with Nazi-derived emblems and Mercedes limousines.In recent times this has become more common, both in movies, such as The Manchurian Candidate (2004 film) and in TV shows (episode 20 season 3 of NCIS).Joss Ackland is one actor who turns in a quite passable South African accent, owing to the fact that he had lived and worked in the country for a few years.The movie is one of the first Hollywood films to portray white South Africans as villains.They seem to be taking over the traditional role of the "crazy former-Nazi scientist/soldier".This portrayal is very over-the-top, and together with the extremely bad phonetic Afrikaans spoken by some of the actors, provides some comic moments that can be appreciated by actual South Africans