Sizwe Banzi Is Dead April 14, 2008

Delicately balancing humor and pathos, 'Sizwe Banzi Is Dead' offers both a psychological history of the apartheid nightmare and a timeless parable of the dehumanizing paradoxes of power. Ordered to leave a district because he lacks the proper permit, Sizwe trades his name for a number and begins life as a dead man, wreaking havoc with his identity and sense of right and wrong.