Endgame

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1. Why can we not watch Endgame on 4od anymore?

   Posted by Sam69 on 03/09/2009 15:49:39

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2. I live in Barcelona. I watched half this programme whilst on holiday in England. It was very late and we had to return early the next morning. I would like to see it all. I cannot watch 4OD here in Spain. Where can I buy the DVD, please?

   Posted by Mark Spring on 02/07/2009 14:14:21

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3. Like everyone else, I'm trying to find out where I can watch the programme... come on Channel 4, that's over a dozen of us asking! Are you reading the comments on your website?

   Posted by Alex on 21/06/2009 19:53:08

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4. could you please tell me when you might be repeating 'endgame' missed it and the reviews were amazing. is it possible to obtain a copy of the dvd. how can i get to see it. please please let me know

   Posted by diane on 10/06/2009 17:15:59

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5. Please can you tell me where I can purchase a copy of The End Game. I missed it on TV but have been told it is one of the best dramas to appear in a long while. Thank you.

   Posted by Ingrid Sepanji on 09/06/2009 18:22:23

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6. How do i get a copy of the drama Endgame?

   Posted by Emma Priestley on 11/05/2009 14:16:49

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7. The soundtrack was excellent. Am I able to buy a CD anywhere?

   Posted by Mike on 10/05/2009 10:39:03

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8. Can you please tell me where I can get a copy of this programme for a friend of mine who is out of the country at the moment. I found it most compelling, one of the best programmes I have seen for a long time.

   Posted by Kathy Bone on 09/05/2009 20:33:27

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9. An excellent production. Gripping and profound. Engrossed throughout. Thank you.

   Posted by Aileen Sprake on 05/05/2009 21:43:54

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10. Warm but shallow. One gets no sense of what the negotations were about, what led people to change long held positions. According to the film, they just met for tea a couple of times and realised they were all frightfully nice chaps. Suspect there was more to it than that. After all many white, Botha included, did not budge an inch. Above all the key and enigmatic figure was De Klerk. Without him, nothing would have happened to avert full scale civil war. His conversion just comes via a phone call in the film like a messare from God but one gets no sense of what lay behind it and what struggles must have gone in his mind and in his party. Shame,could have been a gripping story.

    Posted by julian on 05/05/2009 11:34:32

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11. Your listings state that Danny Scheinmann is played by Albie Sachs, and the car bomb photo caption states that Albie Sachs was killed. Thankfully the latter is not true, so Danny might still one day have the honour to of being played by Albie (were the venerable judge keen to promote his stellar reputation on screen) - but for now it is the other way round. I know Danny, and once met Albie, so am pretty certain of these facts. As a South African, thank you to all that made the endgame happen on film, and an unending gratitude to all who made it happen in fact.

    Posted by Sue on 05/05/2009 10:01:26

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12. I expect that you are well aware of the initiative of F. van Zyl Slabbert and his colleagues from Stellenbosch University who held talks with the ANC in Zimbabwe preceding Mr. Young's mission. We heartily and gratefully congratulate Mr. Young for his persistent endeavours to successfully fulfill an ideal held and fought for by so many who preceded him and follow after him, that of a united South Africa. While living in South Africa during the early 70's I had the privilege of participating in the remarkable process of the growth of consciousness among the Afrikaner elite that a dialogue with their compatriots for the liberation of black, coloured and white South Africans was imperative not only as a measure of national security but as a vital necessity for restoring their psychological well-being which the system of Apartheid had destroyed by creating a deep sense of alienation with as its resultant pervasive afflictions - isolationism, alcoholism, divorce, depression and anger. Thanks to the true concerns of several leading Afrikaner intellectuals from Stellenbosch University in particular and the generous, warm and indomitable spirit of black South Africans, full of laughter and sunshine, even in extreme adversity, the mission impossible became possible for the 'Beloved Country'. Many thanks to all participants in the making of ENDGAME and all best wishes to you and South Africa. Anna

    Posted by Anna on 05/05/2009 01:15:51

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13. I really was hoping to have an insight on De Clerk's thinking process at the time when he freed Mandela and decided to negotiate with the ANC. Unfortunately, this was not exactly covered. Also, disappointed that none of the actors had a SA accent; am sure there are quite a few SA actors that could have fit the bill. Overall, a great docudrama. Didn't know about ANC helping the IRA or Hamas on negotiation tactics until today.

    Posted by Ace on 05/05/2009 00:44:54

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14. I am white, South African, Afrikaner, and immensely proud of my people, my country and all my brothers of all races, tribes and cultures, and all we have achieved together. At the same time I am terribly embarrassed to be reminded of all the wrongs of the past, but nonetheless hopeful of the future. Thanks for a brilliant rendition of what transpired behind the scenes giving lead to the miracle that has taken and still is taking place in South Africa, and in particular in its people's hearts.

    Posted by rjoubert on 05/05/2009 00:07:51

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15. Having just watched the film End Game, I have to congratulate the writers researchers and all who took part in the making of this excellent film record of a vitally important historical event. I lived in SA for 30 years and was there during the demolition of apartheid. There are good people and bad people in all race groups throughout the world, It would therefore be very wrong to point a finger at one particular race to hold them ALL acountable for the creation of such a monstrous system. We have to be eternally grateful for the likes of Michael Young who was able to facilitate the meeting of all parties enabling them to communicate and form trusting relationships which resulted in such a good outcome. Without this there would most certainly have developed Civil War and "bloodbath" events in SA. Thankfully a peaceful change was initiated which lead onto the Peace & Reconciliation Commission Hearings which helped to heal the wounds inflicted for so many years. We have to learn by our past mistakes and move on. I trust that no-one would blame any Afrikanner or White South African they may meet for the mistakes of the past. We have to look to the future and ensure the mistakes of the past are not repeated.

    Posted by JLW on 05/05/2009 00:01:26

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16. Such a beautiful depiction. It is my dream that one day black and white can live peacefully in South Africa, and I know that day will come. Although - I can not help but agree with RMR - it will be good to see a documentary about the Anglo-Saxon atrocities in South-Africa, especially the their use of concentration camps and scorched earth tactics on the Afrikaners. Why is this being kept hush-hush. The story should be told. Micheal Young was indeed eager to get the peace talks going - of course, for the sake of Consolidated Goldfields, would that have been the case if England did not have an interest in the country? Also, when Paul Kruger came for many peace talks to the UK they were not interested in settling diplomatically, instead they went to war. England, you have blood on your hands and one day the world is going to turn against you. All at once.

    Posted by BM on 04/05/2009 23:48:00

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17. ENDGAME: Monday 4th May What a great drama. Superb acting. Liked the drama very much. Well done Channel 4.

    Posted by Ed. Lawson on 04/05/2009 23:13:47

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18. I myself am a young South African living in the UK and I fail to see how this could reflect negatively on white South Africans in the UK. We are as diverse a people as the the country we have left behind and we as a people are judged by our actions and words and not by the past of our country in matters we had no control over. It is a myth that English people think ALL saffas are racist as neither my friends nor the mother of my child and love that I have found here (who are English) have ever accused or implied that I may be a racist. Putting the spotlight on "Anglo-Saxon atrocities" will not make the past go away and we cannot ever deny nor detract from the fact that we come from a country where in the past...repeat, in the past, crimes against humanity were committed by people who should never have been in power. I am a white boereseun South African, I am an Afrikaner and I am proud of it. I have faith in the English to understand and realise that not all white South Africans are racist. Someone once said to me "All generalisations are generally wrong" and by saying "people already think that because we are white and from South Africa we are racist" is incorrect and an unfair generalisation. I am sad that some saffas here in the UK have been wrongly accused of being racist by the small minority of uninformed Englishmen and those that do not know better as it was exactly that kind of mentality that put the wrong people in power in South Africa before we were even born. We as South Africans understand that there were many white South Africans that have lost their lives, jobs and family in the fight against apartheid and it is up to us to educate those who do not know better. (Quoted from News24.com) %u201C"Of all the white groups that are in South Africa, it is only the Afrikaners that are truly South Africans in the true sense of the word," - Jacob Zuma

    Posted by Boereseun on 01/05/2009 08:46:32

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19. Being a young south African in the uk I was not involved in apartheid but by showing this programme you will be casting a negative image on many white south Africans in the uk.I think this is unfair as people already think that because we are white and from south Africa we are racist.Thank-you channel 4 for making it worse.

    Posted by anonymous on 30/04/2009 19:37:47

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20. These Anglo Saxon efforts would be more credible if they were based on a more comprehensive understanding of the relevant history. No history of the talks leading to the fall of apartheid could be anywhere near complete without an understanding of Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull and A Change of Tongue. An Anglo Saxon could never understand this, as the English never came to the table during the Truth and Reconciliation commission. As usual, they were skulking. In addition, it would be more credible if one were ever to see a film about Anglo-Saxon atrocities in the word, such as their use of concentration camps in the name of racial superiority; their atrocious legacy of colonialism and now their illegal acts in relation to Iraq and participation in rendition flights, as recently exposed in South Africa.

    Posted by rmr on 29/04/2009 23:42:52

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