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Ekhaya: A Family Chronicle

Ekhaya: A Family Chronicle (1997)

January. 23,1997

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Ekhaya: A Family Chronicle

A Black South African lives in Toronto with his Canadian wife in 1989. His fears of being stalked by South African secret police, force him to reflect back on his life growing up under apartheid.

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Ekhaya: A Family Chronicle

1997

A Black South African lives in Toronto with his Canadian wife in 1989. His fears of being stalked by South African secret police, force him to reflect back on his life growing up under apartheid.

Seasons & Episode

Seasons 1 : 1997

13 Episode

Episode 1 - State of Mind

January. 23,1997

Afraid that South African authorities still want him, Darryl begins recalling his politically oppressive childhood in his former home.

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Episode 2 - Beauties at the Patmore Deluxe

January. 30,1997

Darryl's mind is flooded with boyhood memories of fighting at school, his love of a white girl and the arrests of Boytjie and Russell on charges of murder.

Episode 3 - The Visitors and the Wedding

February. 06,1997

After a run-in with David, Darryl recalls his brother's clandestine political activities in Soweto and Boytjie facing formal charges of murder.

Episode 4 - Them Charges

February. 13,1997

Darryl's publisher plans to add text to his book that the author finds unacceptable.

Episode 5 - A Black and White Christmas

February. 20,1997

When Darryl fears that a man he sees talking to Lerato has been following him, he remembers a man he saw knifed in South Africa and Boytjie's murder trial.

Episode 6 - Who Was Jan Van Riebeeck?

February. 27,1997

Despite David's insistence, Darryl is reluctant to join the Canadian anti-apartheid movement; Darryl recalls his days in boarding school.

Episode 7 - Blacks and Play-Whites in the Suburbs

March. 06,1997

Rosa worries about Darryl's obsession with the man following him; Darryl remembers Veronica's decision to pass as white and live in the suburbs.

Episode 8 - Dead Mothers and Garden Boys

March. 13,1997

Darryl considers speaking at a protest at the South African consulate, which prompts him to remember how easy it is to become an enemy of the state.

Episode 9 - Liberals, Radicals and Death

March. 20,1997

With suspicions that Sipho is in trouble in South Africa, Darryl remembers the government seizing his grandmother's house and David being wounded in the army.

Episode 10 - The Fountain of Pain

March. 27,1997

Darryl recalls the effects his political activities had on his late father when he receives a call from his mother still living in his native South Africa.

Episode 11 - First Love, Then War

April. 03,1997

Darryl debates whether to return to South Africa when his safety cannot be guaranteed.

Episode 12 - First Love, Then War

April. 10,1997

While returning to South Africa for his father's funeral, Darryl remembers how he was smuggled out of the country.

Episode 13 - To Die For

April. 10,1997

Special Branch agents confront Darryl when he arrives in South Africa; David admits to his clandestine work for the government.

A Black South African lives in Toronto with his Canadian wife in 1989. His fears of being stalked by South African secret police, force him to reflect back on his life growing up under apartheid.