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1999

Beat It! 1999 Episode 1 - Special Report

Video clipA short documentary insert about the brutal murder of a South African AIDS activist, Gugu Dlamini. Gugu Dlamini was murdered, 10 years ago because of her HIV positive status. To date no one has been found guilty of this hate crime against People Living with HIV/AIDS.
2000

Beat It! 2000 Episode 5 - Special report

Video clipIn this episode we looked at how a badly run public healthcare system unnecessarily put people's health at risk when treatment was available.
2005

Siyayinqoba Beat It! 2005 Episode 3 - Middle Class Denialism

Video clipRonald Louw had been exemplary in almost all aspects of his life, except the fact that he did not get tested for HIV. In this episode of Siyayinqoba the team goes to Durban where Louw's memorial service took placeIn studio Treatment Action Campaign chair Zackie Achmat, Louw's close friend and comrade explained the importance of early testing and how many lives can be saved if everyone could do away denialism and get tested.
Documentaries

Law and Freedom

Director: Zackie Achmat

Video clipPart 1: Who Was Mrs Komani? relates the dramatic cases that led to the abolition of the death penalty and the decriminalisation of sodomy, a ruling that acknowledged the equality of gay and lesbian people. These judgments stand in contrast to the legal execution, harassment and persecution of apartheid era law. However, even under apartheid, as human rights lawyer Geoff Budlender explains: "Law was a limit on power" and so spaces arose in which people could use the law to contest the abuse of power. One key example explored in the film is that of Mr and Mrs Komani whose 1980 case was a key cause of the collapse of the hated Pass Laws. Who Was Mrs. Komani? brings to light the people who made possible these cases which have dramatically affected the lives of our people and the history of our country.