A film by Hugh Burnett who looks at the strange white tribe that rules South Africa.

The British invented apartheid. The Afrikaner legalised it. The British were the first to set up concentration camps. Boers were the inmates. For a hundred years the British tried to ban the Afrikaans language. Contemptuous of the rough peasant pioneers, the British defeated them, then handed South Africa over to them.
Next week South Africa goes to the polls. The Nationalist Government, regarded by many as the greatest racialist regime, is accused by its own right wing of leftism and compromise. Tonight's documentary, Hugh Burnett's fourth film about South Africa, looks at the society of the Afrikaner - the country that provides the ostrich feathers for the Folies Bergere and an ideological scapegoat for the world.