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The Documentary: Blood lands

Blood lands

15/11/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - The Documentary, Blood lands

The frenzied attack in a farmhouse that left two dead and a South African town divided

The frenzied attack in a farmhouse that left two dead men and a South African town divided.

At dusk on a warm evening in 2016, two men arrive, unexpectedly, at a remote South African farmhouse. The frenzy that follows will come to haunt a community, destroying families, turning neighbours into "traitors", prompting street protests and threats of violence, and dividing the small farming and tourist town of Parys along racial lines. Blood Lands is a murder investigation, a political drama, a courtroom thriller, and a profound exploration of the enduring tensions threatening the “rainbow nation".
 
Over the course of three years, correspondent Andrew Harding has followed every twist of the police’s hunt for the killers, the betrayals that opened the door to an explosive trial, and the fortunes of all those involved – from the dead men’s families to the handful of men controversially selected for prosecution.

Presenter – Andrew Harding
Producer – Becky Lipscombe
Sound mix  – Neil Churchill; Nigel Appleton; Tom Brignall
Editor – Bridget Harney

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