Ekhaya: A Family Chronicle
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Ekhaya: A Family Chronicle

Apartheid tore their country apart... their family held them together

1997
1 season
13 episodes
Drama

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

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  • Ep 1

    1.State of Mind

    23-01-199760m

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

  • Ep 2

    2.Beauties at the Patmore Deluxe

    30-01-199760m

    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.

  • Ep 3

    3.The Visitors and the Wedding

    06-02-199760m

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

  • Ep 4

    4.Them Charges

    13-02-199760m

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

  • Ep 5

    5.A Black and White Christmas

    20-02-199760m

    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.

  • Ep 6

    6.Who Was Jan Van Riebeeck?

    27-02-199760m

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

  • Ep 7

    7.Blacks and Play-Whites in the Suburbs

    06-03-199760m

    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.

  • Ep 8

    8.Dead Mothers and Garden Boys

    13-03-199760m

    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.

  • Ep 9

    9.Liberals, Radicals and Death

    20-03-199760m

    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.

  • Ep 10

    10.The Fountain of Pain

    27-03-199760m

    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.

  • Ep 11

    11.First Love, Then War

    03-04-199760m

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

  • Ep 12

    12.First Love, Then War

    10-04-199760m

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

  • Ep 13

    13.To Die For

    10-04-199760m

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

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