Common Ground

A letter to Mandela
16×9 Productions 24min
Anthony Andrews, Joni Els, Rulleska Singh, Lindsey Thorpe

Common Ground revolves around Oatlands Preparatory School in Grahamstown, a place where people from all colours and collars meet. The documentary traces how far the country has come in terms of racial integration since 1994 by profiling four very different families at the school, those being the Ranchhod family, the Agnew family, the Griffiths family and the Ngcete family. Through these families and their children, viewers will get a glimpse of the diversity of the country, as well as the hopes, the unity and colour-blindness of the children.
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