Movies: Zackie Achmat

An intricate tale of "medicine, monopoly and malice", Fire in the Blood tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of the global south in the years after 1996 - caus...

A history of homosexuality in South Africa from colonial times to the present. Estimates say that between 1910 and 1933 over 60,000 men were convicted of sodomy. They were overwhelmingly black and unable to afford legal representation....

FIG TREES is a documentary opera about AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of Capetown as they fight for access to treatment drugs. Documentary interviews, speeches, press conferences and demonstrations are sampled, taken apar...