Whitaker on Zulu and post-apartheid South Africa
THOMAS ADAMSON
Academy award-winner Forest Whitaker turns in a solid performance as a cop searching for the murderer of a white teenager in the movie Zulu,a violent and often shocking portrayal of South African gang culture where traces of apartheid still linger.The film was directed by Jerome Sall (Largo Winch) and co-stars Orlando Bloom as a freewheeling white officer, as well as South African actor Conrad Kemp.
As a child, Whitaker's character Ali narrowly escaped being murdered by Inkhata,a militant political party at war with Nelson Mandela's anti-apartheid ANC