ca as their role model and their guide, or they would have never thought of gaining back their freedom.Before I saw the movie, Sarafina!, I was not really aware of what went on during the Apartheid. I knew that it was a system of segregation and discrimination. However, I did not know that over 750 people were killed and over 10,000 were arrested, tortured, and assaulted. The film took me by surprise because it was so graphic and visual of what occurred during the Apartheid. What also took me by surprise was the fact that it was children challenging the South African government. I would have never thought, or even pictured, that children would fight against an entire government. Sarafina! really opened my eyes as to the struggle that men, women, as well as children, went through and their ways of dealing with the fight against Apartheid. ...