The South African center-right journalist takes issue with the government using an apartheid-era law to crack down on journalists (who work for the same TV station where Mr. Malala anchors a political program) who interviewed two anonymous criminals who threatened violence and muggings against visitors to the soccer World Cup in June:

In Invictus, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, Producer and Director Clint Eastwood, demonstrates how, through the use of the South African Rugby Team, Nelson Mandela unified the Nation.

In South Africa during Apartheid, at least eighty-five percent of the population was Black while only six percent of the population was Afrikaner. For decades, however, the wealth and the political power of the Nation remained in the hands of the White Afrikaner Government. Extremely similar to the predicament of African-Americans in the United States before the Civil Right’s Movement, a symbol to the Blacks in South Africa of their oppression was the Rugby Spring Box (Rugby Football Team). So menacing was the predominantly all White Rugby Team to Black South Africans that Blacks routinely cheered against The South African Team.

As Mandela in Invictus, however, Morgan Freeman, through the Rugby Team’s Captain, handsomely played by Matt Damon, uses the National Rugby Team of South Africa to unify the polarized races in the Nation.

In the documentary film entitled Thing With No Name producers Sarah Friedland and Esy Casey present a touching portrait of two HIV/AIDS afflicted women as they live out their final months in the province of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa.

Thing With No Name may be dull and boring for those who are unwilling to read the subtitles for the people in the documentary do not speak English. The English subtitles, however, convey staggering statistics regarding HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa and, specifically, in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa which are astounding enough to compel one to watch the entire film. For instance, did you know that of The World’s 39.5 million HIV/AIDS infected people that 63% live in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Also, did you know that in Kwazulu Natal, one in six people is HIV/AIDS infected. Because of this documentary’s ability to educate its viewers about HIV/AIDS, I would recommend this film as a vehicle with which to improve HIV/AIDS awareness amongst children as well as amongst adolescents and adults.

On a scale of from one to twelve roses, therefore, I give Thing With No Name eleven roses.