Expectations were high following the end of South African apartheid. Yet, even though the ANC promised to redistribute 30% of the land in 5 years, by 2000, less than 5% of the land was redistributed. Despite the alleged end to the apartheid regime, there were still familial and ancestral ties to the land compounded by pervading racism.Yoruba Richen made the film, “Promised Land,” to explore the black, the white, and the shades of gray of post apartheid tensions. The film follows the Mekgareng, and impoverished tribe, removed from their land forty years ago as they try to reclaim their land from wealthy, white farmers and developers. The land issue becomes a “ticking time bomb,” posing an ever-present threat to volatile post-apartheid South Africa.Yoruba Richen joins us in the studio to describe the politics and process of her research and film-making, and South Africa as it exists today. Less