The leader, his driver and the driver's wife

Acclaimed documentary film maker NICK BROOMFIELD set out to make a film in the spirit of Springtime for Hitler about extreme right winger EUGENE TERREBLANCHE, referred to as “The Leader” by his followers in the militant white Afrikanner Werstard Bewging Party. Broomfield follows Terreblanche around the country but “the Leader” has a profound mistrust of the media –he is famous for throwing journalists out of his office if he finds a question insulting or stupid- and obtaining an interview proves a mommoth task. The team set up base in Vendesdorp, a small town in the Transvaal –of the Boer homeland –where Terreblanche live. Broomfield strikes up a friendship with “the Leader’s driver, J. P. MEYER and his wife ANITA, who devote themselves to helping to arrange the elusive interview. The Leader, The Driver and The Driver’s Wife examines issues of white racism from the oblique angle of the innocent documentary maker abroad and portrait both the sinister and comic sides of Terreblanche and the AWB. [short version]