End of the Dialogue

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| name = End of the Dialogue (Phelandaba)

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| director = Antonia Caccia, Simon Louvish

| producer = Nana Mahomo, Vusumzi Make, Rakhetla Andrew Tsehlana

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| studio = Morena Films

| distributor = Icarus Films

| released = {{Film date|1970}}

| runtime = 44 minutes

| country = South Africa

| language = English

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End of the Dialogue (Phelandaba) is a 1970 documentary film made by five black South African expatriate members of the Pan-Africanist Congress and London film students who wanted to document Apartheid in South Africa.The Road to Democracy in South Africa: Vol 2, South African Democracy Education Trust, Unisa Press. Because of South Africa's restrictive laws governing what could be photographed, the film had to be shot clandestinely and smuggled out of the country.{{cite journal |last1=Feather |first1=Daniel J |title=Creating a 'deplorable impression': the Dryden Society's 1969 tour of South Africa and the making of End of the Dialogue |journal=Contemporary British History |date=19 May 2022 |pages=1–29 |doi=10.1080/13619462.2022.2076078|s2cid=248929259 |doi-access=free }} It was edited and released in England.[http://icarusfilms.com/new2003/log.html "End of the Dialogue," Icarus Films (accessed 10 February 2017).]

The film caused an uproar when it was originally released in 1970. It was released worldwide and also screened on television in many countries, including the U.S., U.K. and New Zealand."Parliamentary Debates," New Zealand Parliament House of Representatives, p3358. The film is valuable as not only a record of history, but also a record of how little the outside world understood about what was happening in apartheid South Africa. The London Observer called it, "the most successful act of clandestine subversion against apartheid for years."