Arende
Arende ("Eagles") is highly regarded bilingual (Afrikaans and English) television mini-series and historical drama about the Second Anglo-Boer War by Dirk de Villiers ().
Though best known in South Africa as Arende, the whole series is also known (and syndicated abroad) as Cape Rebel.
The first episode of a season of 10 episodes was broadcast under the title Arende on 27 April 1989 on the SABC TV1.
Two more seasons followed, titled Arende II: MoordenaarsKaroo (10 episodes, the first broadcast on 13 February 1992) and Arende III: Dorsland (13 episodes, the first broadcast air on 28 October 1993). The show was run on in South Africa and syndicated abroad under the name Cape Rebel.
In 1994 a film version of Arende was released, directed by Dirk de Villiers and once more featuring Ian Roberts and Gavin van den Berg, in a sense telling the pre-history of the series, relating "Sloet Steenkamp"'s fight against the British invasion and his subsequent capture and imprisonment on the island of St. Helena.
It tells of the war through the eyes of two fictional characters: "Sloet Steenkamp" , a rebellious Boer farmer, and "James Kerwin" , a Captain with the British Army.
