Dintwa wins prize for Dingake film

Dintwa recently completed his MA in Media Production at York St John University and now runs Box Screen Pictures production company based in Gaborone and Johannesburg. He was inspired to tell the story after attending the launch of Dingake’s autobiography “Better to Die on One’s Feet: One Man’s Journey from Robben Island to Freedom.”

Dingake, now 95, first went to South Africa as a young student and was drawn to the political ideologies of the African National Congress (ANC) party and the South African Communist Party (SACP). He joined the ANC and rose to leadership positions before being arrested in 1965 by the then Rhodesian British Police. He was sent to South Africa to face trial for supporting the parties’ ideologies and was subsequently sent to Robben Island where he spent 15 years in prison.