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The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife is a feature-length documentary film about apartheid in South Africa, particularly Eugène Terre'Blanche, founder of the far-right organisation AWB. The film was made by Nick Broomfield and released in 1991.

Throughout the film, Broomfield attempts to set up an interview with the control-obsessed Terre'Blanche, who stubbornly breaks all of the plans he makes with Nick in order to prove his power. What this actually does is expose Terre'Blanche as someone clinging on to the remains of any influence they may have once had.

For the majority of the film where Broomfield is unable to get an interview with the Leader himself, his attention is drawn to the driver and his wife (JP and Anita Meyer), hence the title.

When Broomfield left South Africa after the making of the first film, he received a death threat from JP Meyer, stating that if Broomfield returned to South Africa he would be killed. Broomfield subsequently returned to make a follow-up documentary, His Big White Self
which was premiered in February 2006.

The documentary will be released in the UK as a DVD boxset, together with His Big White Self
, on April 3, 2006,

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