Watch the new lockdown documentary 'United Apart SA'
Documentary, which includes crowdsourced footage from the Sunday Times's United Apart campaign in 2020, is available on Showmax
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A gripping documentary about SA's lockdown and the effect it has had on society, the economy and the country's most vulnerable citizens can now be seen on Showmax.
In March 2020, with fewer than a handful of known infections, SA embarked on one of the strictest lockdowns in the world.
How much did our lives change? Did the authorities go too far? Can a developing economy follow the lockdown models for fiscally sound countries? What fault lines did Covid-19 expose? What more could have been done to effect change while fighting a devastating pandemic?
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“We are delighted to have sold United Apart to Showmax,” said Debbie McCrum, managing director for television and entertainment at Arena Holdings.
“It's an informative, moving, and entertaining investigation of what we went through as a nation during an extremely challenging year,” she said.