"District 9" movie and South African history

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I wasn't aware of this forthcoming movie until some of my co-workers mentioned it today, and watching the trailers, it wasn't the movie itself that caught me (but it looks promising too), but rather the usage of South African settings and historical footage from the apartheid era. As a South Africa, some of it is just too eerily familiar. It's just really apartheid again, with a twist that it's against "real aliens" now, not the forced alienation of the black population.

• Trailer #1
  Original footage: Starting at 0:35, for 6 seconds.
• Trailer #2
  Same original footage, 0:26 for 2 seconds.
• Original short film
  The SABC logo is too new for 1990, the one used is post-1994.