His Big White Self is a 2006 documentary film made by Nick Broomfield. It is a follow up to his 1991 film The Leader, His Driver and the Driver’s Wife. It was shown for the first time as part of More4′s Nick Broomfield week which started on February 27, 2006.
The documentary follows Broomfield as he returns to South Africa 12 years after the collapse of the apartheid regime. His previous film focused largely on JP Meyer, a driver for Eugene Terre’Blanche (The leader of the far-right Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging), and JP’s wife, Anita.
His Big White Self sees Broomfield returning to Ventersdorp in the Transvaal, meeting JP and Anita to see how their lives have changed since the fall of apartheid. Broomfield also gains access to Eugene Terre’Blanche himself, meeting him in disguise to prevent the leader from recognising him. During Broomfield’s previous meeting with Terre’Blanche, the leader considered himself to have been portrayed as foolish, leading to death threats being sent to Broomfield.
