South Africa, April 9 -- Humour as a tool

Die Kantoor-an adaptation of the hit series The Office-is the official South African version of the show. But instead of selling paper, they sell polony.

Head writer and director Bennie Fourie said: "Using humour to shed light on social issues has always been a passion of ours. To take something you feel you can't talk about or preach about, you pepper it with comedy. But there must be retribution-that even in comedy, when you say something bad, there is comeuppance for it."

Fourie acknowledges that many people in South Africa carry some form of misogyny, homophobia, or racism, even if it is denied. "That is a human condition. We are pointing towards it and confronting it. This is a very fine l...