Casspir - Popular Culture

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  • Casspirs, in an allegorical reflection of township usage during apartheid, are used against aliens by the fictional MNU in the film District 9 (2009); one can also be seen at the beginning of the 1982 scene in the movie Goodbye Bafana.
  • The vehicle is used in the music video to the Gorillaz song "Dirty Harry".
  • Lucky Dube, a South African musician, sits on top of a Casspir in his music video Taxman. The Casspir, which many South Africans view as an icon of Apartheid-era police crackdowns, serves as an emblem of government oppression and unfair taxation in this video.

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