This was released in the UK as "Tigers Don't Cry."
The tall black and glass building which Slade uses as a vantage point to try and assassinate the President from is the Munitoria Building in Pretoria, the former municipal offices of that city which were partially destroyed by fire in 1997.
Co-stars Marius Weyers and Sandra Prinsloo would co-star again together three years later, but in lead roles in Jamie Uys's funny film, "The Gods Must Be Crazy".
One of the many films - others include Gold, Shout At The Devil and The Wild Geese - set up by the apartheid South African government in the 1970s to encourage foreign film-making locally.