n Apartheid South Africa, white boy Rhino Labuschagne and Zulu Mashebela were best friends until

Rhino, pressured by his American girlfriend, Rowena, shoots a can off Zulu's head, abruptly ending
their friendship. 25 years later, Zulu has become a car thief in New York, picking up an American
accent but not forgetting his roots as "the champion mud slinger of the world". The prison's warden
gets Zulu deported back to Africa by the Threatened Immigrants Right-wing Defence, or TIRD.

TIRD is a fascist organization run by a German named Gen. "Diehard" who is now dating the
glamorous Rowena. Rhino has become a game farmer with a black daughter named Tinkie. Rhino is
losing money due to his ex-wife Rowena's divorce settlement. Diehard personally transports Zulu,
who easily escapes with Diehard's winning lottery ticket. Zulu by chance reunites with Rhino and
they head to Sun City and split the jackpot fifty-fifty. In Sun City, Tinkie befriends Prince William, son
of Prince Charles of the United Kingdom. Rhino manages to win R500 000. They are then
relentlessly pursued by Diehard and Rowena, but get a make-up artist, Antonio to make Zulu into a
white, neo-Nazi TIRD, Baron von Mauchausen-Klarks, and Rhino into a black manservant named
Moses. Zulu cannot resist going to Rowena's TIRD party in order to pickpocket.

At the party, Diehard and Rowena recognize them after some slapstick antics, but Zulu sets off
Diehard's intricate security system. They try to flee but are captured by Rowena. Zulu gives Rowena
one half of the jackpot cheque, but Rhino has given the other to Tinkie, who has fled. The duo are
imprisoned and they settle their differences by re-enacting the tincan incident, only vice versa.
Diehard and Rowena take the two to a cliff called "Crocodile Gorge" and put them on a plank
supported by an elephant.

Tinkie and Prince William use booby traps to defeat Rowena and severely injure Diehard. Rhino
reveals to Zulu that he is Tinkie's biological father from Thandi, Zulu's late childhood friend. Rhino
then tells Zulu that he legally adopted Tinkie after Thandi died. The two talk the elephant into setting
them free. The psychotic Diehard tries to execute Tinkie on a cliff, but Zulu uses his mud-throwing
skill to knock out Diehard, sending him plunging off the cliff to his apparent death.

Zulu, Rhino and Tinkie then reunite while William heads off back to his father. In an epilogue,
Diehard is seen climbing out of a river muttering "they do not call me 'Diehard' for nothing!". His
elephant then sits on him apparently squashing him to death.