[1] The film stars Leon Schuster (who also cowrote the screenplay with Hofmeyr) and John Matshikiza as two former friends, one white and one black, who grew up together during apartheid, later reuniting as adults over a winning lottery ticket, while being pursued by a racist organization.

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".

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.

There's a Zulu on My Stoep was well received at the South African box office, becoming the highest-grossing film in the country's history.

[1] TV Guide wrote that the film is "alternately an anti-apartheid lampoon, a Home Alone rip-off, and a potpourri of slapstick techniques, this vulgar family fare is boundlessly energetic and stupefyingly crass.

[...] Inanely written and directed with the kind of overkill in which the energy level is pitched too high to be enjoyable, Yankee Zulu takes swipes at racism in a cartoonish manner.

While celebrating the prankish dexterity of children, the film plays like a Road Runner cartoon with a political subtext".

[2] Movieguide wrote that "the sexual innuendo, partial nudity, light view of crime, and violence make this a film unacceptable for children".