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GRAY, Elizabeth

2010-0012

Sound

1 of 1

1986-06-29

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

producer/interviewer, Elizabeth Gray

This documentary about South Africa begins with actuality of five black women singing at a commemorative church service held on 16 June 1986 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Soweto uprising. Elizabeth Gray reports on recent events in South Africa. Subjects covered include: the South Africa right wing movement of white South Africans and whether it is a threat to the South African government; interviews of various South Africans, including a white wing pharmacist in Kruegersdorp, an activist who is in hiding, newspaper editor Harald Packendorf and Capetown poet Adam Small; views of white South Africans who are still Afrikaner nationalists but support some reform; anti-apartheid organizations; uncertainty in the country; and Terry Waite and Bishop Desmond Tutu singing at a memorial service for a white journalist, George De'ath. <53mn 37s>

English

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Under copyright

copyright owner : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictionsThe Canadian Broadcasting Corporation holds copyright on the completed broadcasts.