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  • Apartheid's People (1986)
  • TV Special | 57 min | Documentary
Apartheid's People (1986)
TV Special | 57 min | Documentary

About three black townships and, imaginatively, a white Afrikaner family in an upper-middle-class rural environment. What's imaginative here is that Charlayne Hunter-Gault, the program's able correspondent, says that many people in South ...See moreAbout three black townships and, imaginatively, a white Afrikaner family in an upper-middle-class rural environment. What's imaginative here is that Charlayne Hunter-Gault, the program's able correspondent, says that many people in South Africa now talk about ''post apartheid.'' One of them, the father in the Afrikaner family, says of apartheid: ''We are dismantling it. It is dead.'' But clearly it is not stone-cold dead, and this is what the first three reports are about. In the first, we see Sister Agatha, a black Dominican nun, in Kwathema, a black township of some 100,000 people, 25 miles from Johannesburg. Why are there riots in Kwathema? ''Some people are pushed into it,'' Sister Agatha says indignantly. We see pictures of black children, beaten when the police invaded classrooms. Written by New York Times See less
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Thomas Benedict (researcher) | Patricia Ellis (staff writer)
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Cliff Bestall (producer) | Frank Smith (producer) | Anne Tyerman (producer) | Linda Winslow (producer)
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Updated Feb 26, 1986

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Feb 26, 1986 (United States)

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