CALLING FOR PRESSURE

Duration; 21 minutes



Against a backdrop of the history of black dispossession, the origins of black disen-franchisement and the subsequent entrenchment of black rural poverty by apartheid legislation, a call for sanctions is made from within South Africa.

Representatives of labour unions and peoples' organisations express their views on "black suffering" within South Africa and the strategy of sanctions against South African status quo as the only remaining effective option for bringing about relative non-violent change in South Africa.


Features interviews with:

Professor Francis Wilson - Head of the school of Economics at the University of Cape Town & director of the Carnegie commission of enquiry into rural poverty in South Africa;

Ms Ina Periman - Executive director of Operation Hunger;

Mr Saths Cooper - Past-president of AZAPO;

Mr Murphy Morobe - Acting publicity secretary of the UDF;

Mr Piroshaw Camay - General secretary of the Cusa-Azactu federation.