COMP 4:
[ 4 x Documentary Titles ]
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[COMP 4]
“APARTHEID the FINAL PHASE vs THE STRUGGLE FROM WITHIN”
The
following titles -
1]
"No Middle Road to Freedom" –
[1984 / 1985]:
Set
against the backdrop of the Maseru onslaught by the SADF in December 1982 and
the commemoration service held in SOWETO on 16th December 1982 - reflects on
the increasing violent tensions and the pattern of “tit-for-tat” violence
emerging in South African society.
2]
"The Struggle from Within" –
[1984 / 1985]:
45
minutes - looks at events in South Africa precipitated by the announcement of
the Nationalist Government’s intention the implement their “new constitution”
& tri-cameral parliament in 1984.
Looking
at the rise of the UDF in response, the film traces events from the
“referendum” of November 1983 to the aftermath of the anti-rent-increase
demonstrations in the Black townships of the Vaal Triangle in September &
October 1984.
3]
"South Africa Now" – [June
1986 to July 1987]:
Episode 1 - June 1986:
Comprised of the following three reports:
“Police
Brutality in Bophutatswana”; “The Death [ in police-custody ] of Petrus Nchabeleng”; “Consumer Boycotts”.
Episode 2 - June 1986:
Comprised of the following two reports:
“Whites
Against Apartheid”; “Peoples’ Education
for Peoples’ Power”.
Comprised of the following two reports:
“Calling
for Pressure”; “Children in Detention”.
Comprised of the following two reports:
“Behind
‘Black-on-Black’”; “UDF - Last Beleaguered Hope”.
This alternative series of documentary
reports on Apartheid South Africa produced during the "state of
emergency" in 1986 & 1987 formed the basis for the alternative
documentary series subsequently broadcast on PBS in the USA under the title "South
Africa Now" .
This series challenged the nature &
content of mainstream network coverage of Apartheid South Africa by USA
networks from 1987 to 1990.
This
52 minute documentary tells the story of the so-named “Delmas Treason Trial” –
longest running political trial in South African history. The documentary looks
at the people caught up in political events that precipitated the trial and the
effects of the trial on the families of activists incarcerated as a result of
this final phase of internal resistance to the grand apartheid design. The Delmas trial - 1985 to 1990 - is the longest
running political trial in South Africa's history and represents the final
phase of the internal struggle against apartheid spearheaded by the United
Democratic Front [UDF].
The UDF was
launched internally in South Africa in 1983 as a direct response to
the Apartheid government's planned "new constitution" which was in
essence the implementation of the final phase in the grand-Apartheid
design - to "legally" exclude the black majority from political
participation and citizenship rights in South Africa.
The government's strategy
was to seduce Coloureds, Indians and a limited number of Urban Blacks into a
second-tier parliament structure and Black Local Authority arrangement
respectively.
This would give
them restricted self-governance and would effectively create a controllable
"buffer" of complicit Coloureds, Indians and Urban-blacks between the
white-minority and the black majority - thus securing white minority privilege.
In exchange the
government would press ahead with its Bantustan policy - stripping the black
majority of citizenship rights in 86% of South Africa.
"Delmas - the
passion ... the pain" spans political developments from 1983 to 1990
in South Africa and looks at the lives of activists and their families who were
caught up in the Delmas Treason Trial. The documentary principally focuses on
events in Tumahole Township [ outside Parys ] and in the Vaal that caused the
townships of Evaton, Sharpeville & Boipatong to erupt in protest on the 3rd
September 1984.
As such, the documentary
features:
Veteran Human-rights
Advocate, George Bizos SC, Popo Molefe, Terror Lekota, Father Geoff
Moslenae,Tom Manthata & Family, and Gcina Malinde & Attorney Caroline
Nichols & family.
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