Connie Field
Director


This first story in a seven part series covers almost twenty years of history. It is a story of escalating violence and repression, one nation on a collision course with the rest of the world. When the United Nations adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, South Africa marches in the opposite direction and begins to implement a series of laws segregating its people by race in every aspect of life, prompting the non-white majority led by the ANC to protest. The non-violent movement picks up supporters all over the world, starting first with a network of Gandhites in Britain, Sweden, and the United States. But Apartheid hardens in the face of this resistance. By the fateful year of 1964, Nelson Mandela is jailed for life, and the entire leadership is forced underground, imprisoned or killed. The movement is effectively shut down in South Africa as hundreds escape into exile.
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Connie Field
Director

Shadi Chauke
Narrator

F.W. de Klerk
Self - president of South Africa 1989-1994

Nelson Mandela
Self

Desmond Tutu
Self

Harry S. Truman
Self - president of the United States

Eleanor Roosevelt
Self
Pik Botha
Self - South African politician
Govan Mbeki
Self - African National Congress
Les De Villiers
Self - South African minister for communications 1962-1978
Amina Cachalia
Self - South African Indian Congress
Walter Sisulu
Self - African National Congress
Albertina Sisulu
Self - African National Congress
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd
Self - prime minister of South Africa 1958-1966
Peter Molotsi
Self - Pan Africanist Congress of Azania
Pieter Willem Botha
Self - president of South Africa 1984-1989
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Self
Wentzel du Plessis
Self - South African minister for communications 1961-1963
Jackie Haines
Self - journalist