Connie Field
Director


In "The New Generation" it is youth, both inside and outside, who join the growing movement against apartheid. Buoyed by new support in western countries, Oliver Tambo returns to the United Nations to try to convince the world body to sanction South Africa. His efforts gain new public support as the brutal suppression of a youth uprising in the South African township of Soweto and the murder of freedom fighter Steve Biko turn South Africa from a country into a cause, a worldwide emblem of injustice. A significant victory is won when the United Nations issues a mandatory arms embargo: the first in history. But South Africa's strongest trading partners in the West still will not sanction it economically. And as Tambo heads to Zambia to minister to the ANC's growing guerrilla army, a bloodbath seems inevitable. But even as the most powerful western governments refuse to heed Tambo's calls for cultural and economic boycotts, the citizens of those western nations will help turn the tide.
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Connie Field
Director

Shadi Chauke
Narrator
Murphy Morobe
Self - South African Students Movement

Duma Ka Ndlovu
Self - South African Students' Organisation
Cheryl Carolus
Self - South African Students' Organisation
Majakathata Mokoena
Self - South African Students Movement
Oliver Tambo
Self - African National Congress
Albert van den Heuvel
Self - World Council of Churches
Les De Villiers
Self - South African minister for communications 1962-1978
Elias Masinga
Self - South African Students Movement
Conny Braam
Self - Dutch Anti-Apartheid Movement
Fons Geerlings
Self - Dutch Anti-Apartheid Movement
Sampie Terreblanche
Self - Afrikaner academic
Tseke Morathi
Self - South African Students Movement
Stephen Biko
Self - Black Consciousness Movement
Pik Botha
Self - South African politician
David Sibeko
Self - Pan Africanist Congress of Azania