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Witness to apartheid

Archbishop Desmond Tutu tells us why it is the duty of every Christian to speak out against all forms of injustice, especially against racial prejudice in South Africa.He talks about the pragmatic limitations of peaceful change occurring in South Africa and his threads through the story about torture, resistance and white witnesses to the effects of apartheid on dissidents.

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  • "Filmed during the 1985 state of emergency and press ban, this program reveals the torture and repression consequent to South Africa's policy of apartheid. Eyewitness accounts include those of doctors who secretly treat torture victims, children who were beaten during incarceration, teenagers in hiding because they are members of a banned youth organization, and Bishop Desmond Tutu, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, who questions the effectiveness of nonviolence against apartheid."
  • "Archbishop Desmond Tutu tells us why it is the duty of every Christian to speak out against all forms of injustice, especially against racial prejudice in South Africa.He talks about the pragmatic limitations of peaceful change occurring in South Africa and his threads through the story about torture, resistance and white witnesses to the effects of apartheid on dissidents."@en
  • "Testimonies from subjects as diverse as Bishop Desmond Tutu, an obscure white business executive, and a young Black social worker are among the voices of anguish heard protesting the injustice of apartheid in South Africa."
  • "Testimonies from subjects as diverse as Bishop Desmond Tutu, an obscure white business executive, and a young Black social worker are among the voices of anguish heard protesting the injustice of apartheid in South Africa."@en
  • "Documents terrorism practiced against black children and students by the South African police and army."@en
  • "Testimonies from diverse subjects voice the anguish of the injustice of apartheid in South Africa."@en
  • "Documentary about the victims of police terrorism in South Africa. In interviews both children and adults talk about their suffering during the current unrest."@en
  • "Documentary about the victims, both black and white, of police and army terrorism in South Africa. Testimonies from subjects as diverse as Bishop Desmond Tutu, black and white doctors and businessmen, and a young Black social worker are among the voices of anguish heard protesting the brutal barbaric injustice of apartheid in South Africa."
  • "Documents torture and terrorism practiced against black children and students by the South African police and army."@en
  • "Testimonies from subjects as diverse as Bishop Desmond Tutu, an obscure white business executive, and a young Black social worker are among the voices of anguish protesting the injustice of apartheid in South Africa."@en
  • "In this documentary, Nobel Laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu, one of the film's "witnesses", describes the young generation of Africans now involved in the struggle against apartheid. "They are a new breed of children. They believe they are going to die, and the frightening thing is, they actually don't care." The film proceeds through interviews with a brutally-beaten 14-year-old, a doctor who must treat wounded school children in secrecy, and an undertaker who has buried 34 children with multiple bullet wounds in a single year, to footage of mass arrests of children as young as seven."@en
  • "Documents terrorism practiced against black children and students by the South African police and army during the apartheid era. Includes interviews with black and white South Africans."

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  • "Documentary films"@en
  • "Documentary television programs"@en
  • "Interviews"@en
  • "Interviews"
  • "Nonfiction television programs"@en

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  • "Witness to Apartheid"
  • "Witness to apartheid"
  • "Witness to apartheid"@en

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