(15 May 1978) RR7820A SOWETO SOUTH AFRICA'S URBAN BLACKS
Probably the most urgent of South Africa's racial problems
is the question of the urban blacks, those who work in the
white towns and cities but live outside them in separate black
townships. To get full political rights they will have to go,
according to Premier John Vorster, to the tribal homelands set
aside for them under the separate development policy.
Many do not want to go, and they are not satisfied with the
new elected urban councils they are now being offered in
the townships. This report looks at the crucial township of
Soweto, outside Johannesburg, where a council has been elected
despite an almost total boycott of the poll. Also included:
interviews with Dr. Connie Mulder, the new minister responsible for
black affairs, with Dr. Motlana and Leonard Mosala, spokesman for
the Committee of Ten - Soweto's unofficial council and with Gatsha
Buthelezi, chief of the Zulu nation and leader of Inkatha, the Zulu
organisation which is now trying to turn itself into a multi-racial
political party. File material includes the 1976 and 1977 riots,
which transformed the whole racial scene in South Africa, also the
funeral of Black Consciousness leaders Steve Biko and Robert Sobukwe.
Film: Rev – Sound: Mag/SOF – Colour– Available in HD
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