Apartheid in South Africa | Living under racial segregation and discrimination
Tuesday Documentary | Heart of Apartheid
What do non-white South Africans feel about apartheid?
CHANNEL | BBC 1
FIRST BROADCAST | 10 September 1968
DURATION | 49 minutes 35 seconds
FIRSTBROADCAST
1968
Synopsis
Black, Coloured and Asian South Africans are interviewed in this eye-opening documentary about their views on apartheid. Included with the many dissenting views on apartheid are opinions on why different racial groups should live separately. Film footage that often shows the shocking racial exploitation allowed by apartheid accompanies the interviews.
Did you know?
This documentary shows a protest by Church leaders against the Group Areas Act and features an interview with Desmond Tutu. Tutu later became the first black African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and the Secretary-General of the South African Council of Churches (SACC), which opposed apartheid during the 1980s and organised peaceful protests.
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