African Activist Archive

0:29 - Concerned Soweto Youth; 1:00 - This week South Africa Now reports these stories; 2:35 - The uncensored news with Thandeka Gqubule and Fana Kekana; 2:43 - UNITY SUMMIT reported by Susan De Villiers: discusses violence, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, homeland leaders, Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, the African National Congress (ANC), Inkatha Freedom Party (IPF), AZAPO, Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), death squads, the South African Police (SAP), the black community; 3:39 - PROTEST: discusses a women's march for peace, the town of Louis Trichardt, boycott of white businesses to protest an attack by white "neo-nazis," children picnicking, white shop owners; 4:20 - ATTACK ON THE PRESS: includes interview of Max du Preez of Vrye Weekblad, discusses the death squad story, poison, the South African military, ANC activists, the Harms Commission, a court, the South African Police (SAP), a military forensic specialist, covert murder squads; 7:04 - Jailing opponents of apartheid: includes interview of Rapu Molekane, General Secretary, ANC Youth League, discusses apartheid, FW de Klerk, detention policy; 8:05 - FRONTLINE FOCUS reported by Joseph Diescho: includes interview of Mozambican journalist Leite Vasponcelos, discusses war, dislocation, a new constitution, multiparty democracy, presidential and parliamentary elections, FRELIMO, the fight for independence, the economy, RENAMO rebels, efforts to destabilize the country, Rhodesia, a partial ceasefire, violence, U.S. rightwing groups; 11:16 - COVERING THE COVERAGE reported by Phillip Tomlinson: includes video of Danny Schechter in front of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), discusses ABC World News Tonight, Nelson Mandela, media restrictions; 13:12 - AIDS IN SOUTH AFRICA reported by Phillip Tomlinson: includes video of Puppets Against AIDS and interviews of Gary Friedman of Puppets Against AIDS; Gerry Davidson, Editor of Exit magazine; South Africa physician Dr. Salim Karim; Dr. Gidon Frame of Alexandra Clinic; Refiloe Serote of Township AIDS Project; and Immaculate Shabalana of Soweto Concerned Youth, discusses the Natal Witness, free condoms, AIDS awareness programs, townships, the late Jim Henson, South Africa's gay community, safe sex, traditional healers, the Soweto Youth Symposium, trade unions, an alternative AIDS taskforce; 20:25 - CULTURE KALAHARI SURFERS: includes interview of Warrick Sony, discusses singing the news, Umkhonto weSizwe, PW Botha, and a weapon of struggle.

African Activist Archive

South Africa Now - Show #N606

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