Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Fair Play (4 of 7)

"Fair Play" is part of a powerful new documentary series by two-time Academy Award nominee Connie Field that shines light on the global citizens movements that took on South Africas apartheid regime. Faced with governments reluctant to take meaningful action against the apartheid regime, athletes and activists around the world hit white South Africa where it hurts: on the playing field. International boycotts against apartheid sports teams help bring the human rights crisis in South Africa to the forefront of global attention and sever white South Africans cultural ties to the West. Knowing that fellow blacks in South Africa were denied even the most basic human rights let alone the right to participate in international sports competitions African nations refuse to compete with all-white South African teams, boycotting the Olympics and creating a worldwide media spectacle that forces the International Olympic Committee to ban apartheid teams from future games. The Africa-led coalition leads the fight to exclude South Africa from soccer, boxing, track, cycling, judo, fencing, gymnastics, volleyball and numerous other competitions, barring South African teams from nearly all sports events by the 1970s. Only South Africas world champion rugby team remains, and citizens in key western countries where rugby is played take to the fields to close the last door on apartheid sports. The sports campaign becomes the anti-apartheid movements first victory and succeeds in culturally isolating the white minority in an arena of passionate importance.

For more information about the series, visit http://www.clarityfilms.org. To get involved in the global engagement campaign around the series, please visit http://activevoice.net/haveyouheard.html.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• apartheid
• racism
• South
• Africa
• documentary
• activism
• social
• justice
• sports
• rugby
• Johannesburg
• human
• rights

[Sunclief]

@fishbowl4202 TOUCHE!

[fishbowl4202]

@Sunclief you stupid fucker, I'm white south african living in Canada and you can lick my hairy asshole

[Sunclief]

@zuluhootchie Is this how they teach you to spell in your wonderful New South Africa? What a joke! No wonder your education is no longer recognised.

I hear that your Impi's are going to kill all the whites before the 12th July 2010 yes word has reached my ears here in the USA about your plot. We're watching you.

[Sunclief]

@zuluhootchie Yeah then I can come down to Arseania look for that terrorists grave and piss and shit on it but, I'll make sure I have a few Ejuba's and beers and get lekker vrot first just so people fifty years later will smell that I had been there and remember what an evil man he was.

[zuluhootchie]

@Sunclief bess your soul too

[zuluhootchie]

@Sunclief yep hope he does. he has done his work and he got to see the world play in the new and o so beautiful south africa that he fought to help creat. and my his soul then rest in peace. thank you my brother and may you be showered with black LOVE whereever you go. AMANDLA!!!!!!!!!!!

[stronkdisselboom]

Ja, they went and threw limpid mines at the Olympics to.... What's wrong with these people? Don't they want sport? And why do they just want to fight? Holy Lord!

[stronkdisselboom]

Ja, just see how they used it in the Olymics!

[rjhumm07]

@stronkdisselboom

Sports is never independent from politics. National anthems being played before games? Politics.

The two best politicians at using sports are hands down G. Bush and F. Castro, both used baseball to great effect as a platform for gathering popular support.

@ the two geniuses above, firstly, learn some english, then go read some history and realize how idiotic and pathetic you sound.

[Sunclief]

After watching all six of these video's I have not seen one picture or even one comment about the ANC and their mass intimidation through the necklace methodes and killing of their own people you do not see them with their weapons and not even mension of their limpit mines and bombing of shopping malls and the placing of Limpit mines in Rubbish bins outside busy pubs, banks and shopping malls? Talk about a biased one sided view filled with lies and propaganda!