Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Road to Resistance (1 of 7)

"Road To Resistance" is part 1 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. As the United Nations adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, South Africa heads in the opposite direction, implementing a system of laws called apartheid to racially segregate its people in every aspect of life. The black majority in South Africa, led by the African National Congress (ANC), mounts a non-violent campaign of defiance, attracting the attention of activists in Britain, Sweden, and the United States — and sowing the seeds of an international movement. The world reacts with horror when protesters are gunned down in the town of Sharpeville and the entire ANC leadership is forced underground or imprisoned. Nelson Mandela is jailed for life and the movement in South Africa is effectively shut down as hundreds escape into exile.

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

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• apartheid
• South
• Africa
• racism
• activism
• social
• justice
• documentary
• Johannesburg
• African
• National
• Congress
• human
• rights
• Mandela
• Tambo

[Ratsathome]

One sided view of what happend in SA.What about necklacing,Quadro and Caxito.Why not show what the money was realy being used for supplied by the churches of the world......

[CamarAzevedo]

@FreeDogdylan South Africa should been split in a black and a white states? Ridiculous racist! You americans are the most fascist people on earth!

[AfrikaansPretoria]

And now its better!!!!!!!!!!

[omoibile]

@Schutzstaffel2015 : GET OUT OF OUR CESSPOOL WHY ARE YOU DYING AND BEGGING TO STAY IN A SHIT COUNTRY. PALE FACE bOER PIG!

[omoibile]

@FreeDogdylan : NEVER A WHITE STATE IN AFRICA. WHERE HAVE THIS BEEN DONE? LET UK. USA , MIDDLE EAST AND ALL THE COUNTRIES THAT HAVE BLACK PEOPLE SPLIT THEIR COUNTRIES FIRST FOR THAT TO HAPPEN

[artist19641]

You will never know the full story unless you lived it, white or black, the youth in SA do not understand what their parents went through and the significance of it all. In SA we have a lot of problems, but it still is the most beautiful place to live. I love my country and am proud to be part of it.

[Firefly365]

I was in South Africa during many of those years and - as a white former South African - think Connie Field's film brilliantly captures the history of apartheid. I would very much encourage anyone who wants to understand it as it happened to see the entire film.

[antiazazel]

Pure bullshit ANC propoganda mostly based on lies or exagaration of certain facts.

[stormywindmill]

Oh Dear , South Africa once a prosperouse stable country , Now headed down the toilet , Doomed to end up like any other African shit hole.

[Schutzstaffel2015]

South Africa is now a cesspool,thanks America and the world for freeing the sewers and letting evil loose!