Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Free at Last (7 of 7)

"Free At Last" is the final installment 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. Diving into the heart of the conflict, South Africans tell the story of the most important effort in the anti-apartheid campaign of the 80s: the alliance that brought together freedom fighters in South Africa as never before. A mass movement gains unprecedented momentum when three generations of resistance fighters band together as The United Democratic Front (UDF). Faced with growing international isolation, the apartheid government tries to win allies and convince the world of the merit of its piecemeal reforms even as it struggles to suppress open revolt, at times using savage secret tactics. The UDF protests climax in a fierce campaign of defiance, and internationally, Nelson Mandela becomes a household name as the campaign to free him ignites a worldwide crusade. Caught between an unstoppable internal mass movement and ongoing international pressure, the apartheid regime is finally forced to the negotiating table and at last lifts the decades-long bans on the ANC and other liberation parties. After twenty-seven years in prison, Nelson Mandela is released, sparking a global celebration as he tours the world to thank all those who worked tirelessly for his release and to build the political alliances that will help to end apartheid once and for all.

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
• activism
• Johannesburg
• social
• justice
• documentary
• Nelson
• Mandela
• human
• rights

[SairentoFantaji]

Where is Awele Makeba?

[graverobber35]

South Africa USED to be a prosperous country. NOW , they cannot feed themselves because the blacks are too lazy/stupid to operate a farm. They sold the water oumps for scrap metal , for crying out loud! All over the world, blacks depend on the white man to feed them.

[juancarlos772652]

@Sunclief

I'm sure South Africa wouldn't mind you and your racist family from leaving. Pity the country that you will be moving to, carrying all that racist bile. By the way, the correct spelling of the words you misspelled are as follows: "amusing", "pretty" and "too bad". Didn't they teach you that in apartheid white schools?

[Sunclief]

@juancarlos772652 Quite ammusing in fact watching SA go down the tube's like the rest of Africa and the white farmers are all leaving the country along with educated blacks, whites and Indians pritty soon they will come to you for a hand out because they are are starving from malnutrition and aids. To bad so sad, now that's karma for you! LOL

[juancarlos772652]

@Sunclief

Better to be ignorant than be racist like your family who wholeheartedly supported and benefited from apartheid. How does it feel now that the tables have turned and karma bites you in the ass?

[juancarlos772652]

@Sunclief

And how did townships got started? Oh yes, the apartheid government supported racial segregation. And if I did go to South Africa during apartheid, I would have been classified as "coloured" and be relegated to using inferior public facilities. And your family was in favor of all that???????????????? Nice.

[juancarlos772652]

@Sunclief

So, you are defending and justifying your family for supporting institutional racism? You have just called yourself a racist, which you previously sought to deny. You know when they emancipated the slaves in America ... that resulted to an increase in unemployment. Does that mean that slavery was justified?

[Sunclief]

@juancarlos772652 You write of violence and injustices but, you fail to mention the murders like the church street bombings that Mandela ordered from his jail cell the necklace murders of his own people what about the senceless murders of Mandela's subordinates like Robert mcbride and the like's of him. I cringe whenever I meet people as ignorant as you.

[Sunclief]

@juancarlos772652 Large townships that have now appeared in SA over a sixteen year period in fact things are far worse now than they have ever been for all in SA than it has ever been in SA History but, then you have never lived in SA and never will but you are quick enough to believe what your goverment and media tell you?

[Sunclief]

@juancarlos772652 They never campained at all! So what!

That is because the white's in South Africa did not want to be ruled by a bunch of third world degenerates that have no idea how to govern themselves. Look at SA now 266 Billion gone missing and no explanation as to where it went look at the infrastructure of SA collapsing and not even maintained by the ANC. There are far more unemployed now that ever before in SA History and lets not forget the large townships