A five-part series about the struggle for power in Southern Africa
2: The Black Leap for Power
The Afrikaaner dream of natural and eternal White supremacy is running out of time in South Africa. Already there are moves to share a little power with the Coloured and Indian races. But the central problem on which. inevitably, the whole future of the country rests, is the role of the huge and growing majority of the 18-million Blacks. It is seen as a problem of such immense proportions that the government has not even made an attempt to resolve It. But South Africa's sophisticated Black industrial workers are finding their own solution. Because they are denied political power, they are creating It through a rapidly-emerging radical trade union movement With the White government already divided, what effect will the Black leap for power have on the country's future?
Presenter John Parry Producer
GWYNETH WILLIAMS