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on BBC Two England

investigates, discovers, questions This week:
South Africa Belongs to Us
Five black women, fully aware of the risks they are taking, talk openly about their lives.
A mother, living in the aridity of a black reserve, longs for the annual return of her husband from a caretaker's job in distant Johannesburg....
A maid working for a white family in that same city talks of her own children who are forbidden to live with her and must be boarded out with relatives ...
A nurse in Soweto dreams of the day when the skills she has slowly acquired will be properly recognised and used ...
A hospital cleaner allows a camera to follow her into an enormous barrack block where she lives with 4,000 other women ...
A housewife in the illegal shanty town of Crossroads tells of police and bulldozers ...
South Africa -from five very individual and rarely filmed viewpoints.
Producer CHRIS AUSTIN Editor TIM SLESSOR
Woddis On ...: page 101

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