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The World Against Apartheid: Have You Heard from Johannesburg?

Connie Field

Nick Fraser

The World Against Apartheid: Have You Heard from Johannesburg?: Episode 1: The Road to Resistance

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Episode 1: The Road to Resistance

The Road to Resistance

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Protesters are gunned down in Sharpeville and Nelson Mandela is jailed for life.

Series exploring South Africa's apartheid regime. To the world's horror, protesters are gunned down in Sharpeville and Nelson Mandela is jailed for life.

Ten years in the making, this series explores how a violent and racist government was destroyed by the concerted efforts of men and women working on multiple fronts inside and outside South Africa for more than three decades. Featuring archive of the struggle never seen before on television and interviews with the major players, it is one of the most fascinating stories of the last century. 

In this opening episode, Oliver Tambo leads citizens of the world in their condemnation of South Africa's cruel and racist new regime. 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 ANC deputy president Oliver Tambo escapes into exile, embarking on what will become a 30-year journey to engage the world in the struggle to bring democracy to South Africa. With resistance inside South Africa effectively crushed by the brutal apartheid regime, the fate of the liberation struggle is in Tambo's hands.

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Series of documentaries covering the struggle against South Africa's apartheid system

Series exploring how a violent and racist government was destroyed by the concerted efforts of men and women working on multiple fronts inside and outside South Africa for more than three decades

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