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  1. South Africa: The Wasted Land (1990 Video)

    Director
    Jamie Hartzell
    Producer
    Toni Strasburg
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Free loan, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., Free (+p&p)

    Examines the ways South Africa’s policies of apartheid have damaged the environment. While the land held by white farmers is rich and highly productive, the blacks have had to eke out a living on land...

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  2. Have You Seen Drum Recently? (199 Video)

    Director
    Jurgen Schadeberg
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 77 min., 1998 hire: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A dynamic history of the South African ‘Drum’ magazine in the 1950s, reliving the changing South African political and cultural climate of the time using archive footage, extensive photographs taken from...

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  3. Fruits of Fear, The (1989 Film)

    Director
    Ngozi Onwurah
    Producer
    Ngozi Onwurah; Lin Solomon
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Documentary which exposes how the South African export trade is used to fund apartheid. Asks what, if any, is the responsibility of the individual British consumer in the light of the fact that in 1988...

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  4. Mandela (1987 Video)

    Director
    Philip Saville
    Producer
    Dickie Bamber
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 150 min., 1999 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

    A dramatised biography of Nelson Mandela and his wife Winnie, filmed in Zimbabwe. Traces Mandela’s shift in philosophy from passive resistance to armed struggle.

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  5. Spear of the Nation: The Story of the African National Congress (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Ian Stuttard; David Tereshcuk
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

    Examines the role of the African National Congress in the struggle for liberation in South Africa. Partly filmed secretly in South Africa, includes interviews with ANC President Oliver Tambo, Winnie Mandela,...

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  6. Apartheid (4 Parts) (1986 Video)

    Director
    John Blake; Allan Segal
    Producer
    Mark Anderson; John Blake; Norma Percy; Allan Segal
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 4 x 55 min.

    Documentary recounting the history of apartheid in South Africa.

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  7. Mongane Serote with Edward Blishen (1986 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.

    Mongane Serote, the South African writer and poet, discusses the effect of the political situation in South Africa on his writing, and on writers in general. He also comments on his own progression as a...

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  8. Witness to Apartheid (1986 Film, Video)

    Director
    Sharon Sopher
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shot clandestinely in South Africa during the State of Emergency and press ban in 1985, the film exposes the extent of apartheid’s violence and brutality. Testimonies of victims, as well as eye witnesses...

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  9. Sharpeville Spirit (1986)

    Director
    Elaine Proctor
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 53 minutes), £20.00

    An anti-apartheid documentary about resistance, organisation and culture in the Sharpeville township on the 25th anniversary of the 1960 massacre, and under a newly declared state of emergency. Made with the...

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  10. Mandela (1985)

    aka: Mandela: The Struggle is My Life

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 42 minutes), £23.00

    A political biography of Nelson Mandela and his unique role in the liberation struggle in South Africa, as an individual and as an executive member of the African National Congress. Even in 1985, after 23...

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