Black South African leaders leave refuge
- Title
- Black South African leaders leave refuge
- Genre
- News report; Speech
- TX Date
- 19 Oct 1988
- Year of production
- 1988
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- Duration
- 00:01:56
- Description
- Nigel Wrench reports from Johannesburg in South Africa as 3 black political leaders who took refuge in the US consulate five weeks ago walked out and possibilities of their re-arrest due to upcoming elections. The government had promised not to rearrest them (they escaped jail when taken for hospital treatment). Mohammed Vali, the General Secretary of the UDF makes a speech after walking out that amounts to a challenge to the Government.
- Contributors
- Nigel Wrench; Mohammed Vali
- Keywords
- Elections; Politics; Political prisoners; Interethnic relations; South Africa; Embassies and consulates; Apartheid; Political systems; Black African peoples; Escapes; Nelson Mandela; Arrests; Winnie Mandela; UDF
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