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allowed to return by his culture or group.
Remarks: Picture quality: good enough * VZA 081
Mazimbu : behind the lines of a liberation movement / dir. by Toni Strasburg. - UK, London : Scope Films
Ltd., 1986. - Video : VHS; 52 min.
Call number: BG V8/081
Keywords: * South Africa * Tanzania * ANC * educational projects * youth * anti-apartheid resistance *
political refugees
Summary:
Since the Soweto uprising of 1976 hudreds of youth have fled
political violence, crossing into neighbouring states to join the
ANC. In 1977 the ANC set up the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College
(Somafco) at Mazimbu in Tanzania on land given by the Tanzanian
government. Today it is a small town run by the ANC, housing 2000
South African exiles. There are several schools, a hospital, a farm
and various light industry which provide vocational training. The
film looks at the politics behind Mazimbu and nearby Dakawa, where
the ANC is establishing facilities for a further 5000 exiles from
apartheid.Students, recently from South Africa, relate their
experiences and discuss the difficulties of adjusting to the life
there and their plans for the future.
Remarks: Picture quality: goodenough * VZA 082
Afravision compilation: #51: "Bitter roots": the Transvaal Alloys dispute #4: Chief Ampie Mayisa #14:
Alexandra township #xx: The workers struggle in South Africa #23: MAWU and the built up to May
Day - May 1986 #88: Moulding a future education for worker power / VNS. - UK, London : Afravision Ltd,
1986. - Video : VHS; 13, 5, 32, 24, 20, 53 min.
Call number: BG V8/082
Keywords: * South Africa * apartheid system * labour disputes * Bantustans * political violence * armed
civilians * Alexandra * health services * health care * trade unions * health and safety * workers * history;
20th century * MAWU * strikes * labour negotiations * NUM * conferences * education policy
Summary:
#51: "Bitter roots": the Transvaal Alloys dispute: Edited
documentary set in the 'homeland' Lebowa where fired workers from
Transvaal Alloys, a German owned metal company, recall the
conditions that led to the dispute and how they live now in
unrelenting poverty.
#4: Chief Ampie Mayisa: Item about township violence, more special
about right wing vigilantes and their relation with the police.
#14: Fragments of Alexandra township: interviews with the Alexandra
Action Committee & police, soldiers and road blocks in Alexandra.
A history of the South African trade unions in the era of
apartheid. The apartheid system is explained in terms of
Bantustans, contract labour, pass laws and police repression: in
the view of these circumstances the growth of the trade unions is
almost incredible. The founding of SACTU (South African Congress of
Trade Unions) in the fifties, the severe repression in the sixties,
the growing strength in the seventies, the Wiehahn Commission, who
researched the labour relations in South Africa, the new Labour
Relation Act, the founding of FOSATU (Federation of South African
Trade Unions, voorloper van COSATU), which was based upon
non-racial principles, CUSA, which aimed only at black workers, the
Food and Canning Workers Union, characterised by its very
democratic structures, and SAAWU (South African Allied Workers
Union), which takes a clear political stance, passthe stage.
#88: Scenes of different workers actions, supported by MAWU (Metal
Allied Workers Union). A new action form is used: the sit-in in
factories. Preparations for the hundredth birthday of May Day, when
1,5 miljon workers joined the largest national stay-away in
history, and pictures of the day itself.
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