Forced movement of Africans during apartheid
A comparison between an official government film on the relocation of black Africans from Sophiatown to the Meadowlands township, and an account of a woman evicted under this programme.
The official film shows slum dwellings left behind and an adventure to a new, clean home, whereas two eyewitness interviews reveal how residents were forced from their homes at gunpoint suggesting that the new townships were little more than slave towns with few amenities. The film focuses on the Bantu people.
This programme was first broadcast as part of the series, 'People's Century' on 20 October 1996.
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