Whitewash | Socialist Action 1983

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Speakers in the film include the Rev Alan Boesak Woo sales have respect for a governIC IT that walls whitewash cold-blooded murderers possibly referring to the judicial enquiry which whitewashed the killing of demonstrators on the 25th of the Sharpeville massacre this year.

The inaugral meeting of the UDF in August 1983. filmed by amateur photographer, adds strongly the authority of the material and gives valuable insight into the conterence. 'here ay Axchic Sumede, Fiches Archie Gumede, Frank Chihane (President and Vice President of the UDF, and Frances Baard from the Federation South African Women -IS To the British viewer, ine speakers might be unknown, more introductions could have peen used … or ехат f Billy Nair the 1 Irom tional ndian was recently released after Robben island. We should also not historical background Or statistics the film. aims rather to give the feeling of what is happening in the batTHE STRUGGLE in South Socialist Action

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Africa 20 September 1985 Other, higher, forms of repres