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Union of South Africa
Woodrow Wyatt reports from South Africa where apartheid laws are being strengthened. He interviews the Prime Minister and the president-General of the ANC.
Woodrow Wyatt investigates the impact of new apartheid laws, such as the Group Areas Act. Wyatt interviews politicians from all parties, including Prime Minister JG Strijdom and the president-general of the ANC, Chief Albert Mvumbi Luthuli. There is some dropout of film on this programme, and it ends abruptly.
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Mon 24 Jun 1957
20:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Television Service
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Wyatt visits Sophiatown, which had been a suburb where Black, Coloured and Asian South Africans lived until the forced clearances of February 1955. The Group Areas Act compelled the different racial groups to live separately, and 65,000 people were forcibly removed to Soweto and Western Coloured Township (now Westbury).
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