1984: Newsnight reports on elections in South Africa
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Michael Buerk reports on the forthcoming elections in South Africa. President PW Botha asserts that 'Coloured people' will treasure his reforms. Despite the presence of the first non-white representatives in the South African Parliament since 1948, black South Africans are still excluded from the political process and some Coloured people continue to be classed as criminals for being in a mixed marriage.
In South Africa, the term 'Coloured' refers to people who have mixed black African, Khoisan or Asian and white heritage. Coloured people living in the Cape area of South Africa who had a certain level of education and owned property had the right to vote until the implementation of the apartheid system in 1948, when they were stripped of the franchise.
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