Word: soweto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...structure. At its simplest level the movie functions as a well-constructed mystery story. A black man, a gardener named Gordon Ngubene (Winston Ntshona), comes to his employer, Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland), asking him to help find his son. The boy was taken into police custody during the Soweto protests of 1976 and has disappeared. Du Toit, a calm and rational man, believes this is surely just a bureaucratic muddle that can be easily ameliorated by a solid citizen's firm but polite intervention...
...after World War II, when both African National Congress President Oliver Tambo and nationalist leader Nelson Mandela began their careers as lawyers. The fact that Tambo is in exile and Mandela in prison illustrates how perilous that course was. The LRC had its origins in the aftermath of the Soweto uprising of 1976. The brutal government crackdown following the protest prompted a group of liberal lawyers and professors to try to set up a free legal-aid service for blacks. U.S. lawyer Jack Greenberg, then head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, helped design a program. With money...
When Winnie Mandela defied the government's orders and returned to Soweto from banishment in the Orange Free State three years ago, she was hailed by millions of her fellow South Africans as the Mother of the Nation. Idolized by the township's teenagers, she was carried on their shoulders into political funerals and was constantly surrounded on the streets by dancing youngsters chanting "Man-del-a, Man-del-a." To much of the outside world she became the grande dame of the South African revolution, a worthy surrogate for her husband Nelson, the imprisoned black nationalist leader. But Winnie...
...Mandela football team and youth groups from Soweto schools have been fighting hit-and-run battles for more than two years, and residents of the neighborhood have accused team members of everything from rape to car theft. In late December the gang abducted four young men from a Methodist Church refuge, took them to Mandela's house and beat them repeatedly. One of the youngsters escaped; the team released two others after 2 1/2 weeks; and the body of the fourth, a 14-year-old named Stompie Mokhetsi, was located last week in a mortuary where it had lain unidentified...
...rift between Mandela and her Soweto supporters has a long history. They frowned when she built a luxurious new house, nicknamed "Winnie's Palace." The A.N.C. and U.D.F. disavowed her comments in favor of "necklacing" -- hanging gasoline-filled tires around the necks of blacks accused of "collaborating with the system," then igniting them. Soweto civic groups and A.N.C. officials asked repeatedly that the football team be broken up to halt its thuggery. In February 1987 students from a local high school who had been warring with the team stoned the Mandela house, and last July they fire- bombed...