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Sophiatown
Documentary recalling a vanished era in South Africa. During the 1940s and 50s, Sophiatown was an enclave of tolerance amid the insanity of apartheid.
Documentary recalling a vanished era in South Africa. During the 1940s and 50s, Sophiatown was an enclave of tolerance amid the insanity of apartheid. Surrounded by whites-only suburbs, this urban centre became the Harlem of Johannesburg - a mixing-pot of music, literature and politics, and a home to gangsters, jazz singers, painters and dreamers.
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