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The Fall
From 1960s to the end. Includes Steve Biko, Joe Slovo, Chris Hani and Ruth Mompati
From the 1960s to the end. Includes interviews with Steve Biko, Joe Slovo, Percy Qoboza, Pik Botha, Chris Hani, and Ruth Mompati.
Amid sporting and economic sanctions, a growing white right-wing, the death of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, and the Soweto Uprising, bloody conflict seemed inevitable. Then, in 1985, finance minister Barend du Plessis announced South Africa couldn't pay its foreign debts and Pik Botha began to think the unthinkable.
Presented by Martin Plaut.
