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  • Molapantene Collins Ramusi discusses his book "Soweto, My Love"

    Apr. 10, 1989

    In his book, "Soweto, My Love: A Testimony to Black Life in South Africa" Molapantene Collins Ramusi talks about the love for his homeland and one day hoping to see it free. Ramusi also talks about going to the 1st grade when he was 17. Ramusi became a lawyer to defend the defenseless. He was a warrior in the courts, defending widows who were told they were breaking the law by living in an apartment that belonged to their dead husbands.

  • Interviewing Helen Suzman

    1980

    The anti-apartheid activist and South African politician joins Studs to discuss her opposition to the policies of most of her colleagues in Parliament. The program begins with a lengthy clip from a 1962 interview with another anti-apartheid activist, Albert John Luthuli.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Discussing the Black Sash movement and the struggle for democratic rule in South Africa with Black Sash President and political activist Sheena Duncan

    Jul. 22, 1985

    Discussing the Black Sash movement and the struggle for democratic rule in South Africa with Black Sash President and political activist Sheena Duncan.

  • Discussing South Africa with exiled South African Anglican priest and African National Congress activist Rev. Michael Lapsley

    Nov. 1, 1991
  • Dennis Brutus

    Dennis Brutus talks with Studs Terkel

    Jun. 14, 1973

    Dennis Brutus discusses and reads his poetry. He discusses life in South Africa. Dennis Brutus reads poems from his books of poetry "Sirens, Knuckles and Boots", "A Simple Lust", and "Letters to Martha and Other Poems from a South African Prison". Includes music in the beginning. Includes a clip of Albert Lutuli speaking.

  • Dennis Brutus

    Dennis Brutus discusses his work as a poet and as an activist against apartheid South Africa

    Oct. 16, 1975
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