Awake From Mourning

  • Chris Austin
  • 1981
  • United Kingdom
  • 50 minutes
  • undetermined
  • DR
    DR

About the Maggie Magaba Trust, a self-help movement organised by black women in Soweto. Features four trustees – Ellen Khuzawayo, Joyce Seroke, Sally Motlana and Magdalene Mokgatha, and Florence M’Kasibe and Elizabeth Mpenyana, who describe the inception and growth of the Zamani Soweto Sisters Council. Covers such topics as the separate education offered to black students, the hardships of the aged and disabled and the problems of people in Rural Resettlement areas.

  • Production : ZDF; Channel 4
  • Distribution : Wolpert Productions
  • Editing : Peter Chappell
  • Sound : Allan Gerhard
  • Photography : Peter Chappell