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Awake From Mourning

Chris Austin
1981 United Kingdom 50 minutes undetermined

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

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