Witnesses to Apartheid and After...

(Vatican Radio) - In 1994, four years after the late Nelson Mandela's release from prison he was elected President of South Africa. A couple of years later Veronica Scarisbrick was invited by Unicef to go on a fact-finding mission to this nation and produced a series of programmes by the title of ‘Apartheid and After’.
In this episode of that archive series you can hear the testimonies of three different generations of South Africans speaking about their personal experience in this respect.
Among those Veronica Scarisbrick spoke to back in 1996 was Peter Dadla a 58 year old man from Soweto who struggled against apartheid all the early years of his life, Pinky Vilakazi who belonged to the generation of township students to bring the apartheid system to its heel and sixteen year old, Queeneth, who was old enough at the time to know the meaning of apartheid, with an awareness she should forgive but never forget. Also in this programme the witness of a Catholic priest.

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