You Have Struck a Rock

Preview Language:   English
01-Apr-1981 00:28:07
"You have touched a woman, you have struck a rock!" is an echo from 1956 when 20,000 women occupied Union Buildings, the seat of the all-white South African government, to protest the issuing of passes to Black women.

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Description
More than 40 years before, the government had first attempted to bring women into the Pass system which controls the labour and lives of Black men. It met then with such fierce resistance that no further attempt was made until the 1950’s, when the present Nationalist government was consolidating its policy of Apartheid. This film, using a collage of rare photographs and. newsreeI footage, and recent interviews with some of the women actively involved, recreates the Women's campaigns, spanning more than a decade, against one-of the most: basic and iniquitous of Apartheid's law.
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Creator
Deborah May, Producer; , United Nations, Producer.
Contributors
Letta Mbulu, Narrator; Georgina Karvellas and Cliff Bestall, Photography; Deborah May and Diana Boernstein, Writer; Deborah May and Georgina Karvellas, Editor; Joshua Sklair, Music.
Physical Format
1 in
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Color
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Parent ID
840329
Asset ID
2645351