Sophiatown
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| Initial release | August 16, 2003 |
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| Directors | Pascale Lamche |
| Written by | Pascale Lamche |
| Edited by | Catherine Meyburgh |
| Languages | Afrikaans |
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| ID | 2237973 |
About Sophiatown
During the 1940s and 1950s, the Johannesburg suburb of Sophiatown is a vibrant and sizable racially mixed area at a time when apartheid is firmly entrenched in the nation. The neighborhood, with its wealth of jazz and blues clubs, becomes a center for political, artistic and criminal activity. The documentary interviews many of the people who performed and lived there before it was bulldozed in the mid-1950s, including Nelson Mandela, Abdullah Ibrahim and Miriam Makeba, among others. …
