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A Firing Line Special: Sanctions and Apartheid (1989-04-20)
About this film
Broadcast live. The guests on this high-voltage Firing Line Special all oppose sanctions ("We regret," Mr. Buckley notes, "that invitations to prominent advocates of sanctions to appear on this program, including Bishop Tutu and Allan Boesak and Cyril Ramaphosa, were not accepted"). On apartheid, however, they cover the waterfront from Mr. van der Merwe, whose party's principal plank was the maintenance of apartheid, to Mr. Dhlomo, Mr. Ngcoya, and Mrs. Suzman ("perhaps," as Mr. Buckley introduces her, "the most prominent white opponent of apartheid in South African politics, Alan Paton having died"), with, in the middle, Mr. Durr, as a member of the government that was gradually abolishing apartheid. OD: "We even say the destruction of apartheid for us is not an end in itself. It is a means to an end. The end is the system that must replace apartheid." HS: "A non-racial democracy." OD: "... Now, if you want that, then of course you are my comrade." KvdM: "I am not your comrade." HS: "I am your comrade." OD: "You don't want that?" KvdM: "I am not a Russian. I don't have comrades. I have friends." HS: "Oh, nonsense." OD: "Well, ...comrade... in my language is friend." KvdM: "There is…
Directors & creators
Southern Educational Communications Association
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr., Politics and government, Economic conditions, Social conditions, South Africa, social policy, apartheid, economic sanctions
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