Selected African Holdings

Selected African Holdings

WGBH Educational Foundation

Selected items with African Origination


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WGBH Educational Foundation · 1990 English

Christy George reports that F.W. de Klerk, the President of South Africa, announced that the ban on the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa will be lifted, and Nelson …


WGBH Educational Foundation · 1990 English

Upon his release, Carmen Fields interviews South African exiles Themba Vilakazi and Janet Levine about the life and political development of Nelson Mandela. Vilakazi and Levine discuss Mandela's beginnings as …


WGBH Educational Foundation · 1990 English

Meg Vaillancourt interviews Nthabiseng Mabuza about the release of Nelson Mandela. Vaillancourt notes that Mabuza was only twelve years old when she was paralyzed from injuries sustained during an attack …


WGBH Educational Foundation · 1990 English

Meg Vaillancourt talks to students at the Martin Luther King Middle School in Dorchester about their opinions of Nelson Mandela (black South African leader). The students tell what they know …


WGBH Educational Foundation · 1988 English

Christy George reports that Massachusetts was the first state in the nation to divest its pension funds from South Africa five years ago. She adds that apartheid opponents are backing …


WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987

Cyrus Vance was the Secretary of the Army from 1962-1964, the Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1964-1967, and the Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter from 1977-1980. In the interview …


WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987

Joseph Nye was Deputy to the Undersecretary of State for Security Assistant, Science and Technology, and chaired the National Security Council Group on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1977 to 1979). …


WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987

Kandury Subramanvan (Subrahmanyam) was an official in India’s Ministry of Defense. In the interview, he offers his views on China’s 1964 test, determining immediately that India should get a device …


WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987

Mordekhai Gur was a military officer who served as Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) from 1974-1978, then became a member of the Knesset. He discusses his …


WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987

Homi Sethna was a leading Indian nuclear scientist who served as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India (1972-1983) during which time he was centrally involved with the test …