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UC Berkeley Divestment from Apartheid South Africa

Video and Audio

“Divest” is a short excerpt of the Emmy Award-winning series “Have You Heard From Johannesburg.” We created this clip so that organizers in today's social justice and environmental movements can learn from, and be inspired by, the story of the U.S. movement to divest from companies doing business with apartheid South Africa. (Clarity Films, 31 mins.)

Richie havens playing guitarSoweto to Berkeley | Dir. Richard C. Bock

Documentary (50 mins, 1988)

Examines the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the University of California at Berkeley during 1985-86, which led to similar student protests nationwide.

winnie mandela

Interview with Winnie Mandela and Nthato Motlana.

Interview (9 mins, 1986)

An interview with South African politician Winnie Mandela and Nthato Motlana, a South African physician, concerning the divestment movement by the faculty and students of the University of California, Berkeley in protest against apartheid in South Africa.

Have You Heard From Johannesburg: the complete series: seven stories of the global anti-apartheid movement | Dir. Connie Field

Documentary (90 mins., 2010)

 

 

Series chronicling the history of the global anti-apartheid movement that took on South Africa's entrenched apartheid regime and its international supporters who considered South Africa an ally in the Cold War.