SOUTH AFRICA

  • Nelson Mandela compilation

    This compilation contains excerpts from these six recordings of and about South African President and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela: An Interview with the Recently Released Nelson Mandela National African Congress leader Nelson Mandela brings the world up to date on his views of politics and race relations in South Africa. Recorded by James Lorimer in…

  • Democracy Now! May 14, 2003

    Hour 1: UN Security Council to discuss US proposal that would lift the sanctions on Iraq and give US forces full control of Iraq s oil; Apartheid Victims Are Still Suffering: Study Finds Blacks are Getting Poorer and Whites are Getting Richer, and an Activist Who Lost Both His Arms in a Government Assassination Attempt…

  • Democracy Now! May 14, 2003

    UN Security Council to discuss US proposal that would lift the sanctions on Iraq and give US forces full control of Iraq s oil; Apartheid Victims Are Still Suffering: Study Finds Blacks are Getting Poorer and Whites are Getting Richer, and an Activist Who Lost Both His Arms in a Government Assassination Attempt Says a…

  • Democracy Now! April 28, 2003

    Hour 1: South Africa awards reparations to apartheid victims, some complain the payments of $3,900 are pitifully low : A discussion with Alex Boraine and Dumisa Ntsebeza formerly of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and apartheid victim Thando Shezi; Halliburton, Bechtel and URS profit from the privatization of the military: Charles Lewis of the Center…

  • Democracy Now! April 28, 2003

    South Africa awards reparations to apartheid victims, some complain the payments of $3,900 are pitifully low : A discussion with Alex Boraine and Dumisa Ntsebeza formerly of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and apartheid victim Thando Shezi; Halliburton, Bechtel and URS profit from the privatization of the military: Charles Lewis of the Center for Public…

  • Democracy Now! May 6, 2003

    Hour 1: “It’s clear that Islam is on the way to disappearing : the words of Israeli Tourism Minister Benny Elon, who is set to lobby Christian fundamentalists close to President Bush against the Middle East peace plan; U.S. hires Christian fundamentalists to produce news for Iraqis: the studio runs a news service dedicated to…

  • Democracy Now! May 6, 2003

    Anti-Apartheid leader Walter Sisulu dies at the age of 90: Speaker of the South African National Assembly Frene Ginwala talks about the man who worked quietly behind the scenes as Nelson Mandela became the public face of the mass liberation movement; The Bookie of Virtue : Moral crusader and former drug czar Bill Bennett made…

  • Democracy Now! August 26, 2002

    AFRICAN-AMERICANS PROTEST AGAINST POLICE SHOOTINGS IN MINNEAPOLIS/WORLD SUMMIT OPENS IN SOUTH AFRICA |[Headlines: African-Americans protest against police shootings in Minneapolis] World Summit On Sustainable Development opens in South Africa, and police attack protesters: we ll go to Johannesburg Thousands of farm workers marCh on the California capitol: a conversation with actor Ed Begley, Jr. Attorney…

  • Democracy Now! March 1, 2002

    A federal appeals court overturns the conviction of three officers charged with brutalizing Haitian immigrant Abner Louima : police brutality, with Iris Baez, mother of a victim of police brutality : President Bush finishes meetings with three African leaders : interview with a South African activist and scholar about apartheid : Colombian government declares a…

  • Democracy Now! October 5, 1998

    Moving Toward Impeachment; Dennis Brutus; |(14 Minutes) Moving Toward Impeachment House Judiciary Committee begins considering today whether ther is enough evidence to start an impeachment investigation of Prisident Clinton. Meanwhile ther are several close Congressional races. GUEST: Bob Hennelly, Democracy Now’s election correspondent. (36 Minutes) Dennis Brutus South African poet Dennis Brutus talks about the…