1985 – RICH HISTORY RADIO DOCUMENTARY ON APARTHEID REGIME STEPPING UP ITS ATTACKS AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF HEIGHTENING OF THE STRUGGLES

(Mewa Ramgobin, Archie Gumede, Thumba Pillay and other leaders mobilising the people during the heightened struggles in the 1980s)

The 1980s was a momentous period for the struggles for freedom and democracy. 

The anti-apartheid activists had heightened the struggles through the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Natal Indian Congress (NIC). 

But at the same time the apartheid regime had stepped up its attacks through the murders of anti-apartheid activists and in its attempts to sow racial divisions between the African and Indian-origin people in the former Natal province (now KwaZulu-Natal). 

(Mrs Victoria Mxenge)

In this radio documentary compiled in August 2007, I recall some of the incidents that highlights the struggles in 1985.

                                                                                 (Yunus Mahomed, Zac Yacoob and Dr Farouk Meer)         

                                               

                                (Billy Nair being welcomed home by his wife, Elsie, Swaminathan Gounden, Thumba Pillay and Dr Farouk Meer in 1984 after being released from Robben Island where he was imprisoned for 20 years)