Synopsis
Woodrow Wyatt investigates the impact of new apartheid laws, such as the Group Areas Act. Wyatt interviews politicians from all parties, including Prime Minister JG Strijdom and the president-general of the ANC, Chief Albert Mvumbi Luthuli.
- Programme: Panorama
- Series: 1957
- Episode: Union of South Africa
- Channel: BBC
- Broadcast year: 1957
- History
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