South Africa - Protest Over Black Pupils

(22 Feb 1996) T/I: 10:42:28


Most of the 700 white students at the Potgietersrus primary school, 300 kilometres north of Johannesburg, failed to turn up on Thursday (22/2) as black children arrived for classes for the first time. After a traumatic start to the first day of black and white integration at the school, children spoke about how the day was going for them.

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POTGIETERSRUS, SOUTH AFRICA, 22/2
Exterior school building.
Interior school classroom showing black children at desks.
Pan from white to black child in class.
Black and white children side by side in class.
Black and white boys leave school together.
VS black and white children leave school grounds together.
SOT Lorren Grobblar, white girl, saying "we don't mind them coming to our school. It is normal, every school has to have it."
SOT Moshabi Ledwaba, black girl, saying she felt good and was pleased to be at the school, adding she had already made friends
and the black and white children played hide and seek together.
WS black and white children walk off.

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