SOUTH AFRICA: GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS DEMOLISH SHANTY TOWN AREA:

Record ID: 460293

  • Title: SOUTH AFRICA: GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS DEMOLISH SHANTY TOWN AREA:
  • Date: 3rd February 1983
  • Summary: 1. SCU PULL BACK SV PAN: Woman standing beside demolished huts. 0.08 2. GV AND SV : Two men work on tin sheets. (2 shots) 0.18 3. GV ZOOM SV: Woman and three children watch. 0.23 4. SV AND GV: Group of people load belongings onto truck (2 shots) 0.32 5. GV PAN: People gather up belongings. 0.40 6. SV PAN: Woman feeds baby beside wooden boards. 0.47 7. SV: Resident answers questions. (ENGLISH SOT) 1.00 8. GV AND SV: Villagers gather in square. 1.04 9. GV: Workers prepare to carry away building materials on trucks. (4 shots) 1.25 TRANSCRIPT (SEQ 7) QUESTION: "Where are you going to live now?" RESIDENT: "We must live on the pavement. We will sleep there. On the grass we must go and sleep. Or we must sleep in the toilets." InitialsAL/PS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 18th February 1983 12:00
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  • Location: SOWETO, SOUTH AFRICA
  • Country: South Africa
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAERULN3M7TDW9LFDE6P6TVHJZA
  • Story Text: SOWETO, SOUTH AFRICA

    Residents of the Orlando shanty town area of Soweto were left to pick up the remains of their homes on February 2 after they had ben demolished. Police and officials from Soweto Council and the West Rand Administration Board knocked down many of the huts in Orlando after they had been declared illegal by the authorities. Residents in the black township had been given three days notice to destroy their shacks or face prosecution. Administration board officials also confiscated building materials to prevent residents from erecting their homes somewhere else. Some villagers gathered up their belongings and cleared away their homes to avoid being prosecuted. But as one resident said, many of them have nowhere else to go. The Minister for Co-operation and Development dealing with Black Affairs, Doctor Piet Koornhof, said the government now accepted the permanent presence of large numbers of black people in urban areas. Formerly, the official policy had been to regard all blacks as citizens of the homelands.

    <strong>Source: REUTERS - LOUIS BREYTENBACH</strong>
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