Spiritual husbands and spirits possessing vaginas – that’s something I’ve never heard before. ibid.
After a seven-hour show, Hands in the Air go to Hands in the Pockets. ibid.
Jerusalem 1963: Tudor Parfitt is just a nineteen-year-old student ... What hooked Parfitt was an extraordinary idea – after thousands of years in exile, wave after wave of Jews were returning to the Holy Land ... ‘I was imbued with ideas of the lost tribes’. Secrets of the Bible s1e5: Tudor Parfitt and the Lost Tribes of Israel ***** Yesterday 2015
Parfitt is invited to Johannesburg ... The Lemba: the claim to be a lost tribe of Israel. ibid.
DNA tests are done on the Lemba ... ‘Much more like those found in Semitic populations ... from the Middle East.’ ibid. Dr Karl Skorecki
Can he trace their DNA? ... Are the Lemba actually Jewish? ... More than half of Lemba men share the exact same Cohen DNA markers – there can be no doubt ... The Lemba are from a long lost time of priestly Jews. ibid.
Ark of the Covenant ... ‘They had brought an object from the Middle East which did all of the things that the Ark of the Covenant did, that was carried on poles ... which had sacred things inside it.’ ibid.
A drum ... Many scholars now believe that there was more than one Ark ... More portable, replaceable Arks that were taken on journeys or into battle. ibid.
Hidden on the wild coast of South Africa where the Indian Ocean joins the Atlantic there is a cave. Today it is abandoned but once it teemed with life. For here tens of thousands of years ago some of our earliest ancestors lived. Horizon: The Day We Learned to Think, BBC 2003
He pulled off the most daring crime spree in South African history. A top cop turns into the country’s most celebrated criminal. Masterminds ep32: The Stander Gang, truTV 2005
1983 ... The Trust Bank: three strange-looking men walked in cool as ice; it was a hold-up. ibid.
As police gathered clues at the Trust Bank they were completely unaware that a second bank robbery was taking place just a few streets over. And there was more to come: as police raced to the second robbery yet a third was being committed just around the corner. As they arrived too late for the third, around the corner was a fourth. Authorities had never seen anything like it before. And this was just the beginning. In one summer the gang hit over twenty banks. ibid.
He started hating everything the police stood for. So, as authorities continued to suppress the blacks, Stander secretly began fleecing the whites. ibid.
In August 1980 Andre Stander was found guilty of twenty-eight charges. ibid.
The whole gang was now out and on the run. ibid.
They prepared for the biggest crime spree South Africa had ever seen. ibid.
Stander lunged for his pistol. But it was hopeless. He was shot three times. He died instantly. ibid.
It [Stander Gang] was an amazing story, amazing part of South African criminal history. Mike Cohen, biographer
8When Nelson Mandela walked to freedom in 1990 he’d been held in prison for twenty-seven years. The World Against Apartheid: Have You Heard From Johannesburg? BBC 2012
It was a struggle that had drawn to its aid millions of ordinary citizens from dozens of countries around the world. ibid.
It would take more than fifty years to defeat Apartheid. ibid.
Now in power the nationalist government enacted a series of racial segregation laws that set it apart from the rest of the world. ibid.
Throughout the country Apartheid was absolute. ibid.
The Immorality Act made sex between the different races a crime. ibid.
A new generation of leaders emerged and embarked on their long campaign for freedom. ibid.
The Freedom Charter called for nothing less than a multiracial democracy which would dismantle Apartheid. ibid.
1960: that year in the township of Sharpeville, South African history would change for ever. ibid.
The outrages of Apartheid could no longer be ignored. The United Nations condemned the police action. ibid.
For centuries Africa had been ruled by Europeans. ibid.
[Oliver] Tambo set up the first ANC office in exile and began networking. ibid.
The entire ANC leadership was under arrest and charged with sabotage. ibid.
Soviet backing would cost the ANC the support of most Western governments. And Tambo found himself caught in the crossfire of the Cold War. ibid.
South Africa’s presence at international sporting events would become a key battleground in the struggle against racism in sport. The World Against Apartheid: Have You Heard From Johannesburg? II Fair Play
The regime responded with violence, intimidation and brutal crackdowns. ibid.
South Africa was voted out of the Games [Mexico 68]. ibid.
What had begun as the 1969 Springbok tour had now suddenly become a battleground in the worldwide anti-Apartheid struggle. ibid.
The [Australian tour] protesters had planned a campaign of non-violence and civil disobedience, but as the tour continued they were met with increasingly violent attacks from frustrated rugby fans and heavy-handed police. ibid.
89,047. The ill-fated tour moved on to New Zealand. (South Africa & Rugby & Protest) ibid.
As the All Blacks headed for South Africa the protests spilled over into the Montreal Olympics. ibid.
In the early 1960s opposition to apartheid had been all but crushed. The World Against Apartheid: Have You Heard From Johannesburg? III The New Generation
But this was the 1960s and revolution was in the air. ibid.
Steve Biko hoped to bring about change peacefully. ibid.
Steve Biko and seven other leaders were banned. ibid.
In Holland the anti-apartheid campaign was gaining momentum. ibid.
The government’s reaction to this challenge was swift and brutal. ibid.
89,055. Biko Dies in Detention. ibid. Daily Dispatch
For black South Africans life was far less comfortable. The World Against Apartheid: Have You Heard From Johannesburg? IV: The Bottom Line
Black people had to carry a passbook at all times. ibid.
In Britain the anti-Apartheid movement focused its attention on one of the oldest and most powerful banks in the world – Barclays. ibid.
Polaroid concluded that they would remain in South Africa. ibid.
Then Soweto happened. ibid
Nelson Mandela was still locked up in prison. But the Apartheid regime was now under extreme pressure. The World Against Apartheid: Have You Heard From Johannesburg? V Free at Last
By time the country had become an international pariah. ibid.
The most significant stop on Botha’s tour was the United Kingdom. ibid.
All over Britain the Anti-Apartheid Movement had been gaining ground. ibid.
Botha’s tour was a disaster. ibid.
Across South Africa the call went out to all races. ibid.
The ANC’s armed wing now stepped up its bombing campaign in the centre of major cities. ibid.
In July 1985 P W Botha declared a State of Emergency throughout South Africa. ibid.
Grass roots opposition had been growing for decades. ibid.
Censorship of the media was total [viz Dan Rather’s news report]. ibid.
In August 1989 Tambo had suffered a stroke, and moved to a clinic as a guest of the Swedish government. ibid.
In December 1990 Oliver Tambo’s thirty years of exile would come to an end. ibid.
On 27TH April 1994 for the first time in its history all the South Africans voted in a free and democratic election. ibid.