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01 | Boycott! | Spear of the Nation

01 | Boycott! | Spear of the Nation

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A deep dive into the past told by the people who lived through it. The Rewind podcast interrogates the events and characters that have shaped our world and revisits history through archives, interviews, and compelling storytelling.

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How South Africans won their freedom from the racist Apartheid
regime and the Australians who helped them fight for it.

It’s 1990 and Sisonke Msimang is glued to the TV, watching Nelson
Mandela, the world’s most famous political prisoner, walk free
after 27 years. She’s weeping with joy for a country she knows
and loves but has never seen.

Since 1948 South Africans have been divided along race lines,
called Apartheid. Blacks, Indians and ‘coloured’ people are
separated from white people, and cannot marry them, earn the same
wage, or get the same education as whites. Blacks are simply
cheap labour for the mines and for rich white families. Then in
1960 police open fire on a protest in Sharpeville, killing 69
blacks. This is a turning point: world leaders condemn the
massacre, and inside South Africa, the resistance movement
galvanises.

Sisonke’s dad Mavuso is a rebellious young man and dedicates his
life to fighting for the freedom of his people. This commitment
takes him all the way to Russia and an uncertain future.