CNN News Coverage of Anti-Indian Riots in South Africa (1985) (no video link)
Title
CNN News Coverage of Anti-Indian Riots in South Africa (1985) (no video link)
Subject
Riots--South Africa
URL
No video link found. This content is associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library originally recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. No link has yet been found to provide online access and the original videotape has not yet been digitized.
Description
Content description on the nature of the riots from LA Times Archive (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-08-09-mn-2323-story.html) :
Hundreds of blacks today laid siege to an Indian settlement founded by Mahatma Gandhi, where defending Asian vigilantes opened fire with shotguns and boosted the death toll in four days of riots near Durban to at least 55. The rioters, mostly Zulu tribesmen who live in the area, rampaged through the former home of Gandhi, and the late Indian pacifist's Phoenix Center complex became a raging battlefield.
At Gandhi's house, the centerpiece of a self-help community for blacks and Asians, youths tore books from shelves in the Gandhi Memorial Library and smashed pictures. About 50 blacks set fire to the neighboring home of Gandhi's son Mamilali and torched a nearby school, witnesses said...
Ephemera: none available
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Hundreds of blacks today laid siege to an Indian settlement founded by Mahatma Gandhi, where defending Asian vigilantes opened fire with shotguns and boosted the death toll in four days of riots near Durban to at least 55. The rioters, mostly Zulu tribesmen who live in the area, rampaged through the former home of Gandhi, and the late Indian pacifist's Phoenix Center complex became a raging battlefield.
At Gandhi's house, the centerpiece of a self-help community for blacks and Asians, youths tore books from shelves in the Gandhi Memorial Library and smashed pictures. About 50 blacks set fire to the neighboring home of Gandhi's son Mamilali and torched a nearby school, witnesses said...
Ephemera: none available
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Publisher
Cable News Network
Date
1985
Citation
“CNN News Coverage of Anti-Indian Riots in South Africa (1985) (no video link),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed March 29, 2024, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/351.