Awake from mourning
Chris Austin (Director, Productor), Elizabeth Wolpert, Media Network (U.S.) (Distribuidor)
A film about the Maggie Magaba Trust, a women's self-help movement formed in Soweto after the 1976 uprisings. Ellen Khuzwayo, Joyce Seroke and others talk about their experiences as women in detention and about the work of the Trust, which includes the provision of financial support for students and the aged and impoverished and the establishment of women's clubs, sewing cooperatives and support networks for women in resettlement areas. Black women in Soweto, South Africa, join together for mutual assistance, forming cooperatives, establishing community gardens, and teaching children to try to improve the difficult conditions under apartheid. Urban black women are hit hard by unemployment; the Trust wants to start a self-help women's movement to provide education and job training; establishing a women's resource center is a goal of the Trust
Video en DVD, English, 1981
[Distributed by Media Network], [Place of publication not identified], 1981