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Zilima Ziya Etshini: Compelling Freedom

Zilima Ziya Etshini: Compelling Freedom

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1987

Runtime

0h 50m

Original Title

Zilima Ziya Etshini: Compelling Freedom

Production Companies

COSATU, VNS

Director

Laurence Dworkin

Description

A film made by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) that depicts workers using song and dance as a form of resistance. A radical "workers' culture" was a major element of 1970s and 1980s insurgent trade unionism in South Africa.