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Facing Death, Facing Life (2002)

Name: Facing Death, Facing Life
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2016-09-08T12:51:12+02:00

Documentary | 52 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 52 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Ingrid Gavshon

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Facing Death, Facing Life plot

Six random protesters were arrested in South Africa in 1984 during riots in the black township of Sharpeville. The six detainees - five men and a woman - were arrested again, interrogated and tortured some time after the riots. They were charged, without any evidence, with the murder of Khuzwayo Dlamini, the Deputy Mayor of Sharpeville. The 'Sharpeville Six' were sentenced to noose and put in prison pending the execution of the sentence. Several action committees soon campaigned for the release of the Sharpeville Six. Years later, after the end of apartheid, they are finally released. Once out of prison, life is not easy for these ex-prisoners, according to the story told by one of them, Duma Kumalo, in this documentary. Facing death is painful, Kumalo says, but facing life after such a sentence is even more painful.