Panorama - Race Problems around the World
The main feature in this documentary is a report by Robin Day from Pretoria, where Nelson Mandela and other defendants in the Rivonia Trial have been sentenced. Day interviews people who condemn the trial and sentence, including Helen Suzman, Alan Paton and Winnie Mandela. A feature on race and segregation in Chicago precedes this report, while a consideration of the discrimination facing black people in Britain follows it.
In November 2008, Senator Barack Obama became the first black president of the US and held a victory rally in Chicago. One day later, Nelson Mandela, a former president of South Africa, wrote an open letter to Obama congratulating him, saying "Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place."
Contains language prevalent at the time.
