Year: 1992
Runtime: 117 mins
Language: English
Director: Darrell James Roodt
She teaches hopeful pupils during the 1976 Soweto uprising, protesting Afrikaans as the language of instruction. Through activist Sarafina, police fire on students in a classroom, and teacher Mary Masombuka (Whoopi Goldberg) is imprisoned. Sarafina’s mother (Miriam Makeba) urges resistance, ending with a farewell performance, children leave school.
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