Meer afleveringen van Witness History

• Ashley Kriel: South Africa's anti-apartheid 'Che Guevara'

  In the 1980s, townships in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town became an unexpected hotbed of activity against South Africa's apartheid government. One charismatic young activist emerged as a leader of the struggle against white minority...

  5 aug 2026 609 sec.

• The first carbon offset

  In 1988, as floods struck Bangladesh and a heat wave swept across the United States, climate change became a political issue. Governments and businesses alike talked about how to stop it, or at least slow it down. That year the think...

  4 aug 2026 560 sec.

• City of God: The film that reshaped global cinema

  In 2001, filming began on City of God which would stun audiences with its unflinching honesty. It captured the brutal realities of child gangsters from Rio De Janeiro’s favelas trapped in an unforgiving cycle of violence. Local...

  3 aug 2026 620 sec.