Aid/WATCH Fundraiser Film Night: "A Common Purpose" Mon 17 Jun, 7pm, Dendy Newtown. A Common Purpose follows Andrea Durbach as she returns to South AFrica to meet her clients from the landmark Upington 25 trial. In 1985 when apartheid was at its most violent, a black policeman was burn tto death and 25 peopel were convicted of his murder: 14 were senenced to hang. Upgington, a small white townlocated in the heart of Afrikaner nationalism, was besieged by a legal trial which culminated in teh assassination of Namibian barrister and human rights advocate, Anton Lubowski and the exile of the young, white lawyer, Andrea Durback who represented the 25. A Common Purpose won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Sydney Film Festival and teh AIDC STanely Hawes Award.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:25:37 +0000
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