Pascal Lamche's documentary "Sophiatown"

Pascal Lamche's documentary Sophiatown should be seen by all who have an interest in South Africa’s relatively recent past - especially those interested in the way politics and culture were necessarily entwined. Sophiatown is a documentary about the Johannesburg suburb that was destroyed by the apartheid government in the late 1950s. It was destroyed because it was an area of the city in which people of colour had freehold rights to their properties. It was also an oasis of transracial contact, as well as a hothouse of jazz and crime.