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Hello and thank you for downloading the Witness Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Alex Last

and today we go back to 1976 when after years of

waiting South Africa's white apartheid regime finally allowed television to be

broadcast in the country.

Three, two, one, zero, and got to be to you.

Moy.

Margaret, come quickly.

Come on, Aria. Tell you, tell it's starting, come quickly. Come on, hurry up. Come on,

Then it is starting, come quick, run.

In January 1976, television finally arrived in apartheid South Africa. The

It's five years a year a year,

nine thousand seven years.

You're going to You can imagine the whole country came to a stand of the four

litig a television. You can imagine the whole country came to a standstill. You can

imagine at six o'clock on that evening. It was the 5th of January in 1976. I knew when the screens

opened I knew I was all over the show. Back in 1976, Hei Rick Manets co-hosted

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