3 . Have You Heard From Johannesburg : The New Generation In the third film it is youth , both inside and outside South Africa , who next joined the growing movement against apartheid . Buoyed by new support in Western countries , Oliver Tambo returned to the United Nations to try to convince the world body to sanction South Africa . His efforts gained new public support as the brutal suppression of a youth uprising in the South African township of Soweto and the controversial death of Steve Biko turned South Africa from a country into a cause , a worldwide emblem of injustice . In 1977 a significant victory was won when the United Nations issued a mandatory arms embargo : the first in history . But South Africa 's strongest trading partners in the West still would not sanction it economically , and as Tambo headed to Zambia to minister to the African National Congress ' growing guerrilla army , a bloodbath seemed inevitable . But even as the most powerful western governments refused to heed Tambo 's calls for cultural and economic boycotts , the citizens of those western nations would help turn the tide
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