MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.
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PBS NewsHour correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault covers South Africa's historic transition to democracy in 1994. She revisits an Afrikaner farmer (Janni La Roux) she first met in 1985 in the Western Cape Town of Paarl. He talks about his hopes and fears about the post-Apartheid regime and the black government that is expected to be elected.
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This is the story of a black man in South Africa, filmed on the day he voted in the country's first free elections. PBS NewsHour correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault first interviewed him in 1985, when he worked for a white-run advertising agency. At that time, his life showed how opportunities were growing for blacks, and at the same time how apartheid and discrimination continued to affect them. Since then he has turned to activism following the...
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A 2012 study finds that in the previous 27 years, half of Australia's Great Barrier Reef coral had died. PBS NewsHour correspondent Gwen Ifill talks to Nancy Knowlton, a coral reef biologist and chair of Marine Science at the Smithsonian Institution, about the ecological and economical consequences, as well as measures to help mediate the decline.
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Bath Salts is a trendy street drug which is cheap, readily available, and lethal. It has dangerous and bizarre side effects including paranoia, agitation, violence and hallucinations. PBS NewsHour's Judy Woodruff talks to Virginia Commonwealth University's Louis de Felice about the uptick in abuse of Bath Salts as a recreational drug.