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Goldwidows: Women in Lesotho
Goldwidows: Women in Lesotho

GOLDWIDOWS: WOMEN IN LESOTHO

Directed by Don Edkins, Ute Hall, Mike Schlomer
Canada, 1991
Documentary

Synopsis

Goldwidows focuses on four Basotho women of Lesotho. Although most Basotho men, and sometimes 60% at once, have worked in South Africa’s gold mines, apartheid laws forbid these women and their children from entering South Africa. They are forced to live as practical widows.

Synopsis

Goldwidows focuses on four Basotho women of Lesotho. Although most Basotho men, and sometimes 60% at once, have worked in South Africa’s gold mines, apartheid laws forbid these women and their children from entering South Africa. They are forced to live as practical widows.