A historic meeting: Film recounts Robert F. Kennedy’s visit to SA and the US’s opposition to apartheid

Chief Albert Luthuli and Robert Kennedy.

Chief Albert Luthuli and Robert Kennedy.

THE film RFK in the Land of Apartheid: A Ripple of Hope, which recounts Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s visit to South Africa in 1966, is proof that America was always supportive of the anti-apartheid movement. So says Mark P. Carr, public affairs officer at the Consulate-General of the United States in Durban, who spoke to me ahead of a screening of the film at the Catalina Theatre at Wilson’s Wharf recently. Continue reading