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EPISODE · Jun 10, 2026 · 54 MIN

Saving the Sepik river, and remembering the Soweto uprising

from Late Night Live — Full program podcast · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

When a proposed mine threatens Papua New Guinea’s Sepik River, the Sepik people resist the mine on their own terms, but will they succeed? And fifty years since the Soweto uprising, how South Africa has reckoned with its past.Guests: Emmanuel Peni, director of the PNG NGO Project Sepik, and co-Producer of the film.Theonila Roka Matbob, former PNG MP from Bougainville and winner of the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize. Professor Noor Nieftagodien, Head of the History Workshop at the University of the WitwatersrandSeth Mazibuko, activist, former teacher and one of the original student leaders in the 1976 uprising

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