South Africa - Queen Elizabeth II Visit

(27 Mar 1995) T/I 10:04:21

STORY: QUEEN ELIZABETH
LOCATION: SOWETO
DATE: 23 MARCH 1995
DURATION: 1.23

Township and royal VIP pay mutual respects

Britain's Queen Elizabeth, on a six-day state visit to South Africa, went to the massive township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg, on Thursday (23/3). She toured a British-aided self-help association for paraplegics in the township of some three million people. Earlier the Queen unveiled the first official memorial to the black South Afican servicemen who died while serving in the labour corps during the First World War. She unveiled the simple memorial of white sandstone, with the names of the dead carved on it, at a solemn ceremony in Soweto's Avalon cemetery where she met the families of the soldiers. The Queen
leaves for Durban on Friday for the next leg of her tour where she will attend a horse-race meeting and may meet Zulu King Goodwill
Zwelethini. She concludes her South African visit on Saturday.

SHOWS:

(SOWETO, 23/3) Queen arriving in range rover. Tracking shot of children in street, cheering and waving. Traffic going past..more children cheering. Pan police vehicle to children on top. CU Queen in workshop for disabled. Disabled machinist in factory. Another disabled worker. SOT Friday Mavuso, Project Chairman: "We feel great, we feel part and parcel of their society; we feel important today."
(AVALON CEMETERY, SOWETO) SOT bugler. Over-shoulder shot of
bugler playing Last Post. Memorial ceremony stage. African
veterans. Queen and Mandela unveiling memorial monument. WS
monument, zooms into Mandela and Queen. Bandstand salute. Queen
walking along crowd with Mandela.

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