TV & VIDEO - April 28, 1987

State-owned Trinidad and Tobago Television has banned a multi-part television movie because the film was partially funded by South Africa, the station announced Monday. “The program was purchased by the station from a well-known United States company (Harmony Gold Productions) not hitherto known to have any links with South Africa,” a TTT communique read. The film--”Shaka Zulu”--similarly was banned in Jamaica by the Jamaica Broadcasting Co. last week. According to the TTT, the film was funded in part by the South African Broadcasting Corp. “TTT and JBC were misled (about the South African connection) at the time of the purchase,” the communique said. “Shaka Zulu,” a miniseries concerning a Zulu warrior king in the 19th Century, was broadcast in Los Angeles on KCOP-TV Channel 13 last November.