Masiphumelele – Let’s Succeed

Masiphumelele – Let’s Succeed

Street talk films When the first Eastern Cape families arrived at Site 5, between Fish Hoek and Kommetjie, they optimistically named the new township Masiphumelele, which means ‘let’s succeed’ in Xhosa. A generation later, an estimated 40 000 people – many...
Sill no housing

Sill no housing

Season 9 Episode 32 Community activists attack the government for not delivering on their endless promises for better housing. They expose the rampant corruption that infests the whole housing problem and explain how they are educating and mobilising people to demand...
What is black?

What is black?

Season 9 Episode 30 UWC students debate about what being black means.Is the apartheid mindset still alive and kicking? Are coloureds black or are they generally perceived as different?” Being black is the matter of our lived experience…It’s how we...
The redistribution of our land

The redistribution of our land

Season 9 Episode 27 In this last in a series of five films, 6 activists from Equal Education express their frustration in how resources are distributed in the South African economy and why the land question is so much broader than housing. They feel that the class...
Voting for change

Voting for change

Season 9 Episode 4 Systemic corruption and maladministration has left these black professionals disillusioned with the ANC government. “I voted for the ANC until I got tired of it because I am just voting these people into power and nothing is happening. At first it...
Taking our Land back

Taking our Land back

Season 9 Episode 3 The community of Kliphuewel have had enough of empty promises, they have been staying in shacks for more than 30 years and have been pleading with the Cape Town municipality for their most basic needs; housing, electricity, transport, clinics and...