Six years in the making, the pair’s film explores racial and economic inequality in Cape Town
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.arly in 2017, Pearlie Joubert commandeered her two teenage daughters to fill five-litre containers with water. She had just heard on a Cape Talk news bulletin that Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille had had the water and electricity to the old Woodstock hospital — in which poor black Capetonians were living — cut off.
The two filmmakers, who both lived in Woodstock and had known each other for years, decided there and then that this was a story that had to be told. That way of defiance, as an occupation, had never happened in Cape Town before. “These two old white women” —to use Joubert’s description — had a few meetings with the occupiers, who had organised themselves as Reclaim the City, the previous year.
It makes us care about the outcome of this classic David-versus-Goliath battle between passionate activists and politicians and property power-brokers. One of the Reclaim activists, Deena Bosch, is a natural in front of a crowd with her earthy humour. She raises a big laugh at a serious meeting when she deadpans about the politicians, “They’re just like the old National Party poepholle … ” “What did they call you? Tannie?” I ask Joubert.“So, I do think that all white people look the same to black people,” she chuckles.
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