CAPE TOWN-TALES OF A COLOUR’D CITY

CAPE TOWN-TALES OF A COLOUR’D CITY

One of our members alerted us about a show of seemingly great importance that will be broadcast on SABC 1 tomorrow night. I took the liberty of contacting the SABC 1 to find out more about the show and they have sent me the review below. The programme will be on SABC 1 at 9. Many members missed out the programme The Big uestion the other night but thanks to Fukidol’s alertness, at least you will be aware now. Yes, the Champions League will be on tomorrow night but please see if you can get somebody to record the show for you. I am definitely going to record it at home so I will have to go and watch the game in a pub because I don’t have dual view. Plus the beers taste different at the pub…brilliant thinking Lester.

Anyway, below is a review of the programme.

A 52 minutes documentary which traces the social history of Cape Town and portrays the varied lives and experiences of its inhabitants – black, white, rich, poor, slave, free, Christian and Muslim.

This film takes one back to the earliest accounts of the confrontations between European colonists and indigenous peoples of South Africa. This documentary vividly portrays the well known historical figure Auchimoto, otherwise known to the Dutch colonists as Harry Die Strandloper, a Khoi chief who was the first freedom fighter in the history of South Africa to have ever escaped from Robben Island.

‘Tales of a Colour’d City’ looks at the history of the ‘discovery’ of the ‘Mother City’ as the first foothold of European colonialism in South Africa. A city built on a foundation of slavery and racial discrimination and with glaring discrepancies between the rich and the poor.

A well documented account of the attitudes of Capetonians and how their diversity provides a mental stimulus for them to snap out of the apartheid hangover.

Director : Thulani Mokoena

Producer : Joe Mogotsi