Posts Tagged ‘Khayelitsha’

When Florian came to us with the idea of using Khayelitsha Siyakhona to create a multi-media installation that would portray life in Khayelitsha using the four walls of a re-purposed shack, we were excited. I refused to see the film until the night of the premiere and I’m so glad I did. What a beautiful [...]

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,800 times in 2010. That’s about [...]

They were saying no to Rape and brutal killings of women, defenceless grannies, people with disabilities and young children and also human trafficking.

Zwakanaka is so cool that it’s nc´a, dope, sooooper-  ayt, the bomb, wicked, off the hook, in fact it’s dianesa and njo-jo and most importantly it’s moving forward, that is what it means. And that is exactly what it does. Zwakanaka only looks as far back as the ‘right now’. It can see around corners [...]

While in the process of doing this story we face a lot of challenges because, the topic has so many angle to choose from, and no matter how you try to eliminate same of them they find their way right back to your story. Which makes it hard for one to edit. The reason we [...]

‘lesbians are not supposed to live, they deserve to be killed because homosexuality is a sin.

The videos empower the community to unite and find solutions to their most pressing issues; i.e. speeding up social change.

It’s a day to remember. Take a day off and take a taxi to Khayelitsha then we’ll talk again.

During apartheid our own revolutionary soldiers went to these same countries for protection; countries citizens’ that we now are fighting.

All the bad things were done to them, and I was there to see all of that. It’s when I called my friends and I told them we must do something about this. And we did.