Cape Town : Tales of a colour'd city
Film et Vidéo
- Auteurs : Mokoena Thulani ;
- Editeurs : Johannesburg Film resource unit ;
- Date d'édition : 2000
- Sujets : Le Cap (Afrique du Sud) -- Relations interethniques, Films ethnographiques Afrique du Sud
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vidéocassette (VHS) (52 mn), : Son, coul., 1/2po
- Pays de publication : Afrique du Sud
Résumé
A 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 Auchimato, 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 tohave ever escaped from Rabben 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 fot them to snap out of the apartheid hangover.