![]() | Hillbrow reeks of Hope Documentary Poem by Duduetsang Makuse about an inner city social housing association called Madulamoho. |
![]() | Receive Me Hillbrow - Part 2 of 2 Receive Me Hillbrow is a short enthographic documentary of Hillbrow, a transitional degenerated residential area in the Johannesburg CBD South Africa. This film was compiled by Guy Ailion and Dana Fayman as a visual narrative into the subject of the role of the Church vs the Street as a reception for immagrants arriving in Hillbrow as part 1 of their Architectural B.A.S Honors degree at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. The project attempts to identify the needs and social circumstances of new immagrants in the port-like suburb of Hillbrow, and identifies the possibilities of spirituality being a means to present an alternative presence on the streets to counter the overwealming lure into illegal trades by the vast drug-lord community in Hillbrow. Hillbrow was a vibrant cosmopolitan part of the city untill the late 1970's from which the ubran fabric began to dissmantle under badly managed buildings and lack of municipal foresight. Today Hillbrow is notoriously known as the most dangerous place in Johanneburg. Cast - Speakers: Reuben Ighodaro (Hillbrow resident) Moreen (Hillbrow landlord of Everest Apartments) Sama Nicholas (Independent Cameroonian pastor of the Abundant Life Mission) Father Shaun Von Lillienfeld (Priest of Christ the King Hillbrow Catholic Cathedral) Marvelous Malinga (General Secretary of Hlalanathi Community Theatre Projects) Gerard Shavatu (Jesuit Refugee Services National Director) Siko (Independent Open Air spiritual counselors, Hillbrow) Winfred (Independent Open Air spiritual counselors, Hillbrow) Bernard (Independent Open Air spiritual counselors, Hillbrow) Allan (Independent Open Air spiritual counselor, Hillbrow) Special Thanks To Hugh Frasier Hannah Le Roux Music By Four Tet Thomas Newman Directed by Guy Ailion Dana Fayman |
![]() | Epilogue to Hillbrow RIP Since the ANC government came to power, Hillbrow, Berea and Yeoville have become slums in Johannesburg. The vibrant communities of yesteryear are no longer there, and depsair and squalor have replaced them |
![]() | Carjacking Gone Wrong Impervious to harm or just distracted? |
![]() | The life & death of Johannesburg A collection of pictures of JHB, where I grew up. When I was born we lived 5 minutes from Rocky Street in 1981 some of my earliest memories were the "BIG CITY LIGHTS" of Hillbrow and I have vivid memories of going to the drive-in at TopStar ...the view of the city at night from there was more interesting than watching the movie itself. The pictures towards the end of the clip are what I remember part the city to be when I left although I'm told a lot of work has been done to clean up the city since. This is a city of stark contrast. The sole reason for me leaving was survival!..No job,no opportunity,no nothing! I hope to return one day to contribute to this city that's given me so much. |
![]() | Johannesburg Central District Leaving Park Station heading in the direction of Botswana. |
![]() | The New South Africa http://www.mauriceltd.com Some short clips of a drive around Johannesburg or Gauteng , and around Soweto |
![]() | Death of Johannesburg The death of Johannesburg |
![]() | 2010 World Cup South Africa South Africans express their feelings, hopes and anxieties about 2010. |
![]() | Black man says: Bring back Apartheid http://www.dienuwesuidafrika.com Liberal Irish reporter Fergal Keane of the BBC is told from the horses mouth (a Black South African) that Blacks were better off under Apartheid and that their lives would only get better if the Apartheid government came back to power. Fergal: Do you ever think your life is going to get better Josef? Josef: Maybe my life would change if the Nationalist Party came back, not the ANC. Fergal: I don't believe you. Come on. That was a White government that put you down, that treated you terribly, you cant really believe that? Josef: But in terms of work they didn't oppress us. We didnt struggle for work then. It appears that even when confronted with overwhelming evidence that he supported the wrong people in South Africa, liberal Irish reporter Fergal Keane still refuses to accept that he was wrong and then proceeds to tell a Black South African, living in South Africa that he, Irishman Fergal Keane who lives in Ireland knows better. |
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