Mother City is a deeply human, often heart-breaking and at times humorous look at the global politics of urbanism. Against the backdrop of a country celebrating three decades of democracy, Mother City exposes the deep fault lines that still exist in South Africa because successive governments since 1994 have not offered solutions to the most urgent and explosive issue of land and ownership, rendering generations of working class people homeless.
Cape Town, known as the Mother City, lies resplendent between the iconic Table Mountain and the icy Atlantic ocean.The story is told by Nkosikhona Swartbooi, RTC organiser and activist. For him the battle for housing is deeply personal. Raised by his grandmother in a shack in Khayelitsha, he saw the humiliation she faced as a domestic worker in Sea Point. Mother City documents, over six years, how he grows from a young activist to a father trying to balance his political work with family commitments. It is a classic David and Goliath battle as activists take on property power and politics in a city still disfigured by spatial apartheid.
The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with the filmmakers.
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