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The Long Street Show
The ‘program’ goes out live every day, late afternoon; the set, noted for its Victorian buildings with wrought iron balconies, ethnic restaurants, bars, bookshops and assorted second hand stores, is situated between the Wale Street intersection and the ‘Baths’ at the top of the street. “The Long Street Show”, as all locals know and visitors are informed, is an essential, not-to-be-missed part of our media-saturated Cape Town multi-culture.
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The Right To Refuge
In May, 2008 South Africa experienced a wave of vicious, xenophobic attacks against foreign refugees / asylum seekers from Africa. More than 60 people were brutally murdered, tens of thousands of people forcibly evicted from their homes before the authorities stepped in to protect them. Many simply fled the country. This was surely the lowest point in SA’s post Apartheid history.
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Fragments From The Edge
Cape Town mirrors many of the problems facing other African cities and cities in the developing world. How does surplus humanity improvise survival in the city? This is a study of informal survival, in a world of unstable, sprawling squatter camps, “informal settlements”, garbage hills, and the sand dunes of the Cape Flats, where urbanisation has been disconnected from industrialization and even from economic growth.
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Cape Town Fringe
Manenberg, built as a dormitory suburb for working people of the city, is the product and symbol of dispossession and extrusion from Cape Town’s heart. Here, in a mirror image of the beautiful and desirable city, life is lived at the very edge. And yet for all the distance that separates the township from the wealthy suburbs and central district, Manenberg is inextricably part of the protean city, exuding a vibrancy and energy that attracts, affronts, confounds.
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Images Of Table Mountain
Table Mountain is beyond question the quintessential symbol of the Cape. Yet, despite this recognition, the significance of Table Mountain to those who make their home in its various shadows remains obscure and unexplored. In fact, the very fact of one emblematic representation of Table Mountain has produced a silence about the multiplicity of other vistas and angles that the mountain offers to those who come and go in its wake.
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Struggling To Share The Promised Land
Despite political Zionism's realisation of the Jewish state, Jews in Israel today are deeply divided. In turn, these divisions have hampered Israel's progress towards reaching final peace settlements in exchange for occupied land with Palestinians as well as with Syria and Lebanon. Thus the goal of acceptance as a legitimate political entity in the Middle East still eludes Israel.
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