Hout Bay, South Africa | A Country of Fishers (2017) full feature documentary
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Frustrated by Poverty, a dad sets off in deep conversation with fellow Rastafarians and a fisherman - - searching for meaning and purpose in order to overcome the engrossing poverty in their informal settlement on the mountainside of Houtbay.
LONG SYNOPSIS: Colonialism, slavery, apartheid and the struggle to provide for their offspring in the new South converges into a great philosophical encounter, with great cathartic consequence - for a group of impoverished philosophers on the informal settlement of Hangberg in Houtbay.
The film is an unobtrusive observational gem filmed by one of South Africa's multi- award winning filmmakers.
REVIEWS:
"a powerful account of what is the realities of many South African's and more over the fishers." - Prof. Moenieba Isaacs.
"...In providing such a personal portrait of a single household, and allowing the rich dialogue between the men to flow so freely, he provides a tangible account of how the economic policies of neoliberalism and post-apartheid South Africa have constrained the lives and livelihoods of the poor in this country..."
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ABOUT THE FILMMAKER:
Riaan Hendricks is a multi-award winning documentary filmmaker heralding from the Cape Flats.
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Hangberg is a growing overpopulated settlement on the mountainside of Hout Bay.
It was a labor camp initially set up to service the fishing industry of Hout Bay during apartheid South Africa - now derailed into an overpopulated settlement where people are struggling to overcome the socio-economic challenges - and despite the wealth of marine life on their doorstep - crime remains the only way to access a daily plate of food of these forgotten people.
When I made the film - I was merely trying to understand life for our fishing communities in South Africa. Hout Bay was one just of the planned stops. Yet, Hout Bay became my first and last stop.
I cancelled the entire coastal film journey - for what I found in one cinematic moment made me realize that the story of the Hangberg, Hout Bay fishing community is the story of our collective experience of fishing villages across South Africa. Where the people who live in rich natural resource areas, a dwindling away in poverty and crime. This happens in rural mining and farming communities as well, such as: The Marikana mining town tragedy where the poor miners were killed for asking an increase in salary - while the wealth of billions are being mined with their health, sweat and labour just beneath their overpopulated shacks that so easily floods with rain.
How much different is the encounter of the Hangberg community who were once forcefully removed during the apartheid era to settle on this mountainside as cheap labor - and having to face the wrath of the new South African law, who wants to get rid of their families who started building informal dwellings just behind the initial labor camp?
The history of the Hangberg Uprising - is a complex one.
But this is not a story of "apartheid was bad - let's blame the whites." And definitely not one of "the current political system will solve all our problems".
Can any sense come from a group of men and woman - who smokes marijuana while engaging with the deep rooted issues affecting their family lives? Are they able to find themselves within the broader socio-political landscape of our country and our continent?
Can they change the future of the offspring - whose first informal employment is likely to be that of a poacher?
I could never have imagined that my encounter with a group of Rastafarians and subsistence fishers in Hout Bay, would result in such an intellectual and cinematic emotional experience. I now cede - it's true what BIKO said in 1971 “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
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Snoekies is massively succesful. There was an amazing bar/restuarant with the fish braais by the old factory - owned and run by a Hangberg family. So sad to see it close during Covid - It would have been a huge success with the tourists. We ALL want a succesful locally owned business. Tourists want an authentic local experience. The oppurtunities are there.
I love this attitude - lets work. Lets create work and opportunity.
Prophetic reasonings!!
When i work i see the cct in bishops and constantia
I have grew up in houtbay and I know them all.😂😂🎉😊
Guy in the red shirt had a lot of good points.
That's true.
Deze mensen worden onderdrukt door Nederland holland net als wij de Surinamers 🇸🇷dat zijn me broeders man 😞
Kwaai girl the council do focal 4 us
I like u uncle rusta
Yes my sister they teach 4 a salary
Kwaai bru fresh something in lansdowne we dont have
Its part of the left over mentality still in the administrative structures of the province - the "Us" is millions of people across the Western Cape, not considered people because of the informal structure they live in. Houtbay and the tinned township areas has sewerage leaking in the streets, dirt pilling up - children playing asif it's normal - it's not normal. Overthrow the current rullership - thats been running matters for over 300 years in the Province - make it work for you.
It has got worse with the ANC goverment fishing qoutas have gone to the wrong poeple These guys great great great grand children will be suffering under the ANC it is only going to get worse
I'm good to go for another 300 years of black rule. The last 25 years of democracy has done little to bring about change. The country - our land is still very much white owned. If the ANC does not manage the process well going forward - a more desperate class of people will rise - for now, that would be the EFF's - and even beyond them - if they fail, a class might rise that says - let's remove the land and own it collectively. Communism is a painful reality that awaits - so lets dialogue, lets work on transformation and on creative innovative economy and jobs.
hopeless.....
Hi Izak, where there is life - there is hope. These guys might not have material resources, but with their intellect, they are taking apart their sociao political condition - and finding direction from from there.
The solution is simple guys since our ancestors worked hard to uplift the whites and made them wealthy just go and take it back by force the only language the apartheid government understood wasn't peace but violence.👌
The system is not designed for taking back with violence.
Are you prepared to die for that which is temporary and forsake that which is everlasting. The indigenous first nation people need to learn their history language and culture and then only can they speak of freedom. Knowledge is more powerful than all the weapons combined. The ALMIGHTY humiliates or gives honour to whom HE wants.
Kai Gangans
Tau Tama !khams ge.
The struggle continues