Mother City | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Filmed over six years, Mother City follows the David versus Goliath battle as activists and domestic workers take on pro | dG1fM1o1cko5RVNhUms

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00:00We are selling the Tafelberg site for 135 million rand, that is not enough land to make affordable,

00:19let alone social housing viable.

00:22Lies, that's a lie, that is a lie.

00:24I think you guys must be very, very careful.

00:28They want to evict. They want to evict us.

00:33This is going to be the biggest eviction in the inner city since the end of apartheid.

00:37That's not possible. You're going to be in for the fight of your life.

00:41You will follow my lead. The elderly people, there are kids here and we want everyone to be safe.

00:48Shit, the police are also coming.

00:50We in Cape Town, Mankobani, are in the middle of a housing crisis.

00:55The policing of black bodies, that has always been there.

00:58For what? What did I do?

01:04We marched, we picketed, we protested, but still they continue to ignore our pain and our struggle.

01:10Can we invite you to come and meet with us?

01:13Not on Sunday.

01:14If you see my room, you're going to want to live in there. It's a white house.

01:19I put everything on the line knowing that I am fighting for a noble cause.

01:25But that cause, you know, was not enough.

01:31Cape Town is still an apartheid city.

01:35You put the shirts together and set up. Mankobani, are we clear?

01:40Okay, guys, we're there. Now, quick.

01:48To each and every person watching us from their offices,

01:51take a moment to think about the kind of a city that they want.

01:56I need you to ask them to please leave immediately. Please.

02:03Those guys have big guns in their hands.

02:05The police are not here, so those guys are going to enforce that they won't act outside the law and they will be fucking arrested.

02:18At the core of it, it made me think of what country and what city are we building.