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.