DVD – Grootboom Case – 60min

Transforming informal settlements – The Grootboom case – 60 minutes modularized teaching documentary.

A film that investigates the case of the Grootboom community living around the sports field awaiting their promised housing.A gritty look at the squalor and poverty in an area in which 20 000 people crowd into a 2km radius with a broken down ablution block and very little service delivery.

Does the Media Desensitise us to the Suffering of the Poor?

By Gillian Schutte

Last week saw the memorial of the Marikana Massacre unfold on national television, namely on eNCA, which rolled out an entire day dedicated to the miners that died in the massacre. On the surface this appeared to be a noble cause that could be celebrated as the mainstream finally seeing things from the working-class perspective.