CULTURE RE: RED & WHITE CLAY (IBOVU NDNCWAKO)

Record ID: 882623

  • Title: CULTURE RE: RED & WHITE CLAY (IBOVU NDNCWAKO)
  • Date: 10th December 2004
  • Summary: CULTURE RE: RED & WHITE CLAY (IBOVU NDNCWAKO)
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  • City: Kwazulu-Natal
  • Country: South Africa
  • Reuters ID: 04DEC10R01
  • Story Text:CULTURE re: RED & WHITE CLAY (IBOVU NDNCWAKO) : NDWEDWE


    00.00.01 VARIOUS OF KWAZULU-NATAL GV’S
    00.00.36 VARIOUS OF THE AREA WHERE WOMEN DIG CLAY
    00.01.11 VARIOUS OF WOMEN DIGGING CLAY
    00.02.09 VARIOUS SHOTS OF WOMEN CARRYING BAGS OF CLAY OUT OF THE CAVE AND ADDING IT TO THE REST OF THE BAGS OUTSIDE
    00.05.19 WOMAN DIGGING CLAY IN A HOLE
    00.06.01 VARIOUS OF ZODWA GOQO (WHITE HEAD SCARF) COMING OUT FROM HOLE AND THROWING CLAY OUT
    00.07.19 SHOT OF THE HOT SUN
    00.07.54 VARIOUS OF RURAL WOMEN TAKING A BREAK FROM DIGGING
    00.08.19 MEDIUM SHOT OF MAN DIGGING WITH A SHOVEL
    00.08.44 MORE VARIOUS OF THE WOMEN TAKING A BREAK
    00.09.25 THE SUN SHINING THROUGH TREE LEAVES
    00.09.50 VARIOUS OF WOMAN LOADING CLAY INTO BAGS
    00.11.58 INTERVIEW (ZULU) WITH ZODWA GOQO SAYING “ I’m Zodwa Goqo and I’m 35 years old ..QUESTION.. It’s a means of survival.. QUESTION ..Have been digging for 7 years now.. QUESTION .. It’s unsafe but we’re always on the lookout.. QUESTION .. The red clay on face protects me from the sun .. QUESTION .. To the others, I can say clay really works .. QUESTION.. Clay protects me against the hot sun and keep my skin shaded .. QUESTION .. We make about R120 per bag .. QUESTION .. Sometimes we make about R250 for two bags.”
    00.13.34 COWS PASSING THE DIGGING AREA
    00.14.08 MORE VARIOUS OF THE WOMEN THROWING CLAY OUT
    00.15.03 VARIOUS OF YOUNG WOMAN MOULDING RED CLAY INTO BALLS
    00.17.17 VARIOUS SHOTS OF ROWS OF CLAY BALLS
    00.19.10 VARIOUS OF CLAY HAWKERS AT THE DURBAN CITY CENTRE
    00.22.00 VARIOUS OF ZODWA SELLING CLAY (THEY DIG CLAY AT THEIR HOMESTEAD IN NDWEDWE (NORTHERN KWAZULU-NATAL – ABOUT TWO HOURS DRIVE FROM DURBAN - THEN CARRY THE BAGS TO DURBAN)
    00.25.11 VARIOUS OF WOMEN WITH RED CLAY ON THEIR FACES MAINTAINING THE ROAD
    00.30.52 INTERVIEW (ZULU) WITH WOMAN SAYING “ Red clay protects my skin from the sun .. QUESTION .. have been using it for about ten years now, over ten years QUESTION .. The other products don’t protect my skin against the sun, only the red clay does the job .. QUESTION .. It’s better to use a combination, the western products and the red clay, otherwise the western products alone will not work.”
    00.33.43 MORE VARIOUS OF THE WOMEN WITH RED CLAY FACES WORKING IN THE FIELD
    00.34.49 INTERVIEW (ZULU) WITH ANOTHER WOMAN SAYING “ Red clay protects my skin against the sun .. QUESTION .. I do have confidence in it because it works.. QUESTION .. Have been using it for over ten years, over twenty years .. QUESTION .. There’s vast difference in using red clay and western products. Wesren products leave marks on my skin and the red clay does not
    00.35.56 MORE OF CLAY HAWKERS AT THE DURBAN CITY CENTRE WITH PEOPLE BUYING CLAY
    00.39.14 REUTERS FILE FROM THE SHOW “ESUTHWINI” SHOWING VARIOUS OF INITIATES AT A CIRCUMCISION SCHOOL USING WHITE CLAY FOR PROTECTION AGAINST INSECTS ETC. IN THE BUSH
    00.43.38 VARIOUS OF XHOSA WOMEN DECORATED WITH WHITE CLAY ON FACES AT A TRADITIONAL WEDDING THAT WAS ATTENDED BY MANDELA
    00.47.10 SANGOMAS (TRADITIONAL HEALERS) WITH WHITE CLAY AT A CEREMONY
    00.47.52 VARIOUS OF ZODWA WITH FAMILY MEMBERS AT HOME (SHE’S THE SOLE BREADWINNER IN A FAMILY OF THIRTY)
    00.50.27 VARIOUS OF ZODWA COOKING
    00.51.12 CU OF POT ON BURNING FIRE
    00.51.40 WIDE OF FAMILY MEMBERS STANDING OUTSIDE
    00.52.24 INTERVIEW (ZULU) WITH ZODWA AT HOME SAYING “ Due to poverty and unemployment, digging clay became the only source of income as I’m able to fight poverty here at home, my father passed away and my mother is also unemployed and does not even receive the government grant. I have a very big family to look after and clay is the only means of survival.”
    00.52.46 VARIOUS OF THE SURROUNDING AREA WHERE ZODWA LIVES
    00.53.39 MORE OF ZODWA’S HOME
    00.54.00 A LONE WOMAN DIGGING CLAY (SAME AREA AS ABOVE)
    04.55.16 AERIAL (STILL) SHOT OF DURBAN BEACHFRONT
    04.54.37 VARIOUS OF THE DURBAN BEACHFRONT WITH BATHERS BASKING IN THE SUN AND USING SUNSCREEN
    04.59.03 VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WALKING DOWNTOWN IN THE STREETS OF DURBAN
    05.00.58 VARIOUS OF WOMAN APPLYING RED CLAY ON HER FACE
    VARIOUS OF THE KWAZULU-NATAL UNIVERSITY WITH THE CLAY RESEARCHERS AT THE LABORATORY
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