TOURISTS IN SOWETO Linda's mothers house Winnie Mandela's house Tutu's House Mandela's house 76 Memorial Avalon Cemetery

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  • Title: TOURISTS IN SOWETO Linda's mothers house Winnie Mandela's house Tutu's House Mandela's house 76 Memorial Avalon Cemetery
  • Date: 19th October 1996
  • Summary: TOURISTS IN SOWETO Linda's mothers house Winnie Mandela's house Tutu's House Mandela's house 76 Memorial Avalon Cemetery
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  • City: SOWETO
  • Country: South Africa
  • Reuters ID: 96OCT19R02
  • Story Text:TOURITS IN SOWETO: cont.
    00.53.29 GETTING IN TO COMBI TO LEAVE, LINDA SLAMS THE DOOR SHUT AND WALKS AROUND TO HIS SIDE.

    00.54.14 LADY WATCHES US GO PAST. COMBI COMES DRIVING SLOWLY PAST. MINE DUMP IN THE DISTANCE. LINDA CHATTING OUT THE WINDOW

    00.55.47 This a communal tap, that's where people come and collect water. You find that water its safe from the tap. Safe to drink...
    DRIVING BEHIND THE COMBI.

    00.56.41 DRIVING IN FRONT OF THE COMBI. TAPS/BLUE TOILETS ON THE RIGHT
    LINDA STOPS TO CHAT TO SOMEONE ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD

    00.57.01 A COMBI DRIVES PAST CAMERA, CLOSE UP ON LINDA'S FACE AS HE TALKS

    00.57.53 DOULE STORY SHACK IN SOWETO. WHITE SHEETS BILLOWING
    00.58.03 TOURIST TAKING PHOTO, JULIA LEANING OUTSIDE THE CAR
    00.58.15 CLOSE UP OF SHACK

    00.58.29 WOMAN LEANING AGAINST WALL NEXT TO WASHING LINE

    01.00.40 INT OF CAR. DINKY SITTING IN THE BACK
    Used to cover up this, have been taken to build some of the houses that I've shown you up there.

    01.00.47 So the building that you see with the emblem of Coke. This used to be electric sub station. Due to free enterprise system, this was converted to a little informal shop. So this is a grocery shop.
    01.01.00 And this used to be a bus terminus. All the corrugated iron that used to be cover up this area have been taken to buiold some of the houses.
    LINDA POINTING OUT THE WINDOW AND PAX LOOKING OUT
    PAN OUT TO GARAGE WITH NO IRON ROOF.

    01.01.05 The caravan that you see over here. This is a laundry, we call it a dry-clean. It's not done in that caravan.

    01.01.36 LOOKING OVER LINDA'S SHOULDER AS HE DRIVES,
    TREES, CLEAR AREAS ETC

    01.01.48 So these are the mine dumps. That's basically the waste ...

    01.02.05 So we are just between the border line of Diekpkloof and Orlando East.
    This is Diepkloof and this is Orlando East. So if you look out, so this was built in 1936. This house, side by side these are the bedroom. In the middle, that's a kitchen. The structure that you see separated from the main house, that is a toilet.
    TRAFFIC DRIVING ON HIGH WAY. SLOW DOWN TO LOOK AT SMALL BRICK HOUSES WITH PEOPLE IN THE YARDS.
    (CAN'T SEE WHAT LINDA'S TALKING ABOUT)
    01.02.31 So the area that you see just across the road, that's the area for coloureds. Do you know what are coloureds? Mixed race between black and white.

    01.02.39 So initially we used not to have a good relationship. ... We've got what we call mixed marriages whereby some of the guys this side are married this side and some are married this side. So we live as brothers and sisters.

    01.03.00 Up here we've got a sign welcoming you to Soweto. In case you...

    01.04.55 ...construction and development programme. So this has been introduced by President Nelson Mandela. Mandela says don't ask what the RDP can do for you, but ask what you can do for the RDP. The guys that you see over there what they do they wash cars. And each car that they wash, they get R10.
    PIX FROM INSIDE OF COMBI LOOKING UP TO THE FRONT.

    (NO RDP, NO PIX OF WELCOME TO SOWETO, NO CAR WASH)



    01.07.25 ART SHOT OF PAX REFLECTION CAUGHT IN REAR VIEW MIRROR,

    01.08.02 That's a mine dump. We ask them to plant grass on top, they say nothing grows, but when they converted one to a drive in, they could ...

    01.08.26 Migrant labour compound. As I've shown you what is a migrant labour compound.
    CAM IN THE BACK, LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW WITH PAX IN SIGHT.
    So that one has been converted to what we call a family village. AS I said only males are staying in these migrant.. . so that one converted toa family....
    01.08.40 Down here this is a female hostel. The house that you see with yellow maroon green top. This is a female hostel...

    01.09.04 Over here these are the schools. As I said about 85 percent of the kids in Soweto they go to school.
    CLOSE UP OF PAX IN CAR

    01.09.21 So this happens to be one of the soccer teams, soccer stadium. It belongs to one of the prominent soccer teams, Orlando Pirates. It used to be a home ground
    ORLANDO STADIUM NOT REALLY USEABLE

    01.10.27 Police know about that. Police are not well bad.. bribe. SCRAP YARD.

    01.11.10 The walls, the floors, everything its concrete. These houses were meant for soldiers during the second world war. So when the war was over, soldiers vacated the place so people from the countryside came to Johannesburg looking for jobs, were given these houses. So one of them happened to be my father therefore I stay around this neighbourhood.
    PIX INSIDE COMBI LOOKING OUT FRONT OVER PAX

    01.12.08 PIX LOOKING OUT REAR OF COMBI, AT CEMENT HOUSES.
    This is ourlocal train station, you find that almost each and every suburb has got a train station.
    PIX LOOKING OUT BACK, TREES, RED ROOVES.

    01.12.24 So as Isaid, we don't report the illegal immegrants, we keep them in our back yards. If you look over here, we've got about 18 families staying in this.. so the advantage part of it...
    (NO PIX)

    01.12 46 LOOKING OUT COMBI. GUY PUSHING DUST BIN. SMALL SHACK TYPE SHOP, SHOPS, COMBI, BUTCHERY.
    LINDA TALKING

    This shop used to be owned bya white man so lately its owned by a black man. The guys that you see assembling on my left, they are gambling. These are gamblers. They are playing dice.
    PIX OF GAMBLERS OUT REAR OF COMBI, SHAKY

    01.13.28 So as I said we vandalise train stations, bus terminus, this we started with this one now lately, so we're taking all the corrugated irons. so this is part of the free enterprise system people are allowed to sell. So if you look over there, started with this train station..
    FENCE AROUND STATION, PAST SMALL GRASS SHOP

    01.15.24 EXT CAR LINDA TALKING TO TOUR GROUP OUTSIDE HIS HOUSE
    01.15.28 So there's a little that we play when we reach home. I'd like you to go to each and every room in this house and find what's missing. Something is missing in this house. It's for you to tell me what's missing inthis house. Go to any white man's house, that thing is there, if you go to all the old houses, something is missing.
    01.15.46 So the rooms that you see behind the yard, initially when mum and dad arrived, this was not there, so mum and dad dipped into their pockets to erect what you see. This used to be my sisters room. So mum has converted this into a little informal shop. Andso its a grocery shop. The other rooms are my mum and my brothers rooms.
    RED DUSTY ROAD, LINDA POINTING OUT THE HOUSE
    CAMERA PANS TO HOUSE, SMALL GARDEN

    01.16.18 PAX WALK DOWN PATH TO LINDA'S HOME. WALKING CAMERA SHOT

    LINDA LAUGHING - PAX ALL IN YARD BEHIND HOUSE

    01.16.49 MUM LAUGHING. SHE'S DOING THE WASHING, BUT CAN'T SEE

    01.16.54 LINDA'S KID STANDING AT AN ORANGE CRATE

    01.17.09 Morning everybody, how are you? (MOM)

    01.17.15 JULIA AND PAX WALKING TO BACK ROOMS TO LOOK

    01.17.26 KID WITH ORANGE CRATE

    01.17.58 JULIA AND PAX IN SMALL SHOP

    01.18.21 SMALL BED ROOM

    01.18.30 PAN UP TO WINDOW

    01.19.01 This is the lounge and this is the main bedroom, so you are free to go in each and every room.
    LINDA IN THE HOUSE EXPLAINING

    01.19.35 JULIA AND PAX WALKING AROUND
    KITCHEN, CLOSE UP OF STOVE AND DEP FREEZE
    TV ON
    PAX STANDING IN DOOR LOOKING INTO LOUNGE
    01.20.20 FLOWERS ON TABLE
    WALKING SHOTS AROUND THE HOUSE

    01.21.53 MUM HOLDING PAX HAND AND TALKING

    01.21.51 Should somebody say to you let's go back to South AFrica, will you still come back and pay me a visit.

    01.21.58 Well, South Africa I haven't seen South AFrica at all, just three days of Johannesburg.

    01.22.05 These three days, where you are standing right now, if somebody is offering you a trip, will you come back and pay me a visit?
    01.22.10 Oh sure.

    01.22.11 What will make you come back to pay me a vist?

    01.22.17 Because you're special.

    01.22.19 Laughs, that's great, that's great, that's great.
    PAX SMILS - CAM ON HER

    01.22.26 When are you returning back?

    01.22.28 In six weeks. I have six weeks in South Africa.

    01.22.44 Hello my name's Debbie

    Debbie? From?
    From Australia
    I love Australian people. I've got a calendar there. I wonder if you did see it? It's a beautiful one, beautiful flowers..

    01.22.59 PAN ACROSS TO LINDA HOLDING HIS CHILD AND CLEANING ITS FACE. PAX IN SHOT

    01.23.12 CLOSE UP OF LINDA AND KID, PAN ACROSS TO PAX LAUGHING

    01.23.32 MOM AND PAX LAUGHING

    01.23.37 Next time when you come here, you come direct to your mom, you come here.
    SHAKE HANDS
    01.23.43 SHAKE MAN'S HAND
    Hi my names Jonathan.
    From?
    Australia.
    I love australian people KISSES HIS HAND
    And so how long have you been here?
    Same as Deborah
    You're together. I see
    01.23.43 You know usually I usually do this (JOINING THEIR HANDS) You know, I like to join hands together so that there must be no wind that is going to break up your friendship. That's why I usually do. So God bless you and good luck.

    01.24.11 Mom (Tiny) talking about her name and everyone watching her talk to them.

    01.24.26 I was so thin that I could even hide behind a broomstick. Can you imagine how thin. LAUGHS

    01.24.39 CLOSE UP ON PAX FACE WATCHING

    01.24.44 PULL OUT TO BOTH PEOPLE IN SHOT

    01.25.02 CLOSE UP OF ANOTHER PAX

    01.25.14 PULL OUT FROM CLOSE UP TO GROUP OF THREE INCLUDING TINY TALKING

    01.25.36 WIDE SHOT OF GROUP TALKING

    01.26.29 DIFFERENT ANGLE OF GROUP

    01.27.15 EXTERIOR OF MOM'S HOME FROM THE FRONT

    01.27.45 DUSTY STREETS WITH KID STANDING LOOKING AT CAMERA

    01.28.08 CLOSE UP OF GATES CEMENT HOUSES

    01.28.25 PEOPLE WALKING FAST DOWN DUSTY RED ROAD

    01.28.28 RADIO IS PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND

    01.29.04 MORE GROUPS OF PEOPLE, LESS NEAT. OLD CARS AND WASHING. GUY LIGHTING A CIGARETTE AND THEN SMOKING IT, PLAYING WITHTHE MATCH.

    01.29.55 NICE SHOT OF ABOVE

    01.30.15 LINDA'S KID AND 2 OTHER LITTLE GIRLS PLAYING OUT FRONT

    01.30.56 DRIVING SHOT PAST THE HOUSES (CEMENT RED)

    01.33.07 DRIVING PAST THE RAILSTATION,K TRAIN PULLING IN

    01.33.33 GAMBLING GROUP OUTSIDE STATION

    01.33.38 Can you just explain the game to us:

    01.33.41 So over here what they are doing, they are playing dice. It's a die. When you throw seven it'sa win.
    LINDA COMES INTO VIEW AS WE DRIVE PAST THE GAMBLES AND LAUGHS WITH THEM

    01.36.00 DRIVING ON THE MOTOR WAY (COULD BE SUBSTITUTE FOR DRIVING INTO SOWETO)

    01.37.44 PULLS UP AT TRAFFIC LIGHT BEHIND GOLF

    01.38.10 CLOSE UPON LINDA AS WE DRIVE - HE'S NOT TALKING

    01.38.24 This is an elite.

    01.38.37 So the house that you see over the hill, ...
    up the hill and show you a clear view of this house.

    DRIVING DOWN ROAD WITH WINNIE MANDELA'S KOPPIE AT THE END OF THE ROAD

    01.38.47 The house that you see over the hill, that's Winnie Mandela's house. That's where she lives. So we'll go up the hill and show youa clear view of that house.

    DRIVING UP TO KOPPIE

    01.39.21 COMBI IS STOPPED. JULIA OPENS THE DOOR AND SETPS OUT. PAX FOLLOW.
    LINDA WALKS OUT IN FRONT
    01.39.39 GROUP WALKING UP THE HILL
    01.40.21 KOPPIE GETS STEEPER. VIEW UP
    01.40.47 The house that you see over here, this is Winnie Mandela's house. This house was last built in 1989. So when built this house she had a hope that when the old man was released..unfortunately when Mandela was released he didn't want to stay in this house, but preferably in the old house, so I'll show you the old house.
    01.41.04 So during the time when Mandela was staying in that house, that was ANC leadership task to try and persuade Mandela to come and stay here since there wasn't much security. It was shortly after Chris Hani was assassinated. The South African communist Party leader. So it wasn't safe at the time, so Mandela had to come and stay here. That wasn't for long. That was the time just before the election . He had to ....
    CLOSE UPS ON LINDA TALKING AND PAX WATCHING

    01.42.19 OTHER TOUR BUSES DRIVE PAST WINIES HOUSE

    So where we are, we are in beverly hills. That's beverly hills. So that's due to the nice houses that you see over here. That this area was an elite area.
    01.42.40 If you just browse around, the bluish green building that you see over there. That;s a swimming pool. About a radius of 5 km's that's the only pool we have in this area..

    01.43.05 CLOSE UP OF WINNIE'S HOUSE
    PULL OUT TOSHOW WALL, KOPPIE IN FOREGROUND

    01.43.09 So from here I'll go past Bishop Tutu's h ouse and take you to Mandela's old house.
    Any questions?

    01.43.18 WINNIE'S HOUSE. LONG STILL SHOT.

    01.43.38 PAX TURNING AROUND TO WALK DOWN HILL

    01.45.56 DRIVING THROUGH BEVERLY HILLS

    01.56..16 That greyish colour, that's bishop tutu's house on my left.
    BEAUTIFUL HOUSES
    So he doesn' stay here. He's the chairperson of the Truth and REconciliation Commision. So hopefully when he comes back that's where he's going to be staying.
    01.46.38 Did you know that he's no longer a bishop.
    PEOPLE STANDING IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE, PAINTING

    01.46.56 BEAUTIFUL HOUSES IN BEVERLY HILLS
    So on my left, this is Beverly Hills, and on my right that's Orlando West. So the house that you see up front with the creamish colour is that's mnadela's old house
    TOURIST TAKING PHOTO AS WE DRIVE PAST. TOURIST VAN PARTKED OUTSIDE HOUSE

    So Mandela last lived in this house in 1955 when he adopted an ANC document known as Freedom Charter. So the Nationalist Party didn't like the content of the charter thus mandela was forced to go into hiding. So he went on hiding from 55 up until 1961 when he was arrested. And from 61 to 63 he was tried and a sentence was passed. He stayed in jail up until he was released in 1990.

    COMBI TURNING THE CORNER AROUND MANDELA'S HOUSE.

    01.47.34 So during the time when Mandela was in jail, Winnie was staying here. I wonder if you've heard about allegation whereby Winnie was accused of killing a 13 year old boy, Stompie Seipeng. That wasn't proven in a court of law therefore we cannot say that she did it, or she did not do it.

    01.47.56 .. soccer team, but later on it was converted into sort of a mafia gang. They were going around the township harassing people, terorising people. So if you are against their will you will be taken in here and tortured. So it's understood that some of the tortures were approved by Winnie herself. That's why the suspiciaon it's still hiding on her.
    01.48.13 So presently nobody's staying in this house, only the guards and the gardeners are staying in this house. So they intend toconvert this house to what we call a national monument.
    CAR DRIVING SLOWOY AGAIN.
    01.48.28 Would you like to have a photo of the house?

    01.49.01 TEAM OF BOYS WITH DOGS WALKING PAST, WAVING AT COMBI.

    01.50.06 WIDE SHOT OF HOUSE
    01.50.20 WIDE SHOT OF GROUP STANDING OUTSIDE COMBI, LITTLE KIDS STANDING WITH GROUP

    01.51.13 hI SCHOOL SIGN THROUGH FENCE, PULL OUT

    01.54.08 WALKING TO 76 MEMORIAL

    01.54.19 The gathering its illegal, we give you five minutes to disperse. Not necessarily meaning five minutes, they started counting from one to five and they started shooting indiscriminately with live bullets. So the first person who happened to get shot was a 16 year old boy Hasting Ndlovu and the youngest of them all was Hector Peterson.
    01.55.01 If you look on the memorial stone over here. Extreme left, that's hector's sister, right in the middle this is one of the brave demonstrators that happened tobe here. Ever since this man went to exile in Nigeria, even today his presence are not known. He was last seen in Nigeria. This guy used to to stay just behind the containers,there's a white house. That's where he used to stay, so even today, his presence are not know. The truch and reconciliation commission are trying to locate the whereabouts of this man.
    01.55.49 All the exiles... the one whose being carried that's Hector, at the time he was gunned down. He was rushed up there. There was a clinic called Mandela Sisulu clinic. On arrival Hector was certified dead. So in this day only about 360 kids were gunned down around Soweto.
    01.55.45 I wonder if you've watched the movies SArafina as well as Cry Freedom. Have you? They're showing other parts of Soweto where the shooting incident occurred. So they chose..

    01.56.06 So this was erected shortly after the political organisations were unbanned andt his was erected by the ANC. If you look jusrt behind these paintings that I have said they represent the fallen heros. These are the birthdates and the names of these kids. These kids are still alive but their parents passed away. That's why they say these resemble the fallen heros.

    01.56.26 So over we've got an exhibition going on. You'll be going in to these containers. In one of the containers you'll see a poster of a young boy witha bullet wound right between the eyes. ....

    01.56.50 .. they're showing what was happening on this day and years after that. HOw blacks were treated and how they used to retaliate. So I'll just be explaining two or three pictures and the rest you'll see.

    01.58.27 GROUP LEAVING MEMORIAL AND WALKING TOWARDS THE CONTAINERS.

    01.58.51 LINDA OPENENING CONTAINER DOOR AND GROUP WALKING IN.

    01.59.27 CLOSE UP OF WALL WITH YOUTH UPRISING POINT OF NO RETURN

    02.01.50 GROUP WALKING OUTOF CONTAINERS INTO ANOTHER

    BAD SOUND

    WIDE SHOT OF CONTAINERS PAN TO THE RIGHT

    02.22.09 - 22.15 EXT COMBI DRIVING DOWN THE STREET.
    (SHAKY AFTER 15)

    ON THE WAY TO THE CEMETARY
    02.22.39 COMBI SLOWING DOWN AND TURNING CORNER
    02.24.44 COMBITURNING LEFT, CARRYING ON STRAIGHT DOWN STREET.

    02.37.53 EXT COMBI DRIVING DOWN CEMETERY
    VIEW OUT CAR TO CEMETERY

    02.38.47 COMBI DRIVING DOWN SMALL SIDE ROADS IN CEMETARY.
    SHOT THROUGH THE GRAVE STONES.

    02.39.12 So normally what is that normally we've got three precisions whereby the person is buried, slaughter a cow or goat,depending. If you are a youngster, a young generation just like Linda, they'll slaughter a goat. If you an elderly guy just like mum, they'll slaughter a cow. And you'd have a proceeding whereby... what they'll do....
    02.39.45 do you see that tombstone over there. it has been covered with a plastic, a yellow plastic over there. What happens is its gonna be unveiled. So to open that...

    02.41.13 INT CAR WITH LINDA DRIVING THROUGH THE GRAVEYARD

    02.43.39 NIC SHOT OF LINDA DRIVING THROUGH GRAVEYARD.
    TOUR GROUP SOUNDING RELAXED IN CAR

    02.44.03 So we're taking you to Hero's Acre.

    02.44.22 DRIVING BY GRAVE STONES.

    02.46.03 JOE SLOVO'S GRAVE IN HERO'S ACRE

    02.46.28 JOE SLOVO

    02.47.45 (Max) Welcome to Hero's Acre. This whole acre is called Hero's Acre.
    Andthe tombstone that you see her in front of you is where Joe Slovo, the leader of the South African Communist Party has been buried here. This is the actual grave. And this was unveiled here a couple of months ago by the president. The words that you see on the tombstone here is.... it's a respect that you give toa leader, a person who contributed to the community. So on the day when they buried Joe Slovo, everybody was here. I was running a tour but we could not just come here. There were lots and lots of peole here.

    02.48.43 PAX STANDING WATCHING, LOOKING AROUND AVALON CEMETERY.

    02.48.27 So Mandela whoever will be buried here. So this is what you call Avalon Cemetery. The second biggest in Soweto. As you can see, it's just another big city. Huge, bit city. All what you see ove there it's the funeral that are taking on. And just over here, there'll be a funeral just now, probably a person will be buried this afternoon. Because they've got funerals in the morning and the afternoon.

    VISIBLE HUGE EXPANSE OF CEMETARY. MAX POINTS TO MARQUEE WHERE FUNERAL WILL BE HELD.

    02.50.26 SIRENS, CARS BARELY VISIBLE TRHOUGH GRAVE STONES,
    02.50.43 LIGHTS FLASHING, HUGE HEARSE PULLS UP WITH OTHER MERCS ETC IN TOW. ARRIVING WHERE MAX HAD SAID THERE WOULD BE A FUNERAL SOON.

    02.51.23 PULL OUT FROM SNAZZY FUNERAL STONE TO CARS ARIVING

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