- Title: TOURISTS IN SOWETO Avalon Cemetery Shebeen Market Place Linda's shack
- Date: 19th October 1996
- Summary: TOURISTS IN SOWETO Avalon Cemetery Shebeen Market Place Linda's shack
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- City: SOWETO
- Country: South Africa
- Reuters ID: 96OCT19R03
- Story Text:TOURISTS IN SOWETO cont.
03.02.05 FREEDOM CHARTER WALL
(15 SECS)
03.02.33 PAX IN COMBI, CLOSE UP ON LINDAS FACE AS HE LOOKS BACK TO MAKE SURE THE DOOR IS CLOSED. GOOD.
03.02.56 COMBI DOES SMALL CIRCLE TO DRIVE OUT
03.06.06 MARKET PLACE. PAX OUT OF CAR, STARTING TO LOOK AROUND
03.06.50 DUSTY ROAD IN MARKET PLACE, LOTS OF PEOPLE.
03.07.24 CHICKENS NEXT TO CLOTHES,ZOOM IN TO CHICKENS
03.07.52 JULIA IN SHOT, LOOKING AT VARIOUS STALLS
03.09.21 SLEEPING MATRESSES ROLLED UP FOR SALE
03.09.50 MED SHOT ON OLD MAN WITH SHOES FOR SALE
03.20.26 EXT SHEBEEN, CHICKN WALKING INTO SHOT, LAUNDRY IN THE BACK HANGING ON LINE, PULL OUT
03.21.24 So ladies and gentlemen this is a shebeen. A shebeen is an illegal drinking pub. So in 1887, they came laws where thye discouraged people from prohibiting people fromselling. So we are not allowed to sell or drink liquor. It's because some miners thought that much time was wasted while people were drunk so they started to, say blacks shouldn't drink, because they are wasting their time.
03.21.56 So a shebeen is an illegal drinking pub, this is just an ordinary house, converted to.. so people are selling. people late in the evening will come.
PULL OUT FROM LAUNDRY TO GROUP STANDING ON PAVEMENT LISTENING TO LINDA EXPAIN SHEBEEN.
03.22.16 LINDA AND GROUP WALKING INTO PUB,
03.22.29 PAX TALKING PUB FREQUENTER, WALKING INTO PUB
03.22.46 LINDA INPUB TALKING
03.23.56 PAN AROUND TABLE WITH DRINKING COMPANIONS.
03.24.00 We're not going to stay long only 10 minutes.
Come on - give us 1/2 hour.
03.26.55 MAX SITTING INT HE GROUP
03.27 Just depends on the beer, if its imported beer. we pay 10 Rand.
03.28.16 SHEBEEN OWNER WITH MAX
03.28.45 PAX LAUGHING AND JOKING
03.36.51 KIDS OUTSIDE SHEBEEN PLAYING AT A LARGE DRAIN PIPE
03.37.24 HOUSES ON THE SAME STREET AS SHEBEEN
03.49.49 LINDA AND PAX LEAVING SHEBEEN
03.50.20 PAX LEAVING SHEBEEN AND RESIDENTS WALKING PAST THEM TO GO BEHIND THE HOUSE
04.01.30 LINDA'S SQUATTER CAMP
04.01.48 So what we do we steal electricity from these electric poles. The wires that you see down here, they go to these houses.
04.02.20 DRIVING PAST INFORMAL SETTLEMENT, PEOPLE, SHACKS, NEAT, WATER POINTS, VERY FEW TOILETS
04.05.07 STOPPED AT LINDA'S SHACK. PAX WALKING DOWN TO HIS HOUSE.
04.05.41 This is my house, that's where I stay. So just go in and show you my rooms.
04.05.50 So you can come in. GROUP WALKS IN
04.06.20 This is a kitchen , so we use a gas stove over here. So this is the gas cylinder.
04.06.42 RADIO PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND.
04.07.08 BED AND HEATER ON THE FLOORIN CORNER OF SHACK
04.13.19 Because we were able to go and talk to the people, socialise with them briefly and see different areas. There's 21 suburbs in this region. So to go to more than just one region was quite good.
04.13.46 It's slightly different because I'd been here for about 6 months now. I knew vaguely that I was going to get on the tour and everything. But I still wasn't really prepared for feelings of guilt when we were in the Nelson Mandela Squatter camp. It was Ivy who said, you never say hello to people. Because I feel guilty, and I do. It's a shame that people have to live like that now
04.14.25 There's aspects of that, but I think with the tour that Max has put together, taking us around. it was really good to meet the people and to speak to them and they're so friendly and it was fairly uplifting living in such appalling circumstances some of the people yet they're so friendly and happy and getting on with their lives.
04.14.39 I didn't think we were being vey intrusive.
04.14.53 No we'd been talking about doing it.
We wan'ted to try and fit it in if at all possible.
04.15.02 We saw more than we thought we would see to be honest.
I think it was for me, I was a bit sruprised at how positive everybody is. I expected the people to be a bit more depressed. So it was a real positive energy which I thought was great.
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