Sikhula Sonke

The film presents Sikhula Sonke, a Xhosa name, which translated to English means We Grow Together. Sikhula Sonke is a women- led organisation and the film follows the general secretary, Wendy Pekeur as she leads farmworkers and activists in protest over four days. The protests draw attention to the plight of South Africas farm workers, who live in informal settlements on the land they work, without running water and electricity and who are paid a slave wage, receiving as little as R200 a week. Furthermore, white commercial farmers are evicting many of these farm workers. Through a focus on the experiences of exploited and abused farmworkers, the film is a reminder of the way in which the indigenous people of South Africa were enslaved on their own land which was stolen under Apartheid law. Furthermore, the film shows that this legacy of enslavement has lasted for generations of black farmworkers since the democratic African state has failed at land reform. However, it is important that African peoples are not simply rendered and portrayed as oppressed, and the powerful actions of the women of Sikhula Sonke show this.

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[rasazania]

This one of my favored films ever. Big up yourself Kim you are going to be one of the dopest directors in the near future no doubt!!Jah guidance everytime. Big up to the Yaris, and she appears again...lol