Bafana Trailer

BAFANA

Dir. Hannan Majid, Richard York
UK / South Africa
2006
20 mins
Rainbow Collective/ Northern Film School Foundation


Bafana is a 20 minute documentary, looking at the life and experiences of Cape Town's street Children. The film focuses on those in the care of "The Homestead", a charity established in order to rehabilitate the children and reunite them with their families. With Gerald Jacobs, a Homestead street worker, as our guide, we visit their different establishments, from the drop in-centre in District Six via the permanent children's home in Kayelitsha township to the Learn to Live school in downtown Cape Town. At each location, the children talk candidly of their time on the streets, their reasons for running away from home and the way they see their lives turning out.
Bafana, which is to be extended into a feature length documentary, delves into the global crisis of street children, while offering a ray of hope in the form of Gerald and all his colleagues who are fighting to make a better future for the children in their care.

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News & Politics

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• Bafana
• Africa
• Street
• Children
• Cape
• Town
• Rainbow
• Collective
• Poverty