So last night I took a cab home from the northern suburbs that cost me more than the plane ticket I bought earlier in the day that will take me from Cape Town to Jo'burg.
Rosebank to Kensington by cab (about half an hour) = R170
Cape Town to Jo'burg by plane = R159 (I found a wicked seat sale)
From Oct. 2 to Oct. 19, I'll be mixing some business with pleasure as I travel to Durban, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town and then back to Jo'burg. The project is covering my travel from Jo'burg to Durban and Durban to Port Elizabeth, and I found a great, last-minute seat sale to nab cheap seats on flights from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town and Cape Town to Jo'burg. Those two flights, in total, are only costing me R420, which is, like, $60 CAD.
We'll be visiting with the project's current fellows in Durban, then I'm going on a bit of tour to talk to local HIV/AIDS advocates to interview them about local media coverage of HIV/AIDS issues. I'll also be reading newspapers and clipping stuff along the way. Yeah, it's a pretty sweet deal, but I'll be paying for most of it myself.
Yeah, so last night I went to see an American doc called Have you Heard From Johannesburg? which was playing in Rosebank as part of the Tri-Continental Film Festival. I think the film takes its title from a Gil Scott-Heron song, "Johannesburg."
It's so weird: all these cool film festivals always take place in the fancy northern suburbs which are such a hassle for me to get to. It's like instead of going to Bathurst and Bloor to see a cool movie, you'd have to go to Richmond Hill or Vaughn. Or, for my friends in Kingston, it'd be like going to Sharbot Lake or Napanee instead of Princess and Montreal.
Anyway, the film was great - one of those gripping docs that makes you disappointed when it's over. It was one part of a multi-part series about the global anti-apartheid movement, which I imagine will make it to PBS one day. The part they screened at the fest was only about the movement in the U.S. in the '80s, and specifically the divestment movement.
The filmmaker was in attendance and their was a pretty lively Q&A after the film, mostly, I think, because the South Africans watching the film seemed to think that some might perceive the film as suggesting that post-apartheid South Africa is a big happy place and all the struggles have been won. But it was a film about a specific time, place and event, and I don't think you can expect a filmmaker to tell a comprehensive story about a country. The filmmaker was an American, who was telling an American story, and she had a great response to the person who was upset at how the film didn't talk about the ongoing struggles; she said, "I hope you make that film."
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
7 comments:
So I was walking through the price chopper the other day, and right there at eye level was Rooibos tea! I had never heard of it, until you mentioned it in your blog, and since it was right there in my face, I had to buy it.
A nice brew - earthy, goes well with a little milk.
I usually have it black (or red?); it seemed like the kind of tea you drink straight, but I'll give some milk a shot next time.
yeah, earthy for sure.
dudes - we have this tea at the goat. there's this one guy with ass-length hair and toe shoes, he orders it every. single. day.
and what do i mean by toe shoes? he doesn't wear shoes, we walks around kingston barefoot. but since you can't go into, for example a cafe, without shoes on your feet he has these toe socks with pads on the bottom that he slips on and off at the door when he comes in for his rooibos tea.
yep.
dudes - we have this tea at the goat. there's this one guy with ass-length hair and toe shoes, he orders it every. single. day.
and what do i mean by toe shoes? he doesn't wear shoes, we walks around kingston barefoot. but since you can't go into, for example a cafe, without shoes on your feet he has these toe socks with pads on the bottom that he slips on and off at the door when he comes in for his rooibos tea.
yep.
it just took me 29 minutes to figure out how to do that again. aannnnddd i didn't know i could read all these comments. hun.
its so easy.
ha
Post a Comment