South Africa - Fingerprints of Poverty
Poverty in South Africa causes homelessness and disillusionment with the politicians.
Fingerprints of Poverty - Archiving Time Sheet
00.02.32 - ms images of the people/families living in the Greater Goodwood area of the Western Cape, Cape Town, S.A.
03.03 - ws of street in a poor area of Cape Town, with a lady carrying folded cardboard boxes on her head.
03.11 - ms of torn election posters for upcoming South African elections
03.25 - The Jo Solvo informal settlement (shanty town) - like a wasteland, it's next to a main road and sewer works - burnt to the ground by a fire the previous night
03.51 - Close-up of child chewing on his dirty finger
05.41 - close up of camp fire pulls out to show people warming their hands
05.49 - man rebuilding his house with salvaged half-burnt pieces of corrugated iron
07.33 -ws of partially rebuilt houses under a dusk sky
07.41 - m beauty shot of a woman pouring warm water over a piece of cloth and it evaporating because of the cold morning air
07.51 - scrap metal collectors with horse carts descend on the burnt rubble salvaging what they can
11.49 - beauty shot of sunset behind the shanty town with children running around in foreground
13.57 - ws of run down multi-storey houses
14.09 - mothers taking their children to school
17.10 - wholesale sweets shop
17.42 - woman's sweet stand in council estate
17.57 - m beauty shot of girl holding baby
18.07 - beauty shot of girl playing on improvised monkey bars
19.22 - shot which shows how thin the walls are between the council flats - can see into two flats simultaneously
19.43 - close ups of poor woman's hand, foot then pulls out and we see she is selling cigarettes
20.55 - ws empty railway lines with mountains in the background
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