South Africa - Fingerprints of Poverty

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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