Pavement Aristocrats - The Bergies of Capetown

Duration: 00:57:00 Through a series of interviews with an historian and social workers, the film traces the bergie community back to their Khoisan roots, outlines colonial dispossession, and exposes the modern-day alcohol dependency deliberately set up by the tot system used on the Cape’s wine farms...

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Other Authors: Verster, François
Institution:Open Society Archives at Central European University
Published: Francois Verster 1998
South Africa
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:f8cc0cf6-8ef1-4763-866e-f6c3fbd07b7e
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description Duration: 00:57:00 Through a series of interviews with an historian and social workers, the film traces the bergie community back to their Khoisan roots, outlines colonial dispossession, and exposes the modern-day alcohol dependency deliberately set up by the tot system used on the Cape’s wine farms. The film also gives a chanceto these dispossed people to tell their own story. It does so by zooming in on the daily life of two couples, highlighting their inimitable wit in the face of despair, their weakness, and in the end, the dignity of choice that allows them to survive.
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publishDate 1998
publisher Francois Verster
South Africa
spellingShingle Pavement Aristocrats - The Bergies of Capetown
[Documentary film]
title Pavement Aristocrats - The Bergies of Capetown
topic [Documentary film]
url http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:f8cc0cf6-8ef1-4763-866e-f6c3fbd07b7e