Dir: Miki Redelinghuys, Pearlie Joubert | 102' | 2024

The film follows activists from the group Reclaim the City as they fight against property developers and the government, highlighting the city's enduring spatial apartheid and its impact on residents. A narrative documentary, "Mother City" is nail biting cinema as  activists take on property power in a city still disfigured by spatial apartheid. RTC organiser and activist, Nkosikhona Swartbooi tells this story with ruthless honesty as they wage a defiant war against government officials and property developers in one of the world’s most unequal cities. The film exposes the deep fault lines still in existence after 30 years of democracy, because the South African government has not offered solutions to the most urgent and explosive issue of land and ownership.  

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