Film: “A Place in the City” – A world class city for whom?

?”Sixteen years since apartheid ended, and amid the hoopla and false hopes promoted by the 2010 soccer World Cup, millions of black South Africans still live in self-built shacks – without sanitation, adequate water supplies or electricity. In Durban, almost in the shadow of the massive multibillion-rand Moses Mabhida stadium [paradoxically named after a veteran leader of South Africa’s Communist Party], poor people are fighting for their right to live near work, schools and health facilities. A Place in the City — made in 2008 — will overturn all your assumptions about “slums” and the people who live in them. In this film, the grassroots shackdwellers’ movement, lay out their case – against forcible eviction; for decent services – with passion, eloquence, and sweet reason.”