Angst voor geweld scheidt blanken en zwarten nog steeds in Zuid-Afrika
Uitzending van 12 april 2010
Ruim een week geleden werd Terre’Blanche, voormalig leider van de blanke rechts-extremistische gemeenschap in Zuid-Afrika, op zijn boerderij vermoord. In Netwerk een reportage over de angst onder blanke Zuid-Afrikanen voor misdaad, geweld en voor hun zwarte landgenoten.
In dit land, organisator van het WK voetbal, leven blank en zwart nog steeds grotendeels langs elkaar heen. Veel blanken wonen achter grote hekken met prikkeldraad.
Documentairemaker Mark Aitken, opgegroeid in Zuid-Afrika, maakt een schrijnend portret over de vernietigende uitwerking die angst op zijn blanke landgenoten heeft.
Foto: United Nations Photo, Flickr.
Bekijk hier de uitzending van maandag 12 april
Bekijk ook andere Netwerk-reportages over soortgelijke onderwerpen:
- Albino's in Tanzania vrezen voor hun leven
- Vleesdump in Afrika
- Het Vrouwenelftal - Hélène van der Roest
- Stemmen uit Afrika
- Bijzondere armoedebestrijding in Rwandees dorp
In dit land, organisator van het WK voetbal, leven blank en zwart nog steeds grotendeels langs elkaar heen. Veel blanken wonen achter grote hekken met prikkeldraad.
Documentairemaker Mark Aitken, opgegroeid in Zuid-Afrika, maakt een schrijnend portret over de vernietigende uitwerking die angst op zijn blanke landgenoten heeft.
Foto: United Nations Photo, Flickr.
Bekijk hier de uitzending van maandag 12 april
Bekijk ook andere Netwerk-reportages over soortgelijke onderwerpen:
- Albino's in Tanzania vrezen voor hun leven
- Vleesdump in Afrika
- Het Vrouwenelftal - Hélène van der Roest
- Stemmen uit Afrika
- Bijzondere armoedebestrijding in Rwandees dorp
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However - I notice that they
13 april, 2010 - 21:40However - I notice that they only broadcast 20 mins of the film which is actually 52 mins long. Please come to Beeld voor Beeld Festival on 3rd June to see the full film where I will be attending.
Apologies. I was just
13 april, 2010 - 14:47Apologies. I was just informed by my distributor that NCRV bought the film for broadcast so permission was granted.
Mark Aitken
Shame on you to make such a
13 april, 2010 - 17:36Shame on you to make such a overtly racist and onsided film. Did it ever occur to you what blacks have gone through and are still going through till this day?
I expect you to make a film about this and the sexual abuse terre blanche is postumely accused off now..
That causes fear too... I wonder who's fears you find important enough to put on film.
The film is about how white
13 april, 2010 - 21:52The film is about how white people in SA deal with their fears. Some are trapped by them and some transcend them. I realise that you saw a cut down version of the film so perhaps it was sensationalised towards white racists. The full film empathises with those living in fear but comes down hard on those who refuse to do anything constructive about it.
Too often people wish to polarise subject matter or desire a supposed balanced view. Of course I know about Apartheid and the current problems for black people in SA but I wanted to make a film about the people that are generally despised so as to understand them better rather than just call them racist like children in a playground. These white people are as complex as black people but I'm sad to say that a lot of them are bringing their children up to fear black people - and all this in Africa!
As for Terreblanche... it's no surprise that he had sex with black men. It all makes perfect sense. It's his followers I worry about. Just how desperate for a leader can people be?
Be my guest and come to a screening of the full 52 min film on the 3rd June at the Beeld voor Beeld festival in Amsterdam and I'll gladly discuss my feelings about my film.
This is exactly what i mean.
14 april, 2010 - 06:54This is exactly what i mean. You wanted to make a film about how WHITE people deal with their fears. I hope in my lifetime to see a film about oww BLACK people in SA deal and have dealt with same or similar fears and I hope it will not be made by Spike Lee.
There has never been a movie that empathises with those BLACKS living in fear.
In my opinion the film does not come down hard on those who refuse to do anything about it. The version I saw shows interviews with "victims" which is in my opinion a confirmation of the fears white people in general have globally for black people. I know that becasue I am black myself born and raised in Europe. I am confronted with these fears every day. And although you are right that Apartheid is verbaly and formally condemned subcounciously for the majority of white people I know it is a too comfortable situation to practicaly not support. They (AWB)are not so despised as you say or would expect.
To be short, this film does nothing else than to educate adults to fear blsck people and shows only reasons for whites to fear black and not the other way around.
By making such films, reports or media white journalists send the message out that white fears and problems (and their general well-being )are far more important than those of other ethnic groups.
As I said, the version you
14 april, 2010 - 15:04As I said, the version you saw was re-edited by the TV station so I can only suggest you come to see the full version on June 3rd. I think you'll be left with a different impression and I can't comment on the version you saw.
As for black people's fears - I agree that many films should focus on that and I'd love to involved in work of that nature but the one I chose to make focused on white people in a specific community where my mother lives. No-one has ever made a film there while there are many films made in townships about poverty, AIDS and other problems. I also chose that subject because these white people are the kind who used to run things so I was keen to discover how they function now. Some are scared and some are amazingly brave - again - you need to see the full version to appreciate this. These people are only victims of their own making and the film states this very very clearly so it's ultimately not sympathetic to them.
As for the AWB - they are not a big force and never have been. They just grab headlines and appear big. But I take you to task on accusing me of educating adults to fear black people. Some of the film's characters are bringing up their children in fear but this is not ME educating anyone - it's simply a portrayal of how some people live and it's firmly condemned in the film by a number of people. And don't make the mistake of thinking that a film about white people means that black people's concerns are being ignored - they should be taken care of in other films. One film cannot cover every angle. My angle was fear and how a particular community deals with it. Come to the Beeld voor Beeld festival on the 3rd June and I'll buy you ticket to see the whole film.
I'd love to see the whole
14 april, 2010 - 21:07I'd love to see the whole version. I see your point totally regarding the (maybe) misguiding version that was broadcasted here.
Still, I think stating you agree with me on the necessity of the focus of black peoples fears of whites.. that raises the question why you didnt.
I think the fact you made a film about a specific community where your mother lives says implicitely that that is what you care most about..(of course I do understand that you as I care about your mother but the people in this movie were not your parents) And that is the classical pattern on how white keeps themselves on top on this globe. In that way ( no offense) you are not different.
You are right that you are not in the film educating white people literally to fear black but if you show ONLY WHITE talking about being attacked by BLACKS it sends the following message: BLACKS ARE ONLY UP TO NO GOOD. And furthermore : you made the film so you are responsible for the content of it.
I can also tell by you using the word brave that you implicitly agree with them: one can only be brave if you are in real danger and act in spite of it.. So what you are saying is that the blacks are really and menace and the white people you brave socialize with them in spite of it. I think you should replace it with the word sane.
Films about black people suffering from AIDS or poverty show the challenges these black people face that behold no relationship to white people and their opression..they can not be charged with them being ill or unlucky enough to have no food or shelter.. So that is not what I am talking about.
You are right about a film not being able to cover every angle but I think 2 "angles" are not so much a challenge (as I have seen in other films). I would love to come to this festival to see the whole picture but I have to work that day.
Dont misunderstand me. I am not calling you a plain racist but this film (probably unintendently) nurtures it...And that is what I want you to be aware of.
Again - please come and see
14 april, 2010 - 23:26Again - please come and see the film.
In no way does it 'nurture' racism and my choice of subject and people in the film doesn't by default mean that black people are up to no good - this is what you're saying and it's absurd. Most black people or people of any colour want what we all want - a good life without violence and poverty.
There are people in the film who are white who know more about black South African culture than you or I will ever know. These are the brave people because they go against the grain and don't sit around calling people racist - they transcend that bullshit. You really don't know what you're talking about until you've met these people or at least seen them represented in the film so please stop being so reactionary. You're making many assumptions here and frankly, black people in South Africa aren't especially afraid of whites - they're afraid of violent criminals like all of us.
Come to the festival when you're off work and I'll give you a DVD. I think you need to broaden your point of view. I can't do anything about a TV station that cuts my film and distorts a considered viewpoint that I took two years to put together. I also think you need to realise that the most powerful stories are those that are focused and clear and not watered down by some sort of liberal nonsense about balance. Life is too complex to represent in such a facile way.
Ok. I will do my best to be
16 april, 2010 - 20:02Ok. I will do my best to be there or see the complete version somehow.
Although I am still disappointed about the existence of ANOTHER film from white perspective in which blacks are talked about as criminals and the ignorance of the other side of the story. I am not saying that is what you aimed to do with the film but you have to be aware of the effect it can have on the majority of white people of which most parts have these ideas (sub) counciously already.
Furthermore knowing about a culture you're not a part of doenst mean you feel affiliation to the people of that culture. For instance I have to behave in the cultural framework of western Europe so I have to know about it. These people still don't because they are not forced to and thus don't have to. Brave would these people be called if they would live with, work under, and intermarry blacks. I take it at the end of the day most of the people you call brave go back to their own community thus do not intergrate in the indigenous community. That makes it easy to transcend because they dont live that reality. We, as man can transcend sexism because we are not forced into the kitchen. Same dynamics.
Has anyone ever interviewed black people on their fear of whites? I dont think you will find any documentation on it because it is never researched. That doesnt mean it does not exist. So frankly I found your remark quite silly. If you find liberalism non-sense you are actually saying you dont believe in equal rights, which I find at least very suspicious.
A good movie with a powerful message and with multiple viewpoints is " Do the right thing" made by Spike Lee. Watch it. It is possible.