Date: 16 June 2022
Time: 14:00 - 17:00
Venue: Javett-UP Auditorium, 23 Lynnwood Rd, Pretoria
Costs: Free Entrance
In honour of Youth Month, we host a double bill screening of Uprize! and Everything Must Fall for students in the broader Tshwane Metropole. We will be talking with Sifiso Khanyile, the Director of Uprize!, and Simamkele Dlakavu, a UP lecturer in the Sociology department who is a featured activist in Everything Must Fall.
Uprize!
UPRIZE! takes a candid look at the world view of the students'
who participated in the protests of 1976. This documentary deals with the
nuanced influences that shaped the events that precipitated June 16th 1976.
What sort of literature and music was available, which leaders took a stand or
spoke clandestinely? What was the zeitgeist of the 70s township in South Africa?
Many reports on the subject have been preoccupied with the sequence of events
in ’76, unravelling facts, and identifying key players in the protest.
UPRIZE! Seeks to move away from the singular narrative
and paint a much broader picture of the prevailing ideas that sparked such
widespread protest. An inquiry into the spirit of youth in South Africa in the
70s, a critique of how they managed to organise in a world without political
leaders.
Everything Must Fall
Directed by Rehad Desai, EVERYTHING MUST FALL is an unflinching look at the #FeesMustFall student movement that burst onto the South African political landscape in 2015 as a protest over the cost of education. Four student leaders tell the story of Wits University and their Vice-Chancellor, Adam Habib, a left-wing, former anti-apartheid student activist. When Habib’s efforts to contain the protest failed, he brought 1000 police onto campus. There were dire consequences for the young leaders. Much of the drama lies in the activists' internal struggles around the weight of leadership brought the fore by blending dramatic unfolding action with a multi-protagonist narrative. Threaded through the film is a pulse of anticipation shared across the generational divide. Somehow, these youth have reached breaking point and won’t back down until they achieve the kind of social transformation that previous generations had long given up on.