Across the Colour Bar: Nthabiseng’s story
Nthabiseng Hibbert is an ordinary South African woman who, for the past two decades, has lived in a modest home in Katlehong, one of the country’s largest – and poorest – black urban townships, some 35 kilometres east of Johannesburg. Fluent in English, Afrikaans and Sesotho, only one thing sets her apart from her neighbours: […]
Nthabiseng Hibbert is an ordinary South African woman who, for the past two decades, has lived in a modest home in Katlehong, one of the country’s largest – and poorest – black urban townships, some 35 kilometres east of Johannesburg. Fluent in English, Afrikaans and Sesotho, only one thing sets her apart from her neighbours: Nthabiseng is white.
Her story is the subject of a documentary, Across the Colour Bar, produced by Luscious Dosi for his honours degree at film and television school Afda.
Watch the trailer, and find out more about this ordinary, yet extraordinary, South African:
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiPpUtYKKVk
Source: www.mediaclubsouthafrica.com