Israeli Apartheid Week at Rhodes University 2013

Report by:Minette van der Walt & Debbie Potgieter

Israeli Apartheid Week is a worldwide campaign that links Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to the treatment of non-whites in Apartheid South Africa. Rhodes University Palestinian Solidarity Forum (RUPSF) joined hands with 250 others across the globe and voiced their protest at the parallels . An concert by Israeli pianist Yossi Reshef protest became a focus of the week.

We speak to part-time Fine Arts lecturer Rachel Baasch (MFA Rhodes) who presented a lecture as part of IAW at Rhodes. Baasch feels that more could be done to educate students about the situation in Israel. Not just during IAW, but in general. The boycott is now an ANC policy, yet many students on Rhodes Campus as well as people in broader South Africa, seem uninformed.

4th DOC FILM FEST – 22 Oct 2009

Come and vote for the best documentaries at the RUTV 4th Doc Film Festival at Roxbury. Sit back and enjoy our insightful, provocative and entertaining cinematography produced on location in Scotland, Cape Town, Durban, Port St Johns and, of course, Grahamstown.

The 4th Doc Film Festival will give you insight into Camp for Climate protest action, unscrupulous traditional healers, the lives of roadside pineapple sellers, Xhosa surfing culture, religious con-artists and new government relocation camps in Cape Town, amongst many other fascinating topics.

Venue: Roxbury Cine, Peppergrove Mall
Date: 22 October 2009
Time: 7pm for 7.30pm

Dress: Red Carpet
Drinks and light snacks will be served.

Tickets: R25 – available from the secretary at the AMM d.moriarty@ru.ac.za

Eden

Matthew Von Abo
5min

Fire, smoke, hunted to extinction this is the life chimpanzees are facing around the globe. Their habitats are being ripped apart by human influence and are subject to fetish in the media or as pets. They are our closest living relatives but still remain wild, untamed and uninhibited. We look at how similar and how different chimps are and how Chimp Eden in Nelspruit is fighting the wave of cruelty by rescuing abused chimps from across the continent.

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Common Ground

A letter to Mandela
16×9 Productions 24min
Anthony Andrews, Joni Els, Rulleska Singh, Lindsey Thorpe

Common Ground revolves around Oatlands Preparatory School in Grahamstown, a place where people from all colours and collars meet. The documentary traces how far the country has come in terms of racial integration since 1994 by profiling four very different families at the school, those being the Ranchhod family, the Agnew family, the Griffiths family and the Ngcete family. Through these families and their children, viewers will get a glimpse of the diversity of the country, as well as the hopes, the unity and colour-blindness of the children.
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Good Fences

SMGS Productions 24min
Dan ‘Joe’ Edmeades, Xoli Matomela, Hayley Mueller

Come on this journey with us; crossing through old divides, some virtual, some real. Charl and Johan take us through their lives, skating on the edges of society, slightly Vladimir and Estragon type characters, Fear and Loathing in Grahamstown. We journey with people who live lives that defy notions of boundaries, rules and borders.
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