Umbulelo (Thanksgiving)

Produced by Annie Polak amd Mvuso Ponono. 5min.
TV intensive 2011

An after –funeral drinking spree ended in tragedy. Twelve young people journeyed from Dimbaza to Fort Hare in the Eastern Cape after a funeral. Close to their destination their car crashed over a bridge killing half the group and leaving six survivors . Mawethu Maweza, the only sober person to have survived that night, tells the story of the fatal crash and the traditional isiXhosa ceremony to pay respects to his ancestors for protecting him that tragic night.
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