Mandela’s Promise: A Dream Deferred

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Mandela’s Promise: A Dream Deferred

In 1994, South Africa ushered in a new era of hope and the promise of equality in the first democratic election in the nation’s history, hoisting Nelson Mandela to the presidency. Three years later, the country enacted one of the most progressive constitutions in the world, legislating, among other fundamental socioeconomic rights, the human right to adequate housing and sufficient water.

16 years since the fall of Apartheid, the vestiges of over 300 years of iron-fisted racial separation, exploitation and neglect remains visible in the country’s mushrooming slum population. Advocates estimate that well over 12 million people – nearly twice as many as in 1994- continue to live in substandard arrangements, with limited access to adequate housing, and basic services like clean drinking water and electricity. In the most haunting shadow of Apartheid, many also lack ‘security of tenure,’ living with the looming threat of forced eviction.

This series offers a glimpse into the lives of South Africans surviving against the odds as they struggle to realize the promises of a new South Africa, what Mandela pledged would mean “a better life for all.”

Mandela’s Promise is a project of Housing is a Human Right, produced in the summer of 2010.  We are currently securing resources to support post-production of a multi-part webisode series and exhibition.

HELP SUPPORT POST-PRODUCTION OF MANDELA’S PROMISE

Production Team:

Produced and Directed by Rachel Falcone & Michael Premo
Photography by Michael Premo
Production Assistant Dillon Colucci
Community Engagement and Program Consultant Jennifer Carr MacArthur, Borderline Media
Development Assistant Laila Petrone
Research Assistant Kevin Worthington
Research Assistant Anne Bozack
Volunteer Jennifer Terry

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