FENLEY: Ten years into democracy and South Africa is still cant take care of its most vulnerable member of society, homeless children. This week special assignment takes a street eye view of the perils faced by Cape Town street kids. Those who have been victims of violence and those who have survived.
Opening scene
Visuals: Cape Town by night
VO: A world class city winks seductively.
Visuals: Neon signs of Cape Town
VO: Its easy pleasures seems far removed from the rough realities experienced by Cape Towns street children.
Visuals: sexy scenes cut with street kids.
VO: But on May 16th 2004 the world of skin-deep fantasy collided with the citys brutal underbelly.
Titles: Below the Rainbow
Report by Hazel Friedman
John Bowey
Visuals: Ext: Teazers. Camera follows the murder route.
VO: Lolly Jackson is the owner of the Teazers strip joints. His brother, Michael, ran the Cape Town branch. This is what Lolly had to say about the events of May 16th: My brother Michael arrives outside to see his brand new Merc had been broken into. He gets harassed by a street kid, gets the moer-in, takes out his gun and shoots him.
(Gunshot)
Visuals: newspaper clipping. Teasers Sign.
VO: My brother happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Visuals: Photo montage of Xolani from infancy to teenage hood.
Song by Pretty
Visuals: Memorial at Central Methodist Church
VO: Xolani Jodwana was seventeen when he was brutally killed. CCTV footage will probably be used in court to show that Xolani might not have been involved with the break-in.
Visuals: Family, church, police at funeral.
VO: His funeral was attended by his family, members of the church, police, city dignitaries, including the mayor. And of course his family of friends on the streets were also there, who had known him simply, as Siyabonga.
Visuals: Crowds leaving the church.
VO: It seemed that more people showed they cared after his death than during his short life.
Visuals: At the cemetery. Xolanis family tending his grave.
VO: Don and Leticia Vaphi were very close to Xolani and his mother. His family is now separated. His sister Noluthando lives with the Vaphi family. His younger brother Shaun stays in the Eastern Cape with his fathers sister.
Interview:
UPS: Noluthando: During Christmas times, we would go to Gugulethu, on camps to the beach me my brother and mother, cousins and friends .
UPS: Leticia: Xolanis mother worked in Wynberg at the church. One day she arrived at work and she just fell down. After that she leave the work. She stay at home.
UPS Noluthando: She had a brain tumour and so she went for an operation at Grootte Schuur.
UPS: Leticia. It was very hard, after mother got sick, especially for Xolani. He leave the school. He said I cannot go to school because mother is sick.
Visuals: Xolanis house, Zone 5 Langa.
VO: Leticia: His mother called us before died and said: I dont want to lose my house, I dont want to lose my children.
UPS: Leticia: And Xolani, we loved Xolani too much. Even his mother, in her grave, she loved Xolani But he shoot Xolani like a dog. We bury Xolani without eye. We bury (visuals: photograph) half of Xolani.
Visuals: photograph;
VO: So how did a boy from a loving family land up living on the streets, and dying so violently? For answers, we went to his father Whitey Jodwana.
Visuals: Whitey walking towards house.
VO: Since Xolanis death relations have been strained between Whitey and the Vaphi family.
A dockworker from the Eastern Cape, Whitey took Xolani to stay with him in Khayelitsha, after his mom died. He says he tried desperately to keep him off the streets.
UPS: When I spoke to his mother she told us that he was banned from school because he did all these horrible things with his school mates. And then I wrote a letter asking for proof that hes not behaving in school. And then he was supposed to be arrested and then we thought maybe after jail he will try and behave and find his way to school. But unless if he is jailed there is nothing that can be done to help him. He will probably die, thats what I said. I met his friends at Zone 12, who told me he had died.
Visuals: LS Noluthando and Don at grave.
VO: Noluthando: If Id known he was on the street I would have taken him to live with me. .. He wouldnt suffer.
Visuals: Cape Town Street. Huddled bodies.
VO: They come in their hundreds from homes torn apart by poverty, abuse, or illness. Some are known as day strollers because by day they beg or steal, and go home at night. But the rest have nowhere else to sleep. Or would rather sleep anywhere else but at home.
Visuals: music sequence of street kids.
PART TWO
VO: Even for those living on the streets there are places of refuge, - where the stomach can be filled and the soul warmed.
UPS: PASTOR We see about 250 to 300 people everyday that includes, kids, families and who are unemployed who had come to town and had not found anything. They come here to have something to eat. This is where everything starts. Half past seven in the morning the staff comes in the morning to prepare everything. We prepare the soup and the bread right here so when we open at nine and the rush comes in then we are ready for them.
VO: Pastor John runs Krippies soup kitchen on small donations and dollops of goodwill. It provides more than food for the destitute. There are art, photography and literacy classes, even education on HIV-Aids...
UPS: PASTOR Many kids are not here by choice. You know its because of circumstances at home; they are forced to come to town. And I believe if we need to find a solution for the problem violence is not the answer.
UPS: WILLY My name is Wilford Julish. I am now four months in Long street but I am now on the streets for almost four years.
UPS: UNATHI from long I sleep on long street but the security when they come they wont just wake you up nice, they just kick you. See here.
UPS: WILLY They like take you around the corners and they beat you so the people cant see what they do to you.
UPS: RICCARDO Guy security and law enforcement they came here and they took our stuff and when we go and we ask them they say they havent got it.
UPS: STREETKID - You dont treat us like people, like human beings. They treat us like dogs.
UPS: SECURITY - There has been a lot of reports about the security company beating the kids but as far as securicor is concerned we are under strict eye that watch us we are not allowed to touch the kids.
VO: Securicor is a private security firm employed by Cape Towns Central City Improvement District. In partnership with the council, police and private sector, the CCID aims. to make the CBD a safer place. Sometimes this means removing street kids.
UPS: HELIUS When we are requested to move them we will remove them with minimum force. And sometimes they try and run away or they might get into a fight, then we have to restrain.
UPS: ANDREW Dealing with young people high on glue who had been on the streets for 3 or 4 years and have clearly been battered by it in their rough lives is a difficult job if youre a social worker or a policeman that is when experience comes in. Cleaning up the city means cleaning up litter and refuge that doesnt mean cleaning up people. Just last week members of our City security actually prevented a kidnapping. Where they found a street child locked in a boot of a car unlawful behaviour in the part of any security forces. Whether private public it is completely unacceptable and vigilante behaviour from them as a republic is equally unacceptable.
UPS: LEROY The white man shoot my friend because he broke his car.
UPS: WILLY I miss him a lot, I do me miss him a lot. He was a kwaai friend, he wasnt a violent one.
VO: Leticia If is Michael he must phone me straight I can speak to him just like this and tell him he made a wrong thing.
VO: We contacted Michael on Leticias behalf.
VO: But his attorney advised him against it. Brother Lolly was also reluctant to talk to us. But in a June interview with online magazine JHB Live he described the problem of street kids as a time bomb waiting to explode.
VO: Recently, the mayor announced that she will get all children off the streets within a year. But the details of this ambitious some say naïve plan remains fuzzy. Her office did not respond to our requests for an interview, so we went to Ons Plek an NGO and the only girls shelter in Cape Town.
UPS: PAM Ons Plek has been going since 1998 and I think its just a place of hope. Because the kids are really coming to us under real bad circumstances and every child goes away with a little bit more confidence than they came in. and experience that somebody cares and somebody loves them. We think that the mayor has really good intensions and its the same intension that wealthy organisation have had over the years to clean the streets. City council and the partnership have wanted to start a 24 hour assessment centre which they see as being the answer to this problem. But in CPT they will have to run 24 hour assessment centres and what happens is the child would be brought into the assessment centre and what do you do with him. Children homes are full and it can take six months to a year before you can get a child in there. So what we think the mayor should do is focus on the bigger picture. She can focus with housing, sanitation and health. Basically upgrading communities.
UPS: You can not have development without having a very strong development component. It cannot be a work aim to our city, the beautiful buildings...and places for people to go without having a world class development programme
UPS: PAM The prognosis for street children in South Africa depends where it is going and what happens to the level of poverty and how successful we are.
UPS: PASTOR If you respect them they will respect you. Yes we know they are not angels and they are not the ordinary children that grows up in a family environment. So their ways are different and I believe if we reach out to them we can make a difference in their lives.
Part Three
VO: Rough Justice is on the rise in Cape Town. Yazeed - or Jeremy as hes known on the streets - was recently on the receiving end of it.
UPS: JEREMY It was on a Friday night about 645, usually I pack in chairs there by Brewster antique store.
UPS: LEONARD And as he entered with the last few items I saw three guys running towards the door. They entered and they grabbed him by the T-shirt.
UPS: JEREMY And this guy he just throws me and without talking to me he just hit me thrice.
UPS: LEONARD And he just started pounding him with his fists like really loud and hard and I said hey you guys what are you doing get out of the shot. And still hitting Jeremy and I hit the alarm and ADT phoned me and said what is happening and I said just send ADT and the police immediately. And at that stage they had removed Jeremy from the shop towards the 7 11.
UPS: JEREMY They closed the 7 11 shops and they hit me with sticks and bottles.
UPS: LEONARD And a big crowd outside and I saw the police outside and somebody was trying to look inside the kitchen window of the 7 11 and the next few moments the shop were mopping the floors and its not in their habit of closing the doors at 630 and closing the doors.
UPS: JEREMY The ADT was there the was about six vans, the doors were still closed and I think they control the security things and they were standing there while these guys were hitting me.
UPS: LEONARD I Just heard them accusing him of you stole something but I didnt hear the exact words. Its a frightening experience to see all these people running towards me and they could be coming for me for all I know.
UPS: JEREMY I was afraid and all these things and they just told me to run because these people are gonna kill me.
UPS: LEONARD I was shaking like you wont believe. Needless to say I had two shooters in a row.
UPS: JEREMY You dont know when people plan to do something like that and they can just wipe you out like that.
UPS: GUY He was in pain and it was sore...Yeh he was in pain.
VO: Tambi took the photographs of Yazeed shortly after the attack. He works on Long Street, extensively documenting the streets and the children who inhabit them. He also knew Xolani and took this photograph.
UPS: TAMBI I dont know I used to look at him and I just felt there is something in his eyes, there is something in his eyes that is not right and then and two days before he get killed I take his picture.
VO: Xolani and Yazeed had been street buddies. Xolani had been betrayed by the system. Yazeed was determined no to become its victim. He decided to start trusting the system, after 13 years of living according to street law.
UPS: Life is tough on the streets something you dont even fall asleep because you think about what you are going to do tomorrow morning. And when the morning comes up you dont even have the energy to stand up. Not having anything to look forward to.
VO: It was time to leave the streets. He laid charges against his assailants. But his courage came at a price.
VO: His assailants threatened his life. He was placed in a witness protection programme where he would have to assume a new identity. Before he left, he took us to the shelter where he had spent a short but happy time.
UPS: JEREMY Should i say life is tough, that was mama. This is the stair way i used to walk so many times. This was Dirks room and we werent always allowed in the youth leaders room. Now i know its full of posters and things. This is the largest room in the house. This was my cupboard; see they got some new boards. I used to sleep over here and the reason we never used our windows is because they cant open. Only the side windows can open.
UPS: LINZY Children shelters stop at 16 years old so it was created to cater for that services group. We try and get them to school and if we can t we get them a job training. They grow in a situation where they dont dream they dont hope and they dont aspire.
UPS: JEREMY This is the kitchen where i learned all my cooking skills.
UPS: LINZY When i first got here Yazeed was the chef, he was very good at cooking and he had been at the cooking programme at the house and we used to make celebrations for everyone and on their birthdays we would celebrate them and Yazeed used to make birthday cakes.
UPS JEREMY Its hard work in the kitchen believe me. Its hard and hot. I used to have a drug problem and for the first 2/3 months you dont connect with anybody except your family members. And from that time i learned a lot and from that time i went away from drugs. But when i was out there i was poof back into drugs.
VO: But now a new beginning was ahead. It was time to say goodbye to his friends from the street, at a place of safety.
Kyron: Five days after entering the witness protection programme, Yazeed was arrested. His alleged assailants had filed counter-charges of theft against him. He was thrown into Pollsmoor prison where the men who allegedly assaulted him were being held. Disillusioned by the system, he skipped bail and has since returned to a life of drugs and crime on the streets.
Michael Jackson, Xolanis alleged murderer, appeared in court on 10th September.
NAMES
Part One
Teazers, Loop Street, Cape Town.
Central Methodist Mission Church, Cape Town.
Don Vaphi
Leticia Vaphi
Noluthando Jodwana (Xolanis sister)
Whitey Tozamile Vaphi
Xolanis House, Zone 5, Langa
Part Two
Pastor John, Krippies Soup Kitchen, Cape Town.
Willy, Unati, Riccardo,
Helius Smit
- general manager, securicor Western Cape.
Andrew Boraine Chief executive Cape town partnership
Leroy, Willy.
Leticia Vaphi
Voice of Micahel Jackson,
Lolly Jackson, owner Teazers,
Ons Plek, Cape Town
Pam Jackson, Director Ons Plek
Thulani.
Part Three
Yazeed Davids
Leonard
Tambi, photographer
Beth Uriel
Linzy Henley, Co-ordinator, Beth Uriel
Special Thanks:
The Vaphi family
Pretty, Emma, Bonita, Caylene and Monica
Adrian Hamilton and Neil Solomon
Damien the fixer Snyders,
JHB Live
SABC Cape Town
Thulani, Willy, Leroy, Unati
The street people of Cape Town
Editor: Hannes Van Vuuren
Cameraman: John Bowey
Additional footage: Cian McClelland
Dudley Saunders
SABC Cape Town
Stills: Tambi Burjaq
Rough Side of the Rainbow composed by Hazel Friedman
arranged and recorded by Adrian and Neil at PassageOne Music
guitar by Adam wolfhaardt,
sung by Pretty *
Didintle Mookeletsi
Narrated by: Hazel Friedman
Produced by: Hazel Friedman
Opening scene
Visuals: Cape Town by night
VO: A world class city winks seductively.
Visuals: Neon signs of Cape Town
VO: Its easy pleasures seems far removed from the rough realities experienced by Cape Towns street children.
Visuals: sexy scenes cut with street kids.
VO: But on May 16th 2004 the world of skin-deep fantasy collided with the citys brutal underbelly.
Titles: Below the Rainbow
Report by Hazel Friedman
John Bowey
Visuals: Ext: Teazers. Camera follows the murder route.
VO: Lolly Jackson is the owner of the Teazers strip joints. His brother, Michael, ran the Cape Town branch. This is what Lolly had to say about the events of May 16th: My brother Michael arrives outside to see his brand new Merc had been broken into. He gets harassed by a street kid, gets the moer-in, takes out his gun and shoots him.
(Gunshot)
Visuals: newspaper clipping. Teasers Sign.
VO: My brother happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Visuals: Photo montage of Xolani from infancy to teenage hood.
Song by Pretty
Visuals: Memorial at Central Methodist Church
VO: Xolani Jodwana was seventeen when he was brutally killed. CCTV footage will probably be used in court to show that Xolani might not have been involved with the break-in.
Visuals: Family, church, police at funeral.
VO: His funeral was attended by his family, members of the church, police, city dignitaries, including the mayor. And of course his family of friends on the streets were also there, who had known him simply, as Siyabonga.
Visuals: Crowds leaving the church.
VO: It seemed that more people showed they cared after his death than during his short life.
Visuals: At the cemetery. Xolanis family tending his grave.
VO: Don and Leticia Vaphi were very close to Xolani and his mother. His family is now separated. His sister Noluthando lives with the Vaphi family. His younger brother Shaun stays in the Eastern Cape with his fathers sister.
Interview:
UPS: Noluthando: During Christmas times, we would go to Gugulethu, on camps to the beach me my brother and mother, cousins and friends .
UPS: Leticia: Xolanis mother worked in Wynberg at the church. One day she arrived at work and she just fell down. After that she leave the work. She stay at home.
UPS Noluthando: She had a brain tumour and so she went for an operation at Grootte Schuur.
UPS: Leticia. It was very hard, after mother got sick, especially for Xolani. He leave the school. He said I cannot go to school because mother is sick.
Visuals: Xolanis house, Zone 5 Langa.
VO: Leticia: His mother called us before died and said: I dont want to lose my house, I dont want to lose my children.
UPS: Leticia: And Xolani, we loved Xolani too much. Even his mother, in her grave, she loved Xolani But he shoot Xolani like a dog. We bury Xolani without eye. We bury (visuals: photograph) half of Xolani.
Visuals: photograph;
VO: So how did a boy from a loving family land up living on the streets, and dying so violently? For answers, we went to his father Whitey Jodwana.
Visuals: Whitey walking towards house.
VO: Since Xolanis death relations have been strained between Whitey and the Vaphi family.
A dockworker from the Eastern Cape, Whitey took Xolani to stay with him in Khayelitsha, after his mom died. He says he tried desperately to keep him off the streets.
UPS: When I spoke to his mother she told us that he was banned from school because he did all these horrible things with his school mates. And then I wrote a letter asking for proof that hes not behaving in school. And then he was supposed to be arrested and then we thought maybe after jail he will try and behave and find his way to school. But unless if he is jailed there is nothing that can be done to help him. He will probably die, thats what I said. I met his friends at Zone 12, who told me he had died.
Visuals: LS Noluthando and Don at grave.
VO: Noluthando: If Id known he was on the street I would have taken him to live with me. .. He wouldnt suffer.
Visuals: Cape Town Street. Huddled bodies.
VO: They come in their hundreds from homes torn apart by poverty, abuse, or illness. Some are known as day strollers because by day they beg or steal, and go home at night. But the rest have nowhere else to sleep. Or would rather sleep anywhere else but at home.
Visuals: music sequence of street kids.
PART TWO
VO: Even for those living on the streets there are places of refuge, - where the stomach can be filled and the soul warmed.
UPS: PASTOR We see about 250 to 300 people everyday that includes, kids, families and who are unemployed who had come to town and had not found anything. They come here to have something to eat. This is where everything starts. Half past seven in the morning the staff comes in the morning to prepare everything. We prepare the soup and the bread right here so when we open at nine and the rush comes in then we are ready for them.
VO: Pastor John runs Krippies soup kitchen on small donations and dollops of goodwill. It provides more than food for the destitute. There are art, photography and literacy classes, even education on HIV-Aids...
UPS: PASTOR Many kids are not here by choice. You know its because of circumstances at home; they are forced to come to town. And I believe if we need to find a solution for the problem violence is not the answer.
UPS: WILLY My name is Wilford Julish. I am now four months in Long street but I am now on the streets for almost four years.
UPS: UNATHI from long I sleep on long street but the security when they come they wont just wake you up nice, they just kick you. See here.
UPS: WILLY They like take you around the corners and they beat you so the people cant see what they do to you.
UPS: RICCARDO Guy security and law enforcement they came here and they took our stuff and when we go and we ask them they say they havent got it.
UPS: STREETKID - You dont treat us like people, like human beings. They treat us like dogs.
UPS: SECURITY - There has been a lot of reports about the security company beating the kids but as far as securicor is concerned we are under strict eye that watch us we are not allowed to touch the kids.
VO: Securicor is a private security firm employed by Cape Towns Central City Improvement District. In partnership with the council, police and private sector, the CCID aims. to make the CBD a safer place. Sometimes this means removing street kids.
UPS: HELIUS When we are requested to move them we will remove them with minimum force. And sometimes they try and run away or they might get into a fight, then we have to restrain.
UPS: ANDREW Dealing with young people high on glue who had been on the streets for 3 or 4 years and have clearly been battered by it in their rough lives is a difficult job if youre a social worker or a policeman that is when experience comes in. Cleaning up the city means cleaning up litter and refuge that doesnt mean cleaning up people. Just last week members of our City security actually prevented a kidnapping. Where they found a street child locked in a boot of a car unlawful behaviour in the part of any security forces. Whether private public it is completely unacceptable and vigilante behaviour from them as a republic is equally unacceptable.
UPS: LEROY The white man shoot my friend because he broke his car.
UPS: WILLY I miss him a lot, I do me miss him a lot. He was a kwaai friend, he wasnt a violent one.
VO: Leticia If is Michael he must phone me straight I can speak to him just like this and tell him he made a wrong thing.
VO: We contacted Michael on Leticias behalf.
VO: But his attorney advised him against it. Brother Lolly was also reluctant to talk to us. But in a June interview with online magazine JHB Live he described the problem of street kids as a time bomb waiting to explode.
VO: Recently, the mayor announced that she will get all children off the streets within a year. But the details of this ambitious some say naïve plan remains fuzzy. Her office did not respond to our requests for an interview, so we went to Ons Plek an NGO and the only girls shelter in Cape Town.
UPS: PAM Ons Plek has been going since 1998 and I think its just a place of hope. Because the kids are really coming to us under real bad circumstances and every child goes away with a little bit more confidence than they came in. and experience that somebody cares and somebody loves them. We think that the mayor has really good intensions and its the same intension that wealthy organisation have had over the years to clean the streets. City council and the partnership have wanted to start a 24 hour assessment centre which they see as being the answer to this problem. But in CPT they will have to run 24 hour assessment centres and what happens is the child would be brought into the assessment centre and what do you do with him. Children homes are full and it can take six months to a year before you can get a child in there. So what we think the mayor should do is focus on the bigger picture. She can focus with housing, sanitation and health. Basically upgrading communities.
UPS: You can not have development without having a very strong development component. It cannot be a work aim to our city, the beautiful buildings...and places for people to go without having a world class development programme
UPS: PAM The prognosis for street children in South Africa depends where it is going and what happens to the level of poverty and how successful we are.
UPS: PASTOR If you respect them they will respect you. Yes we know they are not angels and they are not the ordinary children that grows up in a family environment. So their ways are different and I believe if we reach out to them we can make a difference in their lives.
Part Three
VO: Rough Justice is on the rise in Cape Town. Yazeed - or Jeremy as hes known on the streets - was recently on the receiving end of it.
UPS: JEREMY It was on a Friday night about 645, usually I pack in chairs there by Brewster antique store.
UPS: LEONARD And as he entered with the last few items I saw three guys running towards the door. They entered and they grabbed him by the T-shirt.
UPS: JEREMY And this guy he just throws me and without talking to me he just hit me thrice.
UPS: LEONARD And he just started pounding him with his fists like really loud and hard and I said hey you guys what are you doing get out of the shot. And still hitting Jeremy and I hit the alarm and ADT phoned me and said what is happening and I said just send ADT and the police immediately. And at that stage they had removed Jeremy from the shop towards the 7 11.
UPS: JEREMY They closed the 7 11 shops and they hit me with sticks and bottles.
UPS: LEONARD And a big crowd outside and I saw the police outside and somebody was trying to look inside the kitchen window of the 7 11 and the next few moments the shop were mopping the floors and its not in their habit of closing the doors at 630 and closing the doors.
UPS: JEREMY The ADT was there the was about six vans, the doors were still closed and I think they control the security things and they were standing there while these guys were hitting me.
UPS: LEONARD I Just heard them accusing him of you stole something but I didnt hear the exact words. Its a frightening experience to see all these people running towards me and they could be coming for me for all I know.
UPS: JEREMY I was afraid and all these things and they just told me to run because these people are gonna kill me.
UPS: LEONARD I was shaking like you wont believe. Needless to say I had two shooters in a row.
UPS: JEREMY You dont know when people plan to do something like that and they can just wipe you out like that.
UPS: GUY He was in pain and it was sore...Yeh he was in pain.
VO: Tambi took the photographs of Yazeed shortly after the attack. He works on Long Street, extensively documenting the streets and the children who inhabit them. He also knew Xolani and took this photograph.
UPS: TAMBI I dont know I used to look at him and I just felt there is something in his eyes, there is something in his eyes that is not right and then and two days before he get killed I take his picture.
VO: Xolani and Yazeed had been street buddies. Xolani had been betrayed by the system. Yazeed was determined no to become its victim. He decided to start trusting the system, after 13 years of living according to street law.
UPS: Life is tough on the streets something you dont even fall asleep because you think about what you are going to do tomorrow morning. And when the morning comes up you dont even have the energy to stand up. Not having anything to look forward to.
VO: It was time to leave the streets. He laid charges against his assailants. But his courage came at a price.
VO: His assailants threatened his life. He was placed in a witness protection programme where he would have to assume a new identity. Before he left, he took us to the shelter where he had spent a short but happy time.
UPS: JEREMY Should i say life is tough, that was mama. This is the stair way i used to walk so many times. This was Dirks room and we werent always allowed in the youth leaders room. Now i know its full of posters and things. This is the largest room in the house. This was my cupboard; see they got some new boards. I used to sleep over here and the reason we never used our windows is because they cant open. Only the side windows can open.
UPS: LINZY Children shelters stop at 16 years old so it was created to cater for that services group. We try and get them to school and if we can t we get them a job training. They grow in a situation where they dont dream they dont hope and they dont aspire.
UPS: JEREMY This is the kitchen where i learned all my cooking skills.
UPS: LINZY When i first got here Yazeed was the chef, he was very good at cooking and he had been at the cooking programme at the house and we used to make celebrations for everyone and on their birthdays we would celebrate them and Yazeed used to make birthday cakes.
UPS JEREMY Its hard work in the kitchen believe me. Its hard and hot. I used to have a drug problem and for the first 2/3 months you dont connect with anybody except your family members. And from that time i learned a lot and from that time i went away from drugs. But when i was out there i was poof back into drugs.
VO: But now a new beginning was ahead. It was time to say goodbye to his friends from the street, at a place of safety.
Kyron: Five days after entering the witness protection programme, Yazeed was arrested. His alleged assailants had filed counter-charges of theft against him. He was thrown into Pollsmoor prison where the men who allegedly assaulted him were being held. Disillusioned by the system, he skipped bail and has since returned to a life of drugs and crime on the streets.
Michael Jackson, Xolanis alleged murderer, appeared in court on 10th September.
NAMES
Part One
Teazers, Loop Street, Cape Town.
Central Methodist Mission Church, Cape Town.
Don Vaphi
Leticia Vaphi
Noluthando Jodwana (Xolanis sister)
Whitey Tozamile Vaphi
Xolanis House, Zone 5, Langa
Part Two
Pastor John, Krippies Soup Kitchen, Cape Town.
Willy, Unati, Riccardo,
Helius Smit
- general manager, securicor Western Cape.
Andrew Boraine Chief executive Cape town partnership
Leroy, Willy.
Leticia Vaphi
Voice of Micahel Jackson,
Lolly Jackson, owner Teazers,
Ons Plek, Cape Town
Pam Jackson, Director Ons Plek
Thulani.
Part Three
Yazeed Davids
Leonard
Tambi, photographer
Beth Uriel
Linzy Henley, Co-ordinator, Beth Uriel
Special Thanks:
The Vaphi family
Pretty, Emma, Bonita, Caylene and Monica
Adrian Hamilton and Neil Solomon
Damien the fixer Snyders,
JHB Live
SABC Cape Town
Thulani, Willy, Leroy, Unati
The street people of Cape Town
Editor: Hannes Van Vuuren
Cameraman: John Bowey
Additional footage: Cian McClelland
Dudley Saunders
SABC Cape Town
Stills: Tambi Burjaq
Rough Side of the Rainbow composed by Hazel Friedman
arranged and recorded by Adrian and Neil at PassageOne Music
guitar by Adam wolfhaardt,
sung by Pretty *
Didintle Mookeletsi
Narrated by: Hazel Friedman
Produced by: Hazel Friedman