For most South-Africans the dramatic change of the end of the apartheid regime didn't have that same change on their lives. Most of them still live in poverty. But there are exceptions, blacks who were able to gain from democracy and climb up the social ladder. On the other hand there are white people who lost everything with Apartheid. They lost the privileges that Apartheid offered them and couldn't keep up with the ratrace. The story of two South-Africa families, living their daily live. The black Kgaudi family who took advantage of the end of Apartheid, struggled their way up and now live in wealth and success. For the white Grobler family their was a time when all was well, allthough not right. With Apartheid gone, all evident facts of live were to. And all of a sudden they had to struggle to keep up, and they keep doing.
[START: 01.00
01.04 Johan, is this your house?
Yes, I can live here
because I work here.
We struggled until mister
Smit offered me a job.
He helps us.
This is the toilet.
01.32 The bathroom …
I tried to patch it up a little,
to make it inhabitable.
01.50 ¶SVO Johan Grobler
Before it was much better,
under the old government.
It was really better then, honestly.
Comm.
One South-Africa, two realities. Meet Pindi and Tshepo: black, born and raised in Soweto-township. Today they’re South-Africa’s first shoe designers.
This is the Gobler family. They live in a couple of shags in a scrap yard, tumbled down the social scales after the end of Apartheid.
02.25
02.36 ¶SVO boven: Johan Smit, eigenaar autokerkhof
Comm
After the end of Apartheid black South-Africans got opportunities the weren’t there before. Phindi and Tschepo took them with both hands, although it wasn’t easy.
03.11 ¶SVO boven: Phindi en Tschepo Kgaudi
For Johan Grobler and his family live today looka a lot less rosy then it once did.
¤A3 ¶SVO Johan Grobler
Before, yes … during the years of
Apartheid let’s say.
I won’t say it was just.
But now, it is just the opposite.
It’s still Apartheid,
however you look at it.
No matter what we do.
Apartheid, now with the whites
on the downside?
Yes, we were in the good position,
that was Apartheid.
Now it’s the opposite,
but it is still Apartheid.
No matter what we do.
04.09
04.36
Comm
Black empowerment is not something the Groblers care to much about.
04.42 song
04.54
Comm
Who the next president of South-Africa will be won’t make much of a difference.
04.59
What do you expect of the elections?
Nothing at all.
I don’t believe it will get better.
The way it goes now …
Jacob Zuma?
Yes, … we won’t go there.
We’re not going to take about that.
It won’t help.
05.19
06.11
There’s no future for them
in South-Africa.
Their father has so much trouble
finding a job,
how difficult is it going to be for them?
I’m very much worried about their future.
In all honesty.
I would regret that they would get it
as tough as we have.
If I get my way, we’ll go
somewhere else.
This isn’t my land anymore.
It was my land but not anymore.
The blacks come first.
END 06.45