Mother City x Politically Aweh 2025

THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH!
A Special Double Screening of the Mother City Documentary and Politically Aweh's Comedy Deep Dive into Cape Town's Rental and Housing Crisis + Post screening discussion with the filmmakers, activists, comedy crew and YOU!

Learn more, laugh, and join in the conversation.

About Mother City
Miki Redelinghuys & Pearlie Joubert | South Africa | 2024 | 103 min | English | 13LPV
"Mother City" charts a defiant war against government and property developers in one of the world’s most unequal cities, Cape Town. In 2016 the government sold prime land, earmarked for affordable housing, to a private developer. This careless disregard of desperate housing needs gave birth to a social justice movement, “Reclaim the City”. Through the deeply personal story of activist, Nkosikhona Swartbooi, "Mother City" follows, over 6 years, the provocative battle in a city still disfigured by spatial apartheid. Beautifully observed, the film is a riveting look at the politics of urbanism from a deeply human perspective.

About Comedy Deep Dive into Cape Town's Rental and Housing Crisis
Cape Town's housing crisis isn't just expensive flats and double deposits. It's the legacy of apartheid meeting the age of Instagram influencers sipping matcha on Kloof Street. While Cape Town doubles down on its plan to double tourism by 2035, around 688 000 people sit on a housing waiting list. The city that perfected segregation under colonialism and apartheid is now perfecting it under capitalism. Politically Aweh's comedy deep dive features interviews with Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis and residents fighting eviction from buildings renamed after housing heroes. Is Cape Town still for South Africans, or has it become a short-term rental for the world's wealthy?