{"id":6038,"date":"2018-02-07T10:25:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T08:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=6038"},"modified":"2018-02-07T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T08:25:07","slug":"afridocs-streaming-premiere-of-this-land-starts-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2018\/02\/07\/afridocs-streaming-premiere-of-this-land-starts-today\/","title":{"rendered":"AfriDocs: Streaming Premiere Of This Land &#8211; Starts Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AfriDocs, the free streaming platform for the best documentaries in Africa is proud to present even more exciting films available in the month of February.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6039\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/This-Land-potrait.jpg?resize=500%2C190\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/This-Land-potrait.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/This-Land-potrait.jpg?resize=300%2C114&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>AfriDocs films are FREE to screen anytime and from anywhere in Africa on <a href=\"https:\/\/afridocs.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.afridocs.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Feb 7th sees the STREAMING PREMIERE of This Land.\u00a0The powerful South African documentary that touches on the\u00a0emotive\u00a0and timely land issue has screened at the Durban International Film Festival, Encounters and on AfriDocs on BET, and now makes its streaming debut on the AfriDocs platform.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This Land | Miki Redelinghuys | South Africa | 2017 | 48 min\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6T86lnqm_Mk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>This Land:\u00a0\u00a0Dianne Whelan,\u00a0Jeremy Mendes\u00a0Directors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Makhasaneni, a hamlet in rural KwaZulu-Natal, scores of villagers are under threat of forced removal for the second time in as many generations. Forcibly moved here by the apartheid government, now their homes are under threat by a mining company in cahoots with the Entembeni Zulu Royal Family, and who seek to exploit the land over the heads of the people who live and work on it.<\/p>\n<p>An eloquent portrait of the activists and residents of Makhasaneni,\u00a0This Land\u00a0is also a brave and necessary expos\u00e9 of the inadequacy of customary law in a predatory capitalist state.\u00a0It raises the question, \u201cIs monarchy compatible with democratic land reform?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/afridocs.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.afridocs.net<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfriDocs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.facebook.com\/AfriDocs<\/a> \u00a0for more info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfriDocs, the free streaming platform for the best documentaries in Africa is proud to present even more exciting films available in the month of February. AfriDocs films are FREE to screen anytime and from anywhere in Africa on www.afridocs.net. Today, Feb 7th sees the STREAMING PREMIERE of This Land.\u00a0The powerful South African documentary that touches&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2018\/02\/07\/afridocs-streaming-premiere-of-this-land-starts-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AfriDocs: Streaming Premiere Of This Land &#8211; Starts Today<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}