Organising J'Bay and Humansdorp had a nice touch of small town idiosyncrasies.  We met Timothy Meleni at the community hall in J'bay, our screening will be held at the Pellsrus Community Hall, minutes away from South Africa's surfer mecca and it's popular beaches.

It is Good Friday, the hall is buzzing and brimming thick into a church service. Kids play outside, a few female congregants with flowing dresses and big hats, Southern Belles, wear vertiginous high heels. The priest's voice reaches screeching heights.   After a little sqwizz we walked down the road to interrupt the town mayor's Good Friday lunch to say hello - introductions seem more important than polite holiday shyness.  We found the care taker of the hall at the empty caravan park and confirmed a time for film screenings. 

Twenty minutes from JBay away, at Humansdorp Secondary we met maths teacher Sammy Jantjies in good cheer and all smiles.  He has been teaching here for twenty five years!  Dedicated and passionate.  It's really good to find such people in towns where the status quo is a steady exodus to the big cities.  We hear the students are actually more interested in rugby... the screening will be held after school on the first day back from holiday.  We feel that Drogba Fever and Zuma the Puma should set football off quite nicely. 

There is no history class offered in the final school years at Humansdorp Secondary. Should history be compulsive in a country like South Africa? To make sure that children and teenagers know about their country's troubled past, to know what it took to overthrow apartheid and build the new South Africa.  How can one understand the now and be prepared for the next steps without any knowledge of the past? How to reconcile all the different voices and events and instill critical thinking in kids, a sense of belonging, pride and compassion?