Segregation and poverty of the white middle class in South Africa | Barber Shop Ep. 6

This episode is part of the series "Barber Shop".
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Barber Shop South Africa brings the story of the impoverished white middle class who decides to insulate itself from the outside world and settles in strict religious communities (Filadelfia Ark) in the countryside.

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South Africa has known a turbulent history of occupation, discrimination against the black population. With the ANC in power and today in the post-Mandela era, the roles are reversed. We see a true ‘Black Economic Empowerment’, in which the black people are favoured in terms of housing and employment. The white middle class is slowly slipping away into poverty.

Adri (36) is the white female hairdresser of Filadelfia Ark, a community West of Pretoria. She cuts hair on a chair outside her bungalow. Her customers appreciate her gentle approach and visit her for an enjoyable talk. Filadelfia Ark has almost paradise like surroundings, with lakes, animals and an outdoor dining-place, but the community radiates a story of fear, exclusion, poverty and religion.

South Africa needs a real policy of transformation that provides opportunities for the whole country and reopens it to the world economic sphere. The BEE has become a source of instability for South Africa, has created an elite linked to a corrupt government that feeds the scourge of inequality and impedes the country's economic advancement.

We meet 6 populations in transition via the microcosm of the local barbershop. In every episode, a population finds itself on the verge of change and a barber plays his role. As opinion maker, as confessor, as story collector, as society barometer. Gradually, Barber Shop measures the state of our world, offering dialogue and human resilience as a hopeful perspective for the future.

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