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We are ready to
start working here.
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By Friday, we
need to open, here.
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Yes, I do believe in
capitalism that if you work hard,
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then you need to benefit.
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Yes, I think
capitalism is slavery.
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To be poor means
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to be a beggar.
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To be always asking.
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It kills the person in you,
the human being in you.
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So that's how costly poverty is.
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Being poor is difficult.
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When I’m climbing the
ladder, things can happen.
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Things go wrong and then a
couple of rungs of the ladder
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can get broken and you
fall down to the bottom again.
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So you've got to
start climbing again.
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I think everybody has a chance and
it's been proved time and time again.
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To sit down and resent
somebody who's got more than you,
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in my book is unacceptable
because there's no reason
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that you couldn't be in that place
because you've got every opportunity.
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Being rich or poor
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is it destiny, luck, or
something else entirely?
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With the gap between rich
and poor growing ever wider,
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how can people continue
to see eye to eye?
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My name is Princess
Manuka Majola
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It's a name I got
from my dad because
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at that time I
was the Princess.
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Through the work that I
do, washing people's laundry
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and filling out forms,
I'm able to pay my rent.
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At some point it was bad that
I had to sell some of my stuff
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just to make sure that I
have a roof over my head.
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My mother was a kitchen girl,
my father was a garden boy…
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When the former president,
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Nelson Mandela said
people must stop complaining
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that unemployment
is high in the country.
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People must stop
complaining the crime is high.
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He asked,
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what are you doing in your own
capacity to create jobs or curb crime?
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That touched me.
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I said, let me
make a difference.
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My name is Sakhumzi Maqubela,
I come from Soweto, South Africa
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a township in Johannesburg.
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I'm a businessman,
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I run Sakhumzi restaurant in the
very famous Vilakazi street in Soweto,
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that has been
running for 23 years.
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Sakhumzi means we
are building a home.
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Oh really?
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Nice.
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Yes.
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It's the only restaurant
between the Archbishop
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Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela
with two Nobel Peace Prize winners.
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The archbishop used to
stay in this house next door.
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Really?
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All right, but so
far, so good, guys.
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In Soweto, I can say, I
am the biggest employer.
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More than 1000
people are working,
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because we have
ten more restaurants.
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When we started in 2001, there
was no economy in Vilakazi Street.
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Meaning there was no
one exchanging money.
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People were coming in and out.
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We are making a difference
in the economy of Soweto.
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South Africa is one of Africa’s
most developed economies.
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Yet, it’s also one of the most
unequal countries in the world.
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The legacy left by
colonialism and apartheid,
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rooted in racial and
spatial segregation,
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has created a death
spiral of inequality
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in income,
education, quality of
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health and household
living conditions.
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Where the black population, and black
women in particular, suffer the most.
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My name is Liz Brewer
and I live in Belgravia.
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Belgravia is just
an area of London.
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You've got Buckingham
Palace nearby.
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You've got some of the most
stately London homes around.
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I've been to Chelsea or Kensington,
but as only when I'm playing monopoly.
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I'm receiving
benefits at present.
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Is about £320
per month,
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which isn't that
much really,
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compared to how much the prices
have gone up for different food
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and drink or whatnot.
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My name is Jamie Burnham
and I live in Hackney.
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I haven't worked for about
five and a half years now.
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There's poverty
and there’s poverty.
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There's people who have got used to
not working and being given handouts
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and they've
liked that lifestyle.
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It's this feeling
that, they're entitled,
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they're entitled
to being given it.
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Without the food banks I’d
find it extremely difficult to cope.
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I mean.
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Take me to the
nearest food bank here.
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Show it to me.
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There’s more food banks than
there are McDonald's in the UK,
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which is difficult to
believe, but there is.
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Despite Britain being one of
the richest countries in the world,
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20% of its population
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that’s 14 million people
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live in poverty.
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The costs of housing, food,
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and energy have hit people
on low incomes hardest.
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And state benefits have been
eroded over the preceding decades
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forcing almost 3 million people to
rely on 2,500 foodbanks for survival.
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We have
to tell the volunteers,
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it is 1 Weetabix not 2.
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There's plenty of it down here.
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Last week, we
had 340 collecting…
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...over 14 hundred
we collected for
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Which is the biggest
amount we ever had.
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How many people
are you collecting for?
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Oh, just myself.
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Just yourself, Okay.
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If you go around that way.
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Thank you.
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Would you like some milk?
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Do you have normal
milk or soya milk?
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Just normal milk, please.
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Thank you.
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Would you like some cereal?
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Porridge?
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Yes, I’ll have some
porridge, please.
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I have one toilet roll please?
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Can you get it for me?
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Yes I can.
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There you go.
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Thank you very much.
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And choose two fruits.
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Oh.
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Some weeks we
have piles and piles.
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This has to stretch
for all people.
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Pear, please.
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And another one?
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Tangerine or Banana?
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Tangerine, please!
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I trained for three years
as a carpenter's apprentice,
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and the day I passed I
was run over by a car.
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And I had to wait seven and a
half years being temporarily retired
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because of the brain
injury with no work.
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I couldn't do any heavy lifting
or building work ever again
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because of the brain injury.
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So that was the three years
carpentry apprenticeship,
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messed up completely and I
had to go for something else.
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Office work.
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Life has been good
in the last ten years.
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I live with my three
children and my wife.
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We've got two domestic workers.
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We've been in Douglasdale
for the last ten years.
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It's one of those wealthy
neighborhoods of Sandton.
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I get to work seven days a
week and I've got crazy hours.
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I've got a panel beating shop
that has been running for 12 years.
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From my employees, I
expect performance from them.
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When I hire them,
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I make it clear that I've hired
them to make more money.
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Most of their
parents are in jail,
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most of their parents are
ship ins, meaning pubs.
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I have to educate them to
tell them that they are special,
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that they are important
in this country.
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So once they know themselves,
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they are able to perform
and look after our clients
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because at least
they love themselves.
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I grew up with parents, who
were working, both of them.
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Loving parents,
loving grandparents.
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In 1985, my parents
had a car accident.
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I can say I lost it.
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I could not focus very well.
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I was acting as if I'm happy.
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But when you don't have love, when
you don't know what is life all about,
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then you become poor.
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But later through
reading good books,
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I had to find myself and accept
that whether you’ve got parents,
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whether you come
from divorced family,
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you are not special
with your problems.
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I'm a mother of four kids,
three boys and a daughter.
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My last born, which is my
girl, her father passed on.
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He was actually gunned
down in front of his daughter
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at his parents’ home
just at the entrance.
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She's staying with her
grandparents because, um,
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I can't be able to provide
money to pay her fees.
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That pains me
a lot, because it's
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like a history is
repeating itself.
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I grew up with my
grandmother from maternal side.
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My parents split up when
I was only four years old.
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After not seeing my mom for a
whole year she came back home.
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So she spent with us Christmas
Day and on the 31st in the morning,
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she went back,
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only to be met
by her death
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because she was
stabbed by her boyfriend
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at around 5:30 in the
evening the same day.
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I was only turning 11.
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And life wasn't the
same ever again.
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My boys are out of school.
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Um.
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They are sitting at home.
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They are not working.
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So they came and
requested me to assist them
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with giving them 300 rand so that
they could stock up some cigarettes,
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some food stuffs, some
sweets, some chips,
00:15:03
so that they can have a table of
their own and start selling something.
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Sometimes they actually
use more than their profit
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then I have to make sure, I
find money again to invest.
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So it's a bit shaky.
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From 0 to 18 I can
look after my children,
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but I cannot be
there for them forever.
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I try by all means to teach
them how to earn a living
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rather than to be entitled,
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because that is what
is happening with
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most of our people
in this country.
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Democratic elections
ended apartheid in 1994.
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But poverty has continued to be
an enduring problem ever since.
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The country’s unemployment rate
of 30% is the highest in the world.
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That means 24 million adults
there are barely surviving.
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At the same time, roughly one-third
of the total number of millionaires
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on the African continent
live in South Africa.
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If I don't have the money
to go to the launderette,
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I can get three buses down to
my mum's place in South London
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and use my mum's
washing machine,
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which is probably annoying for
my mother but helpful for my me.
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How are you coping?
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I’m alright.
00:16:47
Thank you.
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Good to see you.
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I have blamed myself
before, but then I found out,
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there is no point blaming
myself, because I’m still trying.
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I'm looking to get into government
paid, um, HGV training and license.
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Oh, really?
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It would be, driving along.
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It is something you are good at.
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I still want to become employed.
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I want to work.
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It is very difficult
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because I need to
earn enough money
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because don’t want to work
and then I have to spend
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90% of my wages on rent and I
only have a tiny bit left to live by.
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How much is your room?
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238 Pounds a week
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A week?
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A week.
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You could fit in this room about
ten of the rooms that I live in.
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It is tiny.
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I live in a house, um, which
is, um, a three bedroom house,
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but it’s been made into,
um, seven different rooms,
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seven separate
rooms for people to live.
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And the room that I live in is
around about 12 foot by eight foot.
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Within that, I could
fit my double bed.
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In one corner there is a
lavatory, which is very small.
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There's an attached
kitchen, which I can't use
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because there's no windows
or ventilation in there.
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And within the kitchen
is where my shower is
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and it is all paid for
by the housing benefits,
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which is lucky
for me definitely.
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Since the 1980s, when those
in publicly owned council homes
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were allowed to
buy them outright,
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Britain’s housing system has
become increasingly unbalanced,
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leading to the housing
crisis seen today.
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More and more people who
would be eligible for social housing
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are stuck privately renting
unaffordable, poor-quality homes.
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As private rental prices continue to
grow at a record high rate in Britain,
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many tenants’ rents are
subsidized by housing benefits
00:19:01
going to private landlords, costing
the government £23.5bn per year
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almost twice as much as it
invests in affordable housing.
00:19:25
I started off living a
very conventional life.
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I was a debutante,
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which in those
days meant that you
00:19:34
were supposed to
marry into park gates,
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as it were.
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You were taught everything
from how to run a household,
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how to even make a bed properly.
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You had to have corners.
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To this day I do
corners for the bed.
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Having done the season, I
didn't want to get married.
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So having run away from home,
00:20:03
I went to Portugal and I opened
the first discotheque nightclub
00:20:09
in the Algarve.
00:20:12
It was big news.
00:20:13
And so on the opening night,
believe it or not, without an airport,
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600 people came.
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Paul McCartney could come
and nobody bothered him.
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It was an extraordinary time.
00:20:52
I was always arranging parties
for these seriously highfliers
00:20:59
like Richard Branson, Dame
Shirley Bassey, Ivana Trump.
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What I really value and
appreciate about mum.
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She will just against all
odds, make things happen.
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She works harder than
anyone I've ever met.
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And she's the sort of
person who goes into a room
00:21:46
and everything's kind of
broken and chaotic and you say,
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How the *** is
this going to work?
00:21:52
And then by half an hour later,
00:21:54
there's this incredible
thing that she’s created.
00:22:10
What's very noticeable is
especially at the moment.
00:22:16
There are people
who are in this country
00:22:19
who have got a lot more
than people who've worked
00:22:23
very, very hard all their life.
00:22:25
And what is unfair is a lot of
them are not really honoring
00:22:30
that position and paying the
taxes because they're offshore.
00:22:34
They're able to have the advice
to be able to keep their money,
00:22:40
to keep their super yachts, even
though on paper they may be bankrupt.
00:22:46
But there they are in
the south of France,
00:22:48
on their yachts
and and laughing…
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Are we in China-Town?
00:23:00
I haven’t been here for ages.
00:23:16
Extreme wealth and extreme poverty
have seen a sharp simultaneous
00:23:20
increase for the
first time in 25 years.
00:23:23
In Britain the richest 1% hold more
wealth than 70% of the population.
00:23:28
Such severe inequality
is estimated to cost
00:23:31
the UK £106.2 billion pounds a
year in damage to the economy,
00:23:36
people, and their communities.
00:23:39
In South Africa, weekly protests
rooted in poverty and joblessness
00:23:43
are the norm.
00:23:45
The country also experiences
exceptionally high rates of murder,
00:23:48
gender-based violence,
robbery, and violent conflict.
00:23:57
I've always perceived, um,
00:23:59
rich people as arrogant people
and somehow I've been right
00:24:03
because majority of the
ones I know, they are arrogant
00:24:07
and they are miserable.
00:24:11
I don´t wish to be rich.
00:24:13
I just wish to be employed.
00:24:16
Give me a job that will allow
me to live my comfortable life.
00:24:21
That's it.
00:24:39
My dream is actually nothing
else than getting a home,
00:24:43
a house that maybe I could
say it’s a home for my kids.
00:24:46
And then if I can just get
a stand where I could build
00:24:49
a 2 or 3 room shack.
00:24:56
I want when I leave this
earth my kids to know,
00:24:59
our mother built this for
us so they will be safe there.
00:25:09
I think I start with one shack at
a time until I reach the 3 shacks.
00:25:45
If I'm going to my
volunteer work,
00:25:47
I like to go to Sainsbury's
close to me, buy a nice cake,
00:25:52
a big cake so I can take it
along there so they can serve it
00:25:56
for other people,
other customers.
00:25:57
who's turning up there.
00:25:59
I think it's a good
thing to help.
00:26:10
I brought you a cake.
00:26:15
What cake, did you bring?
00:26:17
Madeira Party Cake.
00:26:20
On two days during the week,
00:26:22
I do voluntary work at a cafe
called Second Chance Cafe.
00:26:28
You can go there you
can pay what you feel.
00:26:32
If you have nothing,
you do not have to pay.
00:26:35
But you can pay a small
amount or a large amount
00:26:37
to go towards the charity there.
00:26:45
We're open to everybody,
so we get a lot of people.
00:26:48
Coming from the food bank
so they can pick up food there
00:26:51
and then come over here and
have a hot meal or vice versa.
00:26:53
So there's a lot of
people from the food bank,
00:26:56
but then there's just people in
general from the neighborhood.
00:26:59
So that's the whole idea is
that you get all sorts of people
00:27:02
coming together to chat
and share a meal together
00:27:05
for normally
wouldn't get to do this.
00:27:19
Here you go.
00:27:19
Who’s the green and
red. There you go, sir.
00:27:33
It cannot be that the rich
will always be richer forever.
00:27:37
One day, there's gonna be
a revolution in this country
00:27:41
that no one will be able to
stand if things keep on going
00:27:46
the way they are going.
00:27:47
People now all
want to be the same.
00:27:49
They all want to be on a
level, which can't happen.
00:27:54
I really want to be helpful,
useful and have a point.
00:28:00
You’ve got to make it happen.
00:28:01
Nobody else is going to
make it happen for you.
00:28:04
That’s up to you!
00:28:17
I hope my answers were okay?
