What happens when a fight for affordable housing becomes a six-year battle that reaches all the way to the Constitutional Court? That is the story at the heart of Mother City, a documentary following Cape Town’s Reclaim the City activists and their fight over the old Tafelberg School site on the Atlantic Seaboard. Now, after years of screenings at festivals around the world, the film is coming to cinemas across South Africa from the 1st of October, giving audiences the chance to experience this story on the big screen.
Mother City will be the first documentary to screen as part of Ster-Kinekor’s new strand celebrating classic and local film Directed by Miki Redelinghuys along with Pearlie Joubert, the film takes audiences inside the activism, legal battles and courtroom drama surrounding the Tafelberg site. Its timing is particularly striking following the Constitutional Court’s July 2026 ruling that declared the sale of the property unlawful.

What happens when a fight for affordable housing becomes a six-year battle that reaches all the way to the Constitutional Court? That is the story at the heart of Mother City, a documentary following Cape Town&rsquo;s Reclaim the City activists and their fight over the old Tafelberg School site on the Atlantic Seaboard. Now, after years of screenings at festivals around the world, the film is coming to cinemas across South Africa from the 1st of October, giving audiences the chance to experience this story on the big screen. Mother City will be the first documentary to screen as part of Ster-Kinekor&rsquo;s new strand celebrating classic and local film Directed by Miki Redelinghuys along with Pearlie Joubert, the film takes audiences inside the activism, legal battles and courtroom drama surrounding the Tafelberg site. Its timing is particularly striking following the Constitutional Court&rsquo;s July 2026 ruling that declared the sale of the property unlawful.

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