New Year’s carnival through streets of Johannesburg:
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SHOTLIST
1. Wide street scene, carnival in progress
2. Wide carnival procession passing by
3. Close children taking part in the carnival
4. Mid dancers and musicians in the carnival
5. Mid children dancing
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Pilisiwe Twala-Tau, Executive Director of the Johannesburg carnival:
“We always had problems during New Year’s Eve. People would be doing all sorts of things, breaking bottles, not really having anything to do with their lives, and just to curb that we started the carnival, focusing really on young people to make sure that young people begin to do their dancing and do their stilt dancing and make their own costumes so that they begin to tell those at home to also come and form part of the carnival.”
7. Wide carnival going over the Nelson Mandela Bridge
8. Mid carnival on the bridge
9. Close carnival participant with hat reading: “Stop Xenophobia”, pull out to wide
10. Close carnival walking past
11. Wide carnival passing the camera
12. Wide carnival
STORYLINE:
More than a thousand people came out onto the streets of Johannesburg in South Africa on Wednesday to take part in the annual New Year’s carnival.
Dressed in brightly costumes and carrying models, banners and musical instruments, the participants were mainly children from neighbouring townships, such as Soweto and Alexandra.
This year’s carnival, which is the fifth one, was named “Unity in our Diversity” to call for all forms of xenophobic attacks to stop.
In May 2008, xenophobic attacks spread through the South African townships, killing many foreigners.
Pilisiwe Twala-Tau, director of this year’s carnival, said that if the children had nothing to do over New Year’s Eve then many of them might get involved in the lawlessness usually associated with the period.
“We always had problems during New Year’s Eve. People would be doing all sorts of things, breaking bottles, not really having anything to do with their lives, and just to curb that we started the carnival,” Twala-Tau said.
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