For the SA News Junkies

LoneGunman said:
Just as an update, for those who haven't spotted it, in Off Topic -
there's a growing cluster of locally hosted overseas documentaries
on SA available.
(see http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=89544 )

Currently there's 'South Africa - the New Apartheid', and 'Running From Mugabe'
up and available locally for download and spreading around.

Next up will be a recent 22min report from Al Jazeera on 'poor whites' - which has some unsettling stuff in it.
Still on its way are a 3 part documentary on the elite wing of the SAP (with lots of violent eye-candy), another on Terrblanche and the rightwing, and various other goodies.

The flood will last as long as it can. They're hosted locally in SA, grab, watch, spread..
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Locally hosted? juggy.co.za resolves to 72.34.41.100 which is reported to be in Encino Ca. :confused:
 
texo said:
And which is hosted by Texo... :p
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That doesnt make them locally hosted in terms of using international bandwidth. ;)

Host info:
Host of the IP: juggy.co.za
Host IP [?]: 72.34.41.100
IP address country: United States
IP address state: California
IP address city: Encino
IP postcode: 91436
IP latitude: 34.1540
IP longitude: -118.4982
ISP [?]: IH Networks
Organization: IH Networks
Local Time: 2007-10-04 09:18
 
No, unfortunately not... but I hope that the videos are downloaded by many forumites, as it's about time our server got a good workout. (I'll even up the account's bandwidth limit for free, if necessary).
 
okay, well spotted if its so.

I'm removing all links - to stop people from chewing their b/w up..

can I get a firm 'yes its local' or 'no its not local' from any geeks, for certain, please.

Sorry - I didn't mean to mess with folks' caps..
 
I'd be interested to see the effect -- if any -- on the server with multiple large simultaneous downloads, so please think about leaving the links available for those of us with intl bandwidth to spare.
 
okay, I'm really sorry about that - to any folks in SA who pulled/is pulling the things down, under the asumption that they're locally based. I'm a **** - and my mistake..

I will keep upping documentaries tho - but be advised, they're not local..
(if someone wants to find ways of hosting them WITHIN SA, feel free)

NOT LOCALLY BASED documentaries on South Africa.

"SOUTH AFRICA - THE NEW APARTHEID"

http://www.juggy.co.za/videos/South.Africa.The.New.Apartheid.(2006).avi
"The program begins in South Africa where a huge rise in illegal immigration from Zimbabwe and other African states is behind an increase in racism and xenophobic violence. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy journeys from the Zimbabwean border to one of Johannesburg's most dangerous quarters to investigate."

"RUNNING FROM MUGABE"
http://www.juggy.co.za/videos/downsample.Running.From.Mugabe(45min).avi
"As Zimbabwe's political and economic crisis deepens, victims of President Robert Mugabe's violent regime are being forced to flee for their lives.

This World enters a world of paranoia and fear, following some of the thousands of Zimbabweans who enter South Africa illegally every week. They are running from the political and economic crisis in their country. Some are fleeing for their lives, victims of the Mugabe government's violent political crackdown. But even in South Africa they cannot escape the terror of the regime.

Many live in fear of Zimbabwe's feared Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) - the country's secret police who are widely suspected by dissidents of conducting surveillance operations outside Zimbabwe's border. Rumours of death squads and kidnappings are rife.

This World speaks to refugees living in the shadow of this fear, and one young man who fled Zimbabwe after being reluctantly drafted into the CIO. He claims the training involved being shown how to torture using batons and electric wires. He also says he escaped from Zimbabwe, and that he was followed by CIO agents who have been trying to take him back to Zimbabwe. As they try to separate fact from fiction, events conspire to make This World believe that they too, might be under surveillance. "

NEW ADDITION:

"Al Jazeera 2007. 22minute report on "Poor Whites" in South Africa.
http://www.juggy.co.za/videos/South.Africa.Report.on.Poor.Whites(Al.Jazeera.22min.2007).avi
"Despite eliciting worldwide support during its decades long liberation struggle, for what it said would be a non-racist, democratic South Africa, where all would be equal - Al Jazeera discovers that the African National Congress government has recreated its own new form of racism.
An interesting 22 minute program, showing that all is not well in the new South Africa."
 
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Hmm, there's quite a few more documentaries I'll be uploading. Can you tell that I've been collecting material? :P

Hopefully the educational value of these assorted SA-related programs, outweighs any other consideration. I believe it's important that folks get to see their own country, as its seen by the outside world - for better or worse.

If things start to look too messy on this and the companion thread at ( http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?p=1257684#post1257684 ) then perhaps both should be combined somehow..
 
NEW DOCUMENTARY

Unreported World: 'The real Cape Town: drugs, murder and squalor'
http://www.juggy.co.za/videos/South.Africa.Cape.Town.(gangsters.anarchy).Unreported.World.23min.avi

"Cape Town is the darling of the jet set; the backdrop to fashion shoots and a tourist mecca. But as this week's Unreported World reveals, behind the city's glamorous image, it's now South Africa's murder capital, gripped by the devastating effects of crystal methamphetamine. Known locally as "tik", this highly addictive drug is tearing the city's fabric apart. And there's a knock-on effect for the environment. Demand for tik is so strong that large and endangered shellfish are being illegally caught and traded with Chinese triad gangs in exchange for the deadly drug.

Thirteen years of freedom in South Africa hasn't translated into prosperity for all, and Cape Town epitomizes the problems still faced by the majority of South Africans. Expectations for the ANC government were high, but it's struggled to raise basic living standards and combat violence in a country where someone is murdered every 30 minutes."
 
Poor tuby is not going to appreciate this :(
 
Can you hook up "Murder most Foul" by any chance? Apparently it was on Carte Blanche a few weeks back, but I missed it :(
 
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