1 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:27,681 This place. Legend says it used to be called the plains of weeping. 2 00:03:30,158 --> 00:03:35,285 Long before arrival of Eugene Casalis and Thomas Arbousset. 3 00:03:35,937 --> 00:03:45,146 They named these plains Nasaretha; "Nazareth," after their faith. 4 00:03:45,362 --> 00:03:52,663 The people just called it home. 5 00:04:06,175 --> 00:04:11,648 They say if you go a little further to the edges of the dam, 6 00:04:12,300 --> 00:04:20,729 you can still hear the church bell tolling beneath, under the waters. 7 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:39,194 Take a walk closer to the dam. You will hear for yourself. 8 00:04:43,104 --> 00:04:48,795 The church bell speaks, tolling beneath, under the waters. 9 00:04:49,707 --> 00:04:51,705 Tolling. 10 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:57,875 In the deep, bells speak when people cannot. 11 00:05:08,562 --> 00:05:15,211 I saw with my own eyes, in the year of the Red Dust, 12 00:05:15,255 --> 00:05:22,509 following the arrival of the men with iron cups. 13 00:05:24,508 --> 00:05:31,719 Cups that could never be filled. 14 00:05:32,892 --> 00:05:37,584 I saw with my own eyes, the dead burying their own dead. 15 00:05:37,629 --> 00:05:49,099 Gather around little children, cheer up. 16 00:06:04,435 --> 00:06:10,431 For this is not a death march, nor a burial. 17 00:06:11,994 --> 00:06:16,122 This is a resurrection. 18 00:06:17,773 --> 00:06:19,207 The genesis. 19 00:06:21,727 --> 00:06:27,113 The dead buried their own dead. 20 00:06:27,984 --> 00:06:32,849 You, you shall follow in the future. 21 00:06:34,064 --> 00:06:41,538 They say in Nasaretha: if you place your ear to the ground, 22 00:06:42,624 --> 00:06:53,399 you can still hear the cries and whispers of those who perished under the flood. 23 00:06:53,920 --> 00:07:00,655 Their spirits hallowing from the deep. 24 00:07:18,250 --> 00:07:23,898 December has arrived: It is the day of jubilee in a widow's house. 25 00:07:25,549 --> 00:07:35,369 Before this day, Mantoa began counting down: months, weeks, days, hours, seconds. 26 00:07:37,974 --> 00:07:43,553 Her son is coming from the South African gold mines. 27 00:07:43,579 --> 00:07:49,792 He is coming home for Christmas. 28 00:07:49,836 --> 00:07:54,925 One must understand that at this time of the 29 00:07:54,949 --> 00:08:00,177 year, a miner coming home is like a war hero. 30 00:08:00,220 --> 00:08:08,301 As the soldiers hear the whistling of bullets in the trenches, 31 00:08:09,995 --> 00:08:17,770 the miners hear the earth trembling beneath their feet. 32 00:08:18,987 --> 00:08:24,376 For one to come home alive, it was a day of the Lord. 33 00:08:24,418 --> 00:08:29,024 It was a day of the Lord! 34 00:09:17,945 --> 00:09:25,113 Motlaleng. Molantoa. Where is my child? 35 00:09:29,415 --> 00:09:31,370 Motlaleng… 36 00:09:31,413 --> 00:09:33,542 Where was my child taken, where is he? 37 00:09:34,846 --> 00:09:39,712 It's Christmas, my son should be here... 38 00:09:57,393 --> 00:10:02,563 Her husband died years ago. 39 00:10:04,302 --> 00:10:11,209 Then her daughter and grandchild died. For days and days, she wept. 40 00:10:13,121 --> 00:10:22,680 She wept and wept. 41 00:10:23,592 --> 00:10:31,282 She looked up to the heavens, her palms opened skyward and she cried out to God. 42 00:10:31,890 --> 00:10:36,843 Her son was her only comfort, the only way God answered her supplications. 43 00:10:37,929 --> 00:10:41,752 Through her son, the widow saw the benevolence of God. 44 00:10:43,403 --> 00:10:57,870 Now that her son was dead she didn't cry, nor look up to the heavens. 45 00:12:03,301 --> 00:12:11,078 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground. 46 00:12:11,730 --> 00:12:18,768 Since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return. 47 00:14:31,713 --> 00:14:42,575 Besides God, reality too felt further and further away. 48 00:14:43,791 --> 00:14:48,875 Until it became little. 49 00:14:49,961 --> 00:14:58,563 It became dark. 50 00:16:10,077 --> 00:16:14,377 Repeat after me: 51 00:16:15,507 --> 00:16:18,895 The benevolence of God. 52 00:16:20,067 --> 00:16:23,196 Listen, I am saying to you; 53 00:16:24,065 --> 00:16:27,672 The benevolence of God. 54 00:16:28,671 --> 00:16:36,882 That which was once the cornerstone 55 00:16:37,578 --> 00:16:42,053 has now become a stumbling block for the old widow. 56 00:17:05,557 --> 00:17:10,033 We're happy that he is home… 57 00:17:11,465 --> 00:17:15,898 It's different singing your songs without you… 58 00:17:16,896 --> 00:17:19,764 And your friend, the gravedigger, fell off of his horse. 59 00:17:27,062 --> 00:17:33,493 In this house that Ralichaba built with his bare hands 60 00:17:34,275 --> 00:17:36,273 an invisible wall of bewilderment has arisen 61 00:17:36,317 --> 00:17:38,568 and stands between the old widow and the world outside. 62 00:17:38,879 --> 00:17:42,529 The situation does not look good… 63 00:17:45,223 --> 00:17:48,222 We might have to leave... 64 00:18:24,064 --> 00:18:31,797 I was very lost when my wife died. 65 00:18:33,534 --> 00:18:41,963 You saw me. I was filled with so much anger and pain. 66 00:18:43,961 --> 00:18:53,130 I don't remember much from those months. The weeks that followed... 67 00:18:56,084 --> 00:18:59,734 I was in a... a dark place. 68 00:19:01,384 --> 00:19:04,860 My sermons were just words, they meant nothing. 69 00:19:08,900 --> 00:19:20,153 Perhaps they did mean something, because for the first time 70 00:19:22,456 --> 00:19:26,106 I had no control and there was nothing to hold on to. 71 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:34,012 That's why I call this a holy place. 72 00:19:36,490 --> 00:19:46,050 It's a place that subjected me to total surrender, 73 00:19:46,075 --> 00:19:54,911 where faith, courage and will became obsolete. 74 00:20:12,722 --> 00:20:24,323 My loss became a mirror that reflected the holiest of places within me. 75 00:20:30,014 --> 00:20:31,709 You are loved. 76 00:20:32,925 --> 00:20:35,619 You are loved. 77 00:21:11,115 --> 00:21:14,851 Lord, your mercy be upon all those who have departed. 78 00:21:15,503 --> 00:21:19,978 Hide them under the shadow of your wings. 79 00:21:20,195 --> 00:21:25,191 May they see your grace when judgement day comes. 80 00:21:25,235 --> 00:21:37,313 Lord, from your highest throne, cast your mercy upon them. 81 00:21:38,355 --> 00:21:41,397 We hereby announce the death of Malakabane Morumuoa. 82 00:21:42,049 --> 00:21:46,306 She passed away in the Thaba-Tseka district on May 27th. 83 00:21:48,001 --> 00:21:51,346 She will be laid to rest on June 15th. 84 00:21:52,432 --> 00:21:55,907 This is an obituary by Mahalefele Morumuoa. 85 00:21:57,820 --> 00:22:01,164 We hereby announce the death of Rabohlale Thakholi. 86 00:22:02,338 --> 00:22:06,247 He passed away in Ha Rampolelle village on May 22nd. 87 00:22:07,204 --> 00:22:10,593 He will be laid to rest on June 8th. 88 00:22:11,506 --> 00:22:14,285 This is an obituary by Halefele Thakholi. 89 00:22:31,663 --> 00:22:36,400 The long night has come. 90 00:22:37,268 --> 00:22:41,656 Rest in the arms of Morpheus and hope that you die in your sleep. 91 00:22:43,090 --> 00:22:46,740 Adorn your body with this dress. 92 00:22:47,391 --> 00:22:55,994 This offering of love that your husband gave to you. 93 00:22:56,949 --> 00:23:04,684 Go to bed and summon your death. 94 00:23:05,769 --> 00:23:08,766 Will it to you. Pray for your eternal slumber. 95 00:27:18,975 --> 00:27:21,321 The wind howls with the unwholesome call of death. 96 00:27:22,364 --> 00:27:25,274 But death does not come. 97 00:27:26,491 --> 00:27:27,969 Lament. 98 00:27:30,140 --> 00:27:33,790 Lament, old widow. 99 00:27:34,355 --> 00:27:36,136 Weep. 100 00:27:37,223 --> 00:27:39,350 Weep. 101 00:27:40,089 --> 00:27:42,478 For death has forgotten you. 102 00:29:02,550 --> 00:29:10,196 Take off your cloak of mourning, for your mourning period has long ended. 103 00:29:10,675 --> 00:29:21,405 Lest they confuse you for a sorceress who is struck by madness. 104 00:29:22,144 --> 00:29:27,140 But the widow refused to remove her mourning dress. 105 00:29:28,356 --> 00:29:36,915 Her mouth was bitter with the taste of death. 106 00:29:38,046 --> 00:29:40,132 If she were to sing, 107 00:29:41,522 --> 00:29:46,257 a tempest of vile blasphemies would break forth from her mouth. 108 00:29:47,343 --> 00:29:49,819 So she took a vow of silence. 109 00:29:51,341 --> 00:29:58,118 Regarding God and nature in silent contempt. 110 00:30:35,264 --> 00:30:36,804 Mantoa! 111 00:30:36,829 --> 00:30:38,957 Grandpa is injured, he fell off of his horse! 112 00:30:39,608 --> 00:30:43,214 My aunt from the capital is here. She brought me some candy. 113 00:31:56,683 --> 00:31:57,855 Mokolobetsi. 114 00:31:59,985 --> 00:32:02,244 Don't rest too long. 115 00:32:03,982 --> 00:32:07,196 There's a grave to dig. 116 00:32:08,979 --> 00:32:10,715 Do you hear me, Mokolobetsi? 117 00:32:11,542 --> 00:32:15,365 I will wait for you my friend. 118 00:32:15,407 --> 00:32:17,534 I will wait and prepare a plot for my grave so long. 119 00:33:05,892 --> 00:33:09,803 I came to see to see you regarding the trash at the cemetery. 120 00:33:10,846 --> 00:33:17,752 The trash is not my priority right now. 121 00:33:18,231 --> 00:33:20,708 So what is the priority? 122 00:33:22,272 --> 00:33:24,661 The village is my priority. 123 00:33:27,135 --> 00:33:29,223 The cemetery is the village. 124 00:33:30,048 --> 00:33:37,218 Your father is buried there, your mother, your sister in law 125 00:33:37,260 --> 00:33:40,823 and your grandchild. 126 00:33:41,605 --> 00:33:42,864 Mantoa. 127 00:33:49,209 --> 00:33:53,770 We are going to be resettled. This place is going to be flooded. 128 00:33:57,245 --> 00:33:59,766 A dam will be built here. 129 00:34:22,096 --> 00:34:25,920 I did not come here as a parliamentarian. 130 00:34:26,486 --> 00:34:32,003 I am here as one of you. 131 00:34:34,436 --> 00:34:36,563 I am your child. 132 00:34:37,867 --> 00:34:39,866 I am your messenger, 133 00:34:40,257 --> 00:34:44,969 you know me, I know you. 134 00:34:44,994 --> 00:34:52,292 You said: go and represent us, speak for us. 135 00:34:55,594 --> 00:34:58,680 I feel truly honoured. 136 00:34:59,288 --> 00:35:06,151 Can you shout, UP! 137 00:35:06,193 --> 00:35:09,627 UP with development! 138 00:35:10,583 --> 00:35:18,273 You sent me and said: go and represent us. 139 00:35:19,359 --> 00:35:22,878 Be our eyes and ears. 140 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:29,266 I did as you asked. 141 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:36,260 Today we're knocking at the door of the modern world. 142 00:35:36,304 --> 00:35:43,211 Your voice has been heard. 143 00:35:44,949 --> 00:35:49,945 I assure you it will all be worth it. 144 00:35:49,989 --> 00:35:53,292 Please be patient. 145 00:35:53,595 --> 00:35:56,419 What about our graves? 146 00:35:57,071 --> 00:36:00,241 You sang at my mother's funeral. 147 00:36:02,501 --> 00:36:17,967 The one whose voice mirrors men's hearts to the heavens. 148 00:36:20,184 --> 00:36:23,312 I was too young then… 149 00:36:25,136 --> 00:36:26,266 Mantoa. 150 00:36:30,393 --> 00:36:36,216 It's your call what you do with your graves. 151 00:36:36,607 --> 00:36:43,906 But I am telling you, when the water level rises, the graves will be flooded. 152 00:36:44,384 --> 00:36:48,783 As I mentioned before, the ministry will provide 153 00:36:48,808 --> 00:36:53,593 assistance to those who choose to move their graves. 154 00:39:53,592 --> 00:40:01,890 I am from the Nasaretha village. I am here to see the Minister. 155 00:40:02,891 --> 00:40:04,627 What is it about? 156 00:40:06,149 --> 00:40:13,099 It's about the dam to be built on my house and my graves. 157 00:40:14,663 --> 00:40:21,223 There's a form on the shelves, fill it in capital letters. 158 00:40:21,267 --> 00:40:29,000 Your village Chief must sign it and attach the stamped letter detailing the problem. 159 00:40:30,477 --> 00:40:40,124 Then you can come back and throw it in that box of complaints. 160 00:40:40,167 --> 00:40:42,556 I will be here if you need any guidance. 161 00:40:43,513 --> 00:40:49,941 It's not a complaint. It's a request to meet the Minister. 162 00:40:50,114 --> 00:40:52,505 Everything goes in the same box. 163 00:41:33,039 --> 00:41:37,386 We will have to wait for one more passenger. 164 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:49,028 The new god, prays to the old god. 165 00:41:49,072 --> 00:41:52,984 The Red Dust has erupted. 166 00:41:53,027 --> 00:41:55,285 No! I refuse! 167 00:41:55,329 --> 00:41:58,021 This is not a death march. 168 00:41:58,063 --> 00:42:06,382 No, no, I refuse! This is not a death march. 169 00:42:06,407 --> 00:42:21,005 This is the march of the living and the dead! 170 00:44:04,277 --> 00:44:07,753 What will my horse graze on in the capital? 171 00:44:09,491 --> 00:44:13,619 Underestimating one's stupidity is a common 172 00:44:13,644 --> 00:44:17,702 mistake, especially in a pack of shepherds 173 00:44:29,736 --> 00:44:30,778 My Chief, 174 00:44:31,213 --> 00:44:35,862 I am not asking you to part the red seas here. 175 00:44:38,860 --> 00:44:43,901 I'm only asking you to uphold common sense. 176 00:44:46,464 --> 00:44:47,593 My Chief. 177 00:44:50,112 --> 00:44:52,111 We are talking advancement here. 178 00:44:53,414 --> 00:44:58,063 Can you please explain this hectare measurement? 179 00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:00,583 Can you just show us? 180 00:45:01,365 --> 00:45:06,361 We were expecting the measurements to be based on the productivity of the field, 181 00:45:06,404 --> 00:45:09,098 not these hectares and acres. 182 00:45:10,358 --> 00:45:17,615 I toil on this earth. I feed my family from this earth. 183 00:45:22,437 --> 00:45:26,302 This soil is a gift from my mother. 184 00:45:28,867 --> 00:45:32,038 This piece of land that has now become so little 185 00:45:33,776 --> 00:45:36,810 is the inheritance of my children and their 186 00:45:36,835 --> 00:45:39,685 children, and their children's children. 187 00:45:43,552 --> 00:45:49,808 My field ends over there, where your colleague has just passed. 188 00:45:56,325 --> 00:46:01,754 It's small but enough for my family. 189 00:46:05,187 --> 00:46:07,708 You see gentlemen; that's a hectare. 190 00:46:07,881 --> 00:46:11,010 - What the hell?! - Are you crazy?! 191 00:46:12,661 --> 00:46:16,179 What are you doing?! What are you doing?! 192 00:46:16,701 --> 00:46:18,787 I'm a hired hand and a witness. 193 00:46:19,785 --> 00:46:28,302 I know exactly where this is heading. The dam will be built and the flood will come. 194 00:46:30,951 --> 00:46:35,252 When the water level rises, your homes and your fields will disappear. 195 00:46:36,078 --> 00:46:39,902 If you don't take their offer, by that time there will be no compensation at all. 196 00:46:57,540 --> 00:46:59,018 My child. 197 00:46:59,453 --> 00:47:00,959 There will be so much water everywhere. 198 00:47:00,984 --> 00:47:02,362 All of the graves will be covered. 199 00:47:03,624 --> 00:47:06,231 I wonder how deep the water is going to be, above my head? 200 00:47:06,838 --> 00:47:10,049 It's hard to imagine this place covered in water and fish swimming everywhere. 201 00:47:16,918 --> 00:47:20,263 Do you know how this village came about? 202 00:47:21,176 --> 00:47:22,957 Hmmm. No I don't. 203 00:47:25,476 --> 00:47:32,382 Many, many years ago, before your great grandfather was 204 00:47:32,406 --> 00:47:39,336 even born, this place was called The Plains of Weeping. 205 00:47:41,507 --> 00:47:44,983 During the time of a black plague 206 00:47:45,462 --> 00:47:48,114 when the people from far off villages were carrying 207 00:47:48,139 --> 00:47:50,458 their sick to healing centres in the capital 208 00:47:50,588 --> 00:47:52,543 they would have to pass through these plains. 209 00:47:53,542 --> 00:47:58,703 Most often, by the time they arrived in this 210 00:47:58,728 --> 00:48:03,797 valley, their sick would have already died. 211 00:48:04,883 --> 00:48:07,468 They couldn't leave their dead behind so they buried them here. 212 00:48:08,923 --> 00:48:11,921 They decided to settle in these plains. 213 00:48:12,660 --> 00:48:17,569 And then the missionaries who had come from afar 214 00:48:19,436 --> 00:48:21,912 also settled here and they named it "Nasaretha". 215 00:48:23,868 --> 00:48:27,561 But to us, it's always been the Plains of Weeping. 216 00:48:35,642 --> 00:48:40,335 So, many people died here? That's how our village came about? 217 00:48:41,638 --> 00:48:43,679 Yes, my child. 218 00:48:47,721 --> 00:48:50,109 There are going to be lots of dead to exhume. 219 00:48:57,279 --> 00:49:03,056 It's getting late, you better get home. 220 00:49:18,915 --> 00:49:23,824 …he passed away in Motimposo on May 29th. 221 00:49:24,432 --> 00:49:27,733 He will be laid to rest in the district of Leribe on June 17th. 222 00:51:38,073 --> 00:51:44,373 What are you doing? People are here to mourn and yet there is no death. 223 00:51:47,587 --> 00:51:49,020 Mantoa. 224 00:51:49,499 --> 00:51:54,191 Please stop. I am begging you to stop. 225 00:51:55,104 --> 00:51:56,886 This is a disgrace. 226 00:52:02,272 --> 00:52:05,792 Almost everyone in this village thinks you have gone completely mad. 227 00:52:06,443 --> 00:52:08,398 - I defended you! And now this… - I am alone. 228 00:52:08,747 --> 00:52:10,248 Maybe they were not wrong after all. 229 00:52:10,311 --> 00:52:13,742 There is nothing left for me here. 230 00:52:14,307 --> 00:52:23,561 But I let you go, you have to apologise to everyone. 231 00:52:23,822 --> 00:52:34,293 I buried my husband on this land. My children and grandchildren. 232 00:52:35,291 --> 00:52:45,545 My mother and father are buried here and their mothers and fathers too. 233 00:52:47,673 --> 00:52:57,579 So are their umbilical cords, so are mine and my children's. 234 00:52:59,100 --> 00:53:04,618 And all of my mother's placentas are buried in this earth. 235 00:53:07,659 --> 00:53:13,568 My only wish is to be buried here, just like my family. 236 00:53:14,307 --> 00:53:16,740 Buried with our feet, knees and head facing East… 237 00:53:17,913 --> 00:53:21,736 To a place of reeds and water. 238 00:53:23,692 --> 00:53:27,045 If we are to dig up our graves, then every 239 00:53:27,070 --> 00:53:30,686 single grave on these plains must be exhumed. 240 00:53:35,594 --> 00:53:54,712 The bodies of Lerotholi, Seeiso, Letsie, bo Nthati, bo Masopha…Everyone. 241 00:53:58,274 --> 00:54:04,182 And all those who perished in the Lifaqane wars and Boer wars. 242 00:54:06,659 --> 00:54:11,656 And those who perished in the black plague! 243 00:54:14,045 --> 00:54:19,997 We are not moving! We are not going anywhere! We can't desecrate our dead! 244 00:54:20,997 --> 00:54:24,907 Peace, peace, my people. 245 00:54:27,166 --> 00:54:34,681 Technically this land, is the King's land. It's lent to us. 246 00:54:37,940 --> 00:54:39,285 The Land Act says we are only entitled to claim 247 00:54:39,310 --> 00:54:41,231 ownership of the land for a period of 90 years. 248 00:54:43,153 --> 00:54:48,262 Don't forget, throughout our generation, it 249 00:54:48,287 --> 00:54:53,538 has just been a verbal lease based on trust. 250 00:54:55,059 --> 00:54:57,926 We don't have papers to claim anything. 251 00:54:59,794 --> 00:55:02,358 We don't own the land. 252 00:55:03,574 --> 00:55:10,569 As your Chief, your troubles are mine. 253 00:55:13,045 --> 00:55:16,043 Now please, everyone, go home. 254 00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:36,666 We intend to remain on our land. We demand that the 255 00:56:36,692 --> 00:56:43,327 ministry workers cease their work and leave our village. 256 00:56:51,406 --> 00:57:03,615 Every time I say the word progress, my tongue literally rolls backwards. 257 00:57:05,309 --> 00:57:07,048 I can't get myself to spit it out. 258 00:57:09,916 --> 00:57:14,260 My old man was one of the workers 259 00:57:14,303 --> 00:57:17,301 when they wiped out the entire Boliba forest. 260 00:57:22,124 --> 00:57:30,334 They were making way for the main road. 261 00:57:31,812 --> 00:57:35,852 During a ribbon cutting ceremony, we were standing in the crowd, my old man and I. 262 00:57:38,330 --> 00:57:43,064 My father looked me straight in the eye and said to me: 263 00:57:43,802 --> 00:57:48,712 My son, what they call progress… 264 00:57:49,495 --> 00:58:06,352 It is when men point their damning finger at nature and proclaim conquest over it. 265 00:58:15,084 --> 00:58:20,795 Dear King Teele. We live in Nasaretha, far in the 266 00:58:20,821 --> 00:58:26,555 outskirts of a small town in the Leribe District. 267 00:58:27,597 --> 00:58:35,908 We live deep down in the plains that run along the 268 00:58:35,933 --> 00:58:44,758 Senqu River. A river that is layered with black soil. 269 00:58:56,837 --> 00:59:09,280 I don't remember any of us saying that. This is not a love letter. 270 00:59:09,305 --> 00:59:22,556 We should be straight forward and leave these romantics. 271 00:59:23,773 --> 00:59:39,328 Writing is like a…a song, or dance. Is that not so? 272 00:59:40,586 --> 00:59:49,319 Let's give him a chance. 273 00:59:50,015 --> 00:59:53,491 I hope that I am entrusted with the task of writing because of my skill, 274 00:59:53,535 --> 00:59:56,011 not because none of you can write. 275 00:59:57,141 --> 00:59:58,684 Can someone pour me some tea, please? 276 01:00:02,354 --> 01:00:04,222 I am going to start from the beginning. 277 01:00:05,221 --> 01:00:09,175 As I said, it's like music: 278 01:00:13,997 --> 01:00:21,166 There is plenty of arable and pastoral land. It's small, but it's enough for us. 279 01:00:22,773 --> 01:00:28,595 No family has gone to bed without food. 280 01:02:25,249 --> 01:02:30,158 Any showers of rain coming? 281 01:02:37,978 --> 01:02:40,063 In the next days. 282 01:02:47,230 --> 01:02:54,530 Tomorrow then, the hoes will split the earth. 283 01:03:45,537 --> 01:03:49,838 It's been a long time since I've seen our village like this. 284 01:03:52,618 --> 01:03:55,268 It might be short-lived.. 285 01:03:56,963 --> 01:03:59,526 …But we feel alive and it feels good! 286 01:04:08,477 --> 01:04:12,845 I know every single herb that grows in these 287 01:04:12,871 --> 01:04:17,166 plains like the back of my hands. 288 01:04:18,208 --> 01:04:27,593 I would dream of herbs that could mend wounds. 289 01:04:28,766 --> 01:04:33,459 I have done mixtures that can foretell the future, repel a thunderstorm, 290 01:04:34,761 --> 01:04:37,672 summon the rain in dry season. 291 01:04:38,628 --> 01:04:40,323 This has shown me many things in my life. 292 01:04:40,366 --> 01:04:46,712 And yet, there was not even one mixture or one 293 01:04:46,738 --> 01:04:53,920 dream that could prepare me for the death of my son. 294 01:04:55,571 --> 01:04:59,432 On the day before my husband's accident, we 295 01:04:59,457 --> 01:05:03,783 were supposed to go for a walk and pick flowers. 296 01:05:05,868 --> 01:05:08,847 He hated coming with me, he would rather 297 01:05:08,872 --> 01:05:12,168 have a brew with his friends and tell jokes… 298 01:05:14,038 --> 01:05:17,557 But he did come, for me. 299 01:05:19,598 --> 01:05:21,380 But later, 300 01:05:22,379 --> 01:05:25,333 he went to the mountains 301 01:05:26,332 --> 01:05:31,067 to supply our shepherds with warm blankets and food 302 01:05:31,111 --> 01:05:35,543 and mixtures of herbs, so that they could withstand the harsh winter. 303 01:05:36,672 --> 01:05:39,975 We knew that it was probably snowing in the mountains that weekend, 304 01:05:40,017 --> 01:05:43,275 but none of us expected a blizzard. 305 01:05:45,579 --> 01:05:50,116 I wanted to go and look for him because he was late 306 01:05:50,140 --> 01:05:54,791 and we planned to renovate our chicken-coop. 307 01:05:57,874 --> 01:06:01,566 The blizzard was bad in the mountains and all of the roads were blocked. 308 01:06:02,783 --> 01:06:05,999 I had to wait for the blizzard to pass. 309 01:06:06,954 --> 01:06:08,388 I got weary of waiting. 310 01:06:10,038 --> 01:06:11,082 But, I waited. 311 01:06:13,644 --> 01:06:16,470 When the snow cleared up, we went. 312 01:06:16,512 --> 01:06:19,033 I don't have memories of that journey. 313 01:06:19,076 --> 01:06:24,941 I just remember being led to the cave where my husband was. 314 01:06:27,591 --> 01:06:28,808 I swore to myself! 315 01:06:28,852 --> 01:06:34,456 I would come in and he would be sitting around the fire with our shepherds. 316 01:06:34,499 --> 01:06:38,774 Telling them jokes about how I love the smell of wild flowers! 317 01:06:38,799 --> 01:06:41,972 They would all be laughing and my husband would see me and say to them 318 01:06:42,015 --> 01:06:50,836 "Oh well! It's over now, boys! She found me! Even here, she found me by smell!" 319 01:06:53,094 --> 01:06:59,785 I don't want to sleep, the night is so long. 320 01:07:01,046 --> 01:07:05,967 And when I stand up, I am just waiting for 321 01:07:05,992 --> 01:07:11,167 the time to arrive, so I can lie down again. 322 01:07:14,209 --> 01:07:21,941 I don't want to sleep anymore and I don't want to be awake anymore. 323 01:07:22,768 --> 01:07:31,371 Even though it feels long, soon I will be with my family. 324 01:08:17,510 --> 01:08:21,377 He hasn't eaten anything today. 325 01:08:23,159 --> 01:08:30,804 We are ceaselessly praying for him. Soon he will be running like a newborn calf. 326 01:08:31,717 --> 01:08:40,276 The doctor said we should try to talk to him. 327 01:08:57,437 --> 01:08:59,305 Mokolobetsi, how are you feeling? 328 01:09:04,692 --> 01:09:07,028 We are all praying for you. We really miss you at church. 329 01:09:07,561 --> 01:09:10,602 So today, 330 01:09:14,382 --> 01:09:19,291 I was going through the history records of our church. 331 01:09:21,508 --> 01:09:28,328 You know, our church was built in 1850! 332 01:09:31,716 --> 01:09:41,839 It was built by French missionaries. It took them 20 years to build it. 333 01:09:44,360 --> 01:09:52,788 And 15 years to forge the church bell! 334 01:09:55,048 --> 01:10:04,174 Our people had to surrender their spears to the blacksmiths so 335 01:10:04,199 --> 01:10:13,642 that they could melt the iron and beat it into that bell. 336 01:10:17,118 --> 01:10:21,623 Interesting thing is that they didn't just 337 01:10:21,648 --> 01:10:26,285 surrender their spears, but their gods too. 338 01:10:26,416 --> 01:10:37,537 Every single toll of that bell made a way for the new; a new God, a new way of life. 339 01:10:45,228 --> 01:10:51,831 With each toll of that bell, anything from the old was soon forgotten. 340 01:10:59,869 --> 01:11:05,236 Today, we find ourselves staring into the 341 01:11:05,261 --> 01:11:11,165 end of the beginning, making way for the new. 342 01:11:13,075 --> 01:11:26,631 I have come to realise that, nothing will ever endure...Nothing! 343 01:11:26,675 --> 01:11:39,970 A season comes and a season goes. When one soul is lost, another is born. 344 01:11:45,575 --> 01:11:59,267 We end up where we started, and start all over 345 01:11:59,292 --> 01:12:12,425 again. New dreams, new hopes, new ambitions. 346 01:12:13,684 --> 01:12:15,335 Who knows… 347 01:12:22,112 --> 01:12:25,023 Maybe even a new God? 348 01:12:56,000 --> 01:13:00,345 I am taking my brother to the capital. 349 01:13:01,954 --> 01:13:05,820 He is well taken care of here. There is no need. 350 01:13:06,948 --> 01:13:12,945 My leave is almost over and commuting everyday to the capital would be wasteful. 351 01:13:12,989 --> 01:13:16,291 Besides, he will be nearer to the hospital. 352 01:13:22,460 --> 01:13:24,545 The baby is crying. 353 01:13:31,670 --> 01:13:35,280 Times are changing. I am afraid we can't withstand 354 01:13:35,306 --> 01:13:39,012 the march of time. We just have to adapt to change. 355 01:13:41,924 --> 01:13:54,306 You know what you will see, Father? Nothing. You will see nothing, no meaning. 356 01:14:01,865 --> 01:14:13,639 There is no meaning to all this. 357 01:14:18,244 --> 01:14:21,242 There is no meaning to my husband's death, 358 01:14:21,286 --> 01:14:24,285 no meaning to my children's deaths and my grandchild's death. 359 01:14:24,328 --> 01:14:29,151 So it is with your wife's death. 360 01:14:30,019 --> 01:14:37,013 She will die over and over again for the rest of your remaining life. 361 01:14:42,009 --> 01:14:50,960 Yes, that's grief. It's a senseless suffering, there's no meaning to it. 362 01:14:59,476 --> 01:15:02,213 My house doors are always open… 363 01:16:25,325 --> 01:16:27,498 You want money? 364 01:16:28,540 --> 01:16:31,668 I need a grave. For me. 365 01:16:32,928 --> 01:16:37,751 I'll pay you 1000 Maluti right now. 366 01:16:42,442 --> 01:16:44,006 What are you saying? 367 01:16:44,050 --> 01:16:46,570 I'll give you money. 368 01:16:56,562 --> 01:16:58,039 I need the money... 369 01:17:00,385 --> 01:17:03,601 But, digging a grave for someone who is still alive, it's...unnatural. It's.. 370 01:17:05,035 --> 01:17:07,207 I will double the amount. 371 01:17:11,464 --> 01:17:12,680 No, no. 372 01:17:13,985 --> 01:17:18,417 I'll dig your grave and then what? 373 01:17:26,106 --> 01:17:29,755 This round is for the fast contenders! 374 01:18:14,679 --> 01:18:20,805 Whoa that's enough, stop!! You cut the sheep! 375 01:18:21,283 --> 01:18:24,412 Look at you! 376 01:18:38,444 --> 01:18:40,269 Look at your hands. 377 01:19:14,200 --> 01:19:15,851 It's not his blood. 378 01:19:19,545 --> 01:19:20,587 It's mine. 379 01:19:21,891 --> 01:19:24,976 It's just a game. Don't take it so seriously. 380 01:19:36,141 --> 01:19:40,225 Let the dead bury their own dead. 381 01:19:41,181 --> 01:19:47,046 Under this roof that Ralichaba thatched. 382 01:19:47,915 --> 01:19:53,867 Within these walls that your daughter smeared with her own hands. 383 01:19:55,430 --> 01:19:59,384 You shall leave no trace of yourself here. 384 01:19:59,428 --> 01:20:11,593 Bury your existence, lest they say there once lived a sufferer. 385 01:20:14,721 --> 01:20:21,759 The soulless march of time has surmounted you. 386 01:20:22,410 --> 01:20:29,493 Redeem your days old widow, for the wheel of time has cast you out 387 01:20:30,361 --> 01:20:33,707 like an old cloth and turned you into a dung beetle. 388 01:20:34,620 --> 01:20:36,096 It's finished. 389 01:20:37,356 --> 01:20:39,703 It's finished. 390 01:22:24,496 --> 01:22:39,526 There was silence. Even adders and locusts could be heard in the far away hills. 391 01:25:39,872 --> 01:25:41,479 Greetings. 392 01:25:43,304 --> 01:25:44,869 Greetings to you. 393 01:25:56,078 --> 01:26:02,117 We might have an assailant among us. 394 01:26:08,547 --> 01:26:19,147 It may be Morui's associates or one of the young people in the village. 395 01:26:26,490 --> 01:26:35,006 Or some other unfathomable forces are at work here. 396 01:26:41,305 --> 01:26:47,910 I have come to believe that this incident is connected to the dam. 397 01:27:11,718 --> 01:27:14,540 You can come and stay with us. 398 01:27:26,142 --> 01:27:30,269 No, thank you. I'll stay at my son's house. 399 01:27:37,873 --> 01:27:40,089 I should get going. 400 01:31:11,018 --> 01:31:12,061 Greetings. 401 01:31:13,931 --> 01:31:17,754 I would like to talk about my funeral arrangements. 402 01:31:21,012 --> 01:31:28,702 Immediately following my death, I would like to be buried, on the same day. 403 01:31:30,224 --> 01:31:34,047 I don't want to be dressed in church attire. 404 01:31:36,436 --> 01:31:49,425 I want a simple coffin, not those ugly ones with golden angels. 405 01:31:54,379 --> 01:31:55,943 And the songs… 406 01:31:57,682 --> 01:31:59,245 I would prefer our own songs. 407 01:32:04,111 --> 01:32:07,152 Who is leading the choir? 408 01:32:08,413 --> 01:32:09,456 Maphefo. 409 01:32:13,627 --> 01:32:14,670 I don't want her. 410 01:32:16,320 --> 01:32:17,884 I would prefer someone else. 411 01:32:20,359 --> 01:32:21,793 You know what? 412 01:32:21,837 --> 01:32:25,443 I would recommend Marantso. 413 01:32:26,921 --> 01:32:31,083 She will be singing at the church this Sunday and 414 01:32:31,108 --> 01:32:35,044 we will have guests visiting from the capital. 415 01:32:36,435 --> 01:32:38,955 Maybe you can come by… 416 01:32:39,694 --> 01:32:45,211 Here are my son's clothes. 417 01:32:46,993 --> 01:32:48,600 To give away. 418 01:33:31,308 --> 01:33:35,348 Have faith, people of Nazareth! 419 01:33:35,391 --> 01:33:43,863 Out of the womb will come THE FIRE! 420 01:34:34,087 --> 01:34:37,302 Visitor, please sing us a song. 421 01:34:49,554 --> 01:34:53,073 I want to fall asleep like an animal 422 01:34:53,116 --> 01:34:56,246 between the clods of clay. 423 01:35:01,372 --> 01:35:11,712 I want to lay my tiny skull on my belly as a swan, under my wing. 424 01:35:15,579 --> 01:35:24,834 I am sure that the swan falls asleep to the drumming sound of its own heart. 425 01:35:31,045 --> 01:35:35,217 You are not from the capital. That song is for 426 01:35:35,242 --> 01:35:39,171 the initiates when they take down the bull. 427 01:35:46,902 --> 01:35:53,160 My home is no more. It was the first village to be flooded. 428 01:35:56,114 --> 01:36:02,804 When I close my eyes, I still dream of our village. It was just like this one. 429 01:36:08,584 --> 01:36:16,404 The next moment, I opened my eyes and I found myself in the city of lights. 430 01:36:19,271 --> 01:36:25,831 I have been living in the capital for 12 years and I can't seem to find a light. 431 01:36:31,088 --> 01:36:36,432 At least not until Father Neirotti took me in. 432 01:36:36,476 --> 01:36:43,080 We come to villages where the word of God is most needed. 433 01:36:48,424 --> 01:36:50,547 The rumours are that you are going to be 434 01:36:50,572 --> 01:36:53,246 resettled in the city to a place called Motimposo. 435 01:36:54,678 --> 01:37:04,454 If the rumours are true, you are going to need faith. 436 01:37:07,887 --> 01:37:11,537 Whatever the outcome. 437 01:37:14,057 --> 01:37:20,835 We don't intend to leave these plains. 438 01:37:50,422 --> 01:37:53,854 You didn't honour our agreement. 439 01:37:55,287 --> 01:37:58,719 Son of Petjapetja, where is my grave? 440 01:37:59,328 --> 01:38:01,761 I changed my mind. 441 01:38:01,934 --> 01:38:03,931 But we agreed. 442 01:38:06,670 --> 01:38:13,361 Sorry, I can't bear such a sin. 443 01:40:04,105 --> 01:40:10,318 I told you not to get your uniform dirty. I am the one who has to wash it! 444 01:40:11,318 --> 01:40:13,489 You should go take it off as soon as we're done here. 445 01:40:13,514 --> 01:40:15,620 Come closer and help me stand up. 446 01:40:18,356 --> 01:40:22,873 Go and help Mantoa. There she is. 447 01:41:22,787 --> 01:41:25,568 Dance, my boy! Dance! 448 01:41:34,778 --> 01:41:35,820 Hey! What's happened?! 449 01:41:36,820 --> 01:41:38,601 The boy fell! 450 01:41:39,296 --> 01:41:42,076 Lasaro? Lasaro! Lasaro! 451 01:41:52,852 --> 01:41:57,848 Let her see her son! 452 01:43:28,347 --> 01:43:29,953 Why are you staring at me like an owl? 453 01:43:30,475 --> 01:43:34,646 Blame me! I am the one to be blamed! 454 01:43:40,251 --> 01:43:42,770 Go ahead and strike me! 455 01:43:42,813 --> 01:43:45,681 I got you into this, you sons of dogs! 456 01:43:50,417 --> 01:43:51,298 Are you going to just stand there and stare?! TC: 01:39:14::20 - 457 01:43:51,323 --> 01:43:54,034 01:39:17:21 The child is dead! Is that not what you want to hear?! 458 01:43:57,455 --> 01:43:59,290 Are you going to just stand there and stare?! 459 01:43:59,974 --> 01:44:04,234 I killed the child! Strike me! 460 01:44:11,184 --> 01:44:17,658 You walk away with your tails between your legs! 461 01:45:13,225 --> 01:45:18,569 The murderer and arsonist became a coyote that sprawled the night. 462 01:45:19,655 --> 01:45:25,651 They heard rumours. They were surrounded by mortal fear. 463 01:45:25,695 --> 01:45:29,256 It was the longest night. 464 01:45:29,736 --> 01:45:41,596 A single night became an eternity. They became the departed. 465 01:45:42,942 --> 01:45:51,284 Infants clung to their mothers' breasts and refused to grow. 466 01:45:52,718 --> 01:45:58,584 Foetuses refused to be born. 467 01:45:59,018 --> 01:46:02,092 The days were of perilous times and the days were 468 01:46:02,118 --> 01:46:04,969 of perilous men, that no one could withstand… 469 01:46:05,751 --> 01:46:26,345 If that perilous night was not shortened, no one would have survived. 470 01:52:04,705 --> 01:52:09,876 God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; 471 01:52:10,613 --> 01:52:14,783 and there will no longer be any death; 472 01:52:15,567 --> 01:52:20,172 there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain. 473 01:52:32,684 --> 01:52:40,156 Our ancestors, we stand here before you. We have come to take you to our new home. 474 01:52:43,764 --> 01:52:51,541 A new home in the capital. 475 01:52:54,363 --> 01:52:57,057 Even though it is not by our own will. 476 01:53:02,532 --> 01:53:06,614 For those that we leave behind… 477 01:53:10,264 --> 01:53:11,959 Forgive us. 478 01:53:16,349 --> 01:53:18,955 We now part with a song. 479 01:57:12,218 --> 01:57:20,298 STOP! Don't come any closer! 480 01:57:26,946 --> 01:57:37,547 Many saw death but for Ke'moralioamang (Daughter of No One) 481 01:57:39,242 --> 01:57:42,369 saw a resurrection. 482 01:57:43,455 --> 01:57:46,018 It wasn't for the dead. 483 01:57:47,192 --> 01:57:51,711 But for the living.