Rehad desai biography sample

          Rehad is known for his uncompromising approach both to TV and cinema, his directorial work has been critically acclaimed locally and internationally.!

          Rehad Desai is a Cape Town-born filmmaker who returned from exile in and now lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa.

        1. Director at Uhuru Digital · Former Producer at Independent Filmmaker · Studied MA Social History at University of Witwatersrand.
        2. Rehad is known for his uncompromising approach both to TV and cinema, his directorial work has been critically acclaimed locally and internationally.
        3. Everyone calls him 'Hardy'.
        4. Rehad Desai is known as an Director, Producer, Writer, and Actor.

          5. The Marikana massacre and the contradictions of South Africa's "nonracial" capitalism

          Perhaps we can start with a timeline: The event itself, the filmmaking process, the subsequent investigation (known as the Farlam Commission), and where things are now.

          Rehad Desai: A few days before the massacre, I was in Marikana looking into Black Economic Empowerment (“BEE”) projects in the region, and I was just shocked—it was like a dystopia. All the guns and the army and the quality of the housing, it’s just shocking to see.

          So I wasn’t actually there on the day of the massacre.

          But in the lead up I met a few of the strikers and felt duty-bound to get involved. Very quickly, we set up the support campaign and started raising money, two weeks after the commission started.5 The big argument that arose was whether we were going to participate or assist or boycott this commission and try to set up our own, [i.e.,] a civil society inquiry.

          And the arguments made by some o