A New Look for Naledi: Upgrading a Squatter Settlement

198328 min 19 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Tina Viljoen

Production: Barrie Howells

Script: Kenneth McCready

Co-produced by the NFB and the Canadian International Development Agency.

Photographed on location in Botswana, this film examines the upgrading of Naledi, a squatters' settlement on the outskirts of Gabarone. Originally a collection of tin shacks and dilapidated lean-tos, Naledi was gradually improved through local government and CIDA-sponsored self-help programs whereby residents were given repayable loans in the form of building materials. While to foreign eyes the settlement may suggest more despair than progress, Naledi now has clean water, sanitation, roads, drainage and street lighting, and is considered a model of African settlement upgrading.

Subject categories

  • Developing Countries > AfricaInternational Development and Service AgenciesUrbanism
  • Urbanism > Foreign CountriesHousing and Urban Planning in Developping CountriesSocial Conditions
  • Social Issues > Social ChangeSocial Services in Foreign Countries

Credits

director
Tina Viljoen
producer
Barrie Howells
script
Kenneth McCready
camera
Barry Perles
sound
Yves Gendron
editing
Margaret Wong
sound editing
John Knight
narrator
Dennis Trudeau