NFB Collection
Lessons from Lesotho
198330 min 29 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Tina Viljoen
Production: Barrie HowellsKenneth McCready
Script: Kenneth McCready
Produced by the NFB in cooperation with the Canadian International Development Agency and the United Nations Centre for Human Settlement.
Since the late 1960s, a number of different attempts at solving housing problems in Maseru, Lesotho's capital, have been made. Mohalatitoe, the first in that South African city, was a venture in cooperative housing and although it was not totally successful, its managing organization, the Lower Income Housing Company (Lehco-op), was. Lessons from Lesotho shows how Lehco-op has evolved; it no longer initiates housing co-ops, but now provides low-cost houses through site and service projects.
Subject categories
- Developing Countries > AfricaUrbanism
- Politics and Government > Africa
- Urbanism > Foreign CountriesHousing and Public Housing
Credits
- director
- Tina Viljoen
- producer
- Barrie Howells
- Kenneth McCready
- executive producer
- Barrie Howells
- script
- Kenneth McCready
- cinematography
- Barry Perles
- sound
- Yves Gendron
- editing
- Margaret Wong
- sound editing
- John Knight
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- narrator
- John Grant