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We Want What's Ours is a american film of genre Documentary

We Want What's Ours (2011)

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Sifuna Okwethu (We Want What’s Ours) is a documentary film about loss, resistance, identity and the elusiveness of justice as experienced by the Ndolilas, a South African family. The family’s land was taken by the apartheid government in the 1970s without compensation, and ever since then they have been on a quest to get it back.

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The film tells the story of both sides claiming the same land as their own. The Ndolilas family’s land was taken by the apartheid government in the 1970s without compensation, and ever since then they have been on a quest to get it back. Standing in their way are working class black homeowners who purchased portions of the Ndolila's land during apartheid. For the homeowners, the land and houses they have legally purchased are a reward for their hard work and the fulfillment of their hopes and dreams for a better life in the new democracy. For the Ndolilas, the land is part of their family legacy and hence deeply intertwined with their identity. Both sides have a legitimate right to the land, and the film encourages viewers to think about whose rights should prevail.

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