The Lost Carts of the Karoo (2019) Full documentary

The Lost Carts of the Karoo is a short documentary following the Louw family as they leave a lifetime on the road, and settle into the modern world on the edges of the small Karoo town of Colesberg, South Africa.
Made over seven years, the film chronicles the final days of Oupa Lodewyk Slinger, one of the last Karretjie Mense.
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FESTIVALS:
Winner:
Shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival - "Made in South Africa" Audience Award (South Africa) 2019
Official Selections:
Silicon Valley African Film Festival (USA) 2019
Lift-Off Global Network First-time Filmmaker (UK) 2019
Young African Filmmakers award - Afrika Film Festival in Leuven (Belgium) 2020 .
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CREDITS:
A film by Timothy Gabb
CAST
Oupa Lodewyk Slingers
Ouma Sina Louw
Isak Louw
Hanneline Louw
Salman Louw
Poppie Swarts
CREW
Timothy Gabb
Russell Bruns
Christo du Toit
Daneel Knoetze
Adam Little
Jonathan Cornelius
Karen Wieffering
Alex Noble
SOUND:
Gustav Stutterheim
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS:
Timothy Gabb
Caroline Gabb
Gustav Stutterheim
Jonathan Cornelius
David Mostert
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Professor Michael de Jongh
Riana Steyn
Richard Wicksteed
Archive Footage:
What Happened to the Donkey People? Third Degree by Charlene Stanley (2005)
Bou van 'n Nasie (1938)
Music (Creative Commons):
Kyle Preston - Rise
Kevin MacLeod - Calming
Kevin MacLeod - Clean Soul
Kyle Preston - A Sea Change
This project is supported by award-winning South African playwright, Athol Fugard:
This project will be, to my reckoning, an important contribution to a body of artistic and scholarly work that seeks to give a voice to marginalized peoples in South Africa. Its great strength in this regard is that it tells the individual story of a family, and thereby resists the temptation to generalize lived experience. For too long has South Africa focused on its dominant narratives, and ignored the stories on the edges. This project, with its focus on the karretjie people of the Karoo, attempts to do just that and, as such, deserves all the support it can get.
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Online stories:
The poorest of the poor: The Karretjie Mense of the Great Karoo by Timothy Gabb
groundup.org.za/article/poorest-poor-karretjie-mense-great-karoo/
The Karoo's dwindling cart people still hear the call of the road by Daneel Knoetze
mg.co.za/article/2015-04-09-the-karoos-dwindling-cart-people-still-hear-the-call-of-the-road
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Visit our website for more: wagtale.co.za

[@ronaldkable]

Dit was nou 'n groot plesier om te kyk. Sooo lekker om goeie Afrikaans te hoor praat. Uitstekende dokumenter

[@jamesberrange3671]

I did my national service at the Infantry School in Oudtshoorn in 1979/80. Once a month on a Saturday morning, the entire (untarred) parking lot off Baron von Rheede street was filled to capacity with 'karretjies', parked wherever they could find a place, preferably in the shade of an acacia tree, while their owners went shopping and socialised. The most pleasant, peaceful, colourful bunch of gypsies you could ever wish to meet. Mense met hart. Excellent documentary, hats off to Timothy Gabb.

[@Deontjie]

Charlie?

[@gabflyMEDIA]

Thank you for the kind words, James! Glad the film resonated with you!

[@Deadfall_Telemetry]

Actually, I think you will find in 5 years time all South Africans will be driving donkey carts 😂

[@Nicorien]

Thank you for sharing it with the world!

[@ronalddippenaar2381]

All these anecdotes need to be documented and preserved in the history of the Khoisan/Kullid people of the country.

[@michaellawson6533]

May God bless his soul. He was truly a man of the land.

[@tims1542]

Just finished watching this documentary. Wow, just wow. Priceles, beautiful, sad, heartfelt. Where does one begin to describe what was captured in this footage. Thank you, from a south african in the uk this evening.

[@mercuriaazalieu6335]

What a treasure, what a gem. Exceptional. Thank you. This is what is missing in today's world... story telling.. Deeply felt.

[@elizabethnovak4088]

Oupa lyk so "grand" aangetrek...een van die " "grand" oupas van daai jare, ...oupa het n wonnerlike skoon skoondogter...mag die Here haar Seën, dis n pragtige storie wat diep spore in my hart trap...baie dankie vir so n mooi dokumentêr...❤

[@ephesians6ten185]

Awesome, dankie. Beautiful. Thank you. Dust to dust - make every second count.

[@cassyvorster466]

So trots n gemeenskap. Dankie vir die klein inligting in ons broers en sissies in die kaap se lewens.

[@Foragefarm]

Great storytelling thank you

[@johnmcgrath2022]

Excellent Documentary Timothy.

[@vonsassy]

Wow. That was just incredible. Much love!

[@collintitus7674]

My people ❤️ what a great documentary👌🏽

[@moosa9850]

Majority of South African towns and cities are built on the ancient Kraale Xhaam/Khwena peoples homes. Contrary to popular belief that the indigenous people, were backward, yet prior to European and Bantu contact, these people traded with and also married with Dravidian Malay Arab and Chinese traders. The narrative of backwardness needs to change

[@mitchellyuen7961]

Stunning Documentary 👏👏👏

[@rpbrear]

Stunning.

[@justinhall7489]

Wow amazing documentary

[@GloryDaze73]

❤ oh my heeart aches...

[@naturalcombinations]

Lovely peoples

[@kingmufasa8929]

So things are great with these people now. Glad to hear

[@carleksteen2696]

Bravo

[@janduplessis5190]

Kosbaar om die oudste stam in suidelike Afrika so te sien. Hul Afrikaans is suiwerder as baie van ons jong blanke kinders.

[@shakeellouw2250]

iM SITTING WITH TEARS IN MY EYES, Im a Louw these people share my last name I'm indigenous just like them. We really got the worst deal out of this new South Africa but we love her the most.We built most of this Country and died in Her Wars for centuries,but still we sukkel the most.

[@collintitus7674]

Couldn't agree with u more👌🏽 couldn't hold the tears back so emotional to see how we've got the short end of Democracy

[@dirkhuman760]

Van vryheid na loonslaaf en dan te reken dit is 'n beter toekoms? Dit is baie hartseer mense so ingetrek kan word met breinspoeling.

[@Patshes]

🆒😎👍

[@christeleokhanyabezu8881]

This place is soooo hot I wonder how these people survive

[@omarmy3495]

Mag ek net sê dat die Almagtige GOD/ALLAH my verskillende lewenswyse van mense wêreld wyd bloot gestel het en hierdie kleine insig van die "Karretjie Mense", is heelwat interesant. Hierdie mense se sagmoedigheid is iets wat my hart baie rustig en vreedsaam lat voel. Almal ietse wat die Almagtige GOD/ALLAH so mooi geskape het!

[@neelsvanderwalt7192]

Die ware tragedie van SA n skande van ons wit SAners

[@danvermouton4656]

U sien dit is n riem onder die hart om dit te kan sien ek het groot respek vir ons voor ouers.Ek is net jammer hulle was weerhou en ontneem van so baie dinge en kon nooit tot hulle volle reg kom nie.Tot vandag was die kerk,graaf en wyn aan ons mense voorgestel saam gepaart met slawe arbeid en dienaars van die wit mies en wit baas wat ryk geword het op ons ouers se rugte.So hartseer daarom is die drank so groot probleem in ons gemeenskappe want dit was gebore deur n DOP STELSEL en ek weet daars iemand wat die lees en dit erken di so tragies.As iemand net die historiese ongeregtigheid teenoor ons mense kan korregeer en repereer sal dit die oop wonde en die onherstelbare skade darem kan heel vir die volgende geslag.So dood brand arm kan jy die aarde verlaat nie wat is jou nalatingdkap?Smart,Pyn en Lyding hoe kan n hele volk dit erf?

[@elizabethnovak4088]

Wat n pragtige wydsydige beskrywing van die voor ouers, ons was kinners toe hoor ons van die dorp stelsel, waar die arbeiders (ons voor ouers) met drank en n rol tabak betaal was vir hulle harde werk, imagen!

[@elizabethnovak4088]

Daai potte op die stoof blink!!

[@redmatters9318]

Well done ✔️. Needs wider exposure. G'day from Australia 🇦🇺 🪃 🪃 😅