Sylvia Vollenhoven, journalist, maker of the documentary film Project Spear. It was shot for – but never shown by – the SABC. You can see it at the Franschhoek Literary Festival, as part of Noseweek’s on the Fringe.
“It raises questions the government would rather not have to answer,” says Vollenhoven. It has nothing to do with paintings of presidents, but everything to do with billions of rands misappropriated from state coffers, mostly during the apartheid era.
The film poses the sticky question: What’s stopping the ANC government from recovering these billions from the entities involved? The director will be there to introduce the film and respond to your questions.
Sylvia Vollenhoven is executive
producer of VIA – Vision In Africa
and an experienced broadcast
journalist / filmmaker, with an eye
for the tough stories. In 2010 she
picked up on a Noseweek story
about apartheid’s missing
millions that have remained
missing and made a compelling
documentary on the
subject.
WHERE & WHEN:
Café Du Present – Franschhoek Protea Hotel
10.00am Showing of Sylvia Vollenhoven’s documentary, “Project Spear”, with an introduction from Sylvia and half an hour devoted to answering questions.
TIMES and VENUES of NOSEWEEK on the Fringe at the Franschhoek Literary Festival:
All the Noseweek sessions will be at the
Franschhoek Protea Hotel, 33/ 34 Huguenot
Street, in two separate venues, on Sat 18 May
between 10am and 3.30pm.
