By taking various situations (eg. Zuma’s followers massing outside his compound in Nkandla, his arrival at the Estcourt correctional facility, interviews with his children, prison warders and other supporters and opposers, scenes where random people in KZN discuss the planned insurrection, attacks
on ‘kwerekwere’’ drivers and their trucks, discord among SAPS commanders, vigilante action in Phoenix, to name some scenes), Aloota Continua presents arguments for and against Zuma’s jailing and for and against the actions taken by his followers. Many different characters appear, including jail warders, Zuma’s
children, Zuma himself, a family of shack dwellers, middle class tenderpreneurs, looters, police officers, private security, government ministers, mall owners, small businesspeople, vigilantes, victims of vigilante attack, cabinet ministers and looters. Each twenty-minute episode is broken into three or four scenes
featuring these characters and all perspectives (relating to the week-long orgy of theft and destruction) are put forward

What then of the listener?

How should the radio station use the series for debate and organizing?
The first task is to decide on four consecutive days (and the same time slot) for broadcast. Once that is decided, play the
promo repeatedly and announce the time and date

COMMUNITY DISCUSSION OF THE ISSUES:
HOW TO USE THE SERIES

It is intended, that after hearing all the viewpoints expressed, that the listener will weigh up and decide for him/herself whether the uprising was justified, and whether it has advanced the interests of the masses of poor and unemployed. And if it did not, then whose interests were served, and if they were anti-social and anti-working class, how they should be dealt with.
Community radio stations are strongly urged to open the lines after each episode is broadcast for listener comment.

It is also suggested that stations invite local activists and officials (drawn from civics, trade unions, the SAPS, local traders and mall owners, youth and women’s groups, local government) and specialists like economists and sociologists, onto panels for discussion. Particularly in KZN, Communities will have their own stories to tell, and this should be encouraged.

We would like to thank the National Arts Council of South Africa
for its assistance in funding this production.