Black women begin making wine near Cape Town
Langa Township
1. Various of women walking down street
Somerset West
2. Various of Flagstone Winery
3. Various of Nondumiso Pikashe and colleagues Nomvuyo Xaliphi and Jackie Mayobacela from Langa township walking through Flagstone Winery checking on stock and machinery
4. Nomvuyo smelling wine in barrel
5. Nomvuyo and group tasting wine
6. Nondumiso and Jackie checking wine stocks
7. Wine being swirled in glass
8. Jackie tasting wine
9. Various of Nomvuyo drinking red wine from glass
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Nondumiso Pikashe, Ses'fikile :
The interest was always there. The opportunity to explore it arose really in 2004 when there was a change in our political climate in South Africa as a country. There was a call from our president that women should emancipate themselves, that they should go out there and pursue business ventures, try to claim their independence and go into business.
11. Cork being taken out of wine bottle
12. Nomvuyo smelling wine in bottle
13. Close up of wine label
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Jackie Mayobacela, from Langa township :
People should not actually think of wine as being something that is drunk by people of other cultures, like whites. We can also drink it and enjoy it with our foods, not necessarily with what is recommended in some of our restaurants but you can have it with traditional dishes as well.
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Nomvuyo Xaliphi, from Langa township :
We would love to own a winery and a vineyard one day. But as everyone knows this industry is very much capital intensive and the fact that we don't have any skills and expertise related to, relevant to the industry, it will have to take some time. Its going to be sometime before we actually own a vineyard or a winery but at some stage we would love to have those.
16. Wine mentor Bruce Jack from Flagstone Winery talking to the women
17. SOUNDBITE(English) Bruce Jack, Head of Flagstone Winery :
I don't necesssarily think that Ses'fikile is a wine for black people in South Africa who live in townships. Ses' fikile is a wine for the world, its a message that is universal and is carried on only through the townships, where it's obviously being born and where the spring of the inspiration comes from but it carries a message of hope. It's a reflection of the rainbow nation that we are.
18. Wine barrels, pan to women tasting wine
LEAD IN:
The lucrative South African wine industry is receiving a big shake -up from the country's most unlikely players, as black women from the previously disadvantaged townships are getting involved in the finer art of the wine making process.
One group from the Langa township say they are learning about wine in the hope that one day they can start their own vineyard and winery.
STORYLINE:
A group of township women from Langa on the outskirts of Cape Town, has embarked on a major learning exercise in the finer art of becoming South Africa's first black female wine makers.
From the dusty streets of Langa township they make their way daily to the exquisite wine valleys of the Helderberg region in the Stellenbosch area.
Their very first wine label reads Ses'fikile meaning, We have arrived in the Xhosa language.
Traditionally black people drank more beer than wine as wine drinking was thought of as something white people did.
Now that is all set to change as the women from Ses'fikile are determined to forge ahead and enter a very competitive market with their own wine brandings.
Reputable winemaker Bruce Jack first heard about the four struggling black township women who were trying to launch their own wine label in 2004.
He recognised the value of introducing wine to the poorer areas of the country and helping people to learn about good wine drinking.
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