Videos
Inland Fishing as Work Documentary
“Unhooking Potential: Understanding Inland Fishing as work”: Our short documentary, draws upon the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP), to depict the importance of valuing small-scale inland fishing as legitimate work and also brings attention to the key challenges faced by local fishers in the Gariep Dam region.
Women in Inland Fisheries Documentary
The documentary When Hungry, the Children Look Towards Me: women’s struggle to secure a livelihood through inland small-scale fishing will explore the lived realities of women from the community of Msiyane, Jozini (KwaZulu Natal).
Inland Short Documentary
The inland fishing documentary “I live behind the Hill”: Stories of inland fishers struggling for recognition complements the research report providing the missing voices of inland fishing communities. It highlights the insurmountable challenges faced by inland fishers as food producers during a global pandemic laden with restrictions.
Masifundise SSF Activist School
In November 2021, Masifundise hosted a Youth Activist Summer school for SSF Youth from Eastern Cape and Kwa-Zulu Natal and learnt about the challenges that youth face in the SSF sector. We aimed to empower youth of coastal small-scale fishing communities, especially youth and women, across South Africa with the relevant knowledge and capacity to claim, defend, and promote Food Sovereignty in small-scale fishing communities.
SSF POLICY: Perspectives from South African small-scale fishers
This documentary is one of five in a series produced by the Masifundise Development Trust in 2018, with the support of the European Union. Each documentary focuses on the various ways in which small-scale fishers across the four coastal provinces are engaging with the Small-scale Fisheries Policies, including women and youth, despite many setbacks and broken promises on the side of government. Each one tells an untold and largely hidden story, of what it means and what it takes to be a determined small-scale fisher in South Africa.