Haezer's 'Minted' Video Tackles Xenophobia in South Africa

From AfriPOP! Tue Apr 15 2014, 04:54:04

The music video to South African electronic producer Haezer's Minted is one of the most spectacular visual stories I've seen. Directed by the "Ombudsman of Minorities", Wim Steytler, the video shows two superheroes, a witch doctor and his supposed colleague, protecting a group of émigrés from a vicious xenophobic attack. The concept was born of a photo story by Steytler of Johannesburg's glum inner city. Hidden beneath the beauty of [...]

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