VHS only
28 minutes, 2001, South Africa Kgomotso Matsunyane in Sotho, Zulu and English with English subtitles
ABOUT THE FILM
Volume 15 of Steps for the Future a 25 cassette series on AIDS in Southern Africa.
Shot in Soweto, Heavy Traffic shows the lives of two very different funeral parlor operators and the people who work for them. We meet Caps Pooney, who has been in the business for 50 years, and Lulu Somthumsi-Mabusela, the boss of one of many smaller operations which have proliferated in the wake of the AIDS pandemic. Uncle Caps, Lulu and their employees experience a busy week of cleaning bodies and looking for more business. Then comes Saturday and at the cemetery traffic is heavy. After each funeral, both our parties move fast. There is another body to fetch and bury.
