Mother City directors Miki Redelinghuys and Pearlie Joubert
Early in 2017, Pearlie Joubert commandeered her two teenage daughters to fill five-litre containers with water. She had just heard on a Cape Talk news bulletin that Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille had had the water and electricity to the old Woodstock hospital — in which poor black Capetonians were living — cut off.
“I got very pissed off with that,” veteran journalist Joubert tells me on a Zoom call last week. “I think she tried to flush them out.”
This inspired her and…
