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Summer is finally here! After months of horrific schoolwork culminating with grueling exams, it is time to relax and watch your ever-growing list of TV shows and movies you never got around to this semester. Sure, the list might be miles long from agreeing to add whichever show your Zoom crush recommended, but these six titles below are necessary line skippers and should be added to the top of your watch list.
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High School Musical: The Musical: The Series Season 2
“High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” proves that there is shockingly still a Wildcat in everyone, no matter how long ago you last danced to “We’re All in This Together,” or tried to reenact “Bet On It.”
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I Am Girls follows special crimes investigator Jodie Snyman (Erica Wessels) and police officer Ntombizonke Bapai (Hlubi Mboya) as they form an unlikely bond and race against the clock to stop a notorious child trafficking ring in South Africa.
Directed by Donovan Marsh (
Hunter, Killer), the thriller is set against the dying days of apartheid, and involved in the trafficking operation are, among other influential figures, powerful South African politicians. (
Speaking to
Channel24, Donovan, who is no stranger to tackling the seedy underbelly of the South African criminal world in his work, says: I ll be totally honest with you. The first time I encountered the project, there was already a kind of outline and a script. And I initially felt like the subject matter was too dark.
Human trafficking is, by nature, a hidden scourge. Accounts of the degree of its prevalence are alarmingly varied and public perception of it even more so. It has often been swept under the rug – out of sight, out of mind – and more recently, it has also been used as a tool to feed mind-boggling conspiracy theories under the hashtags #QAnon and #stophumantrafficking.
But we do know that it happens all over the world, particularly in countries like South Africa with high inequality and unemployment. Human trafficking is an opportunistic crime, and in periods of chaos, it thrives on government unaccountability. We are currently experiencing one of those dangerous periods of chaos – the upheaval of the pandemic has created new opportunities for human traffickers to prey on increasingly vulnerable and desperate people.