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Ubuntu - the essence of being human
LYKKENS GAVE, Det Grønne Område, Lyngby-Taarbæk, Danmark, September 2016
TEDxBerlin - September 2013 - Into the Shadows: the underworld of the innercity of Johannesburg
Blog - PEAK - Berlin
PEAK: Hi Line. What is your professional background?
Line: I am a writer, a journalist and I try to use my work to give a voice to those who have been silenced by injustice in its many forms.
PEAK: How important is storytelling in you work?
Line: Storytelling is my work! It is the thread that connects us all. Storytelling captures history, creates identity and fills the spaces between the dates and places in our lives.
PEAK: What does it mean to you being a speaker at TEDxBerlin?
Line: It is a great privilege. A real honour to be surrounded by such dynamic and inspiring individuals.
PEAK: Thanks Line, for the interview!
“Into the Shadows” - Journalisten.dk - 05.02.2013
Af: Lasse LindquistDen danske journalist Line Hadsbjerg og den spanske fotograf Pep Bonet vandt fredag i sidste uge førstepræmien i World Press Photo Multimedia Contest i kategorien bedste ”online short”.
Line Hadsbjerg er freelancejournalist og blogger, og hun har kendt Pep Bonet siden 2009, hvor hun headhuntede ham til at tage billeder til sin bog Remarkable South Africans.
De to fik prisen for deres kortfilm Into The Shadows, hvor Jose Bautista har stået for lyd og redigering.
Ideen til kortfilmen opstod, da Pep Bonet viste Line Hadsbjerg en serie billeder af levevilkårene for zimbabwiske flygtninge i Sydafrikas hovedstad, Johannesburg, som Læger Uden Grænser havde hyret ham til at tage.
Line Hadsbjerg fortæller, at det har krævet store forberedelser at komme tæt på de flygtninge, der i høj grad kommer fra Zimbabwe, og som har samlet sig i højhuse, der bedst kan beskrives som kaprede.
De allierede sig med ”fixeren” Reymond, der selv er politisk flygtning fra Zimbabwe.
De besatte bygninger og fattige flygtninge udgør en by i byen.
»Der er 1.305 bygninger virkeligt inde i centrum af Johannesburg, som langsomt er blevet overtaget. I nogle bygninger burde der måske have været 1.000 mennesker, og nu bor der 10.000. De, der ejer bygningerne, mister fuldstændigt kontrollen med dem,« siger Line Hadsbjerg.
Hun fortæller, at der ikke er nogen officielle tal, men anslår, at der bor cirka en kvart million udlændinge og flygtninge i Johannesburgs ”inner city”.
Meget mere end fattigdom
Det var et dystert syn, der mødte journalisten og fotografen, da de bevægede sig rundt blandt slum-husene.
»Det er hårdt at se mennesker leve sådan her. Det er meget mere end fattigdom. Der er mørkt, fyldt med rotter, og oven i det kommer al den vold, der hører til byen. Det er virkeligt hårdt,« siger Line Hadsbjerg.
Men samtidig bød højhusene også på overraskende lyspunkter.
»Et af de største indtryk var at komme op i en bygning på ottende sal, hvor vi møder en kvinde, der hedder Ruth, som har startet sin egen lille børnehave,« siger Line Hadsbjerg.
Ruth er ca. 58 år, kommer fra Zimbabwe, hvor hun har en baggrund som skolelærer. Nu passer hun over 20 børn for deres blinde forældre.
»Der er en tendens til, at man bor sammen med dem, man minder om, i de bygninger, og hun boede et sted, hvor der var mange blinde, der tigger på gaden til hverdag. Hun sagde til dem ”gå ned og tig, men lad være med at tage jeres børn med, giv dem til mig,« siger Line Hadsbjerg.
Hun forklarer, at forældrene giver Ruth, hvad de kan, men at det typisk kun løber op i to til fem sydafrikanske rand om dagen, hvilket svarer til omtrent tre en halv danske kroner.
»Så det var bare en beam of sunshine at se denne her kvinde, der ikke har noget selv, men gør, hvad hun kan, for de her børn. Det, synes jeg, var en utroligt rørende oplevelse,« siger Line Hadsbjerg.
Arbejdet i Johannesburg gjorde så stort indtryk, at de to – ud over den prisvindende kortfilm – også producerer en længere dokumentar.
Dokumentarfilmen er nu i post-production, og de håber at have den færdig i løbet af sommeren. Derefter er målet først og fremmest, at filmen skal indtage festivaler, for den er i sort/hvidt, og det gør det svært at sælge den til tv-kanaler, forklarer Line Hadsbjerg
Pep Bonet gæster i dag København på et seminar i Dagmar Teateret, hvor Mads Brügger er vært
Interview at The Red Zone, 2.10.2012
Tribute to Remarkable South Africans
Denmark-born development specialist Line Hadsbjerg grew up in Kenya and South Africa, and has now shown her love for her adopted homeland in a book profiling remarkable South Africans, those in the public eye as well as ordinary citizens.
The Cape Town University anthropology graduate has worked in various positions and countries around the world, but says the “incredible people” she was exposed to during her years in South Africa were the inspiration for the challenge of researching, compiling, and publishing the book - titled Remarkable South Africans - almost single-handed.
The project took a lot of savings, two years and 13 000km to complete but, says Hadsbjerg, “it was a remarkable journey into the lives of these individuals.”
One of the big difficulties lay in choosing who to feature. Hadsbjerg eventually narrowed down the selection of people to just 27. Some were chosen, she said, on instinct, others were nominated via her website.
The 27 people featured in the book do not include former president Nelson Mandela. This, wrote Hadsbjerg in her introduction to the book, is because he is not just a remarkable South African, but a remarkable man – one who represents all humanity.
“This book has been created in his legacy,” she wrote, adding that she felt privileged to have lived through South Africa’s transformation under his leadership.
Proceeds from sales of the non-profit publishing initiative, of which there are 3 000 copies in the first print run, go towards projects chosen by the people who gave their time to be interviewed for the book.
The haunting images were captured by award-winning Spanish photographer Pep Bonet, who travelled with Hadsbjerg around South Africa for two months and thousands of kilometres, while they interviewed the final group.
An exhibition featuring a life-sized selection of Bonet’s photographs is now on permanent display at the Old Museum at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg.
Famous faces and unsung heroes
The book, says Hadsbjerg, features South Africans from all walks of life and of all ages. The common element is that they have made South Africa a better place, whether through their lives, work and passion for their country, or simply because of who they are.
In her foreword, academic and businesswoman Dr Mamphela Ramphele said that the book “calls on each and every South African to play an active role in society.”
Notable leaders, celebrities and other personalities such as musician Johnny Clegg, acclaimed Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, Imtiaz Sooliman of humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers, and renowned palaeontologist Phillip Tobias, have their place in the book, and their achievements are well documented.
But there are many unsung heroes, ranging from three-year-old Zimbabwean baby Luc, who was abandoned in a field in a Johannesburg township at the age of three weeks but who found a home in the family of the owner of a nearby farm; to former freedom fighter and explosives expert Patrick, who started an orphanage on his release and now works to find homes for needy children; and retired teacher Val, who writes and produces her own books for children in her Mpumalanga community so that they will be able to know the pleasure of reading.
There are others – the woman who started a support group for grandmothers in her community, as they are often the ones left to raise the children when parents succumb to Aids; the game ranger who would sacrifice everything to keep the animals safe; the environmental activist who runs a greening project in Johannesburg’s inner city; the Soweto woman who cares for 2 000 children, organising school uniforms and fees, and ensuring they get a meal a day; and many more.
These individuals are just the tip of the iceberg – there are thousands more like them around South Africa, and while they all have different stories, in their own unique way they have contributed to making the world around them a little brighter.
THE STAR NEWSPAPER - 1.07.2010 -  Tshepo Tshabalala
REMARKABLE SOUTH AFRICANS by Line Hadsbjerg, Pep Bonet
REMARKABLE South Africans is a book that sings the song of unsung heroes and heroines. It tells of South Africans who take it upon themselves to work for a better future for the country – the custodians of ubuntu.
The stories are marvellously written and are accompanied by spectacular photographs that capture the essence of South Africans. The range of personae is remarkable: every person has their story and purpose for what they do, but what they contribute to the bigger picture is selflessness.
It is overwhelming to read, even as a South African, about the people who dedicate their lives to their communities. Whether it is Corporal Enock Manyike, a Kruger National Park ranger who passionately puts his life on the line for the integrity of the area; or Johnny Clegg, who is known as the White Zulu, a man who traversed the boundaries of race and culture to rediscover himself.
The dedication, vision and compassion of South Africans is rooted in the book. Some of the stories, aided by the photographs, may reduce you to tears.
Issues such as HIV/Aids and poverty are confronted in the book, featuring people who have combated these ills to become the best they can be in contributing to their communities. Only after reading the book did I come to an understanding of what the term, “the revolution shall not be televised”, may mean. The book shows that South Africa is a country that has not only been revolutionised by people who have contributed to it politically. It is a country in the process of transformation that is not about politics, but about people showing love to other people.
That is the revolution and essence of South Africans. This book has captured it in words and in pictures.
GET IT Magazine - January 2011
Remarkable South Africans is a gorgeous coffee table book by Line Hadsbjerg … a celebration of our country and the remarkable individuals who live here. With wonderful photographs by Pep Bonet, the stories of 27 extraordinary people – from Justice Edwin Cameron to Johnny Clegg – have been told in
order to inspire, provoke and call on every one of us to be change makers in society. All proceeds go to Betterplace Foundation, a development organisation assisting NGOs with funding.
CLASSIC FEEL MAGAZINE - March 2011
text by line hadsbjerg, photographs by pep bonet
Fonart ib publishing ISBN 9788493572662
An unusual book that celebrates the lives of remarkable ordinary and famous South Africans. With photographic portraits of Prof. Phillip Tobias, Oscar Pistorius, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, William Kentridge and Redi Direko interspersed with Val Morris (Founder of Books in Homes), Rev. Dr Paul Verryn (community activist) and Cwengekile Myeni (Granny Support Programme) the book venerates the extraordinary, ordinary South Africans who play proactive, positive roles in our contemporary society.
SARIE - January 2011
(”Ek kan ‘n bietjie Afrikaans praat!…)
Elkeen van ons het ‘n storie om te vertel en elkeen van ons kan ‘n verskil maak in die lewe van ander. Dit glo die skrywer Line Hadsbjerg onwrikbaar.
Haar boek, Remarkable South Africans (Fonart Publishing, R475), bewys dit. Hierin, tesame met die fotograaf Pep Bonet, word 27 gewone Suid-Afrikaners se verhale vertel. En hoe hulle in hulle gemeenskap ‘n verskil maak. Maak nie saak hoe klein daardie verskil is nie, dis ‘n verskil ten goede van hulle gemeenskap en dit help weer die land. Baie van hierdie mense is arm. Tog gee hulle van hulself en probeer om op ‘n beskeie wyse ‘n beter lewe vir almal te skep.
Die Ngcece-gesin van Dweshula in Kwazulu-Natal woon in die arm landelike gebied waar geen lopende water of elektrisiteit is nie. Dis ‘n strawwe lewe, want armoede hier is aan die orde van die dag. Hulle glo hulle moet strewe na ‘n beter lewe en hulle moet die mense rondom hulle ook help om saam te strewe na ‘n beter lewe.
Elkeen wie se verhaal hier vertel word, is inspirerend. Die foto’s is uitsonderlik en wys baie duidelik ook die uiteenlopendheid van die land en sy mense.
Hierdie boek is die begin van ‘n projek waar elkeen van ons ‘n beskeie begin kan maak. Die boek is beskikbaar by Kalahari.net, Exclusive Books en Amazon.co.uk. Die skrywer en die fotograaf is werklik merkwaardige mense!
Ek het per e-pos met Line Hadsbjerg gesels oor die projek.
Vertel my bietjie meer van jouself.
Ek is in ‘n nomadiese leefstyl gebore. Hoewel ek oorspronklik Deens is, het ek as kind in Kenia gewoon, waarna ons na Suid-Afrika verhuis het. Ek het my skoolloopbaan in SA voltooi. Ek het met ‘n voet in elke kontinent geleef: Europa en Afrika, en dit doen ek steeds!
Nadat ek my BA graad in Antropologie en Engels aan die Universiteit van Kaapstad voltooi het, is ek Engeland toe om my Meestersgraad in International Development Studies daar te behaal. Hierna is ek na Brussel - ‘n wêreld van politiek, Europese aangeleenthede en wandelgangpolitici. Maar die onbekende horisonne het my altyd geroep en ek en (later) my man het oor die Atlantiese Oseaan geseil en uiteindelik anker gegooi by die eiland Majorka aan die kus van Spanje.
Hier het ons ‘n reisagentskap begin en het tailormade reise aangebied na Oos- en Suidelike Afrika. Ek wou egter terugkeer na my passie - ontwikkeling - en in 2006 was ek ‘n medestigter van ‘n aanlynplatform,betterplace.org - waar mense maklik en eenvoudig kan gee vir verdienstelike projekte.
In 2008 het ek aan my boek, “Remarkable South Africans”, begin werk. Dis in 2010 gepubliseer.
Hierdie projekte en die feit dat ek die ma is van twee dogtertjies hou my baie besig!
Hoe het die idee vir jou boek ontstaan?
Deur betterplace.org is ek blootgestel aan ‘n paar baie inspirerende projekte en ek wou die mense agter die inisiatiewe leer ken - baie van die projekte was regtig afgeleë en op voetsoolvlak. So het ek besluit om my begeerte om te skryf te kombineer met my passie vir positiewe verandering en ontwikkeling in ‘n land wat ek liefhet. Dit het gelei tot die boek.
In plaas van om op die projekte te konsentreer, wou ek op die mense fokus - en nie net op bekende glansmense nie, maar ook op die “everyday giants” van ons nasie - individue wat ten spyte van hulle beperkte bronne, steeds van hulself gee, meer as wat hulle kan bekostig en bydra tot die welstand van die mensdom.
Hoeveel mense het jy ontmoet op jou reise op soek na hierdie mense?
Dis onmoontlik om ‘n syfer te gee. Elke ontmoeting het tot meer gelei. Elke inspirerende individu het oor hulle eie helde gepraat. Daar is so baie mense wat ons kon insluit in die boek, daar is soveel stories wat nog vertel kan word.
Soos ons gereis het, het ek al hoe meer besef elkeen van ons het ‘n storie, ons het almal die kapasiteit om ‘n uitsonderlike Suid-Afrikaner te wees. En in ‘n land soos Suid-Afrika is daar meer as genoeg geleentheid om uit te reik na dié in nood.
Hoe het jy die 27 mense gekies wat in die boek beskryf word?
Ek het myself nie tot ‘n sterk kriterium beperk nie, om die waarheid te sê, baie is gekies op gut feeling. Ek probeer so veel moontlik dat die stories na my toe kom. Mense kon via my webwerf www.remarkableworld.org mense benoem, mense wat hulle gevoel het merkwaardige Suid-Afrikaners is. Baie van die mense wat in die boek is, het só by my geland - deur individue wat persoonlike verhale vertel het oor mense wat hulle inspireer.
Natuurlik is daar ‘n klompie bekende name soos Aartsbiskop Desmond Tutu, Minister Trevor Manuel of Johnny Clegg - maar ek wou doelbewus stories insluit van totale onbekendes wat uit hulle pad gegaan het om hulle gemeenskappe te bevoordeel, en sodoende ook die nasie.
Hoe het jy en Pep Bonet, die fotograaf, by mekaar uitgekom?
Soos met vele goeie idees, oor ‘n glas rooiwyn! Ek was by ‘n wynproe by ‘n wynkelder op Majorka, waar ‘n uitstalling van Pep se werk was. Ek is daar vort met een van sy boeke onder my arm en ‘n baie sterk voorgevoel dat ek dié man moet ontmoet. Toe het ek nog nie eens aan my boek gedink nie. Ses maande later het ons uiteindelik ontmoet en ek het toe my idee vir Remarkable South Africans aan hom voorgelê en hy het ingestem om saam met my daaraan te werk.
Ek wou nie net ‘n boek met ‘n kragtige boodskap skryf nie, maar wou ook hê dit moet esteties mooi wees, met inspirerende portrette wat die gees van ons nasie vasvang.
Ek het die navorsing en ‘n hele paar veldwerktoere gedoen om voor te berei vir die boek. Daarna het Pep, sy assistent, Joan Roig, en ekself vir twee maande kruis en dwars oor Suid-Afrika gereis, (ons het meer as 13 000 km gery) en die onderhoude gedoen en die foto’s geneem in ons soeke om die beste van die menslike moed vas te vang.
Pep Bonet is een van die wêreld se top-fotograwe en dit was ‘n voorreg en plesier om saam met hom te werk.
Vertel my van die webwerf, www.remarkableworld.org.
Die hele “Remarkable South Africans”-inisiatief is ‘n nie-winsgewende onderneming. Opbrengste uit die boek se verkope word gebruik om die projekte wat die kopers benoem het te ondersteun. Deur bloot ‘n boek te koop, maak jy klaar ‘n verskil.
“Remarkable World Philantrophy” is ‘n public beneficiary waardeur die boekverkope hanteer word en die webwerf is my blog waarop ek konstant nuwe inligting oor die inisiatief verskaf en ook relevante kwessies aanraak.
Die boek is bekendgestel saam met ‘n uitstalling van Pep Bonet se werk uit die reeks Remarkable South Africans-portrette by die Konstitusionele Hof in Johannesburg (‘n historiese en simboliese terrein). Dié uitstalling vorm nou deel van die permanente uitstalling en is oop vir die publiek.
Die uiteindelike doel van hierdie onderneming is dat dit almal in SA verteenwoordig en dat dit aan alle Suid-Afrikaners behoort. Dis óns lewens en óns stories - óns kapasiteit om merkwaardig te wees en ons land ten goede te verander.
Die boek en uitstalling, die hele projek is om almal in Suid-Afrika te inspireer, op alle vlakke van ons saamgestelde gemeenskap - dra die boodskap: Maak ‘n verskil, wees merkwaardig!
Vivid Life Radio (US), 28 October 2010
SAfm (South Africa), 29 October 2010 - (Special thanks to Eyvind Jonsson!)
SAfm (South Africa), 28 December 2010, Interview with Karabo Kgoleng
Radio 702 (South Africa), January 2011, Interview with Kate Turkington
Remarkable World is the umbrella under which I live, work and dedicate my time (apart from my family and two young girls that keep me on my toes). It captures a number of projects that I have initiated and to which I dedicate my time. The Remarkable World Blog is a random flow of thoughts - stories that have inspired me, quotes that have motivated me, websites and links that challenge the way I think - it is my canvas for thought. Feel free to comment.
Not without my daughter
Leaving only my footprints. Taking only my memories.
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