And when he hears why she’s come - her father used to be a Sharpeville cop and was stationed there when the massacre occurred - he is further outraged by this “white woman shooting black people…with her camera.” He isn’t going to like the white woman’s attentions. And Tshepo ( Senzo Radibe) is a politically-aware man-friend with benefits. Siya takes care of her diabetic grandmother ( Connie Chiume of “Black Panther”) and tries to give the fiftysomething white woman the brush off. Tyra’s in love…or some sort of white privilege lust. She simply must become Tyra’s personal guide to the river, the town and the event she wants to experience. This vision of a woman, Siya ( Nqobile “Nunu” Khumalo), simply must let her take her picture. She sees women dressed in white praying at the spot where 69 peaceful protesters were gunned down by the Apartheid police state’s uniformed goons, and is struck by one in particular.
One woman, Tyra ( Michelle Bote) seems most keenly interested in Sharpeville, taking scores of photos but generally dissatisfied with the depth - or lack of it - of the history related by their tour guide.
This Around the World with Netflix story is about the ripples of pain that pass through history, a great wrong impacting generations, reopening wounds and spreading trauma.Ī group of mostly-white tourists take in the town and its memorial decades after it happened. A dreamy South African parable of a bloody past coming back to haunt the present, “Jewel” never actually takes us into the infamou s Sharpeville Massacre of 1960.
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