A litre of light allows light to be transmitted in a low-tech fashion using water, using light,
to brighten up a very dark space.
I believe that that space isn't just a literal space, it's a figurative space.
It's a dark space figuratively, it's the space of waiting, the space in between temporary
and permanent.
We're not going to wait and do nothing.
You know that waiting space is the space where the human soul, the human spirit, dies.
We hope can die, where you wait for years and years and years.
I'm going to take the plastic off so that we can solve the difference.
That is how it looks like now, because as you've seen before, before I put this plastic
it was really, really dark.
So now, at least now it has a light, it's better because I don't have even a window
here, rather than to put the window and then now they can break the window and come in.
So now it's better and also to just open the door during the day.
When you close the door during the day, it's getting darker, but now when I close the door
during the day, it's getting light.
So now it's cool.
Yeah, I like this.
Baba, I think it's one of the most good ideas for people who do not have electricity to
use during the day, because I mean the sun outside, but if people come here for service
or they need help, they come to me as a traditional healer.
I have to close the door and give the people a little bit of privacy.
So if now I have to close my door, I'll use the light can even during the day.
So there's a bit of wasteful at the other hand, but because now there's this little
light, they call it the solar globes.
I'm from the Eastern Cape, I came from Pinstown, I'm a resident of Mshinwam, we are in Mshinwam
right now.
Then we are busy putting on solar pumps, another name is called leader of light.
Okay, my name is Mzuika, I am not a zombie, we are at Joslova Park in Melantin, but here
is at Mshinwam.
From buying something to the shop, and then you're getting the light for free, and then
there's also electricity, you buy it, but if this one you don't buy, it just comes from
God.
It's just sand and the bottle and water, so it's just for free.
So now I've closed the door even now and then I've got the light, it's wow, that's a good
one.
Yeah.
We're listening to all these outside people saying, grow your own food, grow your own food,
we look at the ground, there's no place to grow the food on, and where there is place
to grow, even if you did bring in soil, there's no space, because Cape Town is essentially
full.
Look to the walls, look to the other spaces, the vertical vegetable garden, wrapping a shack
around with a living, growing vegetable garden that produces, on site, for free, for the family,
unpoisoned, organic, healthy vegetables.
To pick these vegetables, you don't have to get into a taxi, you don't have to get
onto a train, you don't have to walk three kilometres, you open your front door, and
you pick your tomatoes, your granadillas, your gooseberries, whatever you want to grow
on the side of that.
What you can do with the gifts that we get from Mother Nature for free every day, this
is light, this is water, this is plants, photosynthesis, these things that happen for free, recognising
that everything comes actually from the sun.
Because if you can cover the perimeter of your shack wall on the outside, with a productive,
healthy, growing, vertical vegetable garden, what you're doing is you're covering your
wall with water, so when that fire comes, it's not going to burn wet soil.
