Brett Bailey's Blood Diamonds (*slideshow*)

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Grahamstown's railway line marks the division between its residents. Two different classes of people and two different worlds exist on either side. This is a case that's representative of South Africa at large and the poverty that we have become immune to must be highlighted. This is the aim of Blood Diamonds, as explained by producer Brett Bailey.

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The station that divides us

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As the wind whips through the long tunnel, you can almost hear the whistle of a train long past. Barbed wire lies bundled on the platform and groupings of crushed glass shimmer in the morning rays.

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Bailey explores Grahamstown 'fault line'

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As the wind whips through the long tunnel, you can almost hear the whistle of a train long past. Barbed wire lies bundled on the platform and groupings of crushed glass shimmer in the morning rays. The space is quiet, somewhat eerie in its desertion. It speaks of a loss, a divide, of an often forgotten colonial past.

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