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Mo & the Disposable Boys

Mo and the Disposable Boys is a story about a principal named Mo and his fight to keep open a school that saves teenage boys from the claws and bullets of the notorious Cape Town gangs. The Ottery Youth Care Centre is home to teenage boys most of whom grew up in broken homes on South Africa's Cape Flats, a remnant of Apartheid’s sinister geography, where mothers position beds around their homes to avoid stray bullets. Ghettos where a 12-year-old boy can borrow his uncle’s gun and commit his first murder. On the streets, the Americans, the Hard Livings or the Mongrels will lure the boys in. Inside prisons, they will climb ranks in the 26s, 27s and the 28s. The lucky few will be pulled out of the grinder. They will find their way to Ottery, the last remaining centre of its kind in the Western Cape, a province with over 3 000 murders a year. The Ottery Youth Care Centre used to house 700 boys, but today, with fewer staff members and less budget, it’s at full capacity with just a fraction of that number. The boys who do land up there learn that gates aren’t always needed to keep people in place and that respect can be earned without a gun. They quickly understand why the other boys lovingly call Mo “Paalie” or “Bob Paalie”, a play on the Afrikaans word for Principal (the “a” stretched out like an accordion). They regain their childhood – “a child who does not play is not a child,” Neruda once wrote - while Mo and his cat dart from meeting to meeting, fighting to keep the doors open at the factory of second chances. Music: The Violent Bear it Away by Moby courtesy of Mobygratis.com