South Africa, Jan. 29 -- Hundreds of South African film and television workers gathered outside Parliament in Cape Town on Wednesday, 28 January, to protest against the industry's decline. Marching under the Save SA Film Jobs banner, the group called for immediate government intervention to address the sector's current instability.

Actors, producers, technicians, writers, crew members and other professionals across the industry value chain arrived clad in black, assembling to face a flatbed truck repurposed as a stage in front of the Parliament building on Plein Street.

The protest was called in response to what the Save SA Film Jobs coalition described as "paralysis" inside the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC), whic...