Capturing Water: Director, Rehad Desai

Rehad Desai

Uhuru Productions


Rehad Desai is a Producer/Director who runs his own company, Uhuru Productions. Following his return from political exile in the UK, Rehad worked as a trade union organiser, a health and safety/media officer for a chemical workers’ union, and a director of an HIV prevention NGO. In 1997, he completed his Master’s Degree in Social History at the University of the Witwatersrand. Rehad then entered the TV and film industry as a current affairs journalist, and soon after moved on to focus his energy on historical and socio-political documentary film.