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hello and welcome again to rewind and fully back to you bill. since the launch of al-jazeera english back in two thousand and six we've built up a library of award winning documentary s. and here on rewind we've been delving into the vault to pull out some of the best of them today we're going back to two thousand and seven to a poor south african neighborhood just outside cape town when using honor enter dish and come together in an unusual annual competition in recent years soph africa has seen huge political upheaval and corruption scandals and cape town south africa second largest city has been feeling the impact of climate change and struggling with drastic water shortages a decade ago south africa seemed to be moving towards

a more inclusive post apartheid world yet in the poorest suburbs of cape town local communities still maintain their distinctive identities. based in the cape flats the muslim community holds an annual singing competition for the sale of affairs jovi and in two thousand and seven the witness series was there to film this contest which sheds a unique light on the diversity and inequalities of modern soph africa here is the sale of effect. this is the story of a man with a dream but it plays out on the dark side of table mountain. until nine hundred sixty five or thereabouts most of tetons muslims lived in the city proper this book afrikaans a language they helped create and many had roots that went back centuries but when

apart are derived they were forced to move our church to the barren flats outside the city it's a tough world too little money too many drugs and one of the highest murder rates on the planet but not as we shall see the place of hopelessness. this is a place called love it's in the middle of the cape flats and i'm staying here for the thirty years everybody knows and those with the sea because of one thing only because of the. you know there's a slow. going but that's basically in two thousand and five and two friends decided to enter and try to win the annual capital a quiet competition an extravaganza that involves fifty rival teams to custom changes five different song forms and massive amounts of money it was an insanely

optimistic move considering the competition they were facing. this is hard israel name is mohammed saying benjamin. but he owns several businesses and visits mecca regularly some hundred bucks into his. living. sixty. six. feet. he calls his team the starlights and as far as he's concerned nobody can touch them yes there's a lot that doesn't like me in the film but they said he quoth because they both were from the middest knows a good life only first place. was was a box has been organizing choirs since he made his first fortune his funds are inexhaustible his dominance of type with a culture almost complete so it was

a david and goliath situation really an underdog versus the establishment of us as hardy bucks. our new interest for us in the five in school. music but i'm a person that can lead something very quickly this new way music is good. but always knew that i had something in me that i could actually do which in sr i feel it can benefit other people to the touch you couldn't do it alone of course mr muhammad stuff or it's much more brother homage to his friends you see with us i met the plays a major role for me looking at the life with you know is it and i mean these are the we friends who know and get pictures of that and we can they will stay away from he said i need somebody that i can test because he's handling them and you're playing and i can just continue with needing and she five a duck. get it i know i'll do a d.v.d.

a little you know she's to the cable link why would he goes to the meetings and in the see that everything is in place. i put out the front with a thirty minute. really know it's if you like the chances. you can sing so good that this is going to ask if you're seeing something that means that things look from the end of the pin you got there we know. and. we different. the new team was called the continentals and this is the third member of the trio that founded it what he does he plays guitar bass and banjo sings like an angel and dresses flash when he's in the money which wasn't the case until today i'm happy as a citizen this started. but my wife was the only but it was everybody was with them . on the events and every day this close just for food because even depp's that. in case you're wondering i'm the watcher with

a guitar i'm actually right to touch needed help and i was on it to be honest. we were always playing with different boys release it in to. the helmet and need it we are going to. put on this score to do so today. and hope by it was big. when it was what i was away in a mean. as if. no one had. to endure for five o'clock it was a show. they got me at the what i'm told if you only. get.

the business men love the show but are brought in on the a tiny fraction of what the continentals need in months to come there will be more fundraising events karaoke friends and the like but progress is slow and some continental is a battling just a few of them so. i did this in the dead. like you see that they put out there to see their attic cover their goals was to get up and you know they're in a cell of the it's just so you one o'clock one day. donald up through and lives in a caravan whose parents guard him with his family he's just come out of prison and he's struggling to make ends meet sinjar says so i think it is letting go of it in a cellar of the fitting it's so it's just sort of you know you can see only for truth it's nothing. in my heart must.

know. meanwhile on the far side of the tracks the starlights a burden brighter than ever. you know i call eats like the the c.e.o. before god you know me me me just go smoke will be asleep i can never feel good and . i i i i the champion think everybody is that i've got to see what they see. you. know nasa. approach just don't open your mouth and sing the first thing the simplest if you have the support of the state you're one that will be all for your duty and have the. skill of

the conscious neighborhood on the other hand drugs are everywhere and discipline can be a problem but what i saw tonight it was pretty disappointing so. we don't tell you guys no to do whatever you want to do that is up to you but those who would win the teams and we don't need people to know how the iron with their money how did mine know what county club if you speak any clubs or not. so if for half a day when the canola that you for non no he laughed at you he said. and the constitution but see pussies what they can oversee it to thank those that use and will take its course no mental with us that is trying to live we don't talk about it in a. lot of them is coming out of jail community so it is known for its conniving that stuxnet what we trying to do is get given the way from the get into the pic to

see since it didn't teach him discipline so that it doesn't go into that only one thing to seem to them is loaded with the confines. they enjoyed in jail with one and just keep him will keep finding that lame. in the five dollars the guys up to him for the bucks and the practice the fuck to give that up to him out of the fantasy of being. back on sunday to since he. says. sometimes he complains he does actually. well that's not the sports but. i love it that's what's really good.

luck. because i mean really fact i think that if you're in the. past if you got it. that i don't see any theme and support the scene and found me. and i need to learn to. love the scene and i enjoy a scene. like that i'm. not going. to. tell. the load. my name but they could but then we have just two muslim families among the other

families but. we do speak it's like a sculptor we need to and we've been playing that music he's actually that use but i think for the snow. it's high summer and kept on the competition season is drawing near this is the soldier says the hooded grail the way things are going the continental isn't going to get anywhere near it's missing knights in shining armor comes to their wrist i believe a thing. i used to don as a prosperous business man this was dreamed of has and so this is what you do yes. the whole discipline to get up enough. want to go to the site but we grew up in the lake why is indeed he said i'm going to stock up on things so we don't get in the think tank and we just do it they can. hold it together every day and everybody

that working on the site as well seeing this. oh. we needed some money to depose a deal should school the competition so i mean gave me a ticket it eases brings people to think you did what it takes to give it one yesterday fully loaded like these that are look for detail. and i took about twenty directions to them used to dig their way to faces will end of the dick says to them i felt so good yesterday. these guys will be dancing while we played this whole lakeville thing more lively you know at least. it's new year's eve and the big thing is a bring on the good it's not something. one shudders to think what all this is costing mr dog the truck suits of just the start of it he's also hired a string section brass band and enough buses to transport hundreds of people. the

festivities begin with a tour of the tough neighborhoods where most continentals lived before moving to middle class after the witness to dog his wife and her friends have prepared a feast for the multitude. johnson from the continentals and the supporters piled back into the buses and head for the city proper. according to legend all discos back to the opposition of slavery and it's unfair to fall on the stroke of midnight those in bondage were set free and they flooded into the streets to celebrate ever since christmas or march through tips on that so much. that they do no matter. people would know.

that was the fun part of the proceedings in the new year the struggle for the self defense begins in deadly earnest this this is the distribution i got the new from today on with and what you just seen the it is coming up on my pocket nobody else's pocket they must come on remind us they might as we'll as you back here at the end if i'm successful i can boast oh yeah. no really going both isn't then love it. when it's over physics is complicated you get points for singing points for dressing smart and then you hire an army sergeant to drill your team and you get judged on position much of.

the family you get judged for your performance of a certain song a form that is unique to this culture. these sad old songs are haunted by a song that arrived on the case once with a ship's sauna for instance off and some much merit to elements of questioning as they call them in the middle on streets over the. her. there. are. a little cookie and it's called a two hundred songs off of them i don't know because no records was kept to the old people that actually knows the songs that need the lines of leak never ever say it's not a from the late the will never that will stay or the forever war the mother was

was. was fish pesos would have been under ten fifty two hundred years ago the league looked a lot to tease him and said some of us don't even understand it but they need more and more and more they do come to see that old school those look for those little before and now they were slaves and. they came to enjoy the shells buy c.d.'s and learn songs they could into so they sang. god. such a buxom concha claim to like each other but you'd never guess it from the way the talk about one another most of those members with the stylus they will never be able to leave the style it's what evil bucks tells him to do if it goes into mode to jump in the fire i am sure they will jump in the by if this is a sport but these are the look tom davis is zero for this year we've got absolutely nothing to lose. e's got something to lose but we couldn't even believe in nothing

to lose to the woods on the road they were to stop us they want to keep us they want to win if we think. it's only one life or was cut. and i can petition. all those things off with getting. offended in the movies again beat to it by seeing that others writing us will this of. course i'll be the true lover but the plan will be no listen to all that and i'm going to make all those other guys nervous too and i know what these guys get and what i think they don't those suits say you'll see a different lens a day. i saw much of the dress rehearsal and shells what could be a bad omen the tender isn't exactly up to scratch the plot to make it across might

not read by someone who doesn't want to do you think somebody bad alchemy monday to monkey up ten points for the job. it's not to put it to sleep that's not public doesn't give. us. a competition to a day of destiny for the continental. this event is run and run very strictly by the quiet board they have a rule that says on side has come out from the competition we spent many a year begging for an exemption but no luck. in the end the continentals decided to perform for us outside the venue. it was yours and it will open sort of your case we were wrong apparently according to the board when you look at the

mission to do a video sale but this is still on the bottom of the we're going to think that because it's not did we see it. was not a quote from one of the new jobs it would be no ideological but what you are going to mexico we go outside made us buy it be walking we can it's a night at the. club. and if. i run for the record the continentals want to mind a trophy for dressing up of all things for the wrists they were crushed maybe they were doomed from the outset and maybe it didn't matter. of course we wanted to do

it what it was that we would. to do the states lived in before it would. be disappointing to build a business but as you say life will go. you know just to see that deer stand on this a good owner has been given money to put in. and that's for the services that went once again two hundred bucks and isn't from simple starlight's was. the stuff we all different kinds of people played together it's just like the pilot flying into the sky in the sand and. does that moment music actually. i. i i hate it. eighty eight.

they want to read the stylus they want to keep us they want to win if we think. it's only one for. the. was was. it we but absolutely nothing to lose each good something to amuse but we couldn't even do that until. the silver from the witness series in two thousand and seven do check out the rewind page at al-jazeera dot com for more films from the series that's it from us

and so watch. he has no pulse board yet he's politically active in two countries i was the only one who lets down the power at peaceful transition when because official term expired in our part of the world some people think you are stupid a crazy if you do that mikhail saakashvili former president of georgia and ex governor of the odessa region in ukraine talks to al-jazeera. hello there it's not quite as cold as it has been in the southeastern parts of

australia this little spiraling area of cloud it's working its way away from us and that's allowed some slightly milder air to work its way in so for melbourne which should get to around thirteen or fourteen degrees as we have tree saturday further west it is warmer force in perth will be up to eighteen but there's this area of cloud that's making its way towards us lots likely to give us a few showers or it will eventually begin to break up as we head through sunday for alice springs very different here plenty of sunshine twenty two degrees or maximum but at night it's still cold dropping below freezing if we had across towards new zealand with this still spiraling area of travis is the same one that was working away from the southeast corner of australia but it's making its way towards new zealand for new zealand on saturday there will be a good deal of dry fine weather but this system is knocking on our door and as we head into sunday looks like many of us are going to see the weather go downhill plenty of very wet and very windy conditions if we head up towards japan for many of us here it's fine unsettled and pretty warm at the moment tokyo right up at thirty seven degrees for the west though we do have this little line of cloud and

rain that's giving us a pretty sharp showers actually breaks up a little bit as we head through sunday but it looks like we're still going to see some of it affecting us in beijing thirty two here. al jazeera. and for you. when they're on line it's undoubtedly chief. of opinion equality in our society today or if you join the sunset criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is a dialogue what does it feel like. for the first time everyone has

a voice. refugee to. change. the clock in line with the top stories here on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has landed in scotland the next leg of his four day visit to the united kingdom trip as a private element to the visit and trump is expected to play golf and one of his two courses trump held talks with prime minister to resign may and had tea with the queen john hall as more from windsor a day that ended for donald trump in the company of queen elizabeth the second had begun under a cloud of official british dismay at the u.s. president's comments in a newspaper interview for two countries that supposedly enjoy

a special relationship this was no way to treat a friend donald trump told the rightwing sun newspaper.