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at the back . with. hello and welcome again to rewind and fully back to. since the launch of al-jazeera english back in two thousand and six we've built up a library of award winning documentary 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 and tradition come together in an unusual annual competition. in recent years south 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 silver fez 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. till nine

hundred sixty five or thereabouts most of the town's muslims lived in the city proper this book of recounts a language that helped create and many have roots that went back centuries but when the parts are derived they were forced to move our church to the parents that's 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. it's in the middle of the cape flats and i'm staying here for the past thirty years everybody knows and those with a c. because of one thing only because of the. but i could go on but they basically said yes in two thousand and five touchy 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 haji bugs israel name is mohammed same benjamin but he owns several businesses and visits mecca regularly some hundred bucks into his. living there. sick. sick sick sick sick sick sick. 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 come but they said he quoth because they both were for me this knows a good life only first place. was

. such 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 haji bucks. well you interest for us in the five in school. music but i'm a person that can lead something very quickly this new the music is good. but always knew that they had seven thousand in me that i could actually do which incineration it can benefit other people to the cut you couldn't do it alone of course mr muhammad stoffel it's a much more brother homage to his friends because he would that i met the plays are lazy little from me looking at the life with you know is it enough. these are the we friends who know. the truth of that and we can they will stay away from that i

need somebody that i can tell this because he's handling them and you. and i just anybody the five of. you know. if he's to the quiet when he goes to the meeting see that everything is in place i put out what. i said really know exactly what the chances are you can sing so good that he said to ask if you're seeing something that i missed that means look from the judges and the people he knew got their meaning. and. we different. the new team was called 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 now and as a citizen this started. but my wife was the only but it was everybody was with them

. on the advance and every day is close just for food you can't even come on depp's put it on the. in case you're wondering i'm the watcher with a guitar i'm actually a writer but touching needed help and i was on it to be honest. we were always playing with different poison release it to be told and we made a plea to him look into it we are going to. put on this it's cost to let introduce them to us. and hope by of all was ricky was if he. when i was with that i was away in the marines them up with the mock as if the sunni know it was ignored on the show and put it from two into four or five o'clock it was a show. they got me at the what i thought if you really think.

the businessman loved the show but it 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 slower than some continentals a battle in just a few of them so. i did this and they did it. like you see that they put it out there i guess even at a cover that those has 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 see this. so i think it is let go of it

in a cellar of it in the it's so it's to 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 or eat like the the c.e.o. before god you know me me me just go slow 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. and know. nothing. now 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 themes and we don't need people like to know how delighted with men there are men now to my know what county club if you speak any clubs or not. so if for half a day my knock on the lucky for non no he laugh at you can be said. and the constitution but see 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 fictitious since it didn't teach him discipline so that it doesn't go into that only one thing to seem to live in is loaded with the confines of. danger we didn't share with one another just keep doing we'll keep finding that. in the five dollar the guys up into the box and the practice the fuck to give that up put him out of the fantasy of being. back on sunday to since he. says. sometimes he'd complain he does actually. well that's not the

sports but see that's why i love it that's what's really good good. luck. because i mean really bad but i think that being in the. past if you got it. that i don't see any theme and what they seem to. play for me. and i think. i enjoy you seem. like i'm. going. to let me tell. you let's.

close. my neighbors they could but then we have just two muslim families among the other families but. we did speak it's like a sculptor we need to and we've been playing that music he's actually that you split a thing for this. entire 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 just adored is 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 isn't it he said i'm going to stock up on things so they don't get it i think they can we just do it they can. hold it together every day and everybody that working on the site as well seeing this. little over. we needed some money to depose adele sheets pull 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 details. and i took about two a detections to them you said the 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 way kill thing more lively you know at least. it's new year's eve and the big thing is

a bring on the kids not some. one shudders to think what all this is costing mr dog the truck suits are 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 were mr dog's 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 this goes back to the opposition of slavery and it's unfair to fall on the stroke of midnight to those in bondage were set free and they flooded into the streets to celebrate ever since muslims are much too tripped on that so much. that they do no matter if it does. that's a lot of people. and. that

was the fun part of the proceedings in the new year and the struggle for the soul of the fez begins in deadly earnest this this is the distribution i got to do from today on with and what you just seen the is coming out of 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 both go yeah. the league in both is and then lover of. winning silver fizzes 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 sacred song a form that is unique to this culture. these sad old songs are haunted by a song that arrived on the cape once their ships personified and sent off and so much merit to elements of questioning is the core of them the little unseats of. the. or her. or. a little peculiar it's called a two hundred souls off of them i don't know because no records was kept of it it's only the old people that actually knows the songs the nigger lands leak well never

ever say it's not a from the late the will never that will stay or the forever war the luck was was i was case always with it in under ten fifty two hundred musical in the little outings of immanence some of us don't even understand it but as you need more and more and more did you come to see that old school you know all those local fuzz lived before and i'll be whistling. they came to enjoy the shells buy c.d.'s and learn songs they could into so they sang. god. budget box and cut your 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 starlets what evil bucks tells him to do if he tells him to load

to jump in the fire i am sure they will jump in the by if this is a sport but these are the look dumb game this is their first year we've got absolutely nothing to lose. e's got something to lose but we couldn't endure milk wooden nothing to lose to the woods on the road they were to stop like they want to keep us they want to win if we think. if only one for life almost cut closeness that of seven and i can petition. all those off with getting. attended in the movies again beat to it by seeing that other side i think. this of. course i'll be the true lover but the unwilling to be known 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 to do in those suits say you'll see a different lens a day. for 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 that by someone who doesn't want to do you think somebody bad alchemy monday two months you have ten points for the job i just about to put it to sleep that's not because it doesn't give. us. a competition day to 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. will suit up on your claim we were wrong about. according to the board when you look at the mission to do a video with just a little on the bottom of the we're going to go outside did you see it. was not going to go wide open then you thought it would be snow what you want whatever you want to mexico we go outside made us by it walking we can it's a knotted. club. and if. i

pull the record the continentals one of mine 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 would be with a deal if. they lived in before. you. can be disappointed again last night but everything in life will go. just to see that deer stand on the save. money get the thing. and that's for the service as it went once again two hundred bucks and his infant simple starlight's was on. the stand all different kinds of people played together it's just like the pilot flying into the sky in the sand and. does that moment the music takes you away. i was

thinking. i. think a. a a. they were to do with the starlix they want to kill us they want to with everything made them come it's only one first place. i asked. the i. would absolutely nothing to lose each good sounding to me but we continued to move into.

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the rain is pushing its way into the western parts of europe now to be a bit of a shock for some of us because it's been hot and dry for a while now but here's that area of cloud as it gradually edges its way eastwards and as it does so it will bring a drop to the temperatures but not too much for london there will still get to around twenty four degrees on shoes day further south it was still we won't for many other parts of western europe but we'll also see water to thunderstorms some of them over the alps could be rather violent and bring you some hail and some damaging gusts of wind those thunderstorms also extend down across the coast of the adriatic as well and for the eastern parts of year it's a bit different here we've got an area of low pressure in charge so it's cloudy it's wet it's also not that hot and that's the way it's going to stay as we head through the next few days and no major change for us across the other side of the mediterranean you can see the winds feeding down from the north so for the north coast of egypt the temperatures on that high that go inland the temperatures quickly begin to jump up further west it's already pretty hot forcing chewed up but nine degrees does change though as we head into choose they are going to change in

wind direction and then our maximum were just thirty four for the central belt of africa more showers here have brought us a little bit of flooding in places and they'll be more lively showers on monday. where were you when this idea popped into it when they're online some go to the chief cool. over didn't he go to do you know society today or if you join the sunset criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is a dialogue what does it feel like to go back for the first time everyone has a voice and allow refugees to be the speakers for change join the conversation on our.

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