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hello and welcome again to rewind and fully back to. since the launch of al-jazeera english back in 2006 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 2007 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 2nd 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 2007 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 silva phase. this is the story of a man with a dream but it plays out on the dark side. till 965 or thereabouts most of the town's muslims lived in the city proper this book afrikaans a language they helped create and many had roots that went back centuries but when

a party to arrived they were forced to leave 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 30 years everybody knows and it goes with c. because of one thing only because of the use of. if it had gone but they basically said yes in 2005 and $2.00 friends decided to enter and try to win the annual cape malaya quiet competition an extravaganza that involves 50 rival teams 2 custom changes 5 different song forms and massive amounts

of money it was an insanely optimistic move considering the competition they were facing. this is hardly bucks israel name is mohammed saying benjamin but he owns several businesses and visits mecca regularly so the 100 bucks of his. living. 60. 66650. 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 he said he quoth because they both were for me this knows a good life only 1st place. * was . such a box has been organizing choirs since he made his 1st 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. i'll you interest for us in the 5 in school. music but i'm a person that can lead something very quickly this new a music is good. but always knew that i had 7000 in me that i could actually do which in sr i feel it can benefit other people too the cut you couldn't do it alone of course mr muhammad stoffel it's much or rather how much to his friends receive it doesn't make the plays and lays it all from me looking at the life with you know is it enough. we fight to. get through to live and we can they will stay away from me. i need somebody that i can test. and i can just continue with leading. you.

to the quiet would he goes to the meeting see that everything is in place i put up with. 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 things look from the judges and the people he knew got their meaning. and. we different. the new team was called the continentals and this is the 3rd member of the trio that founded it what he does it plays guitar bass and badger 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 advance and every day is close just for food you can't even come out depp's of it on the. in case you're wondering i'm the watcher with

a guitar i'm actually a writer but touch needed help and i was on it to be honest. we were always playing with different poise police said to me told me later please. need it we are going to. put on this it's cost to do so. and hope by a big. one or what i was away in a mean to mock as if. no one had. a platform to endure for 5 o'clock it was a show. they got me at the what i'm told if you're. going to.

the businessman love the show but are brought in on your tiny fraction of what the continentals need in months to come there will be more fundraising events karaoke for minutes and the like but progress is slower and some continental is a better name just a few of them since. 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 the governor and i sell of the it's just so you 1 o'clock one day. donald duck flew and lives in a caravan whose parents garden with his family he's just come out of prison and is struggling to make ends meet sinjar says if so i think it is let go of it in a salad of it in the it's so it's just sort of you know you can see only for truth it's nothing. in my heart my spine i have seen.

loads. meanwhile on the far side of the tracks the starlets of burden are brighter than ever. you know i call or eat like the the c.e.o. before the article me me me just read those local news things i can never feel good . i. have a champion in even bodies that i've gotten you to see what they see. 2 and know. nothing. approach just don't open your mouth and sing the 1st thing the simplest if you have the support of the state's young one that we are to be the at have the.

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 him but how does iran with money or money now how does my know what county club if you speak any clumps 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 bushies i think no he had to thank those that you sent will take its course no metal with us that is trying to live we don't talk about it anymore the the little billy was 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 90 percent of it was loaded with the confines would. only be needed a change we didn't gel with what i just keep doing will keep finding that. in the $5.00 the guys out of the box and the practice the clock ticking at 1 o'clock putting them out the fantasy of being. back on sunday since he and. i. would say. sometimes he'd complain he does actually. well that's not the sports but see that's why i love it that's why it's really good.

because i mean really bad but i think that in the. past if you got it. that i would see any theme and what the scene and times. and i mean. i love the scene and i enjoy you seem. like i'm. going. to give them hell. let's. close. my neighbors they could but then we have just 2 muslim families among the other

families but we do speak it's like a sculptor but he needs help and we've been playing that music he's actually that you split a thing for this. entire summer in krypton and the competition season is drawing near this is the silver says the holy grail the way things are going the continentals aren't going to get anywhere near it's a mismatch in shining armor comes to their wrist i believe a thing. i just adored is a prosperous business my business dreamed of has and so this is what you do yes. the whole discipline to get enough. he's met in the context in the psych that we grew up in the many clients interview decided i'm going to stock up on pink so they don't get in the 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. oh sleep. we needed some money to depose a deal sheets pull the competition so i mean gave me a way to get it he just brings people to think you did what it takes to give it one yesterday or did like these that are look for details. and i took about 20 directions to the new city 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 big things are bring on the goods not some. one showed us to think what all this is costing mr dog the truck suits or just the start of it he's also hired a string section a 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 they were mr dog's wife and 2 friends have prepared a feast for the multitude. johnson from the continental samba supporters piled back into the busses and head for the city property. 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 marched through kept on that same night. that let them out if it did. but the people.

that was the fun part of the proceedings in the new year the struggle for the self defense begins in earnest this this is the distribution i've got to do from today on with and what you have seen the is coming up on my pocket nobody else's pocket they must come on reading us they might as we'll as you back here at the end if i'm successful i can both go yeah. no really going both isn't then loving. 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 precision much of.

the finely you could judge 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 and slave ships the sauna for instance off and some much merit to elements of western music the call them in the middle on streets until the. her. there. 2 are. a little cookie and it's got a 200 songs off of them i don't know because nobody close was skipped over it it's only the old people that actually knows the songs the nigger learns and leak well never ever say it's not a from the late the will never that will stay or the floor as luck

was was. a souls who had it in under 105200 years it will be looked in the teens in and it's said some of us don't even understand it but as you live and even more and more and more then you come to see that old school you know those local fuzz lived before and now they were slaves and. they came to enjoy the shells buy c.d.'s and learn songs they couldn't do so they sang. a bunch of bucks some parts you claim to like each other but you'd never guess it from the way the talk about one another most of those members with they will never be able to leave the starlet's what evil bucks goes into do if it goes into little to jump in the fire i'm sure they will jump into play if this is a sport but this isn't the dumb game this is the 1st year we've got absolutely

nothing to lose each got something to lose but we continue to make wooden nothing to lose tomorrow is on the road they want to sound like they want to keep us they want to win everything. if only one life. cut the most. and i can petition. all those off was getting. a cut in the movies again beat to. seeing that other writing us will of. course all be lower but the plan will 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 answer that. i so much of a dress rehearsal and shells what could be a bad omen the tendering isn't exactly up to scratch the plot you like to get

across might not advice the money do you disagree do you think somebody bought alchemy monday the month you can point for a lot of times it's not to put it to sleep that's not enough the public doesn't give. blood. good competition day day of destiny for the continental if this event is run and run very strictly by the quiet board they have a rule that says our side is cannot film 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 2. it was there and it will open sort of your case we were wrong apparently according to the board you knew that the reason

to do a video sale with it was to sit on the bottom of the we're going to think that we got it did we see that it was not i don't know why you haven't anything to do with this know what you want to put but what's the other one you want to make sure no we go inside me despite it being walking weekend it's a night at the. club. and if. i were the record the continentals one of mine a trophy for dressing up of all things for the rest they were crushed maybe they were doomed from the outset and maybe it didn't really matter. of course we wanted

to do it what was the deal with them a deal if 'd the guys in the states lived in before would you. be disappointed a bit last night but everything that goes on. you know just to see that deer stand on this is a good only speak of advantage of the thing. and as for the service as it went once again $200.00 and his invincible starlight's was. think the stand with all different kinds of people played together is just like the fur flying into the sky and the scent and. does that moment the music actually a was. a cheerleader. a fish leave

a. they were to leave the starlix they want to kill us they want to do with it we think. it's only one for. us was. it we would absolutely nothing to lose each good something to lose but we couldn't even do milk wouldn't get into. the silver phase from the witness series in 2007 do check out the rewind page at al-jazeera dot com for more films from the series that's it from us thanks for

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