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a poor south african neighborhood just outside cape town when using honor enter edition 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 fairs 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 sale of effect. 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 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 30 years everybody knows and it goes with c.

because of one thing only because of the use of. even i could go on but they basically said yes in 2005 trochee and 2 friends decided to enter and try to win the annual cape malaya choir competition an extravaganza that involves 50 rival teams to 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 same benjamin but he owns several businesses and visits mecca regularly some 100 bucks into 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 both from the from the me this knows a good life only 4th place. * 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 versus 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 in 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 to the touch 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 matter the players are lazy little from me looking at the life with you is it enough. these are the we friends who know. the truth of it and we can they will stay away from me . i need somebody that i can to this. and i can just continue with leading. you. to the quiet wood he goes to the meeting see that everything is in place. but. really no it's if you like the chances are you can sing so good that he said to ask if you sing something to me is that things look from the judges and the people he knew got their meaning. and. be different.

the new team was called the continentals and this is the 3rd member of the trio that founded it one 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 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 the guitar i'm actually a writer but touch needed help and i was on it to be honest. we were always playing with the for employees but he said to me told me later please do the homework and need it we are going to. put on this school 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 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 for minutes and the like but progress is slower and some continental is a better limb just a few of them since. i did this in the dead. like you see that they put out that even at a cover that goes as a pick it up and you know the cover and s.l.

of the it's just so you 1 o'clock one day. donald up to 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 and i sell it off with 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 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 for everybody is that i've gotten you to see what they see. 2 and know. now that. throws you 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 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 to know how those item with their money now how did

my know what kind of club it was pick any clubs or not. so it for half a day when the canola that you for non no he laughed at you he said. and the constitution but see pussies i think no he had to thank yous and will take its course no mental with us that is trying to live we don't talk about it anymore the believe is coming out of jail community so it is known for its kind of thing 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 them is loaded with the confines. they enjoyed in jail with one another just keep finding that. in the $5.00 the guys out of the box and the practice the get into that by the club putting them

out the fantasy of being. back on sunday since he. says. sometimes he complains 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 sculpture we need to 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 consequences 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. to use my fingers want to get in the sack but we grew up with the many clients and who decided i'm going to stock up on pink 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. is the we needed some money to deposit the el sheik school the competition so i mean gave me a ticket he just brings people to think you did what it takes to give that one in your city fully loaded like these that are look for details. and i took about 20 directions to the new city they waited faces with when i ended the taxes to them i

felt so good yesterday. these guys will be dancing while we played there's still a kill feeling 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 should just 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 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 where 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 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 march through krypton on that same night. late to the magic. let the people. that was the fun part of the proceedings in the new year and the struggle for the soul of the fez begins in earnest this this is the distribution i've got to do 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 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 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 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. for her.

2 a little kid 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 lands 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 need look a lot to teens in and it's 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 you know those local fuzz lived before and now they were slaves and. they came to enjoy the shows buy

c.d.'s and learn songs they couldn't do so they sang. a bunch of bucks and punch a 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 starlets what evil bucks goes into do if it goes into little to jump in the fire i am sure they will jump in the play if this is a sport but these are the. first 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 stop like they want to keep us they want to win everything. if only one for life. cut the most out of 7 and i can petition. all those off was getting. a cut in the movies again beat to it by seeing that other writing us will of.

course all be well 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 incidents. i saw much of the dress rehearsal and shells what could be a bad omen the tender isn't exactly up to scratch the plots like get across might not advice or money to give us a call to do you think somebody bought alchemy monday the month you can point for the job i just move on to put it to sleep that's not the public doesn't give. blood.

me a good competition day day of destiny for the continental. 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 who knew that the reason to do a video sale with it was to sit on the bottom of the to get it and we got it did we see that it was not i don't know what you're going to need 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 pull the record the continentals won a mind of 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 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 about money depicting it and as for the service as it went once again 200 bucks and his infant simple starlight's was.

the stand with all different kinds of people played together is just like the flood into the sky and sand and. does that moment the music takes you away it was. a. big fish behavior. they were to do with the starlix they want to kill us they want to do with everything. if only one 1st but i was. asked was. it we would absolutely nothing to lose each got something to lose but we continued

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