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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 where music 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 sale of affairs 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 the part of 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 love 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. but i could go but they basically said yes in 2005 and $2.00 friends decided to enter and try to win the annual capital a quiet 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 saying benjamin but he owns several businesses and visits mecca regularly so budget 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 home but they said he quoth because both from the 1st who made this knows a good life only 1st place. has been organizing choirs since he made his 1st fortune his funds are inexhaustible

his dominance of catholic culture almost complete so it was a david and goliath situation really an underdog versus the establishment of us as haji bucks. are 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 they had 17 and mean that they 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 much or rather how much to his friends you see with that and they're the reason they settle for me looking at the life with you know is it unknown. it's all the way friends who know. the truth of the we can they will stay away from me. i need somebody that i can test. and i can just continue with meetings

with. you. to the quiet when he goes to the meetings and in the 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 end of the pin you got there we know. and. we different. the new team was called the continentals and this is the 3rd member of the trio that founded it when he died 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 come on depp's

of it on the. in case you're wondering i'm the watcher with the guitar i'm actually a writer but touching needed help and i was on it to be honest. we were always playing with different poise police had to be told. and need it we are going to. put on this school to do something like this. and hope by a big what if you know. when or what i was away in a mean to mock as i just. know with a. clip from 245 o'clock it was a show. they got me at the what i'd call if you're. going to.

the businessman love the show but have brought in on your 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 and some continental is a better name just a few of them since. i did this in the dead. and see that they put out that even at a cover that kills us pick it up and you know the cover and i sell of the it's just so you 1 o'clock one day. donald of true 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 cell above the put 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.

lobe. meanwhile on the far side of the tracks the starlights of burden are 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. i. have a champion in even bodies that i've gotten you to see what they see. and know. nothing. 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 the 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 teams and we don't need people like to know how those item with their money now how did mine 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 laughed at you can be said. and the constitution but see what they can oversee it to thank yous and will take its course no mental with us that is trying to live we don't talk about it when you look. 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 old 90 to seem to go to wiki confines. 'd really didn't gel with one and just keep doing will keep finding that. in the $5.00 the guys up into the box and the practice the clock ticking at 1 o'clock but him out the fantasy of being. back on a 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 bad but i think i think in the. past if you got it. that i don't see any theme and the support that's in it sounds to me. and i mean. 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 did speak it's not a sculpture that we need to and we've been playing that music he's actually that us but i think for this. entire summer in krypton the competition season is drawing near this is the soldier says the holy grail the way things are going the consequences aren'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 businessman this was dreamed of has and so this is what you do yes. little disappointment to get enough. he's my friend don't want to get in the psych but we grew up in the lake why is interested in going to stock up on pink so we

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 saying this. is the we needed some money to deposit the el sheik school the competition so i mean gave me a ticket to him to get it he just brings people to god to give it what it takes to give it one yesterday fully loaded like these that are look for detail. and i took about 20 directions to the new city 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 feeling more lively you know at least . it's new year's eve and big things that bring on the good it's not something. 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

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 multitudes. 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 those in bondage were set free and they flooded into the streets to celebrate ever since muslims are much 3 trips on that same might. play to the magic that. people.

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'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. the league in both is and then lover of. winning silver fils 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 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 western use of the call them in the middle on streets over the. her. there. 2 are. a little cookie and it's called a 200 songs off of them i don't know because no records was kept to only the old people that actually knows the songs the nigger lands and leak never ever say not of the late the will never that will stay or the forever

lucky was was. a sos with it in under 105200 years ago and look in the teens in and lives with that some of us don't even understand it but they need more and more and more the new come to see that old school there are those who look for those little before and now they were slaves and. they came to enjoy the sales buy c.d.'s and learn songs they couldn't do so they sang. a bunch of bucks and cut 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 am sure they will jump in the play if this is a sport but these are the look dumb game this is the 1st year we've got absolutely

nothing to lose each got something to lose but we continue to move quiet and nothing to lose tomorrow is all about rote learning to read like they want to keep us they want to win if we think. if only one for life. cut the most. and i can but he said. all those off was getting. a cut it in the movies again beat to it by seeing that other guy thing us will miss of. course the world but the person 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 bunch of them. 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 bought alchemy monday 2 months you can't point for the job i'll just move on to put it to sleep that's not public that's good i'm glad i'm happy. relief. a 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. it was there and it will be sort of

your case we were wrong apparently according to the board when you look at the mission to do a video sale with just the us and on the bottom of the to get it and we got did we see it. was not a quote from one of the new jobs it would be to know what you want to put up what you are going to mexico we go outside meet us by would be walking weekend it's a night at the. club. and if. i call the record the continentals won a mind of 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 matter. of course we wanted to do it what was the deal with them a deal if 'd the guy just stays lived in before. you. can be disappointed again last night but everything that goes on. it now just to see that deer stand and they say they don't have to be given money to get the thing. and that's for the service as it went once again $200.00 and his invincible starlight's was. the stand with all different kinds of people played together is just like the pilot flying into the sky an ascent and. does that moment the music takes you away. i gave. you

a fish behavior. they were to do with the stylus they want to kill us they want to do with it we think. if only one 1st place was. asked was. it we would absolutely nothing to lose each good sounding to muse but we continue to live in that into. the silver phase from the witness series in 2007 do check out the rewind page at

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