Hello and welcome again to rewind and fully back to. Since the launch of aljazeera english back in 2006 with built up a library of Award Winning documentary and here on rewind weve been delving into the vault to pull out some of the best of them today were 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 towns muslims lived in the city proper this book of accounts a language they helped create and many had roots that went back centuries but when a part of derived they were forced to move our church to the parents thats outside the city its 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 its in the middle of the cape flats and im 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 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 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 hes concerned nobody can touch them yes theres a lot that doesnt like me in the home but they said he quoth because they both were for me 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 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. Our new interest for us in the 5 in school. Music but im a person that can lead something very quickly this new a music is good. But always knew that i had 17 in me that i could actually do which incineration it can benefit other people to the touch you couldnt do it alone of course mr muhammad stoffel its much more brother homage to his friends because he would definitely the plays and lays it all for me looking at the life with you know is it enough. These are the we friends who know. The truth of it and we can they will stay away from me said i need somebody that i can test because hes handling them and you. And i can just continue with leading. 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 seen something that means that things look from the end of the tin you got their meaning. And. We different. The new team was called continentals and this is the 3rd member of the trio that founded it one he darted plays guitar bass and banjo sings like an angel and dresses flash when hes in the money which wasnt the case until today im 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 is close just for food you cant even come out depps of it on the. In case youre wondering im the watcher with a guitar im actually a right to touch needed help and i was on it to be honest. We were always playing with different boys release it to me told me to please the helmet and need it we are going to. Put on this school to let introduce them to us. And hope by of what was big. When it was what i was away in a mean to mock. No with a. Platform to endure for 5 oclock it was a show. They got me at the what im told if you. Remember. 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 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 there even at a cover that pulls us pick it up and you know the cover and i sell of the its just so you 1 oclock one day. Donald up through and lives in a caravan whose parents garden with his family hes just come out of prison and hes struggling to make ends meet sinjar see this. So i think it is let go of it in a cell above it in the its so its just sort of you know you can see only for truth its nothing. In my heart my spine. Oh and. Meanwhile on the far side of the tracks the starlets of burden are brighter than ever. You know i call eats like the the c. E. O. Before the article me me me just go smoke will be just like tomorrow. I. Have a champion think everybodys that ive got a need to see what they see. And know. Now nows the time. Throws you dont open your mouth and sing the 1st thing the simplest if you have the support of the states 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 dont tell you guys no to do whatever you want to do that is up to you but those when the teams and we dont need people to know how does item with their money now how did mine know what county club if you speak any clumps or not. So if for half a day my knock on the lucky for non no he laughed at you he said. And the constitution but see what they can oversee it to thank those that you sent will take its course no mental with us that is trying to live we dont talk about it anymore. 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We did speak with the sculptor and we need to and weve been playing that music hes actually that use but i think for this. Entire summer in krypton the competition season is drawing near this is the silver says the holy grail the way things are going in the continental isnt going to get anywhere near its missing knights in shining armor comes to their wrist i believe a thing. I just adored is a prosperous businessman as was dreamed of has and so this is what you do yes. Little disappointment to get enough. Hes my friend dont want to get in the sec but we grew up in the many clients and you decided im going to stock up on pink so you dont 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 Sheikh School the competition so i mean gave me its going to get it he just brings people to give did 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 there waited faces will end of the tick says to them i felt so good yesterday. These guys will be dancing for a while we played the same way kill the more lively you know at least. Its new years eve and big things that bring on the kids that some. One shudders to think what all this is costing mr dog the truck suits or just the start of it hes 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 the witness to dog his wife and 2 friends have prepared a feast for the multitude. Johnson from the continentals and the 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 its 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 tripped on that same night. That played in the mud at the. 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 got to do from today on with and what you just seen the is coming up on my pocket nobody elses pocket ride they must come on remind us they miles we need you back here at the end if im successful i can boast oh yeah. No really going both is and then lover of. Winning silver feels its 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 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 of them in the nude on streets over the. For her. 2 a little kid its got a 200 songs off of them i dont know because no records was kept of it its only the old people that actually knows the songs the nigger learns and leak well never ever say its not a from the late the will never that will stay or the forever lucky i was was. A souls with it in under 105200 years who will be looking out to teens in and lives with that some of us dont even understand but as you live and even more and more and more then you come to see that old school you know all those little fuzzy little before and ill be whistling. They came to enjoy the shells buy c. D. s and learn songs they couldnt do so they sang. A bunch of bucks some parts you claim to like each other but youd 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 look dumb game this is the 1st year weve got absolutely nothing to lose. Each got something to lose but we continue to move quiet and nothing to lose tomorrow. They want to stop like they want to keep us they want to win if we think. Its only one. Cut. 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 who are but the plan will be known all that and im going to make all those other guys nervous too and i know what these guys get and one thing to do in those suits say youll see a different lens a day. For much of the dress rehearsal and shells what could be a bad omen the tender isnt to suck up to scratch the plot to make it across might not advice the money to disagree do you think somebody bought alchemy monday 2 months you cant point for the job ill just move on to put it to sleep thats not really positive im glad im happy. 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 claim 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 it did we see it. Was not a good score why do you want anything to do with this know what you want to put up what you are going to mexico we go outside made us fight it be walking we can its a night at the. Club. And if. I pull 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 didnt 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 and if. It would be disappointed again last night but everything in life will go. You know just to see that deer stand and they say you dont have to be given money to get the thing. And thats for the service as it went once again 200. 00 and his invincible starlights was. The stand with all different kinds of people played together is just like the flood into the sky and the scent and. Does that moment the music takes you away. I gave. You a fish behavior. They want 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 for. It we would absolutely nothing to lose each good something to use but we continue to live and thats when i. I. I. The silver phase from the witness series in 2007 do check out the rewind page at aljazeera dot com for more films from the series thats it from us and so watch. It in the off to mark of the 2011 quake and tsunami a remarkable portrayed of a remote japanese village. That is later how has the community of me. Been able to move on and rebuild their lives. Rewinds japan after the catastrophe. On aljazeera. 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