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Manuel knows what it takes to bring the powerful round to his point of view. He grew up poor in Cape Town. Under the apartheid racial-classification system, he was considered "colored," or mixed race, and thus confined to a home in the Cape Flats, the hot, treeless townships between breezy Table Mountain and leafy Stellenbosch. As a 5-year-old, he witnessed apartheid's bite when his classmates were divided by color. "Suddenly half the kids in my class at school were no longer there," he says. "And so politics came to me." In the 1970s, Manuel gravitated towards...
...most cities, finding the hottest jazz is a matter of knowing which club to go to. But it's not so simple in Cape Town. Although this city boasts its own jazz genre (the lilting, highly improvisational Cape Jazz) and more than its fair share of musical talent - ranging from greats like Abdullah Ibrahim and Robbie Jansen to young impresarios like Kyle Shepherd and Jonathan Rubain - serious performance venues can be frustratingly sparse...
...tour operator has found a way around the problem, by bringing visitors straight into the living rooms of some of the city's best jazz musicians. Part township tour, part music- and social-history crash course, and part intimate jam session, the four-hour Cape Town Jazz Safari, developed by a local outfit called Coffeebeans Routes, aims to overcome the city's notorious social fragmentation by making its rich cultural diversity more accessible. (See 10 things to do in Chicago...
Apartheid may have collapsed 15 years ago, but the forced evictions of blacks and mixed-race people from the city center during the 1960s left its mark as much in music as in everything else. Even now, musicians living on the Cape Flats, the massive expanse of gritty slums and working-class townships to which nonwhite Capetonians were removed, find themselves isolated from the city and from each other. "What we're doing through music and culture is trying to contribute to our urban regeneration," says Coffeebeans Routes co-founder Iain Harris...
...Having a face-to-face conversation with Shirley Phelps[-Roper] really gets your blood going,” said James D. Hills ’11, who stood near the front of the crowd, wearing an American flag as a cape...