So the Kaapse Klopse carnival is a strange legacy from a bygone era, but still much celebrated & loved by the local Cape communities. It started out as the day of celebrations for enforced slaves being “given” a holiday on the second of January or Tweede Nuwe jaar .
This became a marching festival which took on influences from visiting minstrel & jazz tropes, among the now “free” people but that were later restricted by the apartheid laws of South Africa.
With the release of Nelson Mandela & the emergence of the new South Africa some found the meaning of the festival hard to reconcile with their “new freedoms”, but the greater Cape communities still cherished this part of their old customs & so the festival still flourishes today. There have been disputes among organisers but this year’s carnival was a great success after the two year covid restriction cancellations.
I spoke to many people on the day whilst invading their cordoned off pavement real estate (asked very politely!) to take suitable YouTube video & everyone was very happy to be there to once again witness the event.
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