“Drag is the art of transformation, it is an expression of oneself through performance”. Chante Harries, an experienced drag queen from Parkwood (Cape Town), is the showpiece of “drag with a purpose, celebrate diversity”, an initiative launched with an aim to rehabilitate young women involved in drug abuse and gangsterism in the Cape Flats, Cape Town. In the area created by the infamous ‘Group Areas Act’, she took under her wings, in the glittering Parkwood hair […]
In 1975 the forced removals of all people of colour from Cape Town’s inner-city, created the so-called “Cape Flats”, where all “non-whites” were relocated. Mitchells Plain is one of those areas, where gangsterism and gang violence runs the streets. An ongoing, joint operation between the South African Police and SANDF (South African National Defence Force) is in place to try fight against gang violence in the Cape Flats. Raids have been conducted in different areas of the Cape Flats […]