The Cape Town Carnival has for more than a decade been an occasion where people from different backgrounds come together to celebrate cultural diversity and creativity.     Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the last two years have been challenging for the events...

For more than 80 years, the URC Brigade has been giving young people of Scottsdale in Kraaifontein focus and motivation. The group was established just after the start of World War 2 with the vision of attracting young people and giving them purpose through...

When Rukaya Galant founded bioRithm SA as a community dance-fitness group, it was part of her personal journey toward bettering her own physical and mental health.  Rukaya started exercising later in life as she does not come from a background where women typically...

When poet and singer Aiden Boogie performed Breaking the Curse for a Lavender Hill community group, he had no idea the lasting impact it would have. The song moved local community group leader, Mark Nicholson, to start a dance group "to inspire children and to put...

Tenacity Movement is a group of dancers from Uitsig on the Cape Flats who dance, not just for the sake of their passion for moving their bodies to the beat, but also to influence young people around them for good. The group’s trademark tenacity certainly paid off...

The Heideveld Theatre Company (HTC) is so passionate about performing arts that when they lost their practice venue in 2019 they took to the streets to practice their dance moves.  This determination and can-do attitude has seen the group pursue their artistic...

An unexpected request from a group of teenagers in 2016 changed the course of Bridgetown resident Michelle Davids’ life and in the process created opportunities and possibility for youth in the neighborhood. Inspired by the youngsters enthusiasm to take part in the...