Culture & Tradition

When reffering to cutlture and trandition we first have to move back a few years where most peoples heritage lie and that is in the Appartheid years. Both my mom and dad was a part of that generation and it move further to my granparents of both sides. I am a coloured girl both my mom and my biological father plus stepfather are all coloured. My parents, parents where a big part of the Appartheid era and being of coloured skin their lives was not as easy as we have it today, everybody knows what life was for the coloured community in those years not to say that the blacks and indians never had tough times as well but to have people being grouped like that today its still there but not as dominant as it was back then.

From my mother and father both are cape Malay, but my mom had more culture in here background than that of my father. my grandparents grew up in the famous DISTRICT 6, and this was a place witha a community of its oen in which dance, music and celebration strived. This was the time when the Cape town coons was born. Better known as the "Kaapse Klopse" as well as the Cape Malay choirs. Every year, more than 13 000 brightly dressed minstrels would parade through the streets of Cape Town. this event began in th 1800s when Malay slaves celebrated the one day a year they did not have to work.

To think that my granparents grew up in this period and left a legacy because till today the Cape Town coons parade the streets of cape town every start of the new year.

this was one of the best cultures that was paston from generation to generation and the best thing about it is that any age group could join, when my mom was younger she  paraded in the this and was one of the marching girls and a  few years back i was one of  those girls. it was so much fun and even better knowing that most of your family was with enjoying the occations. I'm just bummped that we cant find any of the pictures and the videos as well.

today though things has chnaged, so sad that nothing stays the same.