Underpants & dragons go aloft at Cape Town kite festival

Leigh-Anne Hunter discovers generations of imaginative kite-makers upholding familial traditions at the Cape Town International Kite Festival Stepping into the small kite shop in Kommetjie is like smashing into a rainbow. Its owner, Philip "Kite Phil" Hattingh, an ageing hippy as vibrant as the kites he makes, is in his vegetable garden at the back of the shop, where strips of kite material cut to look like long grass wave in the wind among the radishes.