A new voice: Rising above the Flats

The Cape Flats, to many people, are dusty settlements spotted out of the windows of airplanes when landing in Cape Town, known mostly through news reports as places of poverty, violence and gangsterism, and home to the many coloured people of the city. Coloured is a term that's hard to explain. It's a racial classification created by the apartheid state in 1950, a social experiment that lumped together people of varying class, heritage and religious background in an identity to which they did n...