Cape Town, Dec 31, 2025 (AFP) - South Africa's minstrel parade: born from slavery, celebrated in pride

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As a girl, Fatima Dulvie would spend New Year's Day perched on the wall of her home in Cape Town's historic District Six area in feverish anticipation of the minstrels' parade that would pass the following day. Now aged 77, Dulvie has herself become a dedicated participant in the roughly 140-year-old parade of Tweede Nuwe Jaar (Second New Year) as one of an army of seamstresses who spend months making costumes for the thousands of minstrels. "We......

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