Presenter Asha Gill hooks up with Chris
Ntombemhlophe, an African shaman with a direct line to the
ancestors. Chris takes Asha trance dancing in the city’s biggest
black township and introduces Asha to outspoken diva Odidi
Mfenyana, who’s reclaiming the Afro for Africans.
Radio talk show host Lisa Chait ropes
Asha into a raucous spring queen carnival and a house-building project
in the townships, where Asha and a group of volunteers attempt to
replace a tin shack with a brand new brick house in just five days.
Fellow volunteer Lynette Francis
takes Asha to the unique Cape Malay district of Bo-Kaap and throws
a halal picnic on the seafront, where thousands of Muslim
families gather to witness the new moon that signals the end of
Ramadan.
Andre Manuel introduces Asha to the
high-energy sound of the Cape Minstrels and the thriving culture
of the Cape Flats. Archaeo-astronomer Dean Liprini
changes the way Asha thinks about Cape Town’s most conspicuous
resident – Table Mountain.
While in Cape Town the Lonely Planet Television stayed at the Ikhaya Lodge.
