Cape Town’s annual minstrel carnival resumed Monday after a three-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, with large musical troupes — many in blackface — parading through the center of the city.
Participants take part in the Cape Town Minstrels Parade in Cape Town, South Africa, Monday, Jan. 2, 2023. Thousands of people attend the annual carnival. , or the Second New Year — has its origins in the era of slavery at the Cape. The Dutch colonists, who arrived in the mid-17th century, imported slaves from the East Indies and from East Africa.
As a result, the minstrel carnival emerged as a celebration of Cape Town’s rich cultural history. For decades, it was called the “coon” carnival, until that word was dropped in the 2000’s in deference to political correctness. Under apartheid, when mixed-race communities suffered discrimination, segregation, and forced removals, the carnival suffered from the dispersal of its participants though Cape Town’s impoverished townships. But in the post-apartheid era, it has been revived, and is supported by the municipal government and corporate sponsors.
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