'The Cape Flats is synonymous with crime, and social ills and those shouldn't be the only defining issues about the Cape Flats. There are phenomenal artists, phenomenal writers and people who have aspirations of changing their circumstances'.
CAPE TOWN - Organisers of The Cape Flats Book Festival - which aims to foster a culture of reading in the Cape Flats say crime shouldn't be the only defining issue about the area.
The festival was first launched in 2019 and featured local creatives and authors including Diane Ferrus, musician Blaq Pearl and writer Yusuf Daniels.
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