The second Cape Flats Book Festival took place in Mitchells Plain last weekend at West End Primary and it was a huge success:
The event was successful with more than 40 authors attending to talk about their books.The aim of the festival was to rewrite the crime and violence narrative associated with the area.
According to the organisers, crime should not define the area that is the reason they are introducing a culture of reading in the“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,” said Nicholas Williams chairman of Read-to-Write.
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