Cape Town and Johannesburg are just two of SA’s biggest cities known for their street culture, different lifestyles but so alike in a way that people relate them even though they are separate for one have an ocean, and the other just being a huge concrete jungle.
Well, on Thursday I was invited to the Nike gallery to witness the launch of the Cape/Burg book that is a book of potraits of stars from noth cities as they take to the street. In the book are stars such as musical band Kwani Experience, poet Musa Nxumalo, grafitti mestro Rusty, DJ Euphonik and more.
Invited to the event were most of the celebs that are in the book, YFM’s DJ Sbu, 5FM’s Fikile Fix Moeti, the hot MTVBase producer Tim Horwood, Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls dean of students Funa Maduka, The Times Features Editor Aspassia Karras and designer Craig Jacobs.
In a kasi-modern dinner served kota with salad as a starter, lamb roast with pap for main course and for desert koeksusters with some yummy sweets for desert.
In the launch poet Katlego Shoro shared a piece about Joburg and CT, which was rather moving and Rattex also shared his lyrics with the guest.
Dinner was great, so was the company, couldnt help oogle and drool over the great sneakers that the store has, think I need a pair.

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ABOUT THE STARS:

DJ Euphonik
Leading the new school of Beats-Per-Minutes (BPMs), this is the pied piper of the airwaves who spins tracks we love. You can follow him on air, preaching the gospel of dance to his radio show listeners, or on any given Saturday turning out tunes at events.

Dr Zulu
Dr Zulu would not know how to stitch you up or be able to write you a prescription, but he could hook you up with the latest stitches from Nike, in his 2nd floor, walk up, sneaker store, 36 steps are only the beginning to the journey for many sneaker-heads in Cape/Burg.

Katleho Shoro
Katleho Shoro speaks her outspoken and beautiful mind. Slam poetry is her one love in the world. Shooting from the hip, aiming straight for the heart, shooting to kill with her words is what she is all about.

Kwani Experience
Mix six of the most talented and spirited individuals into a tightly performing set, and tease and tingle your sound palette through a 5-star, 5 course music experience. African Folk, Contemporary African, Hip-Hop, Soul, Jazz, Experimental Jazz, Drum & Bass and Funk all combined to make up Kwani Experience.

Musa Nxumalo
Musa Nxumalo can channel various references and influences into his black-and-white, rock-and-roll inspired photography. This is a stereotype-busting, shooting-from-the-gut, this-is-my-life kinda man/image maker from Soweto.

Rattex
Rattex has risen from the dust to give voice to challenges of ikasi life. Spitting his rugged rhymes in a combination of languages, he raps from the heart, laying downs tracks that grab the South African reality by the neck.

Ruben Ramolefi
Ruben Ramolefi is a steeplechaser. Jumping hurdles and skipping water ditches over 3000 metres are only some of the challenges he has to face regularly. Not only is a Law degree in his immediate sight, but also medals at the next games.

Rusty
Meet an artist who is changing the world around him to inspire our lives, and the cityscape around us. One man, one can. One man who makes the difference between a meaningless squirt of colour on a concrete wall and a spray can painting that inspires the kids to take up the can.

Siphiwe Tshabalala
Siphiwe Tshabalala possesses something that makes him a national team player. Vision. He makes things happen on the field. Siphiwe is a player with good, close control and an eye for defense, splitting passes and a knack for timing his run down the left wing.

Spooky
Ms. Anne Sophie Leens aka Spooky makes pictures, photos, videos and illustrations. Be they documentary or fictional, on-the-fly or fly-on-the-wall they are for real. Real streets, buildings, people and places.

MORE INFORMATION: The exclusive Nike Cape/Burg book is available at selected outlets, and for more information on the revolutionaries and Nike Air Max, visit www.nikesportswear.com

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