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In photos: Youth-run festival brings hope to small Karoo town

Journey to Jazz has employed more than 500 youths in Prince Albert where more than half the residents live below the poverty line

The Prince Albert Rieldansers perform at the opening ceremony of the Journey to Jazz Festival held in May this year. The Kritikom Koppie Amphitheatre is a disused quarry on the outskirts of town. Photos: Jeffrey Abrahams

The Journey to Jazz festival has employed more than 500 youth in Prince Albert, where more than half the residents live below the poverty line.
The festival is run by a community-led non-profit called the Prince Albert Community Trust (PACT), formed in 2013.
PACT’s annual Journey to Jazz festival will be hosted for a fifth time in early May next year. Young people help curate the programme, assist with marketing, and learn to budget for the festival.

Young people in Prince Albert, a small…

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