Hundreds of children and young people walked through the streets of Hillbrow at the seventh annual Hey Hillbrow! Let’s Dlala! street arts festival. Photos: Ihsaan Haffejee
Hey Hillbrow! Let’s Dlala!
Hundreds of young people in bird costumes paraded through the streets of Hillbrow in Johannesburg on Saturday for the seventh annual Hey Hillbrow! Let’s Dlala! street arts festival.
The festival brought together young people from various cultural backgrounds shortly after violent xenophobic incidents threatened to divide the community.
The festival’s theme for this year, “Arise”, was inspired by the migration of birds, symbolising freedom of movement and crossing borders.
Young artists perched on the rooftop of the Windybrow Arts Centre in Hillbrow.
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Fun South African Fact: Mandela’s house on Vilakazi Street is now a museum. The man who the street was named after, Dr BW Vilakazi, was a poet, novelist and intellectual. He helped develop the written form of both isiZulu and siSwati and helped put together the isiZulu dictionary.