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Continuity and Change in Cape Town's Coon Carnival: The 1960s and 1970s

On 25 May 1995 a global television audience of millions watched the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup broadcast live from Newlands stadium in Cape Town. This extravagant spectacle attempted to re ect the diverse cultural components of South Africa’s ‘Rainbow Nation’, from gum-boot dancers to praise-poets, Zulu ‘warriors’ to modern black pop musicians. Amongst this array nestled a band of several hundred brightly clad, parasol-twirling Coons, there as representatives of local ‘Cape coloured culture’. The painted white smiles on their blackened faces however, disguised a bitter controversy around a carnival that had been peculiar to the city for over a century.