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  Scores of people gathered at Keizersgracht in Cape Town to watch the start of the Cape Minstrel Carnival. (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  People brought along chairs to sit at the roadside comfortably to watch the spectacle. (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  Approximately 70 minstrel troupes took part in the parade. (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  Every minstrel troupe was accompanied by trumpetists, drummers and other musicians. (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  Agile dancers completed the troupes. (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  Sometimes the leader was the youngest member of the troupe. (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  A troupe with the Cape Town skyline in the background. Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  Painting your face is part of the Cape Minstrel Carnival tradition. (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  During the day more people gathered to watch the spectacle. (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  Each troupe wears clothes in different colors and plays a different style of music. (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  The hat of the leader of the troupe. (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  The leader of the troupe is usually a agile dancer who walks in front of the troupe. (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  The older members of the troupe usually make the music. (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  (Michelly Rall, Getty Images)
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  (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  A troupe member with a tambourine. (Michelly Rall, Getty Images)
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  (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  The route of the carnival started at Keizersgracht and proceeded along Darling Street, and then left into Adderley Street and Wale Street. (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  The carnival endend at Castle and Rose Streets. (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  A troupe being photographed and filmed by spectators. (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  (Michelly Rall, Getty Images)
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  An entire troupe dancing in sync on the rhythm of the music. (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  The mascotte of the Die Burger happy boys troupe. (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  A troupe member posing with an umbrella. (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  This troupe solely existed out of drummers. (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  A troupe member waving a flag. (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  The Cape Minstrel Carnival is celebrated by young and old. (Ricardo Kleine, News24)
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  (Ricardo Kleine, News24)

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